The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-06-13
TAFT GAINS z IN
+ KENTUCKY FIGHT
Is Awarded Delegates. at-Large
and Four Districts.
HOT WORDS ARE BANDED
Francis J. Henry, Acting as Proxy,
Casts Reflections on Proceedings
Which Arouses Ire Of Other
Committee Members.

Chicago, June 12-Special: That
the control of the temporary organi-
cation of the republican national con-
vention will mean the control of the
permanent organization with every
thing that body will do, was for the
first time since the strenuous battle
between the Taft and Roosevelt for
ces began, brought home to the Roose-
welt leaders today, many of whom
had been advocating dropping the
fight on Senator Root, the choice of
the Taft people for temporary chair
man. They will renew their vigor-
Gus fight, for if Root is seated the
representative on the committee on
credentials will be the representative
of the national committee and this
would mean the end of the hopes of
Roosevelt's nomination. The out
come is in the balance. A careful es-
innate today seems to intimate a
small majority on the Taft side. In
fact, today an exact duplication of
conditions as they prevailed just
prior to the assembly of the republi-
can state convention in Ohio is ex-
pected here. The present plan of the
Roosevelt men on the national COM
mittee directed Borah to move that
only the uncontested delegates whose
names are on the roll shall be per-
mitted to vote on consideration of
the men who were given seats as
contestants. This will be opposed
and defeated by the Taft men.
Roosevelt adherents on the republi-
can national committees say they do
not expect to win very many of the
remaining contests to be held by the
committee.
The committee today will take up
the Arizona and Louisiana contests
and Taft is expected to win both of
them. The committees has heard
102 contests and Taft has won 101
and Roosevelt 1. There are approx
| imately AS contests yet to be heard
from and the national committee is
likely to commence night sessions to-
! night and dispose of them.
The national committee this morn
ing seated the Taft delegates-at-large
from Arizona. The Louisiana contest
was passed UP until this afternoon
and the fourth California district con-
test taken up. Francis J. Heney told
the committee he would dare to in
: form the president of the United
States through a committee that if
he (the presidenD accepted the two
district he was guilty of receiving
stolen goods. The committee was in
an uproar. Flynn of Pennsylvania
and Governor Glasscock of West Vir-
ginio told the committee that all the
present electors from the state were
Roosevelt men chosen at the primar-
les and would as electors vote for
Roosevelt for president, if the Taft
men stole the nomination. Glass
cock said similar situations prevail in
other states which held preferential
primaries, including Illinois and the
Dakotas. The fourth California dis.
trict Taft men cOntesting the ROoSe-
welt delegates claim that the rule of
the national committee says that vot-
ers in every district had the power
to choose their delegates, while in
California the secretary of state GER
tilted 26 men in the state having the
highest number of votes at large. AT
ter a bitter fight the Taft delegates
of the fourth California district were
seated by a vote of 81 to 16. Both
ton in Oregon and South Dakota, OF
ignoring the Roosevelt delegates
Taft managers were not alarmed by
the threats of Finn and Glasscock
that presidential electors in states
carried by Roosevelt at the primaries
would vote for Roosevelt for presi
dent in the election, regardless OF
who is nominated at the convention
Mckinley called it rule or ruin meth
DDS. 1t is now said that there will
be two conventions held at the same
: time in the same room, starting as
soon as Rosewater calls to order al
, noon Tuesday, both claiming to be
the regular convention.
Chicago, June 12.-President Taft
continues to score in the contests
which are being considered by the
Republican national committee. He
was awarded the four delegates-at-large
.. and two each from the First, Second
Fourth and Seventh districts of Ken
lucky. In the Fourth district the
Roosevelt delegates withdrew theii
contest.
Only two Roosevelt men appeared
as contestants for delegates-at,large
and Ormsby McHarg, attorney for the
Roosevelt committee, said that will
the decision In their case also would
go the contests in the First, Second
and Fourth districts. as the same cues
tiG---yere involved In each