Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-10
TAFT'S CLAIM
PURE FICTION
Senator Dixon Skaters His
Table Delegates.

Washington, May.-SenatOr Dixon a.
the national Roosevelt headquarters
gave out the following statement:
The so called table of delegates
daily issued by the Taft headquarters
has reached the ridiculous stage. Two
or three great newspapers that profess
to print the news In their news col
umns are also being put in the ridlcu-
lous class by printing as fact Mr.. Nc
kinley's tabulated foolishness. No 9th
er term can fifty describe the Taft ia
bic Of delegates
The Taft people know that their
table OF delegates is a fiction pure and
simple. On Friday, May 3, they issued
their printed bulletin claiming 469
Taft delegates elected to date. Lay
ing aside campaign enthusiasm, the
cold fact is that this table Of dele
gates is made UP by the Taft a
ayers with the aid OF n lead pencil.
their fertile imaginations and a piece
Of D Any one who Will take the
time to anaIyze it will instantly realize
its glaring mlsstatements of every
thing akin to fact. For instance, TWEEN
ty Taft delegates are claimed from
Missouri In the Taft column. AS a
matter Of truth that is easily confirm
ed by an examination Of the records,
twenty-four delegates elected In Mis-
souri, have been instructed for Roose-
welt, two for Taft, four uninstructed
and two delegates le~gitimately In con-
test.
an the Taft table of delegates Nc
KinIey gives the entire South Caro-
lima delegation Of eighteen to Tart
Notwithstanding the fact that twelve
Of the South Carolina delegates nave
already In letters over their W sig
natures positively stated that they
would not vote for Taft. but would
vote for Roosevelt. In the New YORK
Herald of May 4 appears the Herald's
special dispatch from Spartansburg, s.
c., containing an interview with an
other one-of the South Carolina dele
gates, In which he positively states
that sixteen Of the eighteen delegates
from that state will not vote for Taft.
but will vote for Roosevelt at Chica-
go. still the entire eighteen are being
carried in the Taft table.
"In the Taft column Mckinley places
the entire list of twenty delegates
from Mississippi, Notwithstanding the
fact TINT the four uncontested dele
gates from that state have publicly an
nouuced their Intention to support
Roosevelt, and the equities OF the con-
tests Of the other sixteen delegates rest
with the Roosevelt contesting delega-
ton from that state.
There are included in the Taft col
umn twenty-eIght delegates from Geor-
gia, Notwithstanding the fact that I'M
der the laws Of Georgia 1t WAS impos-
sible to legally hold a convention at
the time these twenty eight delegates
were elected, as it was impossible to
tell until some time In the early part
OF April who are the legal voters in
that state. A perusal of the latest
number Of Golfers Weekly will e1-
plain how the twenty eight delegates
In the Taft column from the state of
Georgia were obtained under a hurry
up call from Washington. Their state
convention was convened sixty days
before any legal convention can be
held under the laws of that state. Ev-
cry one of these twenty eight Illegal
Georgia delegates are now. In contest.
In Pennsylvania the Taft managers
| put thirteen votes IN the Taft column,
being seven in excess of the real num-
Der of Taft delegates from that state.
I'm the Taft column are placed
eighty-three delegates from New York.
Only two delegates from that state
were instructed for Taft. Despite the
fact that twenty-one of the New York
delegation have declared that they
will support Roosevelt, Mr.. Mckinley
arbitrarily adds every New York dele
gate to the Taft column except seven.
In this fictitious table Of Taft
delegates Mckinley adds twenty from
Louisiana, Notwithstanding the fact
there are three contesting delegations
from that state.
In Virginia he adds the entire dele
cation of tw~enty-four to the Taft col
Notwithstanding the fact that
four of the Virginia delegates elected
In the first convention have declared
their intention to support Roosevelt