Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-24
TAFT GETS AN
EMPTY HONOR
How States Lined Up on No.
mination at Chicago.

OnlCdGO, JuHb II ut NSPNb
national convention has renomlnated
President Taft and Vice-Presldent
Sherman.
Only one ballot was taken on each
nomination.
For President, Taft received 56l
votes; Roosevelt, 107; Cummins, II; La
Toilette, Al; Hughes, - Six delegates
were absent and 344 refused to vote.
For Vice-President, Sherman re-
ceived 597 votes, many of the La Fol
lette and Cummins men giving him their
support,
There was no motion ito make the
nomination of Taft unanimous, an I'M
precedented incident.
Senator Root was made chairman of
the committee to notify the President
of his nomination, and Thomas, Ii. De-
vine of the committee to notify Sher-
man.
The Roosevelt program as determined
upon was carried out after the conven-
ton had received the last of the ere
dentials committee s report and had
become permanently organized.
There was no bolt, but in accordance
with the program no roll call was de-
manded and after the permanent or
ganization was completed the Roose-
| welt men did not vote. This was in
obedience to the request of the colonel
contained in a statement read to the
convention at 3:15 O'Clock in the after
noon. In this he asked the Roosevelt
delegates not to vote on any matter
after the report of the credentials COM
mittee, on the ground that the onven
ton did not represent the real RepublI
can party.
The colonel statement was read by
Henry J. Allen, of Kansas. Mr.. Allen
supplemented it with q statement of his
own, which, he said, represented the
views of a majority of the Roosevelt
delegates.
When Massachusetts was reached in
the vote on the nomination a roll call
was demanded. AS the Roosevelt men
recorded themselves present and refused
to vote, Chairman Root ordered that
their alternates be called in their stead.
THIS ruling broke the storm. The
Roosevelt men sprang to their feet and
roared. massachusetts is a lawabid-
ing state and will stand for no such
stealing" shouted one of the dele
gates.
Root advanced to the front Of the
platform and said: eff any delegate
sent here by the State of Massachu-
sets refuses to do his duty his alter
nate will be called on to do it."
"That' 8 piracy" shouted a delegate,
Urged by the police and the ser
geant-at-arms, the angry Massachu-
setts men slowly took their seats, but
the hall still rang with protests and
ebn,+u of ~Pohhar1tJ GGTTbiouaaitj |
At last quiet supervened and Fosdick,
of Massachusetts,, asked for an explana-
ton of the chair s ruling.
Chairman Root replied that the chal-
lenge of the vote, and the individual
delegates not answering, required the
calling of the alternates.
off / say present Is not that sufH- !
cient7' asked Fosdick.
"The chair thinks not"
Fostiek tried to appeal from the de-
ctsion Of the chair. Chairman Root
ruled that the appeal was out of order,
until the rool call was complete. He
said that before the result was an
nounced there would be opportunity to
pass upon the appeal.
In Massachusetts, the alternates of
the delegates at-large, elected at the
primaries, were all pledged to Taft.
As the clerk called the roll all of the
delegates-at-large answered "present
and not voting" The a~lternates were
then called, but only two answered,
Benjamin H. Anthonk, New Bedford;
and Ernest G. Adames, Worcester, vot-
ing for Taft.
Senator Root ruled that whenever a
state vote was challenged the rule of
calling the alternates for delegates who
refused to vote would be followed. phe
answer of present and not voting
was received from the states where
there was no challenge and no roll call
| of the state.
The final Massachusetts, vote was
Taft 20, not voting l6. The regular
delegation stood tied at IS to IS.
In the vote Cummins got sever from
Idaho, ten from Iowa and nine from
Michigan. La Toilette got ten from
North Dakota, five from South Dakota
and 20 from Wisconsin. Hughes got
two from Pennsylvania. New Jersey
gave two votes for Roosevelt and
twenty;sfx followed ROOSEVELT in
situations and refused TO vote