Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-12
AR|zONA'S SIX ARE
CREDITED TO TAFT
CONTINUED from First Page,

leaders to flxe a temporary roll call.
Just before the committee metsat
800 o'clock 1t was declared that the
claim of the Roosevelt delegation
from Louisiana, headed by Commit
teeman Pearl Wight, would be hat
the subcommittee of the Republican
National committee exceeded its au-
thority when 1t went to Louisiana
and consolidated the former waring
factions. Mr.. Wight was prepared
to say that the delegation which
went to Louisiana in February
planned early conventions to shut out
the possibility of a Roosevelt delega-
tion.
George l.. Record Before Committed.
The first contest today was hat of
Arizona's six delegates-at-large. For
the Taft men appeared Samuel j.
Elder. a Boston attorney and former
classmate of President Taft; Robert
E. Morrison, an attorney from Pres
colt, Arizona, and James T. Williams,
jr., of Tucson, a delegate-at-large.
At the Roosevelt table Ormsby Nc
Harg was joined by George l..
Record, of New Jersey, n Dwight
b. Heard, of Phoenix, of the Roose-
welt delegation.
Just after this case was called the
regular program was interrupted by
an unexpected protest against the
split decision late yesterday in the
Eleventh Kentucky District case.
Former Senator Dick, the Taft con-
test manager. asked for confirmation
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one Taft delegate had been seated.
Back to the Kentucky Caoe.
How can we appeal from this de-
c~ision?" asked MI. Dick.
II want to protest that the decision
was Irregular interrupted Mr.. Nc
Harg.
Both attorneys made it clear they
would carry the Eleventh Kentucky
case higher. Chairman Rosewater said
the case could be taken to the ma
tional convention credentials commit
tee. Senator Penrose demanded thai
the Arizona case be taken up and the
Kentucky discussion was stopped.
Mr.. Elder opened the Arizona argu-
ments for the Taft forces. He said
that as no primary law was in effect
when the Arizona State committee
called the State convention to be held
June 3, doubt existed as to how the
delegates should be selected. The
State committee decided to leave the
selection to the county committees.
Disorder In Meeting.
only one contest was presented
when the State committee met two
DAYS before the convention" said Mr..
Elder. ut was well known that the
committee was ready ohear all con-
testants. At the meeting at Tucson
all the contestants received tickets.
Chairman Hubbell stated everyone
claiming to be a delegate could be
heard, when someone protested
against the reading of a roll-call
made up by the committee. He was
a Roosevelt man who was not recog-
nized as a delegate on the temporary
roll.
"Then apparently by a pre-con-
ceived plan, the Roosevelt men rushed
for the platform, and there was an
immediate scene of disorder.
Elder declared the Roosevelt forces
then left the regular convention.
which organized peacefully with
sixty-eight of the ninety-six votes
which had been recognized on the
Temporary rolf previously prepared
by Che State executive committee.
Mr.. Morrison declared that on
June 8 the convention at Tucson was
opened by state Chairman J. C. HUB
bel. the temporary roll adopted and
nominations called for, when former
Governor Joseph II. Kibby, whose
name was not on the temporary roll,
arose and said: we Won't recognize
the adoption of this roll"
Thought 1t a Football Rush.
The Roosevelt men, Morrison de-
clared, then rushed to the front, and
some of them mounted the platform.
Morrison said he believed there was
n fully developed football organi-
zation' among the Roosevelt men.
who proceeded to run a convention
on one side of the stage while the
Taft convention was going. on at the
other. For twenty minutes, he said,
it was impossible to hear anything.
The Roosevelt men then left the hall.
The part played by former Governor
Kibby was explained by George L.
Record. who defended the Roosevelt
delegation.
I'VE claim we had a clear majority
of the leagl delegates in that hail." he
said. when the convention met
Governor Kibby took the floor and
protested on u behalf against the
adoption of a temporary roll which
we did not believe legal. From that
time on there were two conventions