Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-11

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and the same was true Of segeTal-olh-
sF counties Adalr county Wss repre-
scented IN the Taft convention ~ al
.e4si one. capt JACK Ellis held the
PROXY " Lewis Ice AID M entire vote
Of Ada.r c0unU was cast for MT. Iaft
ln accordance with lnsir4cti0Us
The committee could DO Ho more
ihaH O. Io.A The de gales whore
ODE Convention would be- neld. This ii
900 lf paU - the de.,satrs did not
.rttrl there aas no way 90 compel
them Under the cal one dlly ace
relied delegate could REPRESENT and
ca+l me entire ,0tr " his county The
CoHFnuor might legally haze heen
held il nineteen delegates 0r eco. IL
Old not depend upon numbers 20 hold
ieEa. convention under the call, but
10 lld depend upon whether accEedlt-
I'd delegates on the temporary roll az
made up by the congsess 0gal coln-
Hiitee from ihe various counties. ur q
majority ~ the counties were IN at
tendance.
II the Roosevelt delegates from tne
various counties .u attendance on that
day - Tulsa had such large ma
g0ru, OF any majority Of the dele
gates. why did ihey not come into the
regular convention and control II, and
80 ihes saW ht 10 adJnFu il 20 the
Grand opera house. do 30. As mat
ter ~ fact. The Roosevelt delegates
themselves we're doubtful OF Their
numbers and their ability o. control
Just In what way Mr. Cochran.
without a temporary rol! " delegates
and after b. was deposed as chairman
~ the committee and after MAJ
g0ritg ~ the committee had elected
new chairman, and made ID temporary
roll of delegates. and liked upon the
place for holding the convention,
could, with a minority Of the commit.
tee. 90 10 the Grand opera house. a
different place from hat hXed by the
majority Of the committee. and with
out the chairman and secretary of the
committee and rs temporary roll of
delegates. could call upon delegates or
other persons, 10 sign up az delegates
and hold a lega. convention, no mat
ter how big crowd misht ASSEMBLE.
Is beyond The comprehension of the
lrdinar individual Certainly con-
yeItion held by him under the direc
ton Of six committeeman could not
be recognized as the legal convention
under the call OF the National COM
mittee, as against regular conven-
Ton authorized by twelve committee
men regularly IN session, with duly
elected chairman and secretary In
no particular ga the assembly al the
Grand opera house in Tulsa, on
March II, 1912, called to order by W.
S. Cochran, comply with the require.
ments Of either the call by the ma
tlona. commlttee, or the call for the
congressional convention. Delegates
10 the national convention elected by
such mass meeting. could not be en-
titled TO recognition 10y the national
committee, or the committee on Gre
| dentials Of the national convention.
Apply ing Mr.. Roseyelts argument,
which he urged In reference 10 dele
gates from one OF the Alabama dis
tricts in contest before the national
committee, TO the facts in this case.
II he understood the facts. even he.
the party most interested, would ack-
noWledge that the Taft delegates from
the third Oklahoma district, recog-
niZed by the national committee and
by the committee on credentials Of
the national convention were the only
| delegates who had any right to par
ticipate In the proceedings Of the ma
tional convention from the third dis
trict.
The national committee and the
committee on credentials OF the ma
tional convention refused to seat the
Roosevelt delegates Of the third dis
trlct because they were not elected by
a legal convention. These same bod
les did seat the Taft delegates be-
cause they represented the legal con-
yention Of the district as well as a
majority OF the accredited delegates
entitled TO take part In convention
in said district.
II is safe TO say that any person not
blinded by rank partisanship, who is
desirous Of finding the truth concern
ing the Tulsa convention, who will ex-
anime the records and evidence that
was presented to the national COM
mittee by the respective parties to the
contest Of the third district, can ar
rive at no other conclusion than that
Of the national committee and the
committee on credentials, that the
Taft delegates were elected by the
only legal convention which was held
within the third district. After the
finding by the committee on creden-
tials by a vote of forty members of
such committee out Of fifty three, the
contest was abandoned and not car
ried to the floor of the convention.
1t is not my purpose to enter into
a discussion OF this matter In the
newspapers. Such discussion would
be fruitless and endless, with state
ment and counterstatement, occupy
ing many columns of printed mamtter
provocative of other columns, and the
general public be little benefited.
When a case in court Is submitted and
decided by the supreme tribunal II is