The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-16
TAFT, 62;; ROOSEVELT 1
lcontInued from Pase onsl

been called in a restricted district | The Taft delegation at large iron Virginia included national committed man Martin, Congressman Slemp, R H. Angell and R. K. Cahell, collector O i internal revenue.
 James P. Hays, another negro rep resentative of the Roosevelt contest ants, pleaded for what he termed Ire cognition' of the negro voters.
 T. P, Summers, appearing for th' Taft delegates, declared no negroes had been prohibited from taking par in the republican meetings Mir. Summers statement that ht did not know where the negro dele gates got money enough to come hert to Chicago and make this contest preeipitated a few excited moments in the committee room.
 Members of the negro delegation jumped to their feet and declared they were better able to pay their own way than Mir. Summers was tu pay his
 Mir. Summers arguments were inter. rnpted until members of the commit tee demanded that order be enforced
 At the conclusion of the argument the national committee voted to seat the Taft delegates. No roll cali was asked for but one or two nays" were sounded when the vote was taken The delegates credited to Taft by the decision included four at large and two each from the first, second, third fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth and tentf districts.
 Washington Fight Hot. The Washington contests were the1 called by the committee Eight dele gates at large and two each from tn, first second. and third districts. 1: seats in all, were embraced in tn, consolidated case, to be argued a once.
 For the Roosevelt contestants il Washington, Loren Grenstead O Seattle. said the argument would h, based on the contention that "primar ies and conventions had shown tn state to be pro-Rooseyelt. ! The state convention, held at Aber | deen on May 15 at which the Roose welt delegates at large were selected i he declared was attended by 26 Roosevelt delegates, 100 Taft dele gates and BOA contested delegates ' representing the 39 counties. The dal before the convention. said Mr Gren stead. the Taft members met ant l agreed to vote for the Taft delegates in all contests.
 | When the convention was called the uncontested Roosevelt delegate,
 we're not given an opportunity tC secure tickets" he declared. "Tht | Roosevelt faction decided to hold theii , own convention after they discovered they were not going to receive a 1 square deal"
 Senator Miles Poindexter of Wash ! ington. declared the Washington con tests will be tried before the people of the country, which eyer way it is decided here" Senator Poindexter said the Wash ington state convention had refused statewide primary and had called a state conyentions
 When the convention met" Sena- tor PoindeXter said force and fraud were used by the state committee 70 prevent a majority of the Roosevelt delegates entering the hall. They bar. itu Aht uOOIS.
 Tt is said by some of Mir. Taft's friends the national committee will take the position that it cannot go back of the decisions of the state committed If that is true, the state committee becomes a complete dicta- tor.
 If contrary to the wishes of the people of Washington. their votes are east in the national convention. the people of our state will not stand for it" he exclaimed.
 Tt will not be representation. but misrepresentation tyranny"
 w. T. Dovel of Seattle. representing the Taft delegates, declared the repre- sentations made by his opponents were the worst misstatement of facts that had ever gone forth.
 There is no way" he asserted, "in which it can be determined whether the people of Washington are for president Taft or Colonel Roosevelt, for there is no such thing as a prefer ential primary there"
 All right. if you want to gag off facts so we can't get at them" said committeeman Kellogg Of Minnesota.
 The committee seated the IA Taft delegates from Washington by a single decision To MT. Mulyane's motion to seat them. Mir. Kellogg of fered a substitute to seat the Roose- welt delegation, headed by Senator Poindexter.
 The Roosevelt men could muster but ten votes in their demands for roll calls. The Kellogg motion was defeated and the Taft delegates then were seated against the opposition of the Roosevelt men.
 Committeeman Perkins of Washing. ton. had previously announced he would not vote on the contest
 The Final Contests.
 One of the Roosevelt contestants from the District of Columbia, Sidney Bieber. asked that his delegates be seated on the ground that the polling places at which the primaries were