The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-06-22
adopt REPORTS
| At LIVELY RATE
TAFT Delegates Seated as Fast as
Reports are Read
CONVENTION IN A RIOT
So Much Confusion Prevailed Only
Few Delegates Could Hear Read
ing Of Reporls-Talt Wins
Most Of the Contets

Associated Press Special
Chicago, ILL.,, June 22.-When
the convention was called to order
this morning 2t 10:43 the first
matter taken up was the Mississip-
pi contests.
Mid cries of ''tootl toot!' that
states delegation at large favor
able to Taft was seated, as were
the second and fifth Mississippi
district delegates for the presi-
dent. This whole proceedings was
by viva voce vote.
The seventh district contest from
Mississippi and the fourth district
contest from Carolina came up so
fast that it was difficult to keep
up with the proceedings.
The credentials committee recon-
mendations as to the delegates
from the third Oklahoma district
and the second Tennessee distric
| were brought in, read and passe,
| with perfect rush, one by one
| while the convention was In almos
! a state of riot. Only about one
fourth of the delegates wer,
able to hear the reading or tn,
reports.
The Texas Taft delegates at
large were placed on the permanent
roll of the convention by the re-
port of the credentials committee,
which was adopted.
Taft Gets Washington.
The Washington delegates at
large and those in the first, second
and third districts contests were
seated without roll call, as had
been expected. The crowd began
to sing "Merrily we roll along.
This finished the. Washington con-
test cases, all being decided in fav-
or of Taft.
Victor Rosewater, the retiring
chairman of the national commit
tee, ventured down among the
Pennsylvania delegates and was
picked up by big Pennsylvania
and held high. while the crowd
yelled.
Platform Committee Finishes
The committee on platform fin
ished its deliberations at 1880
this afternoon. The principal dis
cuss.on before the committee was
over the tariff question, whether
the tariff resolutions should in
clude special recognition of the
fact that certain duties were too
high and with pledges of reduc-
ton, and it was so decided.
Other Contests Dismissed.
By unanimous consent all the
remaining cases, except the Texas
contests, were abandoned, thus
completing the committees work
of hearing contests.
The convention, after delay of
two hours, resumed its labors, and
the Taft delegates were seated as
recommended,
johnson Leaves Convention
Governor Johnson of California
left the convention hall, declaring
that he would not sit during the
nomination of a presidential candi-
date nor be bound by the eonven-
toms acts.
The convention seated all of
the TAFT delegates from Texas ex-
cept the contestants from the third
and fifteenth districts, being the
same action as was taken by the
national committee,
Temporary Organization Is Made
Permanent.
With the settlement of the Tex
as contests the permanent roll of
the convention was completed.
On motion the temporary Or
ganization was then made per-
manent.
Horny J. Allen of Kansas then
made the statement that the
Roosevelt people repudiated the
convention, without physical bolt,
and appealed to the people.