Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-07-09
Who Nominated Taft

SINCE the Chicago Convention the statistician has been
busy with the personelle of the delegates an dthe astonishing
discovery is made that ONE very strange things have happened.
Half the delegates came from states which cannot under any
possibility give any electoral votes to Taft. The balance OF
power in the convention was held by delegates whose r1ght 20
sit in the convention at all was questioned and in the contests
they voted in favor Of seating themselves. Over seventyhve
per cent of the Southern delegates coming from states that wI
give Wilson a heavy majority, were Office holders appointed to
office by the administration.
By looking over the official Federal Blue Book you can find
the names, addresses and salaries of nearly half the delegates OF
the Chicago Convention.
Here we find that of the % votes allowed Alabama in the
convention were % Federal Office holders and three ofice-hold-
ing alternates. There r also As members of the Republican
State Central Committee in Alabama, 80 OF whom ire Federal
When the State Convention was held in Alabama to select
the delegates to the National Convention every delegate to the
convention was a Federal office holder.
OF the IL delegates from Florida every one was an office
holder. The delegation during the four years of the Admins
traton drew down III salaries over 100000.
South Carolina, that east less than 1000 votes for Taft.
had IS delegates, nearly all office holders. Their Is votes OUT
weighed the IA votes from the State Of Washington, which
gave Taft over 100000 votes: OF the rs delegates from Geor-
ga there were 25 holding Federal Offices. How the odd man
happened to be without an office is not stated.
Mississippi came in with 20 delegates and all but one had
u Federal job.
Twelve out of the IA delegates from Arkansas had Federal
In the Louisiana delegation r several plain citizens but all
r. big sugar planters. They want protection on sugar and
insist on the support of the Nevada Republicans who merely eat
sugar with the high duty to sweeten it. There were beside the
private sugar planters As office holders in the delegation. The
list grows tiresome. 1t simply shows that the Federal appoin-
tees in the Convention combined with the persons who had no
rights to seats in the Convention, but who We're allowed to vote
for f% ' Taft f"eS"'" Of "''''"s themselves '""~'''"''' a majority
Any Nevada Republicans who can openly support such a
ticket must fairly be entitled to be designated as "A dyed-in-the
wool partisan.
AFTER all the things that Hearst has said about Wilson it
will be interesting to e whether he masticates the crow good
and proper or fights the National Democratic ticket. While it
will be interesting it wont matter much one way or the other to
the ticket.
A prize fighter who had a ticket to the Chicago Convention
only stayed a day. He said he had a fight billed for next
month and feared that he might get hurt in the hall and permo-
nently disabled.
VJJE peonle of Paltimore n that the ernocratS ae
great spenders and they want some more long conventions. The
visitors are quoted as having dropped about five millions. This
is enough to make Reno enNious.
1T seems about time for the county politics to begin to
simmer in Ormsby. Poba by the waters will move about the
time Congressman Roberts Genes home to explain his vote o the
closing of the Carson Mint.
IT there is anything now that has been overlooked to give
the Democrats OF this Nation a clean sweep next fall we do not
know what it is.
NUMBERS Of Carson Republicans are already expressing
their intention of voting for wilson.