The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-06-13

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ChicagO.-That South DakOta's ten
delegates bay be unseated.
Notwithstanding Roosevelt carried
the state by five to one Oye Taft,
became a possibility if not n probab-
ility today, when the republican ma
tional committee voted to unseat the
Roosevelt delegates from the Fourth
California district and to give their
seats Il two Taft delegates.
The only basis for this action on
the California delegates is that the
secretary of state certified the cleo
ton of the 20 delegates who received
the largest vote in the state at large,
while the Fourth California district
was carried by Taft. 1t was claim-
ed for Taft that the national COM
mittee instructed that delegates
should he chosen by districts. In
South Dakota the delegates were
chosen at large as is also the case
i'm Oregon. Politicians today said in
discussing the action of the commit.
tee in the California case, that il
paves the way for similar action will
the Oregon and South Dakota dele.
gates.
The first thing this morning tho
committee seated the delegates a
large from Arizona, then passed tho
Louisiana contest and took up th'
Fourth California district.
Hancy Calls 1t Theft.
Francis j. Heney of California told
the committee that he was there t.
inform President Taft through tin
committee that if he accepted tive
delegates from the Fourth Californi;
district, he would be receiving stolel
goods.
Committeeman Finn of Pennsyl
vania and "ov. Glasscock of IVES
Virginia told the committee that nj
the electors in their state are ROOsvel
men, chosen at the recent primaries
and that they would, if elected, vot.
in the electoral college for Roosevelt
regardless of the action of the ma
tional convention, providing the Tai
men stole the nomination. Glass
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prevails in other states which hell
preference primaries, including III
linois and the EakOtaS.
In the Fourth California district
the Taft men contested the Roose
welt delegates. claiming that the
rule of the national committee says
that the voters in each district shall
choose their delegates, while in Cali
fornia the secretary of state certified
the election of the &c delegates who
had the highest number of votes a
large.
After a bitter fight, the Taft dele
gates, from the Fourth Californi;
district were seated b., a vote of 81
to 16.
The politicians at once pointed our
that this created a precedent under
which the committee could unseaI
the Roosevelt delegates from Soutl
Dakota and Oregon.
Committeeman Capers of South
Carolina voted to seat the Roose
, welt delegates from the Fourth Cal
! ifornia district and said:
"The national committee las. De
cember made provision for such {
case as is now presented from Cali
fornia. 1t specifically excluded thes,
states that would elect delegates ii
primaries, from the rule requiring tn,
. selection of delegates by districts
Yet this committee is going to dis
regard hat agreement and the vote
that make it possible to disregard j
are coming from the Southern states
that won't produce a single e%lectora
' vote for the republican party mex
November"
Taft Men Alarmed.
The Taft managers were alarme,
today by the threats of Finn an,
Glasscock that, if Taft steals the
nomination the presidential ele,
tors in states carried by Roosevelt
at the primaries would vote fe
t Roosevelt for president in the cleo