Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-21
TURN TABLES ON
 ROOSEVELT MEN. Committee on Credentials Hears All Gases and Seats More Taft Delegates. WILL HEAR THEM ALL Convention May Last Until Next Thnrsday---Clayton Wins Over
 Remmel Faction.
WILL HEAR THEM ALL

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 theory that Colonel Roosevelt is d l dead candidate for the regular Re 1 publican nomination for President. The Taft members of the credentials committee of the National Committee insisted upon running the steam roller over the corpse.
 Wednesday, night twelve Roosevelt members bolted because they clalmae they were denied free, full and open ing hearings of all contests for sea :. in the convention.
 When the Roosevelt members who remained put and the bolters wno came back were almost ready to secede again because full, free ana open hearings were forced upon then,
 The Taft men had taken the lid ofI for time, new evidence, and every lining else. And after the committee. had snent seven and a half hours to- day mulling over two cases lnvolvlns a poll of eight seats, two from the Ninth District of Alabama and SIX from Arizona at large, the Rooseves1 men offered to abandon all the re- main'ne contests except those from California, Texas and Washington q total of forty-two seats.
 The Taft members refused to con- sider that proposition They. hele tha,.sau ycases rn,stn,ba>slAa esaNat y"aana proceeded to the hearing. And they are going right through to the enc no matter how long it takes.
 At midnlght the following case' had been disposed of:
 Taft delegates seated for the Nlnt' Alabama District, ?.
 Taft delegates seated for Arlzona
 Taft delegates seated for Arkansas
 Taft delegates seated for Florida 12.
 Following Arkansas, the Four'
 California District was called pu neither Governor Johnson ncr t'ra' ces ]. Heney. who have accused tn Taft men of stealing this district. p' in an appearance. SC the Sergean
 at-Arms was directed to find then
 While the hunt for Johnson ar
 Heney was on the Florida conte t was taken up and settled. Geore V followea
 t The purpose of the Tatt men is
 give themselves a clean bill of heal |. .u all the contest cases. They a \ working against Colonel Rooseve > and they regald him not as cane :, date for the Republican nominate
 for president. but as an 1ndepenoe
 candidate for president. They a
 making election and not convent
 campaign material.
 W "Heney insisted that the credentl; .o committee is a court of original 5ur ID diction in contest cases.' said form '" Senator James E. Hemenway, Taft leader, "and we have taken tn o' at their word. We are going to ma them hear al! these cases Of ms 'i them abandon them in open coul ," The Taft majority also decis "' that they will sit in continuous
 sion until all the cases are dispo
 of. That may take twenty-fo
 thirty-six, or seventy-two hours, IS thev do not care. Also it may k
 the convention in session until Thu lds day of next week, but they do . care for that either.
 "We insist upon proving our rig rg- to every seat we claim," said for in Senator Charles Dick, the hat lawyer at large.
 oon To facilitate matters though, yer Taft men propose that when the convention meets at noon tomor ltly they will make a partial report tc ion the convention take up the cases the at a time, also and thereby to oan both mills do gringing simultane fol- w There was a suggestion ton ous for an adjournment for dinner,
 the Taft men said "No," so Serge
 at-Arms Stone must send out 7 OK. sandwiches and coffee and the r S14 rolled on.
 1-7t A significant thing about the |