Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-14
The Mississippi Cases.

was allowed TO retain his seat as n
committeeman.
The Mississippi Cases.
In the 5th Mississippi District the
TAFT men were the contestants The
Taft men announced they would rest
their case on affidavits and records
purportiHg to show that their dele
gates We're regularly elected.
A. D. Hill Of Boston appeared for
the Roosevelt delegates. The Negro
voters and many other Roosevelt sup
porters We're deliberately elected from
the convention which the Taft forces
called, he said. The Roosevelt men
thereupcn went across the street and
held another convention which was
regular in every respect
You said you were from Boston,
didn't You2" interrupted Committee
, man Chubb. Eyes, that's what | said.
but / am here representing this dis
trict."
Mr.. Hin appealed to the committee
to split the delegation from this dis
trict, giving Roosevelt and Taft one
delegate each. He declared the Repub-
lican party in the South really did not
exist and if enc of these delegates was
irregular they both were"
The two Taft delegates from the 9Th
Mississippi District We're seated by a
viva Voce vote, Roosevelt adherents
voting no" A request for a roll call
was refused.
The sth Mississippi District contest
Was then taken up. Dean G. r. Ryman,
appearing for the Roosevelt contest
ants. declared National Committeeman
Moselcy, had issued his own personal
tickets of admission to the Convention
hall.
The first requisite TO holding a po-
| litical convention in Mississippi is to
get a couple of policemen at the door,
with guns in their hands" said : u.
| Redmond a Negro Roosevelt attor-
ney. This is especially true when q
| National committeeman is runnig
matters
Redmond said the Taft delegates in
the Sth District We're professional
jurors of the locality. He asserted
| committeeman Moseley had refused
! We're unffiendly To Taft.
A double contest developed in this
district Wesley Crayton and George
| y. taIaHDGIIA NidllIltu 10 Bt tue reg
ular Taft delegates, but p w. How
ard appeared te contest Granberrys
seat
| The charges of use OF force and in
| timidation were denied by Taft at
| torneys. There were hurried confer
| ences between committeeman and del
egates on the floor and Delegate How
| ard finally said there had been an
| agreement
Senator Borah at once denounced
| the making of any agreement on the
| committee floor as IAN insult and out
rage
I'VE came here in good faith to
hear contests declared Borah: the
idea that agreements To trade votes
can he made on this floor is an out
rage that should result in throwing
out all these votes"
Delegate Howard said the "agree-
ment' was for peace and harmony
and did not concern the Taft Roose-
welt fight 1t contemplated the seat
ing of the three Taft delegates with
two-thirds vote each.
IF YOU are entitled to a full vote
demanded Borah, why do you now
give up one third of your vote?"
| Mr.. Howard declared all of the three
delegates We're instructed for Taft
and that there had been no trade
or deal involving Taft or Roose-
Welt support The proposal to seat
all three delegates with two-thirds
vote each, he said, was to bring peace
in the local Mississippi situation.
| Delegate Howard appeared in the
L.
Roosevelt delegates. He was asked
if he had been requested by Commit
teeman Moseley to sign letter pledg-
ing himself to Taft. He said he had
been asked to sign a Taft pledge. but
had refused to pledge himself to Taft
Roosevelt or anyone else. The con-
vention which elected him. Howard
asserted, had instructed for Taft, and
he was for Roosevelt down stairs.
He was asked which he considered
the regular convention.
well, as | was elected by both
don't want to throw any stones al
either he answered.
The committee finally seated Cray
ton and Howard unanimously on mo-
ton of Committeeman Moseley. While
both are listed as Taft delegates
Howard also is claimed by the
| Roosevelt forces.
The Missouri Contests.
The Missouri contests were then
| taken up.
These contests. filed by the Taft
| forces, involved the four votes of the
delegates large and two delegates
each from the LIST, 2nd. Srd, 9Th and
18th and 14th Districts II in all.
Governor Iadley's delegation at-iargf
| numbered eight, selected by the state
| convention TO cast half vote each a
the Chicago convention. The Taft dele
| gates-at-large, headed by John c. Black
| included four members, the number spec
| flied by the call for the Chicago conyen-
| ton.
The case of the delegates-at-large open
| ed the fight Grant Gillispie, attorney foI
| the contesting Taft delegates, took NJ
| the history of the Missouri state conven-
| ton at which Governor Hadley's Roose-
| Welt delegation was selected. The Taft
| forces. he said. controlled the state COM
mittee by Is to IA and had decided the