The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-09
He IS LICKED
AND WILL BOL1
Republican National Committee Finds
Contest Claims Of Roosevelt Are
Built Of FlImsy
Material.
STEAM ROLLER OILED
Everything is in Favor Of TAFT Wher
All the vsslous knots
! Have Been IN
tangled.
STEAM ROLLER OILED
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN, NATION.
Al COMMITTEE HAS ACCOM-
plISHED

WHAT HE REPUBLICAN NA1ION-
Al COMMITTEE HAS ACCOM-
PLlsHED.
In sesslon--f7 hours.
Disposed Of contests In Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida and Georgia.
Seated the Taft contestants In ev-
cry instance and added 72 delegates TO
the Taft total strength on the tenn
porary roll.
Demonstrated that the Taft forces
were In absolute control and that the
most Roosevelt members can muster
for any proposition opposed by the
Presidents managers is fifteen men Of
the committee ,or five less than would
be required to force record roll-eaIl
should the Taft people not want to
grant It.
| UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
COLISEUM, Chicago, June s.
When the republican national conven-
tion adjourned at six o'clock tonight
until Monday, it had absolutely dem
onstrated that it would seat every
single Taft delegate against whom a
contest had been filed with the ex-
ception OF Washington state. And ev-
en- there were number OF members
of the committe who insisted that un
less the Roosevelt delegates from
that state could show an absolutely
perfect case, they would be stricken
a out with the rest.
Today's session was n1onotonous
and, unlike yesterdays, was mo-
marked by any wrangles OF conse
i quence.
The Taft men won a sweeping vic
tory in both the Florida and Georgia
contests. The former were disposed
I of at the morning session in a hurry
even the Roosevelt members of the
committee frankly conceding tha
there was little merit in the contests
that were engineered by Ormsby Nc
4 Harg.
!. But the Georgia contests presented
an entirely unique situation. There
!, had been no protest Of consequence
/. against the election of the delegate:
!, at large and the district delegates
which instructed them all for Taft
But later the Roosevelt organization
in Georgia organized the contest The
! Roosevelt men claimed that the
, Georgia state law provided that M
elections Of any character were lega
until after the preparation Of th'
1872 registration list. This list wal
not complete until after April 20, last
and the state convention, as well al
! the district conventions were held II
! February. The Roosevelt contestants
through Dean E. Ryman, an Atlants
: lawyer, insisted that this made tn,
/ Taft controlled conventions absolutel.
, illegal.
ITO recognize the standing of thes,
so-called delegates" declared Ryman
''is to practically create delegates
here and now by arbitrary fiat, no
5 only without regard to the controlling
; provisions of the Georgia law. but II
l open. fragrant and complete disre
j gard of its intuitions."
In answering this H. L. Johnson
one of the delegates at large iron
: Georgia and a negro, electrified th'
committee, by denouncing the Georgi'
: law, which, he said. was enacted onl
to disfranchise the negro, He ar
pealed to the committee not to recoe
nize the Georgia law.
!, Would you force the black mel
l.. -
demand of the robbery Of their fran
5 chises? This is Hoke Smiths law n
, put it on the statute books to rob tn
negro of his rights as citizen Thi
. law was and is intended to keep th
republican party out of office"
The entire Georgia contests were dis
posed of by viva voce vote. no al
tempt being made by the Roosevelt
I forces to demand They declare,
that "the steam roller was "workin
a over time. and Frank B. kellogg, VIII
r in the absence of Senator Borah, wa
: in charge of the Roosevelt member
: of the committee, returned to his he
g tel nearly two hours before the CON
$ mittee finally adjourned.
Senator Borah, one of Roosevelt
1 staunchest supporters, was quoted a
{ saying in private that he was disgust
] led with the action of the Roosevelt
1 contestants bringing the charges S
Q far heard that had no leg to stan,
-iou. excepting in the case of the mint
ldistrict cf Alabama.