The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-16
USE WORD LIAR
QUITE FREQUENTLY.
Members Of Committee Only Prevent
ed From Coming to Blows by
Being Hold In
Chairs.
MEETING Is FINISHED
Steam Roller Never skIdded Once
And Completed a Most
Successful
Trip
MEETING Is FINISHED

United Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, June Following the
most tumultuous session OF the repub-
lican national committee In the his
tory OF the party that body adjourned
at 9:15 tonight. having completed the
temporary roll for the convention,
which assemblies at noon on Tuesday.
The honors were an awarded to the
presidents followers. In nearly every
case where the followers OF Colonel
Roosevelt had presented contests for
the seats in the convention they we're
brushed aside. The steam roller :
never skidded. Even when Roosevelt
delegates were seated, the motion for
that action was made by Taft mem
ber Of the. committee, and every pro
test by the members of the organiza-
tion. who were fighting the battle for
Roosevelt, was bowled over.
The bitterness Of the conflict shat
tered lifelong friendships. Men, who
in former years have stood shoulder to
shoulder in the struggle for party su-
premacy, denounced each other to
their faces. Epithets OF "liar.' thief"
and the like we're freely banded, and
at time 1t looked as though personal
encounters could hardly be averted
Today, the final day Of the hearings
which began a week ago Thursday,
Cecil Lyon long undisputed boss OF
Texas, whose organization had been
crushed out Of existence, shook his
/ fist in tsae faro ssff limited Mates senn-
t tor Penrose Of Pennsylvania and some
of the members got between the men
to prevent a personal encounter
James Kennedy of North Dakota, pro
fanely assailed Francis J. yIeney, the
San Francisco prosecutor, and when
friends pushed Kennedy into his seat,
Heney shouted belligerently:
"You are afraid to fight and your
friends know 1t and so they are hold
ing you as an excuse
Heney also verbally castigated
Chairman Victor Rosewater, shout
ing. You won't recognize anybody,
but hand made and machine made po.
litical crooks" after Rosewater had
refused to put motion the Califor-
nian had made.
The committee today set record
when it directed contests involving
sixty-eight seats in the convention.
These were the contests in Texas,
Virginia, Washington state. District of
Columbia, and one district in North
Carolina.
Texas and North Carolina were the
only contests where the Roosevelt
people got look in, and in the North
Carolina case the fight was between
two sets Of Roosevelt delegates.
It was ostensibly through friendship
for Cecil Lyon that the committee
gave Roosevelt two delegates each in
the third and fifteenth Texas DIS,
tricts. The real reason appeared to
be that the Taft contests were Sc
flimsy that the members OF the com
mittee could not defend them.
While giving the Roosevelt mana
gers six delegates the committee
handed the president the eight dele
gates at large each from Washington
and Texas; four at large from Vir.
ginia and two delegates each in ths
first, second. fourth, fifth, seventh
eighth, ninth, tenth, fourteenth, ant
fifteenth districts of Texas: two eacf
/ in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth
sixth. eighth and tenth Virginia; two
each in the first. second and third da;
tricts of Washington, and the two
from the District of Columbia.
Becoming angry over the repeated
| demands of the Roosevelt men for .
roll call. the majority not only refus
ed, but repeatedly missed Francis
! Heney, who was delegated by th'
Roosevelt managers to demand rol
call, AS the rules of the committee
compelled twenty members to unit
| to secure roll call, and as the Roose
! velt men never were able to music
that number at one time, all of TIL
contests were disposed of by viv'
voce votes.
After calling each other variou
kinds of liars, Francis ]. Heney o
San Francisco dared National Com
mitteeman James Kennedy, of Nortl
Dakota, to fight.
| Heney was pleading with the com
mittee to give the Roosevelt me-
from Washington an hour and quar-