The Coconino sun., 1912-08-09

there was one In Spencer county no contest was presented against the seating of the regularly elected Taft delegates from that county. This gave the Taft delegates eighty-four votes. or two more than were necessary for a choice. In other words, assuming that | the Roosevelt men were entitled to all ! the delegates from the counties in which they filed contests in the dis | .rict convention there remained a clear majority of uncontested delegates who voted for the Taft delegates to Chi | cago
 OKLAHOMA.
 l Third District.
 1 Tn the Third Oklahoma district the question of the validity of the seats of the delegates turned on the constitu. ton of the congressional committee. which was made up of twelve Taft men and seven Roosevelt men. The i chairman. Cochran. was Roosevelt man and attempted to prevent the ma jority of the committee from taking | action The chairman was removed and another substituted. and tbereupon | the convention was duly called to order on the temporary roll prepared by the congressional committee. which was made the permanent roll. and the two selected Every county in the district had it's representation and vote in the regular convention. and no person properly accredited as delegate was excluded or debarred from participat ing in its proceedings. Cochran and his followers bolted after his depoSi tion Assuming that all the committee who went out with him had the right to act On the committee. it left the committee standing twelve for Taft and seven for Roosevelt. so it was sim ply a question whether a majority Of the committee had the right to control it's action or 6 minority, The bolting convention which Cochran held was not attended by majority of the duly elected delegates to the convention. II did not have the credentials from the various counties. and its membership was largely made up of bystanders who had not been duly accredited by any county in the district Its action was entirely without authority
 TENNESSEE.
 Second District.
 Tn the Second Tennessee district there were tifty.nine delegates uncon tested ont of a possible total Of IDS In the convention There were forty nine contested. The Roosevelt contestants in the forty.nln refused to abide the decision of the committee on creden' tials and withdrew, leaving fifty n.ne uncontested delegates. These fifty nine delegates. part Of whom were Roosevelt men. remained in the con vention. appointed the proper commit tees. settled contests and proceeded to select Taft delegates. There can be no question about the validity there fore of their title
 TEXAS.
 First District.
 Tbe only remaining districts are the nine districts from Texas Of these the First district was composed of clever counties. each county having one vote except Cass county. which had two The executive committee. composed of one representative from each county made up the temporary roll. and In the contests filed from two counties seat ed both delegates with One-half vote each. The convention elected the two . Taft delegates. giving them ten anc one quarter votes Each county wal represented tn this vote A minority representing one and three-quarter' votes bolted the regular convention and held a rump meeting. The na tional committee bp unanimous cot decided the contest In favor of thu Taft delegate.
 Second District.
 In the Second Texas district ther, were fourteen counties. Two counties were found not to have held conveD tions and one county to have no dele gate present. The convention wal then constituted by the delegation that held regular credentials. The re port of the committee on credential was accepted upon roll call. and thel ! the representatives of i've countie withdrew from the hall The repre- sentatiyes of four of these countie held a trump convention. The regula convention remained in session severa hours. appointed the usual committees which retired and made their reports which were accepted, and elected tw | TaSt d.,logat taa to tha national cOnvpn