Semi-weekly herald., 1912-06-13
CONTEST FOR DELEGATES GOES
MERRILY ON-TEDDY COMES
OUT STRONG IN OUTLOOK

OUT STRONG IN OUTLOOK
CHICAGO, June 1.-THE time con-
sumed in presentation of the Indiana
contests before the national commit
tee yesterday made it question this
morning whether more than the Ken
lucky contests could be finished today.
Unless the Kentucky and Louisiana
cases can be cleared up it is probable
the committee will be forced into night
sessions to dispose of the many con-
tests before the convention meets
week from today. Kentucky is to be
decided in favor of Taft, of course.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 11.-William
Barnes jr., chairman of the New York
Republican state committee, and dele
gate at large to the convention, ar
rived today and Immediately went into
conference with Senator Crane of
Massachusetts, Senators Saunders of
Tennessee, Lafayette B. Gleason of
New York and other Taft leader.
Barnes is looked upon as the prob
able Taft floor leader in the conven-
ton. There is said to be a likelihood
too that he will take part in the de-
liberations of the national committee
on the contested delegates. The New
York leader declared his principal bus
mess at this time was to aid in the
confirmation of Senator Elihu Root of
New York as temporary chairman of
the Republican national convention.
NEW YORK, June 1l.-Theodore
Roosevelt, in an article in the Outlook
makes it clear as day that if he Is
not nominated at the Chicago con
vention, he will bolt
He declares it will then become
the "bounden duty" Of all good and
honest Republicans "to repudiale' the
conventions nominee.
He says:
THE contest for the Republican
nomination has narrowed down to a
naked issue of right and wrong. for
the issue is simply whether or not We
shall permit the system of naked
fraud, of naked theft from the people
to triumph. have made this contest
on two great principles, first, the right
of the people to rule and there soro in
the exercise of their deiberate judg-
ment, to control government and .,er
governmental agents, and second,
their duty so to rule as to bring about
not only political but social and in
dustrial justice. | do not intend tame
ly to submit to an effort by bosses
acting as representatives of special
privilege to throw aside the verdict of
the people and substitute fake YER
dict of their own"
NEW YORK, June 11.-Norman E.
Mack, chairman Of the Democratic ma
tional committee, State Chairman
Palmer and Tammany Chief Murphy
may get together today to determine
who shall be presented as New York's
choice for temporary craftsmanship.
Murphy is said to prefer Senator
.O'Gorman but the friends of Congress
man Sultzer are pushing him. The
Brooklyn Democrats are urging Con-
gresham Fitzgerald. The followers
of Alton B. Parker, the nominee in
1904, are urging that he ought to
sound the keynote of 1912.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June IL
Representative Taylor has been au-
thorized by the house public lands
committee to report favorably a bill
recently passed by the senate to issue
patents to homesteaders under the
government reclamation projects after
three years residence that back pay
ments due the government be lien
on the lands.
MOBILE, Ala, June 11.-"I'm GO
ing to vote for Roosevelt if they chop
my head off," declared Postmaster
Byron Trammel of Dothen Of the Ala
bama Republican delegation. He is
one of the two delegates to the Chi
cago convention from this state who
say they will vote for Roosevelt. The
other postmaster is j. B. Daughtry of
Geneva, both being from the Third
district.
Trammel says Roosevelt announced
he would be a candidate after the dele
gates from the Third district were
elected and that his entrance into the
race changed the entire political com
plexion. Under such circumstances
he says, he has a right to support the
colonel if he chooses to do SO, not
withstanding he is instructed as Taft
delegate.
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