The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16
Poindexter Not Responsible

1 fOlnueXIer NOL heSpOnSlDlc
 Senator Poindexter is not responsible . he said, for he was not there nor in 1 the state, but the gentleman who pre- ceded him is responsible for those state ments"
 MT. Dovel referred to the state com mittee as the lawfully constituted au- thority" which had properly determined
 what delegates should sit in the state convention.
 "As rapidly as a Taft delegation was selected a contest would be filed against l it," MT. Doveil said
 These contests were all free voters. They conceived the clumsy idea that in ] that way they could disqualify the Taft | delegates from voting on temporary roll call"
 MT Dovell charged that the King eoun- | ty committee had been packed for 1 Roosevelt by its chairman, Thomas F. Murphine, by the appointment without authority, of 151 new members of the county committee.
 | It was this committee. he said, which i had adopted the resolution calling for primaries in King county The Taft peo- pie refused to go into these primaries, he said, because there was a clause in ! the resolution giving Chairman Mur- phine the power to pass on all creden- tials of delegates.
 Tn the primanes'' he. continued, fin a county with voting population of about lOo,OoO not more than 500 votes were cast and in at least 30 precincts no votes were cast.
 | There is no way" he asserted, fin | which ip can be determined whether the people of Washington are for Pres ident Taft or Colonel Roosevelt for there is no such thing as prefer ential primary there"
 All right, if you want tot gag on | facts so we can't get at them.v said Committeeman Kellogg of Minnesota.
 Seats 14 Delegates | The committee seated the 14 Taft delegates from washington by 0 sim gle decision To MT. Mulvane's motion to seat them, Nh. Keliogg offered a substitute to seat the Roosevelt dele | gation headed by Senator Poindexter. The Roosevelt men could muster but 10 votes in their demands for roll calls The Kellogg motion was de- !, feated and the Taft delegates then were seated against the opposition of | the Roosevelt men.
 | Committeeman Perkins of Washing ton had previously announced that he would not vote on heWontest.
 As one of the RAseSeit contestants from the District of dSlunbia, sidney Bieber had read q statement setting forth his contentious. He asked that | his delegation be seated on the ground that lthe polling places at which the primaries were held were changed by the Taft men and ballot boxes were withheld long after the closing of the rolls Election judges failed to return tho results at the tequired time. he | asserted
 Aaron Bradshaw, head of the Taft contestants, denied that there had been any irregular proceeding By the Taft adherents.
 William C. Chase, another Tart con | testant denied charges that Official notice locating the polling places had been withheld from the Roosevelt men | The Taft delegates from the District of Columbia were seated after mo- ticn to seat the Roosevelt delegates had been defea ted.
 The Fourth district contest in North Carolina, which had been postponed was then called as the last contest on the docket" This was contest be- tween two rival Roosevelt factions, there being no Taft contestant. The committee seated the faction rep resented by J. C. L. Harris and J. c, Matthews.
 At 915 D. m. the committee ad- 1 journed having been in session contin-
 uously for 12 hours.