The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-12
HENEY GETS EXCITED
Says Abe Ruef In His PalrIest Days
Was Regular Amateur Com
pared to Crane and
Penrose.

CHICAGO, June 12.-Roosevelt ad-
herents on the republican national
committee SAID today they did not ex-
pect to win very many Of the remain
/ ing contests that are to be heard by
! the committees.
| The committee, early today, took
t up the Louisiana contests. There are
three sets OF delegates at large from
| Louisiana and three contesting delega-
tions from several Of the districts,
caused both by the Taft-Roosevelt
fight and contests for control OF the
party machinery within the state.
j Speaking for the Roosevelt men on
I the committee, Francis ]. Heney, the
San Francisco graft prosecutor, today,
i in statement, bristling with bitter
denunciation, charged that the Taft
Z members of the committee have a
steam roller" in operation and are
deciding contests in Taft's favor re-
gardless of the merits Of the cases.
y The results in the committee Tues
!, day, when the committee gave Taft
seventeen delegates from Kentucky,
and Roosevelt one. infuriated the
Roosevelt followers and most of them
left the committee room loudly de-
: nouncing the committees actions.
i Taft men on the committee predict
+ ed early today that Taft would be
7 given the Louisiana delegation Of
j twenty today.
q To, date the committee has heard
eko ~H hoo AanSdad 105 ~
them in Taft's favor and one for
Roosevelt.
There are approximately las con
tests yet to be heard.
THE proceedings of the national
committee in handling the contest be.
: tween Roosevelt and Taft are the
, most scandalous and disgraceful
farce that I've ever seen enacted in
/ the thirty-three years I've been in
politics and I've watched the tough
) est politicians in. the world in San
, Francisco" said Heney in his state
fment today
!, ABE Ruef in his palmiest days
! couldn't have approached them.
have sent men to the pehitentiary for
! doing the same kind of things, only
, there are no laws that will take care
of the present situation in the nation
al committee.
There are parts OF the United
States where self-government does
not exist, simply because political
! parties have been permitted to oper
ate without any state laws to regu
late primary elections and insure q
fair count of the vote
Senator'S Crane of Massachusetts
and Sena.or Penrose Of Pennsylvania
have openly demonstrated this week
in the national committee that they
= are willing to follow program that Is
: unfair from start to finish. l blush
with shame that in free America two
United States senators should so de
. base themselves
> A statement by Senator Borah o
: Idaho, floor leader of the Roosevelt
. forces in the national committee, de
:, clared that the national committee
: had given Taft the delegates in thre,
), Kentucky districts without any justi
y fication in the world
Governor Hiram Johnson, Of Cali
g fornia, is expected to arrive in Chi
q cago to join in handling the contes
9 in the Fourth California district. Fl
3 has been using proxy in the com
n mittee but in the California contest
he will take the floor as attorney 70
the Roosevelt men.
r. "The national committee" sal
r Committeeman A. I. vorys of Ohio
y 'is continuing to decide contests a,
y cording to merit, regardless Of tn
y claims of the Roosevelt men that the
are being steam rollered' In onl
y one Kentucky district did they have
If leg to stand on and that was In tn
eleventh, where the facts warrante
the committee in giving each side on
N delegate"
Arizona Settled.
COLISEUM, Chicago, June Eth