Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-06-11
MAKES SIXTEEN MORE :
ADDITION TO PRESIDENTS
STRENGTH ON TEMPORARY
ROLL CALL is LARGE.
HENEY GETS INTO FIGHT
DISTINGUISHED CALIFORNIAN
TRIES TO HELP RoosE-
WELT CAUSE.

Chicago, June 11.-By seating the
-four delegates-at-large and the dele
gates from the First, Second and
Fourth districts of Kentucky, all cred
tted to President Taft, the republican
national committee today added ten
Fotes to the temporary roll call of the
convention in favor of the president,
hnd foreshadowed action that would
odd six more contested seats from
that state to Mr.. Taft.
Only two of the seats-at-large we're
contested and the committee was
preparing this afternoon to vote on
the contest in the Second and Fourth
districts. In the First district the
vote was 46 to 0 against the contest
ants. With these districts and the
qelegates-at-large decided in the pres
ident's favor the number of contested
seats determined for him since the
committee began its deliberations
reached ninety4six. In the Second
district the vote was unanimous.
After arguments were concluded in
the First, Second and Fourth Kentuc-
Ky districts there remoined to be con-
sidered contests in the Seventh,
Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh districts.
Francis ]. Heney of San Francisco.
leaped into the heat of the political
fray today and strenuously endeavor-
ed to inject pepper into the Roose-
welt fight. He characterized the con-
ditions in Kentucky as similar to the
former chaotic political conditions in
California and when he referred to
some OF. the Kentucky political acts
as comparable to the acts of Abe
Ruef of San Francisco, MIR. Heney
drew a sharp protest from Senator
Penrose.
Judge Ed G. O'Rear of Frankfort,
who had charge of the arguments for
the Roosevelt forces, frequently ad-
mitted that some of the points ad-
vanced were not very strong and Sen
otor Borah of the Roosevelt wing de-
clared he thought the contestants
were not entitled to their seats.
Though some of the members of the
committee asked for more time to
consider the evidence, a roll call de-
manded by the Taft leaders resulted
in seating the regular delegates-at
large by vote of SS to II. The deci-
sion in the First district, however,
was unanimous.
Kentucky contests involving 16 del
egates, were under hearing before the
republican national committee at the
morning session. A decision in the
observation-disclosures, -four delegates)
case was expected by noon.
It was agreed that the contests in
the First, Second and Fourth, (two
delegates each) had been submitted
and decided on the same arguments
as in the case Of the delegauon-at-
large.
Ormsby McHarg made the opening
statement for the Roosevelt forces
and Judge E. C. O'Rear of Grantfort,
one of the two contestants for dele
gates-at-large, made the argument.
Only two delegates-at-large seats were
contested.
The eighteen contested delegates
from Kentucky held the right of way
when the committee began today's
work. Four delegates-at-large, and
two each from the First, Second,
Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth and
Eleventh districts were concerned in
the contests which were to be heard
during the days session.
Roosevelt members of the commit
tee declined to make any advance
comment upon the Kentucky cases,
which were expected to arouse as
much, If not more. debate than the
Indiana cases. Committeeman Pearl