New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19
IT. RS CLAIMS ABSURD"
Taft Bureau Declares Them To
Be PrepoSterous.
DISAGREES WITH MANAGERS
Said To Be Unwilling to Give
President Same Treatment
He Expects Himself.
From The Tribune Bureau. ]

Washington. May ls.-The following
comment on the Roosevelt claims was
made to-day by the Taft bureau:
An analysis of Theodore Roosevelts
claim of SOL votes for himself in the Ke-
publican National Convention, when
claim was made public at Toledo on May
16. is so full OF preposterous assertiohs
and striking deviations, even from the
claims of NJ. Roosevelts own campaign
managers, as to indicate the utter lack OF
substance to any claim OF delegates now
being put forth from the Roosevelt camp.
A few OF the striking features or MT.
Roosevelt's table of alleged supporters
are as follows
In Massachusetts Mr.. Roosevelt claims
that by reason OF the preference vote IN
that state he Is entitled to receive the
votes of delegates in seven Congress as
tricts which he carried In the preference
vote. while President Taft is entitled 10
the seven districts he carried ana 10 the
eight delegates-at-large. by eXaclly tne
same token President Taft is entitled TO
receive four votes from the state OF
Maryland, he having carried two dlstrlGts
in that state on the preference vote MI.
Roosevelt, however, claims ali Oh Mary
land for himself.
In Mississippi Mr. Roosevelt unblush-
ingly lays claims TO twenty delegates
elected at rump conventions and concern
ing which there Is regularity WHAT
ever. However, he needed the twenty 10
make his 5Ol.
In Texas Mr.. Roosevelt coolly proceeds
TO annex forty delegates. although ms
own followers do not intend to claim the
state until May 20. 1t Will be recaIiea
that Colonel Cecil Lyon, Mr. Roosevelt $
personal representative in TeXas, de-
clined a Presidential preference primary
for the state Of Texas. Thereupon the
Taft men asked the Congressional organi-
cations, which had hitherto lain dormant.
that conventions by Congress districts DC
called. and because Of the insistent de-
nd nf ha nj
for them they were called. Thus far thir.
teen of these district conventions OUT or
sixteen have been heard from, and Presl,
dent Taft has twenty-five delegates ana
Mr., Roosevelt four The only possible
claim Theodore Roosevelt has to forty
delegates in Texas Is by totally dlsre-
garding the primary ana caucus actipii
already taken In Congress districts In the
state.
With reference 10 Indiana, the rump
convention. which Is the sole basis upon
which Mr.. Roosevelt hangs his case be-
fore the Chicago convention, consisted OF
not more than nifty delegates out or feV-
eral hundred in the Indiana convention
and the Roosevelt floor leader In the con
yention fight refused to participate In II
With respect to Mr.. Roosevelts charges
about Kentucky. Senator w. %. Bradley,
of that state, has denounced every one
Of them rs false.
With reference 10 Michigan, II Is n no
torious fact that the Roosevelt men. after
having lost nearly all Of the first counties
which held conventions In the state. be.
gan a series OF contests which extended
to every other county subsequently lost
With reference to all Southern states
Including several district and the state
convention OF Missouri. where Mr. Roose.
welt now claims at least six delegates,
which were secured for him through mo
breaking Of solemn promises made by inc
Roosevelt leaders. Mr.. Roosevelt win
consummate audacity claims delegates TO
which he has not legal or moral right
Il. sI,ff because
Ia make moro than Ave hundred dele
gates" in his Toledo statement
With respect to Washington state. Iheo-
dore Roosevelt claims the whole delesa-
ton az fourteen and asserts that tho
state was deliberately stolen from MN.
The state committee. which he thus as
sails. Is composed almost entirely or the
friends of his supporters.