The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-10
cUMMINs WON'T GO TO CHICAGO
THE CALIFORNIA CASE.

CHICAGO, June 10.-The threat of
the Taft people to acquire the entire
California delegation was sidetracked
Today when in a squabble over the
uuestion whether the contest in the
fourth California district, was carried.
The fourth is the only district in that
state in which contest was filed.
Committeeman Knight. of California,
demanded, when the committee met,
that this contest be taken up at once.
The vote on the Borah motion is the
nearest approximation of victory the
Roosevelt forces have won in the COM
mittee. While it does not add any to
The Colonels string of delegates it
showed that in one incident the Roose-
welt men had shaken the nerve of the
steam roller engineers.
Knight was in fighting spirit when
he demanded the hearings begin at
pnce. 1.-The case of California is now
READY" he said. rs there any reason
why it should go over? / read in a
morning paper that it was to be put
over. There is only little technicality
In one district. If there is anything
underneath l don't understand it. 'At
this point Senator Newlands and
Harry New expressed themselves in
favor of taking up the case. Then
Senator Borah's resolution preventing
hearing any case in California except
the fourth district contest was offer
ed and passed. The motion of Knight
to hear the fourth district contest was
brought up. Finally on roll call the con-
Test in the fourth district was put over
until Wednesday.
Indiana Fight Begun.
That left the slate clear for taking
up the contest on elegates-at-large
from Indiana.
Denying the right of the national
committee to nominate president
with a gavel and asserting that the
twelve contested delegates from In
diana are gavel-made delegates, Hor-
ace G. Stillwell denounced the ma
tional committee bitterly today for
it's bias and partisanship. Mr.. Stillwell
was speaking in behalf of twelve con-
testing Roosevelt delegates from In
diana. He declared he represented the
great mass of Republican voters in a
great Republican state. and the seat
ing of Taft delegates in the face of
fraud would be a most reckless use of
power, and destructive to the best in
terests of the Republican party in
Indiana
While Harry S. New, Republican ma
tional committeeman, lent his parti-
sanship brethren moral support by
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his own seat in the convention was
being contested he said before the
meeting convened he would not vote
on his own case.
Center of Interest.
The interest of both factions in the
big Republican fight centered in the
doings of the national committee to-
day
bill" Finn and his vigilantes. the
doings of Clifford Pinchot, Francis J.
Heeney and George c. Pardee, the ex-
pected arrival of William Barnes Jr,
boss of New York, were lost sight
of in the general scramble to be near
enough the committee rooms to hear
the roller bump over the bit of rough
AOnu tic uOiuSS dllOTueu.
The contest over delegates at large
scheduled to be about the first thing
the committee undertook to deter
mine, promised the sensation of the
day. 1t is the test case" of the Roose-
welt men. The fight hinged on the COM
mittees review of the primary in
Marion County Gncluding Indianapo-
lis) at which delegates were elected to
the state convention that named the
Taft delegates-at-large. Charges OF
gross fraud, manipulation. buying ~
sotes, use of ''repeaters" stuffed ba,-
lot boxes and illegal counting were
the basis of the Roosevelt contest
The primary election was characteriz-
ed by Roosevelt soon after it occur
red as the crookedest ever held in this
country. The briefs filed by the Colo
nefs supporters have been prepared
with a view to sustaining the former
presidents charge.
The Marion county delegation con-
trolled the state convention in In