Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-15
UNABLE TO GET TWENTY
TO DEMAND ROLL CALL
Roosevelt Awarded Two Delegates
From Third District.
MAY END CONTESTS TONIGHT
Hearing Marked by Charges and
determinations Regarding
Conditions in the Lone
Star State.

| Iaft delegates from Texas entitled 10
seats in the republican national conven-
| tlon claimed by AN equal number OF
Roosevelt supporters, the republican ma
nonal committee before the noon hour To-
| day. increased to ls1 the total OF contests
decided to date in favor of the President
The national committee first took un the
| contest involving the eight delegates at
large from Texas. the Taft delegation ap-
pearing as contestants. as opposed to the
Roosevelt eight headed by National Com
fnitteeman Cecil 4. Lyon The vote seat
ing the contestants was viva voce and a
substitute motion declaring the Roosevelt
delegates entitled TO seats was voted
down In the same manner. Eighteen
members-two less than the required
| number-joined in a demand for a roll
call.
Decision on this contest was followed
| by a scene OF disorder outside the COM
| mittee room. where the wild cheering, of
several hundred Taft adherents mingled
with hooting and groans by the Roosevelt
| supporters.
/ In the first Texas district also decided
/ in favor of the Taft forces the Roosevelt
| delegates appeared as the contestants
The vote on this contest was unanimous
d
! to Taft. The third district was given 10
! Roosevelt.
| The fourth Texas district. two delegates
We're credited to Taft.
Texas Delegates on Hand Promptly.
The republican national committee con-
| vened at 9:15 am, to resume its de-
lberations on the contests of delegates TO
the national convention.
| Texas delegates began to appear at the
Coliseum annex some time before the
committees hour of meeting. Many OF
them We're made conspicuous By the
white badges they wore: Texas for
| Taft" recalling the historic banner flung
to the gaze of the republican convention
four years ago. Then huge placard, To
| which a pair of pants" We're attached.
was borne through the hall carrying the
legend: ''As pants the hart for running
streams. so Texas pants for Taft"
| Col Cecil Lyon, national committeeman
for Texas. against whom much OF the
Taft fight had been directed was an
early arrival at the committee room. He
was accompanied by many Roosevelt
delegates from the Lone Star state.
/ Francis j. Heney again held a proxy in
the committee. Roosevelt members were
] grouped together in one corner Of the
room before the committee met.
Cases to Be Decided.
/ When the committee met 1t was with
the expectation that the final decisions in
the contests for delegates to the national
convention would be rendered before
| night.
/ The seats of sixty-eight delegates were
| still in dispute and included the follow
ing: Texas, 30: Virginia. 20; Washing
ton. IA: District of Columbia, :, and
| North Carolina. =.
/ An agreement was made TO consolidate
| the contests in Virginia and Washington.
and in this way committeeman believe the
hearing can be brought to a close to-
day
| In the Texas contests Cecil Lyon, ma
tional committeeman OF that state. claim
| ed regularity for his Roosevelt orsani-
zation. but no more strongly than did
| II. f. McCreaer. leader of the Taft or
ganizAtion in the Lone Star state.
The latter claimed that the Lyon men
| proceeded irregularly in their election
| of district delegates to the state conven-
tions and also in the county delegates
! to some of the district conventions.
! In Virginia the issue raised by
| Roosevelt contestants, was that the Iait
| delegates were elected In halls where
negroes were not allowed, and that many
! republican local leaders were thus Wiz
/ tually disfranchsed.
Washington's question was whether tile
| Taft people so manipulated the state
| committee as to obtain control of the
| convention which sent the delegates at
| large to Chicago. Similar questions were
| involved in the district contests from
| the Puget Sound state. Senator PoindeX-
/ ter was scheduled to argue these cases
from the Roosevelt standpoint
Lyon Denies Contest Exists.
| The contest of the Texas delegates at
large was the first called. Col. Lyon an
nounced that he believed that technically
there was no contest against the Roose-
velt delegates at large. He said he was
of the belief that no printed bfief for the
Taft delegates had been filed within the
prescribed twenty days before the ma
| tional committee met; that, In conse-
| quence, the rules OF the committee had
| not been observed and no formal contest
existed for the place OF the elght dele
gates at large
| Secretary Hayward said he had two
sets of credentials from Texas"
THE chairman can only 60 on the ad-
vice of the secretary" said Chairman
Rosewater He says a contest exists,
and II must be called.
| Col. LYON declared that in tie Alaska
case yesterday and I'm other cases CON
| tests had been excluded because they had
not been filed within the stipulated time.
He and Committeeman Capers of South
Carolina insisted that no Texas contest
at large existed
Texas Passed Temporarily.
A crisis was precipitated when Mr. Null
vane of Kansas moved to pass Texas and
take Up Virginia. because Texas appar-
emily was mot ready"
IT protest against such action" said
Lyon 1--WE are ready
"But you decline to so on with the nrst
contest" said Mulvane.
| 1--WE don't recognize that a contest -
lists as to these delegates at large" re-
forted Lyon.
| Against the protest OF Committeeman
Gamers of South Carolina that .'you can't
run over US i'm this way the committee
voted to take up the Virginia contests ami
10 pass the Texas contest temporarily.
1t was understood that Col. Lyon and
the Roosevelt members OF the committee
would raise against virtually all OF the
Texas contests the same point made In
the case Of the delegates at large, name