The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-19

and legal and in accordance with the |
rules Of the republican party.
Hemenway held that to assail the
national committee for its decisions
was unjust and unfair.
SO to 10.
There we're thirteen members and
one proxy Of the national committee
who signed this protest, and there
We're thirty-nine who did not"
Who are they?" demanded Finn.
"I'll tell you,' answered Hemenway.
You say that the majority Of the com
mittee have been repudiated by their
own states. Let me call your at
tention to the fact that all but two of
the men that signed this protest have
not been returned
Tell us who they are, again shout
ed Finn.
Let me tell you men in TIE Penn
sy1ania delegation said HNaenway,
that you don't want to listen to an
argument. You want to appeal to
passion. You won't hear anything
that tells the truth about yourselves
Now don't say Senator Borah
and Frank Kellogg were repudiated
because they were not returned. They
did not want to be returned, neither
did Harry S. New and am not anx-
ious to accept the statement OF Col
man Dupont Of the powder trust. Il
would rather take the word of Harry
New and men like him.
Hemenway then took up the charges
of fraud made in the Indiana cases.
He declared that the seating OF the
Indiana delegates at large was by
unanimous vote in which Borah join
ed.
Shame on such contests" he con
tinued. They were paper contests
anyhow"
Hemenway turned the laugh on the
Roosevelt forces by repeating Colonel
Roosevelt's statement that, despite
the number of contests filed from
Alabama, he only expected to win
one.
The others were paper contests
he shouted, ito give certain people
chance to yell fraud. fraud! Where
there was no fraud
Hemenway then assailed Cecil Lyon
for, he said, driving away five
sixths of the republicans of Texas.
What he wants, 'Hemenway declar-
/ ed, lis to reduce the republican party
lin Texas only to office-holders SO that
he can perpetuate his own control"
Hemenway insisted that Lyon voted
counties in his state in which there
was not single republican vote.
Lyon can no longer work his
frauds on republican national COM
mittee" In conclusion Hemenway
held that the contests had been de-
cided by the national committee and
he defended the members.
Finn shouted: How about Pen
rose?"
Finn Got His.
4 Il will answer you," shouted Hemen-
way. You ask about Penrose. Well,
I'll tell you straight-its Penrose
above Finn every time
4 This assertion started another
storm. The New York delegates join
! ed with Indiana in cheering Hemen-
/ way while Finn was on his feet
shouting in defiance. His delegation
was cheering him loudly. Root came
| to the front and personally rebuked
Finn.
If the gentleman from Pennsyl-
| vania wants an honest hearing of his
charges and his statements, he said,
he will conduct the proceedings in
an orderly manner"
Root pounded for order but Finn
insisted on recognition. Snatching a
megaphone from delegate he shout
ed: Il rise to a point of order. The
gentleman from Indiana Is not speak
ing to the question"
Root did not hesitate a second.
Pointing his gavel at the Pennsylva-
Man, he declared: THE gentleman
will take his seat"
Finn stood his ground.
Smashing the table again and again
Will uio SdSCi, ItCOt etAuOuuCCu.
"The point of order Is not we'll
taken. The gentleman from Pennsyi-
vania will take his seat. When quiet
! is restored the gentleman from Indi-
ana will resume"
Finn sat down.
Hemenway ended his argument
amidst rival cheers and booes from
; the two factions.
George Record, of New Jersey. argu-
ed for the Hadley motion, discussing
the Arizona and Indiana cases. In the
Arizona case he repeated the argu-
ment he made personally before the
national committee claiming that the
Taft convention was rump one while
the Roosevelt convention was the only
legal one,
MIX and Crackers.
Mrs. ,,Fola LaFollette- Middleton.
daughter # the Wisconsin senator and