Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-06-12
HOT FIGHT ENDS.
CONTINUED from page one.)

| turned until ne faced Senator Crane
of Massachusetts, and said;
1--WE don't recognize the right of the
senator from Massachusetts, or the sen,
ator from Pennsylvania, or any one
else to dictate how California shall
elect its delegates to the national con
vention. want to warn you that Cal
ifornia will never give an electoral
vote to any candidate who is receiving
stolen goods, and that is what Presi
dent Taft would be receiving IL this
committee gives him the fourth Cali
fornia district delegates
Calls Heney Down.
"The gentleman from California
will please confine himself to the case
or the chair will declare that the gen
tleman has no case before the com.
mittee."
In an instant the committee was in
an uproar. Heney shouted and pound
ed the table, while Chairman Rose
water tried to maintain order.
"The Taft people, shouted Heney
'could hold any sort of a soap box pri-
mary, and you people would approve
Of It,"
Everybody broke in Senator Bor-
ah, from the Republican committee
down, has accepted the legality Of the
California primary law. Is not that a
fact, Mr.. Heney?
"Certainly 1t is,' replied Heney,
Fourteen California delegates polled
more votes in the Fourth district than
the two Taft men here contesting."
Oppose State Sovereignty.
At this point Heney read letter
from Governor Johnson, calling atten-
ton to this sentence:
"To recognize the Roosevelt dele
gates in the fourth California district
is to recognize the doctrine of state
sovereignty"
Former Congressman James A. Taw-
ney, of Minnesota, holding the proxy
of Committeeman Brooker, of Connec-
ticut said:
"The Republican party has always
been opposed to that state doctrine
It would be permitting the state of
California to override the Republican
national committee"
In voting to seat the Roosevelt del
egates, Senator Borah said:
"I do not challenge your motives,
but / say that when you disfranchise
part of a state where delegates we're
elected by a direct vote Of the people
you are making II impossible for a Re
publican president to preside over the
nation for the next four years.
"Taft and his followeras accepted
the California primary law. Roose.
welt and La Toilette accepted It. Clark
and Wilson accepted It. This commit
tee accepted IT, II the law was bind
Ing, how can the committee disregard
~"
The District idea Won.
Committeeman Lowden, Of Illinois,
explaining his vote, said:
"There is no question that the Taft
delegates from the fourth district re-
celved more votes than the Roosevelt
delegates"
Committeeman Kellogg, Of Mlnneso-
Ia, said:
"This committee placed on the tenn
porary roll delegates from South Da-
kota, elected in exactly the same man
ner It is not true that It is a funda-
mental principle Of our party that the
delegates to the national convention be
elected by districts. We cannot afford
to defy the majority Of 1900 in Cali
fornia declaring for Roosevelt. The
Taft contestants lacked Just 1900 OF
having a majority Of the California Re-
publican votes"
Talks Out IN Meeting.
The letter Of Governor Johnson,
which was presented, said:
u decline to appear before this com
mittee. / will not submit to the trial
OF the title Of property by the thief
who steals IT, Again, II would be an
insult to the people Of California for
me to appear before a committee
which obseQuiously receives Patrick
Calhoun's man Hogue, or even listen
70 a contest by Calhoun designed to
override the majority Of 1900 Cali
fornla Republicans, and that has pre-.
judiced the contest You may read