The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-08-08

SAaAAAeu tuc NOOSSVet uelegdteS 10 the
national convention were elected. The
Republican vote for the district for
1908 was as follows: Dallas county.
/ ZOOS; Ellis, 594: Hill, 414; Bosque 266:
Rockwell, SO. Both the national com.
mittee and the committee on creden-
tfals sustained the Taft delegates.
t Seventh District.
The Seventh congressional district OF
Texas is composed Of the following
counties: Anderson, Chambers, Gal
weston, Houston, Liberty, Polk, San ia
cinto and Trinity. Polk. San Jacinto
and Trinity were without proper party
organization. In Texas county chair.
men must be elected by the voters in
each party. No such election was held
in any of these three counties. In two
Of them Colonel Lyon assumed to an
point chairmen, which he had no right
to do. Lyon himself had classed these
three counties as unorganized and with
out party organization.
The convention met in Galveston
The executive committee met prior to
the meeting Of the convention TO make
up the temporary roll of delegates The
executive committee had before 1t the
question Of having the three morgan
lied counties represented in the con-
vention. The executive committee re-
fused to recognize them. When this
action was taken by the executive COM
mittee delegate from Houston county
and the alleged representatiy es from
the three unOrganiZed counties with
drew from the meeting and proceeded
to organize another convention, and
upon this is based The contest, which
was rejected by both committees, the
national committee and the credentials
committee
Eighth District.
In the Eighth congressional conven-
ton split occurred over the majority
and minority reports of the executive
committee as to the temporary roll.
The Roosevelt followers controlled the
executive committee, but did not have
majority in the convention which
adopted the minority report and gave
Taft five and one-half votes and Roose
welt two and one-half votes This re-
suited in the election Of the Taft dele
gates. who We're seated by both the
national committee and the credentials
committee.
Ninth District.
In the Ninth district the district
committee was called by Mr. Speaker.
a member of the committee, and not bv
the chairman. The chairman refused
to convene the committee because he
claimed that all the delegates from
Texas to the national convention must
be elected in the state convention, that
Colonel Lyon. his superior, had thus
directed him. The district committee
was called Seven members attended
the meeting. The district convention
was called on May Is. Eleven counties
out of the fifteen responded to the call
and took part in the convention. Three
counties We're not represented and in
one OF these there was no election
After this convention had been called
the chairman Of the district committee
changed his MUD req. g.. "A meet
ing of the comuli.;pp I"r April II
This committee calleI Il congressional
convention to be held on May 49, But
there was no publication of the call,
which had to be thirty days before the
convention, until April Il. The Taft
convention seems therefore to have
been duly and regularly convened
while the Roosevelt contention was
not The Taft delegates We're seated.
Tenth District.
In the Tenth district the decision
turned largely upon the bad faith with
which two members of the district
committee voted in the seating of dele
gates and upon the bad faith with
which one of them used the proxy in
trusted to him. The Taft delegates in
this case b0lted and left the hail and
Immediately in the same building or
gained another convention which CON
sisted Of delegates from six counties.
Proceedings We're regularly held; u per-
port of the committee on resolutions
adopted and delegates pledged to Taft
We're elected. The undisputed evidence
indicated that fragrant attempt had
been made to deprive Taft of this dis
trict, to which he was justly entitled.
The national committee sustained the
title of the Taft delegates and alter
mates by d practically unanimous vote.
Fourteenth District.
In the Fourteenth district there We're
fifteen counties in the district. When
the executive committee met at San
Antonio to make up the temporary roll
there We're ten members of the com
mittee present whose right to act was
undisputed. Of whom six were for Taft
and four for Roosevelt. There were
four other Roosevelt men present
whose right to vote was disputed and
who were clearly not entitled to repre-
sent their county at that meeting. One
of them held the proxy of the commit
teeman from Kendall county, who was
dead, and the proxies from three other
counties were held, two by postmas-
tiers and one by an assistant postmas-
ter, while under the election law Of
Texas no one who holds an Office Of
profit or trust under the United States
shall act as a member of an executive
committee either for the state or for
any district or county. The temporary
roll was made up by Taft members,