The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-13
Missouri Contest to
Cause Bitter R01c,

CHICAGO, June l3.-Missouri. with
its bitter row between the Roosevelt
and Taft adherents, promised - fur
nish the days sensation in the hear
ing OF contests before the national
committee.
Fourteen delegates are at stake III
the Missouri contests Gov. Hadley is
leading the Roosevelt delegation al
large, that is seeking seats in the con-
vention, and Joseph L. Black heads
the Taft delegation.
In advance OF the hearing IF the
contests, Roosevelt leaders from Mis-
souri, weer admitting that they would
not be surprised If the national com
mittee gave all the contested seats
To the Taft men.
Il would not be surprised al any
thing the committee might do iii the
light of its acton in other CONTESTS
within the last few days GOV. nd
ley said
The Roosevelt delegates at large
from Missouri are the regularly elect
ed delegates" said Hadley. The
Taft men haven't leg TO stand on.
When they saw they couldn't control
the regular state convention hey
bolted and a mere handful o. their
leaders got together in a hotel room
and selected Taft delegates at large.
The claim OF the Taft leaders in
Missouri is that Hadley and other
Roosevelt leaders broke an agree
ment whereby the four delegates Ut
large from the state were 10 be equally
divided between Taft and Roosevelt
They charge that Gov. Hadley had
policed the convention hall with Pc
licement detectives and state militia
men, thereby casting odium upon the
intelligence and good citizenship OF
Missouri Republicans and treating
the convention as a band of rufflaIs
Incapable of holding a peaceable meet
ing"
Some OF the Taft delegates went
home, according to the Taft claims,
and the convention was then con
trolled by Hadley and the other
Roosevelt leaders who proceeded 10
violate the alleged agreement and 20
select Roosevelt men. The next morn
ing the Taft men met at the Planters
hotel and named contesting lelega-
tion
The results in the national COM
mittee Wednesday were such as to
cast deep gloom over the Roosevelt
camp. In all, contests involving 10
seats were decided and every one OF
the places were given TO Taft men.
This makes a total Of l4l contested
X seats that have been awarded 10 TAFT
and only one to Roosevelt
All day Wednesday II was 4 run
away for the Taft men before the
committee. After the committee had
given Taft the two contested seats
from the Fourth California district.
which Roosevelt men claimed o.
majority of 1900 by reason .: the
fact that the states primary law
called for the election OF all 26 dele
gates from the state at large The
Roosevelt men practically threw up
their hands and assumed an attitude
or do your worst.
I'VE can't stop them here said
Senator Borah floor leader for the
Roosevelt forces in the national com
mittee, but we'll carry a lot OF these
fights to the floor of the convention.
We will not submit to being robbed
and then let the committee get away
with it,
The six delegates at large from Ari-
zona. the entire delegation of 90 from
Louisiana. the six delegates az large
from Michigan and four delegates a,
large and two delegates from the First
Mississippi district were also awarded
to Taft, each time over the protests
sometimes violent, OF Borah and
the other Roosevelt leaders.
The Mississippi contests were no
completed when the committee al
4<.s,rraA avaninp
Contests for the two seats, eacf
from the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth
Seventh and Eighth Missouri district.
were taken up when the committe,
resumed today plan tentatively
agreed TO. was to consolidate all o.
these contests because practically the
same points are at issue in each case
There came very near being row
among Negro leaders from Mississippi
before the committee late yesterday
At one point the lie was passed and
sergeants at arms and members o.
the committee closed In on the coil
testants to prevent physical encoun
ter The trouble was resumed aftel
the Negroes left the committee room
but policemen kept them apart.
Roosevelt leaders were hunting th'
dictionaries today for new words e
use In denouncing the national com
mittee. In his latest statement com
menting on the committees actions
especially In the Fourth California
contest. Chairman Dixon. IF the
Roosevelt campaign committee. uses
such phrases as "A traitoroGs tri
bunal." "A LOT OF crooks joy-riding OF
steam-roller," "a sickening spec
tacle," "A saturnalia of fraud and lar
ceny,- The limit OF folly and indie
cency." Doomed and passion-drunl
committee" Rocking with fraud an,
straight from the cesspools OF south
em corruption" and = few more.