Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-06-14
CONTEST WON BY
TAFT FORCES
Republican National Committee
Makes Important Decisions.
ROOSEVELT GIVES HIS VIEWS
The California Case-Committee De-
cides to Put Delegation on the
Temporary Roil-Fraud Cry
Regretted by Both Factions.


are being written in the history of the
Republican National Convention or
1912, the Indiana and Kentucky con-
tests marking the strenuous stage OF
the pre-C Convention struggle between
the Taft and Roosevelt forces.
The 26 delegates from California.
except two from the 4th district, were
assured to Roosevelt and the II con-
tested delegates from Indiana, inelud-
ing the four delegates at large, were
awarded to President Taft as result.
The Republican National Committee
took up the contests brought from In
diana and with the full consent and
acQuiescence of every Roosevelt mem
Der on the committee seated four dele
gates at large pledged to President
Taft. Eight Taft district delegates
were then seated by unanimous vote
of the committee members present. eX-
cept in one instance, the Thirteenth
District. The Taft delegates won
there, too, by a vote of SO to IA.
The four rejected delegates, consist
ed of no less personages than Albert
j. Beveridge Edwin NJ. Lee, Frederick
Lands and Charles II. Campbell.
The Taft campaign managers have
additional reason to be jubilant for in
the course of the discussion before the
National Committee in the Indiana
cases two of the Colonel's staunchest
supporters, Senator William f. Borah
of Idaho and. former United States
Special Deputy Attorney General,
Frank b. Kellogg voiced on the floor
in the most emphatic manner their
conviction that the Taft delegates
should be seated.
Senator Borah said:
81 would cut off my right hand be-
fore | would vote to seat illegally any
delegates whether for Theodore Roose-
welt or VIM. II. Taft. If Mr.. Roosevelt
gets every delegate he is entitled to
he will be nominated despite anything
that has happened. These delegates
were not entitled to their seats. They
were elected in a regularly called pri-
mary by majority of six thousand to
fourteen hundred. Not over two hun
dred fraudulent votes were cast, not
nearly enough to upset the result
was voting for primary-to seat
certificate--not any delegation"
Senator Borah moved that all of the
&c delegates from California, except
the two in the contested district be
placed upon the temporary roll. This
motion was promptly seconded by half
dozen Roosevelt adherants and the
committee voted unanimously to that
end
Comments by Colonel Roosevelt.
Oyster Bay, n. Y.-"They may COM
NIT theft, but they cannot get away
with the swag. We won't let them!"
This was Col Roosevelt's comment
on the happenings at Chicago. At an
other time he said:
Il have urged all my friends not to
make the slightest fight for a Roose-
welt delegate in any contest where
there appears to be a fair doubt |
have told them not TO vote for one
Roosevelt delegate unless under cir
cumstances that would make them
vote for Taft delegate ii the same
facts were presented
Then again:
Some of these gentlemen who go
out of political life on Saturday-or
possibly next Monday or Tuesday
have no right to decide against the
verdict of the people. We will not let
them"
These and similar remarks by the
Colonel indicate TO his friends here
that he does not take seriously the
work of the present National Commit
tee.