The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-06-14
TAFT GETTING
THE DELEGATES
National Republican Committee
is Seating Taft State
DELEGATIONS.
Boss Finn Serves Notice of Bolt il
Matters Continue Unsatis.
factory TO Teddy"

Chicago, June y. When the
republican national committee met
this morning it had seated l0l Taft
delegates to / for Colonel R0ose
welt. The Louisiana contests are
before the committee today and the
Taft delegates will probably be
seated. The Taft delegates at large
from Arizona were seated
The Roosevelt men realize more
and more that the control Of the
temporary roll call and the selec-
ton Of Senator Root as chairman
means the control Of the perma-
nent organization and all the con
vention committees and the control
of the convention as a consequence.
The Louisiana contests were
passed temporarily by the commit
tee and the Fourth California dis
trict contest was taken up.
HENEY'S WARNING.
Francis J. Heney told the COM
mittee ne was there to inform Presi-
dent Taft, through the committee,
that if he accepted the two dele
gates from the Fourth California
district he was receiver Of stolen
goods.
William Finn of PEN. sylyania
and Governor Glasscock Of West
Virginia told the committee all the
candidates for electors in the two
states were Roosevelt men chosen
at the primaries and would, i
elected, vote for Roosevelt if the
Taft men stole the nomination
GlasscOck said the same situation
prevails in other states which held
presidential preference primaries,
including Illinois and the Dakotas
In the Fourth California district
the Taft men contested the ROose-
welt delegates, claiming that the
rule Of the national committee was
that the voters in each congress-
ional district had the power to
choose their own delegates, while
in California the secretary of state
had certified the twenty-siX men
in the state having the highest
number of votes at large.
After bitter fight the Taft dele
gates in the Fourth California dis
trict were seated by a vote of 81
to 16.
The politicians say this paves the
way for similar action in Oregon,
unseating the Roosevelt delegates.
THoRsON's STATEMENT.
Thomas ThorsOn, national COM
mitteeman from South Dakota,
voted to seat the Roosevelt dele
gates from the Fourth California,
and said the national committee
last December made provision for
such case as is now presented
from California as. it specifically
excludes those states that would
elect delegates by primary elections
from the rule electing delegates
from districts. Yet" Mr.. Thor
son said, this committee is going
to disregard that arrangement and
the votes that make it possible to
disregard it are from southern states
that will not produce single eles-
toral vote for the republican party
next November"
The Taft managers are alarmed
by the threats of Finn and Glass
cock that the presidential electors
in the states carried by Roosevelt
at the primaries will voto for
Roosevelt in the electoral college,
regardless of who is nominated by
the convention.
Chairman Mckinley called the
threat an example of the rale or
ruin methods of the Roosevelt fol-
lowers.
1t is all but certain now that two
conventions will be started as soon
as Chairman Victor Rosewater calls
the national convention to order at
noon on next Tuesday. both con-
va,t;onc ola;mipo to he raoular.