Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-06-27
TAFT AND SHERMAN
BOTH REN0M|NATED
CHICAGO CONVENTION ENDED
SATURDAY WITH RENOMINA-
TION OF PRESENT LEADER.
Republican Platform Declares for
Taft Policies.

Republican Platform declares IOr
Taft Policies.
Convention Hall, Chicago, June
22.-With nearly $50 Of the Roose-
welt delegates declining to vote and
Fastening away at adjournment time
to tender to Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt the nomination of the new par
ty, the fifteenth Republican nation
al convention, at the end of the long
and tumultous session tonight, at
1925 O'Clock renominated William
Howard Taft of Ohio for president
and James Schoolcraft Sherman of
New York for vice president.
Taft Gets 571 Votes.
President Taft received 571 of the
1,O78 votes in the convention, or
twenty-one more than a majority.
The decision OF the Roosevelt people
under the direction of their leader
to refrain from voting left no other
candidate near the president. The
nominations were made amid scenes
of wild confusion, and at the end OF
the session that was the stormiest
of a week of the stormtest Republi-
can convention ever held.
Read ''Valedictory.''
A "valedictory" statement was
read in behalf of Colonel Roosevelt,
asking that his name be not present
ed and that his delegates sit in mute
protest against all further proceed
ings. A great majority of the
Roosevelt delegates in Illinois and
all in the Missouri and Idaho delega-
tions declined to follow this advice,
but Colonel Rooseve't's sway over
the delegations from California,
Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebras-
ka, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota, and West Virginia was all
but absolute.
North Dakota Opposes Platform.
The closing scenes of the conven-
eion were marked by counter dem
onstrations for President Taft and
colonel Roosevelt. The ,Arst test
vote afte: the announcement of the
Roosevelt valedictory came on the
adoption of the party platform. The
affirmative vote was 666. The
Roosevelt delegates present and not
voting numbered 434. There were
So noes and. SO of them from the La
Toilette states of Wisconsin and
North Dakota.
LaFollette Put Up.
Senator Robert M. LaFollette OF
Wisconsin was placed before the
convention by M. B. Olbrich and sec-
ondsd by R. M. Pollock of Fargo,
N. D., but Colonel Roosevelt's wish
ca we're carried out by his followers
and they remained silent during the
call of states for nominations. Many
of the delegates, however, carried
out their primary instructions and
voted for the Colonel.
On voting for president, the
Roosevelt delegates again, as rule,
remained silent.
The detailed vote was;
Taft, sci; Roosevelt, 1O7; La
Toilette, Al; Cummines, II, Hughes,
Q; not voting, 344; absent s.
At times duringithe balloting the
convention was in great confusion.
as5ss5 Vote ON President.
The roll call on the nomination
Of president follows:
Alabama, Taft %, not voting. q;
Arizona, Taft 6: Arkansas, Taft ~,
not voting. /; California, Taft 2,
not voting, "a; Colorado. Taft IL;
Connecticut, Taft IA; Delaware,
TAFT s; Florida, Taft 10; Georgia,
Taft 2S.
Oregon was challenged and show
ed no alternates. The first man,
Charles w. :Ackerson. cried. II re-
fuse to vote when the cards are
stacked" ss ,..,
Oregon, Roosevelt 8, not voting,
2; Pennsylvania Taft 9. Roosevelt
3, not voting So, absent 1s; Rhode
island, TAFT. 10; South Carolina,
TAFT 1e, absent l, not voting i;
South Dakota. Roosevelt s, LaFol-
!: 1ette 81; Tennessse, Taft %, Roose-
velt i; Texas, Taft 81. absent 1. not
voting s; Utah, Taft 8; Vermont,
TAFT :, not voting .; Virginia, Taft
a., absent i !, not voting s.; Wash
ington, TAFT 14;; West virginia. not
voting 1s; wisconsin. LaF GILLETTE =.
. wyomins. TAFT Alaska Taft III 4; Il