The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-05-16
I. R. LANDS KANSAS
TAFT MEN BEATEN AT EVERY
TURN BY oPPosITIoN's BIG
MAJORITY.
PREPARE FOR CONTESTS.
Unusual Number Of Disputes as 70
Delegations to Be Adjusted-Re-
arrangement Of Southern Rep
r~esentation.

Independence, Kansas. - Adopt
ing strong resolutions favoring the
entire progressive movement and leav-
ing out the time-honored custom of
laudatory planks in praise of state and
government officials, the Republican
state convention named four delegates
at-large to the national convention
with ironclad instructions for Roose-
welt for president.
William Allen White OF Emporia
was Endorsed for national committee
man.
From the moment the convention
opened the 104 delegates bearing in
structions for President Taft were
working to get through some Of the
things they desired, but the Roose-
welt majority of 100 was too great.
The first attempt the Taft men
made was when the resolutions COM
mittee brought in a report indorsing
the record of Senator La Toilette, the
candidacy of William Allen White for
national committeeman to succeed
David w. Mulvane and instructing the
four delegates-at-large to vote for
Roosevelt.
Stephen Walker of Columbus, a Taft
delegate, after the resolutions had
been read, moved that that portion Of
the resolution indorsing Senator La
Toilette be cancelled, that Mr.. Null
vane be Endorsed for national commit
teeman and that the convention in
struct the delegates for President
Taft. He proceeded to speak upon mis-
motion.
Walkers motion was lost, only get
ting 104 votes. The report of the res
olutions committee was then adopted
as read.
New York.-The Republican nation
al committee will meet in Chicago
Thursday afternoon, June 6, to decide
contests among delegates to the ma
tional convention. The call for the
meeting vas issued also by William
Hayward, secretary of the committee.
This will be the earliest meeting held
for many years by the committee and
will give it IL days to consider con-
tests before the convention opens on
June Is.
Indications that there will be an
unusual number of contests this year,
Mr.. Hayward said, had been consid-
cred by Victor Rosewater, the COM
mittee's acting chairman. and himself
in sending out the call for the early
meeting of the committee. A few
contests already have been brought Of
Hnio11u hnfnrn thu nn,ypiffna fR a1.o
and many more are expected, he said,
before the expiration of the time linn.
it for filing contests on May 20, 20
days before the convention.
Mr.. Hayward also announced that
he would place before the committee
a plan upon which he has been work.
ing for some time that will affect the
lican national conventions. The prin-
cipal objection to plans previously sug.
gested, he said, was the elimination
of the congressional district as the
unit representation. The plan he
would submit to the committee would
change the basis Of representation, he
said, and still retain the congression-
al district as the unit.
The Final Result.
Baltimore, May 8.-CompIete unoffi-
cial returns from the Maryland prl.
maries gave Theodore Roosevelt sixty
six delegates, or one more than the
number necessary to control the state
convention. Democratic primary re.
turns, with only five precincts miss.
ing, gave Clark 81, Wilson a., Har.
mon 4.