The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-06-13
ARIZONA VOTES
ALSO GIVEN TO
PRESIDENT TAFT.
CALIFORNIA CASES QUESTION
VALIDITY OF WHOLE DELEGA-
TloN FROM GOLDEN STATE. Z,
President Also Receives Two Dele
gates from That State-Louisiana
Contests to Be Settled Later in
session.

Chicago, June 12.-The net results !
of The days session of@the national
committee is Arizona delegation at
large, six delegates to Taft. The
Fourth California district, two dele
gates for Taft.
The fight has been on some hours
over the Louisiana contest for six
delegates at large.
The six Arizona Taft delegates at
large were seated by a viva voce
vote by the republican national COM
mittee. Senator Borah's motion to
seat the Roosevelt delegation was de-
feated, after a roll call had been
refused. The committee then took
up the contested California Fourth
district.
The republican national committee
voted TO seat the two Taft delegates
in the national convention from the
Fourth California district, the only
contest from that state. This action
came after a running fire opened on
the committee by Francis J. Heney
and a stinging statemet from Gov
ern9r Johnson in the interest Of the
roosevelt side. Mr.. Heney, seated by
proxy, assailed the members of the
committee, emrhasizing particularly
Senator Murray Crane of Massachu-
setts, whom he addressed as a imam
who had no responsibility to lose"
Governor Johnson declined to ap-
~ lnf I1
sued a written statemeit in which
he declared he declined to submit ''to
trial to the title of property by the
thief who steals it,
After the committee had voted the
Roosevelt faction down, James A.
Tawney declared that any action by
the committee which would recognize
the states instead of the district would
establish a precedent which would
overthrow republican principles, "and
Senator Borah declared the commit
tee was making it impossible for a
republican to preside over the nation
for the next four years"
Bitter Attack on Heney.
on Mr.. Heney was made by Commit
teeman Shackleford of Alaska
This gentleman, he said, came
into this committee on a proxy and
his first yell was about graft rule
in San Francisco. l have seen the
attempt of certain members to drive
this committee to do what they want |
it to do. l, for one, refuse to be in
timidated or driven from doing what |
l think is right"
The California Case.
The California case promised to
bring the title of the whole state |
delegation in question owing to the |
conflict between the California state
primary law and the official call of
the national committee.
The national committees call spec
lied that each district should choose
two delegates to the national con-
yention. Under he California prim-
airy law, although the first returns
showed that the Taft delegates were !
elected in the Fourth district, the seed
retary of state gave all delegates to-
Colonel Roosevelt because OF his !
statewide majority in the primary.
Later, however, the secretary Of /
state determined that the boundaries |
between the Third and Fourth dis
-tricts were not clearly defined to
make possible an accurate count of
the Taft and Roosevelt delegates IN
the Sixth district. This change fur
ther complicated the case as it was
presented to the committee today. /
The Pelican State.
In the Louisiana cases the regular
ity of the state organization directly
is at issue. Three sets of delegates
appear from the state at large, one
instructed for Roosevelt and headed
by National Committeeman Pearl
Wright, and two for Taft, only one
of which the national committee rec
Ognizes as regular
In an attempt to heal the Louis
lana split after the republican ma
tional convention Of 1908. the natioaal
committee directed a ub-cOmmittee
to go to the state ad bring the war
ring factions together Members Of
this committee, which consisted Of f.
C. Duncan of North Carolina Ralph
Williams of Oregon, and Secretary
William Hayward of New York, pre-
pared to go into the Louisiana case
in the committee today and testify