The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-06-16
NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN LYON
FOUGHT IN VAIN FOR COL.
RooSEVELT'S CLAIMS.
Rotten Borough System Charged Re.
sponsible for Any Roosevelt Show.
ing Made by Returns in State
Heney Called Down.

NJI!CdSO, j uH6 I0.-1 lie rep"OllCdu Ii
national committee decided contest
cases in the Texas delegation It large
and in seven Texas districts as fol-
lows:
Delegation, state at large, eight
dC1f Gates, credited to Taft.
Districts credited to Taft, two dele
gates each. First, Second, Fourth,
Fifth, Seventh and Eighth-12.
Districts credited to Roosevelt, two
delegates, Third, 2.
There are yet 46 contested dele
gates to be credited to one or the
other of the presidential candidates.
Eight delegates at large from Texas
were given to Taft by the republican
national committee after hearing of
the contests filed by the Taft forces
against the Roosevelt delegation as
headed by Col. Cecil Lyon. A mo-
ton to seat the Roosevelt delegates
at large was defeated, demands for
roll call being refused.
Decision On this contest was fol-
lowed by a scene of disorder outside
the committee room, where the wild
cheering of several hundred Taft adj
herents mingled with hooting and
groans by the Roosevelt supporters.
Despite protests from the Roose-
welt members of the body, the COM
mittee passed the Texas contests
temporarily and took up that involv-
ing the Virginia delegates at large.
When the committee met today 1t
was with the expectation that the
final decisions in the contests for the
delegates to the national convention
would be rendered before night.
In the Texas contests, Cecil Lyon,
national committeeman of that state,
claims regularity for his Roosevelt
organization, but no more strongly
than does H. F. McGregor OF the
Taft state organization. The latter
says Lyon men proceeded Irregular
1y in their election of district dele
gates to the state conventions and
also in selecting county delegates to
some of the district conventions.
Texas apparently was mot ready
Il protest against such action, said
Lyon. "We are ready
"BIt you decline to go on with the
In the Virginia cases the issue as
raised by Roosevelt contestants is
that the Taft delegates vert erected
in halls where negroes were not al
lowed, and that many republican 10
cal leaders thus virtually were dis
franchised.
Washington's question is whether
the Taft people so manipulated the
state committee as to obtain con-
troll of the convention, which sent
the delegates at large to Chicago.
Similar questions are involved in the
district contests from the Puget
Sound state, and it is probable that
they will be consolidated with dele
gates at large.
The contest of the Texas delegates
at large was the lrst called. Colz
,onel Lyon. the national committee
man of that state, announced he be-
lieved technically there was no CON-
test against the Roosevelt delegates
at large. He said he was of the be-
lief that no printed brief for the TAFT
delegates had been filed within the
prescribed time; that in consequence
the rules of the committee had not
been observed, and no formal contest
existed for the place of the eight
delegates at large. -
Secretary Hayward said ne had
1.-TWO sets of credentials from the
state
s'The chairman can Only 81 or the
advice of the secretary, said Chair
man Rosewater. "He says contest
exists, and it must De called
Colonel Lyon said that in the Alas
ka case yesterday and in thS other
Eases. contests had been excluded, be-
cause they had not been. filed within
tho stipulated. time. He and Com7
mitteemAn Capers of South Carolina,
insisted that no Texas contest e or
DELEGATES at large existed. -' i
A crisis was precipitated when MI
Mu,yane of Kansas, moved to pass
Texas and take up Virginia, because