Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-11
Puzzle as to Where Electoral
Votes of Several States
Will Go
RY c. S. ALBERT.

Especial star Bulletin Correspondence
WASHINGTON June - What
should or can be done ~ rose States
That designated Roosevelt Presldea
tia! electors III their pfimjaics2 Viii
tine tangle be UNFINISHED?
These problems are worrying VI
Taft and all of his advisors Several
Installations have already been held
and many more will be necessary TO
DEVISE a method of evadins ne diiii-
Guilty Nine members of ,.I% RcpIbli-
cen National Committee arc indus
tricusly working on the p'i7;.e. Re-
preventative Mckinley. who managed
tie Presidents campaign fJr Te-nom,
iaai iOn, Senator Root. wh) engineered
Inc steam roller. and Others are SIT
ting up nights seeking a solution. II
Is me most ne ,Ve-racking proPoaI'ioa
tIiose responsible for the iurure OF
tie Republican party have yet en-
coHhtered.
TIE Problem.
In PENNSYLVANIA, West Virginia,
MARYLAND and several Other States
electors were chosen and instructed
TO vote for Theodore Roosevelt. They
were chosen On regular Republican
tickets. Threats have been made that
If elected in November they will re-
fuse TO cast their votes for Mr.. Taft.
Such course would undoubtedly
prove fatal TO Republican success and
throw the Presidency to the Demo
Gratis Unless other tickets are placed
in the field those selected in the pri-
maries will receive the votes cast in
the National election.
Ii is believed that some course OF
adjustment will be reached. All ef-
forts in this direction will be mater
tally aided by the fact that in some
States, notably Pennsylvania, those
chosen as electors do not care TO be
placed in the attitude of boiling the
regular Republican organization. This
they must do by adhering TO Col.
Roosevelt and casting their votes in
the Electoral College for him, when
he is not the regular nominee of his
party.
The committee that called on the
President Monday, July /, and mott
fed him of his nomination at Chi
cago, discussed this question at
length. A conclusion was reached
that the tickets selected in the pri-
maries must be withdrawn and elect
I-ors pledged to Taft named in their
places. It was admitted that this
undertaking would prove serious in
some of the Progressive States,
where the Roosevelt sentiment is
strongest.
Mckinley Woudn't Serve.
The matter of naming a campaign
manager has been engrossing the at
tention of President Taft He great
ly desired that Representative Will
liam b. Mckinley, of Illinois, .sWho
pulled through his nomination. should
take up the work, but Mr. Mckinley
kicked over the traces. Charles ID.
Hilles, private secretary to the Pres
ident, seemed the next most available
man, but the President baked at the
idea of losing a good secretary. And
so the question was permitted to
hang fire for few days in order that
the best material might be sifted out
and choice made
Representative Mckinley and the
other Taft managers have all arisen
enmasse and denied the statement
made by Col. Roosevelt that he could
easily have obtained the nomination
at Chicago through the detection of
Southern delegates, but did not de-
sire to have any faint on it. They
declare this is untrue and there was
no time at any stage of the proceed
ings when the Colonel could have
seized the nomination, either with or
without faint.
Baltimore Scrap Pleases Taft.
President Taft has derived much