The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-06-10
Battle Over Delegates
To Be Waged to End
7. r MEN DENY THEY
WILL DROP CONTESTS.
Indiana Contests Will Likely Be
First Taken Up BY Commit
tee at Chicago To-day.
New Table of Instructed and Un-
contested Delegates Gives
Taft 201; Teddy AL.

CHICAGO, June 9.-The RepubI-
can National Committeeman will re-
sumo tomorrow morning its considera.
tion OF the large number OF cotnests
for places on the temporary roll call
OF the Republican National convention
which is to convene in the Coliseum
at noon on Tuesday. of next week.
Upon the results OF its deliberations
depends to a great extent the condi-
ton OF the convention and therefore
the nominations which il will make
for the Office of President and Vice
President of the United States; TO
say nothing OF the lesser matters of
the organization of the convention
and the text Of the platform.
The contests In Alabama. Arkansas
and Georgia. which were decided last
week. added a total OF 10 delegates
TO the strength credited to Taft.
Whether it foretold the steam roller
policy of giving the whole business
10 Tart as the Roosevelt adherents
now claim, or whether the contests
still TO be decided will give some TO
Taft and some TO Roosevelt Is a mat
ter OF much speculation and bitter
Interchange between the leaders.
OontestS Set Tor TUESDAY.
lie seemed likely tonight that the
Indiana cases. involving twelve dele
gates-four at large and two each in
the First, Third. Fourth and Thir-
teenth congressional districts-would
be FIRST taken up when the committee
meets at 10 a. NJ. but the cases from
Arizone - six delegates-at-large-a
from the Fourth district OF Califor-
H.
tested, may be considered before In
diana. The vital importance OF the
decisions OF the national committee
upon the contests is apparent to any
one studying the lists OF delegations.
Such study incidentally discloses the
great weight which may attach 10
the 26 delegates from Wisconsin and
the ten from North Dakota instruct.
"A for LaFollete. and the ten from
iowa. instructed for Cummins.
There is no reconciling the con-
ficting claim of the Taft and Roose-
welt managers regarding the respec-
tive strength OF their followings -
each is figuring into his tables dele
cations emphatically claimed by the
other on the strength OF convention
endorsements, alleged pledges. and
other more or less substantial
grounds.
Unofficial Figures.
Reasonably dependable. however.
seems the figures collected by the As
ISOLATED Press. from which can be de-
rived what may be described as the
bare bones" Of the situation. These
figures. which are unofficial and by
no means guaranteed. are as follows:
Whole number OF delegates-1. ..O7s.
Necessary for nomination-540.
Instructed for Roosevelt and uncon-
tested-411.
Instructed for Taft. and uucontest
ed-2Oi
Instructed for LaFollet,e mo con
testsJ-3
Instructed for Cummins mo con
tests)-1O.
Uninstructed Gncluding New York's
9OJ-l66
COntested-254
or the 254 contested. the national
committee has thus far given Taft r.
out % these figures may be- made
combinations 10 suit almost any po-
llfical taste 70 all depends on how
the national committee decides the
contests. who gets the uninstructed
delegates. and-most important of an
whether the delegates now listed
one way or the other stay put"
Tar; COMMITTEES Named.
A TAFT "rfsrrirs" committee 10 take
charge ~ fNe rreaidrnfs pre-c0uveu tI1n
rarrpniEn ir con junction with Wfprreer-
tnfivr william H KIniey director ~
the national Tnft bureau. was named TO-
rIEhf Hs follows
Joseph D. Fst.rE. of Indiana. william
Barnes. Jr.. ~ Eow york. senator Hniaa
PenruHe ~ renuag .ariH. Dff1 g. sfci-
feI ~ Missouri. Governor John o.. Mead.
~ Vermont. Ralph Campr1n. ~ Arizona.
Coontinusd on Pare EighJ