The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-08-02

attempted contests, which had any
merit 1t is manifestly impossible fol
the Star-Mirror on account of laci
of space to republish the full resume
but the clear proof Offered through
out is evidenced in that offered in the
case of our neighbors of Washington
about which contests perhaps, the coll
onel has made more noise than about
any of the rest of them.
| The contest in Washington" says
the resume, turned on the question of
whether the Taft delegates appointed
by the county committee in King coun-
| ty in which Seattle is situated, were
| duly elected to the convention, or
whether primary, which was suisse
quently held, and at which Roosevelt
delegates were elected was properly
called, so that it's result was legal.
Under the law the county comnlittee
had the power to decide whether it
would select the delegates directly or
should call primary. In some of
the counties of the state one course
was pursued and in other counties the
other. In King county the commit
tee consisted of $50 men, the majority
of whom were for Taft, and that ma
jority, acting throughout it's execu-
tive committee selected the Taft dele
gates to the state convention. kIean-
time the city council of Seattle had
f<~, .,Ix L, =
ESQ precincts. Now, substantially the
same territory was divided up into 381
precincts. The chairman of the cOun-
ty committee was a Roosevelt man. |
He had been given authority by gen
eral resolution to fill vacancies occur
ring in the committee. A general |
meeting of the committee had been
held after the city council had di-
rected the redistricting of the city, in
which it was resolved, the chairman
not dissenting, that representatives
could not be selected to fill the new
precincts until an election was held
in September, 1912. Thereafter, and
in spite of this conclusion, the chair
man assumed the right by his appoint
ment to add to the existing commit
zee 131 precinct committeeman. and
with these voting N the committee,
t is claimed that a primary was or
Tered There was so much confusion
n the meeting that this is doubtful.
However the fact is that the Taft men s
! !
nittee so constituted, on the ground t
hat the chairman had no right to APP c
'Oint the 131 new committeeman. They
efused to take part in the primary,
nd so did the La Toilette men. The Q
ewspapers reported the number of i
otes in the primary to be something d
yer 5000. The Roosevelt committee is
bowed by affidavit, the number 10 be ii
coo out of usual total republican W
ote of $4,000. The action of the
hartman of the committee in at e.
,mpting to add 131 precinct men to k
le old committee was of course be- ct
md his power. The resolution au- W
orizing him to fill vacancies of Sc
,urse applied only to those places to
hich became vacant after they had ST
zen filled, and clearly did not ap- til
y to the 131 new precincts. 1t could ia
II in the nature Of things apply to lii
change from the old system TO a tn
mplete new system of precincts m
Gated by the city council. becanse if
70 lD LODI |
+ of 331 new precincts different
pm the old must be filled. One sys- -
n could not be made into the other
a mere additional appointment of
' that such action by the committee
s legal. Therefore, the action which
, lawful committee of $50 took in
citing Taft delegates who made
only one which could be recognize
as valid
30 much for the Washington con-
t. Such was the basis of the theft"
rge against IA of the Taft delegates
ted by the national committee and
credentials committee, and follow
one after another, as a row of
1inoes tumbles down when the 4rst
upset, contest after contest, sfeft
rye after theft charge, is found to
lust as baseless.
answering to this memorable log
and these incontroyertible facts,
Dill y l. t.
answer: Thieves! Liars! Rob
&. Political Thugs! Second story
!" And the colonel promptly ends
entire discussion with: Il all the
honest man in the country. If
don't believe what l say look up