New-York tribune., 1912-06-11
Coloners Own Supporters in the National Com
mttee Declare MIR. Taft Entitled to
Delegates-at-Large from Indiana.
DISTRICT DELEGATES ALSO HIS
Decision Of Hooser State Contests Leaves the Coones
Leaders Sick at Heart and, with No Chance to Com
pain Of Steam Roller Methods, They Talk Of
Trying to Stampede the Convention.

D tBy a STAFF Correspondent Of The rribuns1
Chicago, June 10.--The Roosevelt Pres
| idential boomers received a body blow
to-day which has left them weak and
groggy. One more such and they will
take the count
On motion Of Sidney Bieber. Roose-
welt committeeman, with Frank 3. Kel-
logg and Senator Borah both speaking In
support of the Bieber motion, the Taft
delegates -at-large from Indiana were
unanimously declared entitled to their
seats, and the contests of ex-senator
Beveridge, Representative Frederick
Lands, Edwin NJ Lee and Charles NJ.
Campbell were declared invalid and un-
! tenable.
Twelve Taft delegates were added to
the temporary roll by the national COM
mittee to-day, making a total of eighty
four for the President to date. and in
all except one instance the vote was
practically unanimous. The only roll call
was in the case of the 18th Indiana.
/ where the vote stood SO 10 IA. three
members Of the committee having left
when the vote was reached, late this
| afternoon
/ Rooseveltites are sick at heart to-
night and are now talking Of raising 50
much clamor in the convention as t.
make roll calls impossible and then or
ganizing themselves and declaring to the
country that Mr.. Roosevelt has been
nominated, regardless of the fact that
Mr.. Taft had majority, as the only ex-
pedient which can save their hero from
inevitable defeat.
81 Another statement from Oyster Bay
is expected, as Colonel Roosevelt has in
J sisted that he was himself so strongly
committed to the legitimacy OF the Indi-
ana delegates that he could not for n
would fail to be seated. Had the Roose-
!, welt contestants been deposed by strict
; factional votes the Roosevelt leaders
would be less discouraged, but with ths
|, committee unanimously affirming the
legitimacy of the Taft delegates-at-
large and speaking in favor Of their be-
ing seated, and with Roosevelt member
making the motion that they be seated,
the Roosevelt leaders are left without
leg to stand on. They can no longer
shout steam roller" with any hope that
the country will believe them.
! Blow to Beveridse, Too.
incidentally. the unanimous action Of
the committee is crushing blow to ex-
Senator Beveridge, who his friends as
sert, has all along entertained the hope
that as a result Of his oratory on the
floor Of the convention and Of an un-
breakabIe deadlock between Taft and
Roosevelt ne would be the dark horse
who would secure the nomination.
I'm all these primaries and contests I
have stood for absolute honesty and
fair play" declared Mr.. Roosevelt in a
written statement issued from oyster
Bay on May 5, and he added: "Mr. Taft
has stood for crooked Misrepresentation
Of the will Of the people" He said fur
ther in the same statement:
In Kentucky and Indiana, in New York
| City and elsewhere, Mr.. Taft knows well
that the delegates elected for him repre-.
sent barefaced frauds He stands guilty OF
! connivance at and condonation OF these
frauds; stands guilty Of approving and en-
couraging fraud. He deprtves all people
/ of their rights to express their Will as 70
who shall be nominated.
! Roosevelt supporters have nothing to
say when it is pointed out to them that
the unanimous decision Of the national
committee Is a complete answer to the
charges of their candidate, and that
every Roosevelt vote in the committee
which was cast for the Taft delegates
from Indiana constituted in itself O
demonstration of the raw deal' which
has constantly been given to Mr.. Taft.
and a proof of the reckless injustice of
Mr.. Roosevelt's charges against the
President.
Chicagoans also recall that on March
81 In this city. just after the New York
primaries. Colonel Roosevelt made a
speech at the Auditorium. in which he
used these words:
AS I have said, such a primary contest
is not merely farce but criminal farce.
What was done in New York is substan-
TALLY what was done in Indiana and in
Colorado Against all the money, all the
patronage all the efforts OF the kealing
machine I'm Indiana, with nothing but the
plain people OF the state to rely upon, we
carried the state convention handsomely.
and then, by fraudulent action which can
only be called brutal in It's utter defiance
of decency, nearly two hundred delegates
were thrown out and the will Of the people
reversed
The men honestly elected. of course de-
clined to abide by the result and held
separate convention. They would have
been derelict i'm their duty had they not
done so. for the Keaing-Taft state delega-
ton i'm Indiana does not represent the peo-
ple at ALL and its actions are In no shape
or way representative OF or binding on the
rank and file of the Republican party In
Indiana.
Committee Vote Unanimous.
That the conventions that nominated
Mr.. Taft did represent the people cam
not be more concusively proved than by
the action of the national committee
to-day. all of the Roosevelt members
voting with the Taft members, except
in the single instance Of the 18th Dis
trict.
The Taft delegates placed on the tenn.
porary roll. by the national committee
include the four at large from Indiana
and those representing the 1st, Sd. 4th
and 18th districts. In the case of the
4th District the contentious Of the
Roosevelt delegates were SO far from
tenable that they were withdrawn on
the advice of the Roosevelt ATTORNEYS.