Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-06-29
President Wins ON
Is First Ballot.
HE HAD q PLURALITY
344 Roosevelt Men Refused
to Vote.
SHERMAN WAS UNoppOSEl
Convention Adopts Resolution t(
- BaIk Boilers.

Chicago, June 24-With nearly 34l
Of the Roosevelt delegates declining
to vote and Fastening away at adjourn
ment time to tender to Colonel Roose
welt the nomination of a new party
the fifteenth Republican national con
yention at the end of a long and tn
multuous session renominated William
Howard Taft, of Ohio, for president
and James Schoolcraft Sherman, o
New York, for vice president.
President Taft received SCI of the
1913 votes in the convention, or q
more than a majority. The detailed
vote was: Taft, SCI; Roosevelt, 107;
LaFollette, Al; Cummins, II; Hughes
3; not voting, 344; absent, 6.
The total vote for vice president
was: Sherman, 597; Borah, 81; Had
ley, Ia; Merriam, 20; Beveridge, q;
Gillette, /.
The announcement of the Taft vic
tory was greeted with cheering from
his adherents and groans and Kisses
from the opposition.
In the confusion just before adjourn
ment a resolution was adopted giving
the national committee power to de
clare vacant the seat of any man or
the committee refusing to support tbs
nominee OF the regular convention OF
1912.
When it became absolutely certain
that Mr. Taft would be nominated
without great difficulty the leaders in
control of the convention decided tc
give him as a running mate his com
panion on the ticket In 1908.
All others dropped from the race
and Mr.. Sherman was the only candi
date regularly placed before the con
yention. motion from New Hamp
snlre to make the nomination by &C
clamation was declared out of order
There We're many scattering vote or
the roll call that ensued.
The revolt Of many Roosevelt dele
gates in the convention was apparent
from the moment the permanent roll
containing the names Of contested del
egates was approved. A ''valedictory'
statement was read in behalf of Colo
mel Roosevelt, asking that his name
be not presented, and that his dele
gates sit in mute protest against al
further proceedings. At no time was
there an indication of ,walkout OF
Roosevelt delegates. They expressed
their revolt by silence.
Only Waited coIoneps Call.
A great majority of the Roosevelt
delegates in the Illinois and all in the
Missouri and Idaho delegations, de
clined3 to follow this advice, but Colo
mel; Roosevelt's sway over the delega
tons from California, ansas, Maine
Minnesota. Nebraska, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, South Dakota and West
Virginia was all but absolute.
Most of, the delegates from these
states announced their purpose oil
helping to give Mr. Roosevelt an indie
pendent nomination at another hall.
The split in the convention occa
sioner no surprise. 1t was but a full
fiIlment of predictions that had been
made during the past several days.
The sclosing scenes of the conven
ton were marked by counter-demon
STATIONS for President Taft and Colo
mel Roosevelt.
The first test vote after the an
nogncement of the Roosevelt valedic
tory came on the adoption of the party
platform. The affirmative vote was
666. Roosevelt delegates present and
not voting numbered 34S. There were
SO noes, SO of them from the LaF'ol
lette states of Wisconsin and North
Dakota
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette, OF
Wisconsin. was placed before the con
yenion, shut, Colonel Roosevelt's wishes
were carried out by his followers and
they remained silent during the call
of the states for nomination.
Many of the delegates. however, car
ried out their primary instructions and
voted for the colonel.
The report of the credentials com
mittee on contested delegates was TAX
en- up by states and the action of the
national and credentials committees
was upheld.
=" Root Permanent Chairman.
The credentials committee report as
a whole then was adopted. This ended
tie contests and the convention took
up the report of the committee on
permanent organization. 1t recon-
mended that the temporary organiza
tion be made permanent.
Henry ]. Allen, of Kansas, theY
came forward to read the Roosevelt
statement and to pronounce "the
Roosevelt valedictory."