Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-15
CHARGES AGAINST COCHRAN
BUSINESS SESSIONS OF BOTH
GATHERINGS MARKED Bl \
HEARTY INTEREST
AN 'UNDEVELOPED' PICTURE
Only Boistcrous Scene Came in Morn
ing at Meeting of Congressional
Committee at Robinson.

A claimed majority of the dele
gates to the Third congressional dis
trict republican convention evidently
did not materialize yesterday and the
Roosevelt leaders took the first op-
portunlty offered to bolt the regular
program. This came at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning in the congress-
ional committee meeting, when Chair
man w. S. Cochran, the Roosevelt
leader, and six other committeeman,
bolted from the committee room inn
mediately following the filing Of SEN
sational charges against Cochran, and
a motion made to GUST him from the
office for malfCasance.
The result of mis- action caused
two conventions, one in the opera
house, where the Roosevelt men held
forth, and the other in the World
building, where the Taft men held
forth. Both sides elected delegates
to the national convention, electors
and endorsed for national committee
man. The final outcome as to which
delegation will be seated in the ma
tional convention at Chicago next
June will be decided by the national
committee.
Regularity of the Two.
From the standpoint of regularity
of the two conventions, there seems to
be little doubt that the Taft meeting
was the regular one, as the Roosevelt
meeting was not called to order by the
congressional chairman, as the call
provides, and its temporary organiza-
ton was not perfected by the con-
eressona committee, seeking mar
mony. resulted in nothing as Chair
man Cochran, as soon as the commit
tee meeting was called to order in
room No. 2G of the Robinson hotel, at
9 o'clock yesterday morning started
in with steam roller tactics
Everybody Yelled Eyes"
There were nineteen regular com
mitteemen in the room, and the walls
and doors were packed with spectators
all Roosevelt men who had no business
there. on temporary roll call OF. the
committee, it developed that two men
held proxies from Sequyah county,
Pat Dore, a Roosevelt man, and Judge
Joseph A. Gill, Taft man. On
motion to seat Dore, Cochran put the
motion. chorus of ayes greeted him,
all the spectators voting as well as the
seven Roosevelt committeeman. Coch-
ran declared the motion carried. and
on a request of the Taft men for
roll call, ruled them out of order. I'M
mediately all became confusion, and
after ruling the same way in several
preliminary notions the confusion
became so great. with tn spectators
making so much noise, that business
was impossible but Cochran contn-
ped his high handed, steam rolling
methods and completely ignored the
Taft majority OF twelve.
Finally in a lul. Taft man rose
and stated that he wanted to file
charges against the chairman alleging
that Mr.. Cochran had used his in
fluence as chairman OF the commit
tee TO have a post office changed in
Delaware, Okla, and for this received
a check for 500, and also that Mr.
Cochran could not be chairman of the
committee because he was not a mem
her of the committee, having removed
from Nowata county, where he was
committeeman two years ago, and
another man being appointed in his
place. Mr.. Cochran was asked If he
had any defense to make, and in the
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