The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-16
ONLY HALF DOZEN DELEGATES ESCAPE STEAM ROLLER IN
 YESTERDAYS SESSION.
ONE FISTIC DEMONSTRATION
Virginia and Washington Delegations Complete Are Given to Taft Roosevelt Only Gets Six
 From Texas Contest.

Jatdl number or contests uediu GO9, 1 Taft Delegates seated 235.
 Roosevelt delegates seated 19. TOday's results;
 For Taft-Texas delegates at large s. first, second, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth ninth, tenth and fourteenth districts, IS; total 26.
 Virginia delegates at large i: first. second, third. fourth, fifth. sixth, eighth and tenth districts 16; total 20. Washington delegates at large 8; first, second and third districts G.; total IA.
 District of Columbia 2.
 For Roosevelt Texas, third and fifteenth districts f.
 North Carolina fourth district 2.
 Total for Taft today 62
 Total for Roosevelt today 6.
 Chicago, June 15.-Its closing hours attended by exhibition of tense parti- san and personal feeling among it's members the republican national com mittee concluded tonight the hearing of the contests involving 254 seats in the national convention which is to assemble Tuesday
 The sum of it's work is:
 Roosevelt 19; Taft 235.
 President Taft today received 62 delegates; Colonel Roosevelt six All of Washington's fl went to the presi- dent against the protests of Senator Poindexter that the country would judge the case" Out of Texas he secured 26 of the contested 30. over the prostrate form of Colonel Cecil A. Lyon. who declared you may depose me now, but l will be back four years from now, when many of you viii not"
 In Virginia, where the issue was drawn between negro voters and the regular state organization, the presi- Sent received the entire contested delegation of 20 In the district of Columbia, he won 2, committeeman Sidney Bieber going to defeat with the Roosevelt delegation.
 Colonel Lyon fought each of the Texas contested cases personally and was defeated in all but two of them.
 Tn the end he was called upon to fight a resolution for an investigation and reorganization Of the whole struet- ure of the republican party in Texas, Presented by Thomas l.. Devine of Colorado, it proposed a sub committee of three from the national committee to attempt a change in the republican organization of the state that would destroy the system of county repre- sentation described by the Taft attor- neys as a survival of the Rotten borough" methods of England.
 Committeeman Lyon declared he would fight such a proposal to the end He said many of the members of the committee thus trying 10 depose him
 had been themselves depOsed and would be missing from the committee room four years from now, when he would again return.
 q have heard much recently of the 'one hundred days and the return from Elba" he said, 'I give you Q fair warning that if you persist in the way ynm are going. there will be a repet. ition of another historic incident, the Commune"
 The Washington cases, almost the last to engage the committees atten- tion before the conclusion of it's ten days work, were preceded by threat ened personal combat between Francis J. Heney and Committeeman Kennedy of North Dakota.
 A personal encounter between Nat ional Committeeman James Kennedy of North Dakota and Francis J. Heney of San Francisco, in the republican national committee meeting was pre- vented only by the interference oi their associates and the activity oi sergeant al arms William F. Stone.
 An attack on Colonel Lyon was made by C. l.. Mcdowell of Del Rio 1 in the last of the Texas cases, that Of the fifteenth district. Judge McDowell was the delegate accused by Colonel Lyon earlier in the day of having been a candidate at a democratic primary
 No man in Texas has a right to make such an accusation against me. he said, My republicanism is as straight on me as Colonel Lyons is on him.
 @Why do you appoint a democrat to the best position in Texas, the collectorship of customs at Browns ville?" he demanded of the Texas committeeman. There is more demo oracy in Colonel Lyon than in any other republican in Texas
 As long as I was following the leadership of the Colonel I was a good republican. But when crossed his path, became 8 democrat in his opinion.'
 Judge Mcdowell accused Colonel Lyon of leading him to believe he was getting up delegations favorable to him when he was actually having Roosevelt men named. He referred to Colonel Lyon as "his royal highness. ,