The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-06-14


president won all the Alabama con-
tests and the contest for the four
delegates-at-large from Arkansas.
The six Taft delegates-at-large and
the First, Second and Fifth districts,
two delegates each, from Alabama,
were seated by unanimous vote. The
Sixth district contest was withdrawn
by the Roosevelt forces, while the
contest in the Ninth district was de-
cided by the first test vote-thirty-
eight for Taft and fifteen for Roose-
welt.
Twelve delegates from Florida, %
from Georgia, 16 from Alabama, and
eight from Arkansas were also given
to Taft. Roosevelt, so far, had not Sc
cured single contested delegate.
At another meeting Taft generals
added Indiana's ''big four" delegates
at-large and eight other contested del
egates from the same state to the adj
ministration column, making the total
Taft count "a, Roosevelt's "band of
hope" has not one 90. K" so far in
the struggle involving control o. the
convention.
The decision of the national COM
mittee on Indiana followed one of the
most turbulent scenes of the hearing,
in which charges of bad faith were
exchanged and much steam roller"
talk was heard. The vote was unani-
nous, Colonel Harry S. New not vot-
ing.
The Taft "big four" consists of Col
onel New, who is directing the anti
Roosevelt movements here; Charles
W. Fairbanks, former vice president;
James E. Watson, former congress-
man, and Joseph d. oliver. They dis
place the Roosevelt "big four" headed
by Albert J. Beveridge, former United
States senator. James A Hemenway,
a former senator from Indiana, was
heard in the arguments for the Taft
side.
Roosevelt men were banking much
on Indiana, because it was the first
of the northern states to be reached
on the contest checker board They
made allegations of wholesale fraud
state convention legally.
The Taft men ridiculed their con-
tentions. Colonel New insisted from
the start there was no more basis for
contest than was developed in the
southern states. The argument was
allowed to run freely over the allotted
time of half an hour for each side.
District contests in which eight ad-
ditional seats from Indiana are in
question went the Taft way.
Just before the Indiana cases came
UP the committee had engaged in a
wrangle over the California contest
which, for a moment, appeared as
though some of the members would
come to blows.
The row over the California cases
started when Francis J. Heney i'm
pugned the motives of the Taft mem
bers of the committee. Senator Borah
was accused of insulting the commit
teemen when he said all the honesty
was not on the Taft side. Thomas J.
Devine of Colorado shook his fist at
Senator Borah and declared all the
honesty was not on the Roosevelt side.
Chairman Rosewater pounded loud
ly and viciOusly with his gavel, de
claring Heney out of order, and at
one time waved his gavel threatening.
1y in the direction of Borah.
When the tumult partly subsidized
the question of postponing the Cali
fornia cases was put to a vote, the
Taft forces winning by vote of SO tC
-. The cases then went over until
Wednesday.
The engineers of the steam roller
that is running over the hopes OF
Theodore Roosevelt have figured out
that when they finish the roll call OF
the temporary organization of the Re
publican national convention it will
disclose $50 votes for William H. Tafs
This is margin of exactly twenty
above a majority.
On the other hand, friends of Roose
welt are claiming that in spite of the
domination of the national committee
by the Taft forces with it's corrollary