Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-06-13
WILD MAN OF OYSTER BAY
LANDS ONE CONTESTANT
IEDDYR0ARsLONeANDLOUD
nec.sions Mostly Unanimous and Taft
Men Seem to be Inclined
to be Fair.

Colonel Roosevelt, the first awarded
him since the national committee be-
can the contest cases last Friday, and
II for Taft were the net results of to-
day s session of the republican nation
al committee.
In all 1O1 delegates have been &C.
corded the president since the COM
mittee began its hearings. The one
placed today in the Roosevelt column
is D. G. Edwards from the eleventh
district of Kentucky.
The forces on the committee refused
80 to 10, to seat both the Roosevelt del
egates whose places were contested,
but agreed to split which gave Colonel
Roosevelt and President Taft one each.
The half victory for Roosevelt came
at the end of day in which all the
other contestants from Kentucky had
been decided in President Taft's favor.
In some of these the Roosevelt men
had acquiesced, in others they had mus
tered vote ranging from IL to II
against the Taft decisions.
Senator Borah, the most active
Roosevelt figure in the committee, pro-
tested against the splitting of the elev-
enth district delegation.
"There is no justification for it,
he declared. elf one is given, both
should be given"
Arthur R. Vorys Of Ohio, had made
the motion to seat the divided dele
CATION.
John G. Capers, Senator Borah and
Francis J. Heney led an effort to adopt
substitute to seat both Roosevelt men,
but they could only muster 10 votes.
The split delegation then was seated
unanimously.
President Taft's four contested del
egates at large from Kentucky headed
by Senator W. O. Bradley, were seated
with only II votes in the negative.
He was given unanimously the six from
the first, second and tenth, the contest
against the two in the fourth district
was withdrawn, and the five from the
seventh, eighth and eleventh districts
were won against the votes of the
Roosevelt forces.
Sharp interchanges between Francis
y. Heney of San Francisco and Taft
members of the committee character.
lied the long session. Mr.. Heney who
will appear tomorrow in the hearing of
the California contests leaped into the
heat of the political fray today and
strenuously endeavored to inject pepper
into the Roosevelt fight.
lie characterized the conditions in
kentucky as similar to the former cha
otic political conditions in California
and when he referred to some of the
kentucky political acts as comparable
70 acts of Abe Ruef Of San francisco
MI Heney drew sharp protest from
Senator Penrose.
No6o Su. ". " near OF FrdnkIOrC
VINO mad charge of the arguments fol
.ne roosevelt forces, frequently admit
'eo that some of the points advanced
"ere not very strong, and Senator Bo
an OF the Roosevelt wing declared the
thought the contestants were not en-
Titled to their seats.
ihough some of the members of the
'onmittee asked for more time to con
''uer the evidence, rollcall demanded
~ the Taft leaders resulted in seating
'ne regular delegates at large by {
vote Of 3s to IL. The decision in tn,
-"s. district, however, was unanimous
AFTER unanimous vote also on th'
second district the contest in tn,
'0ur'h district was withdrawn.
Inc Taft Kentucky delegates a
.alse seated by the committee, con
;.s' 80 OF Senator Bradley, James Breath
~, W. D. Cochran and J. E. Wood
sAy TWO of the seats at large wer
s.'ested, the unseated Roosevelt dele
COMBS.
p. ae delegates seated in the frs
" waen.acky district credited to Taft are
~. m .. Deboe and John T. Tooke, tn
p." ped contestants being Thomas n
Zip and Robert Cornwall. Tn
vote was 46 to O.
,,.. .ue second Kentucky district dele
~a..' ~;.. accredited by the national con