The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-08-02

form to the national committee. which
without division asked for, held them
properly elected.
Fourth District.
The Fourth Texas district consists
OF nve counties, each having one vote
In the district convention under the
call. One county, Rains, chose an uncon-
tested delegat ton, and that one was for
Taft The other four counties sent
contesting delegations. The contest
ing delegations appeared before tbs
congressional executive committee to
present their claims, but the commit
tee arbitrarily refused to hear any
body. Having exhausted every effort
to secure hearing, the four contest
ing delegations, together with the only
uncontested delegation Of the conven-
ton, withdrew to another place and
held a convention and elected Taft
delegates to the Chicago convention.
The congressional convention which
elected the Taft delegates was COM
posed Of more than q majority, and,
indeed, Of practically all the regularly
elected delegates. The national COM
mittee held the title of the Taft dele
gates to their seats valid by viva vocs
vote without calling for division.
Fifth District.
The Fifth district of Texas is COM
posed Of Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Bosque
and Rockwell counties. Dallas county
cast more Republican votes than all
the other counties OF the district put
together. The call for the congress
sional convention allowed each county
to send not to exceed four delegates,
but made no reference to the basis of
representation of the respective coun-
ties composing the district. There
was contest from Dallas county, but
the Taft delegates were seated Taft
delegates were seated on the temporary
roll from two counties, and Roosevelt
delegates from the three counties, and
the representation In the convention
was fixed at one vote for each county
without regard to the number of dele
gates In the convention or the num-
Der OF Republican votes cast in such
county. A minority report of the dis
trict committee was presented, protest
ing against the ratio of representa-
ton adopted. The chairman Of the
convention objected to the presenta-
ton Of this minority report. Failing
in this he abandoned the platform and
left the hall
The convention thereupon elected a
new chairman and a new secretary, ap-
pointed q committee on credentials.
which recommended the seating of the
Taft delegates from Hill county and
the adoption of the minority report Of
the district committee as to the basis
Of the representation In the convention.
Both these recommendations were
adopted, and Taft delegates to the ma
donal convention were thereupon elect
ed by a vote of eight to three. The
Roosevelt men thereafter retired to the
south end of the hall, where they or
gan1zed a meeting at which 1t was
claimed the Roosevelt delegates to the
national convention were elected. The
Republican vote for the district for
1908 was as follows: Dallas county,
2,068; Ellis. 594: Hill, IA; Bosque, 266;
Rockwell. 3S. Both the national COM
mittee and the committee on creden-
tails sustained the Taft delegates.
Seventh District.
The Seventh congressional district of
Texas Is composed Of the following
counties: Anderson. Chambers, Gal
weston, Houston, Liberty, Polk, San ia
c1nto and Trinity. Polk, San Jacinto
and Trinity were without proper party
organization. In Texas county chair
men must be elected by the voters in
each party. No such election was held
in any of these three counties In two
of them Colonel Lyon assumed to ap-
point chairmen. which he had no right
to do Lyon himself had classed these
three counties as unorganized and with
out party organization
The convention met In Galveston
The executive committee met prior to
the meeting of the convention to make
up the temporary roll Of delegates. The
executive committee had before 1t the
question OF having the three morgan
lied counties represented In the con-
vention. The executive committee re-
fused to recognize them. When this
action was taken by the executive COM
mittee delegate from Houston county
and the alleged representatives from
the three unorganized counties with
drew from the meeting and proceeded
to organize another convention, and
upon this is based the contest. which
was rejected by both committees the
national committee and the credentials
committee.
Eighth District
In the Eighth congressional conven-
ton split occurred over the majority
and minority reports OF the executive
committee as to the temporary roll.
The Roosevelt followers controlled the
executive committee. but did not have
q majority in the convention. which
adopted the minority report and gave
Taft five and one-half votes and Roose-
welt two and one-half votes This re-
suited In the election Of the Taft dele
gates. who were seated by both the
national committee and the credentials
committee.
Ninth District.
In the Ninth district the district
committee was called by Mr.. Speaker,
q member OF the committee, and not by
the chairman The chairman refused