The Glenwood post., 1912-08-10

form to the national committee, which
without division asked for. held them
properly elected
Fourth District
| The Fourth Texas district consists
of five counties, each having one vote
In the district convention under the
call. One county, Rains chose an uncon-
tested delega ton, and that one was for
Taft. The other four counties sent
| contesting delegati tons. The contest
ing delegations appeared before the
congressional executive committee to
present their claims, but the commit
| tee arbitrarily refused to hear any.
| body. Having exhausted every effort
to secure bearing, the four contest
ing delega tions, together with the only
uncontested delegation of the conven-
| ton, withdrew to another place and
| held a convention and elected Taft
delegates to the Chicago convention.
The congressional convention which
elected the Taft delegates was com
| posed of more than a majority. and,
indeed, of practically all the regularly
| elected delegates. The national com
mittee held the title of the Taft dele
gates to their seats valid by viva voce
vote without calling for a division.
Fifth District.
The Fifth district OF Texas is com
posed of Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Bosque
| and Rockwall counties. Dallas county
| cast more Republican votes than all
| the other counties of the district put
together The call for the congress
slonal convention allowed each county
to send not to exceed four delegates,
| but made no reference to the basis of
representation of the respective coun-
| ties composing the district There
was contest from Dallas county, but
the Taft delegates We're seated Taft
delegates were seated on the temporary
roll from two counties, and Roosevelt
| delegates from the three counties. and
the representation in the convention
was fixed at one vote for each county
| without regard TO the number Of dele
gates in the convention or the mum.
Der of Republican votes cast in such
county. A minority report of the dis
trict committee was presented. protest
| ing against the ratio of representa-
ton adopted. The chairman of the
convention objected to the presenta-
ton of this minority report. Failing
in this he abandoned the platform and
left the hall
The convention thereupon elected
new chairman and new secretary, ap-
pointed a committee on credentials.
! ,1,,l . he, 81,
Taft delegates from Hill county and
the adoption of the minority report of
the district committee rs to the basis
of the representation in the convention
Both these recommendations were
adopted. and Taft delegates to the ma.
tional convention We're thereunon elect
ed by a vote OF eight to three. The
Roosevelt men thereafter retired to the
south end OF the hail. where they or.
ganized a meeting at which it was
claimed the Roosevelt delegates to the
national convention were elected. The
Republican vote for the district for
1908 was as follows: Dallas county
2,OGS; Ellis. 594; Hill, All; Bosque, 266;
Rock wall. 3S Both the national com.
mittee and the committee on creden-
tials sustained the Taft delegates.
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 ap-
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 it the
question of having the three unorgan.
ized counties represented in the con
vention. The executive committee re-
fused to recognize them. When this
action was taken by the executive com.
mittee q delegate from Houston county
and the alleged representatives 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
tion 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
a majority in the convention. which
adopted the minority report and gave