Arizona republican., 1912-08-04

1 changed his mind and called meet Ing of the committee for April l7. | This committee called a congressional ! convention to be held on May IS. But | there was no publication of the call, i which had to be thirty days before the convention, until April 21. The Taft convention seems therefore to have been duly and regularly convened. while the Roosevelt convention was not. The Taft delegates were seated. Tenth District.
 In the Tenth district the decision turned largely upon the bad faith with which two members of the district committee voted in the seating of dele gates and upon the bad faith with which one of them used the proxy in- trusted to him. The Taft delegates in this case bolted and left the hall and immediately in the same building or ganized another convention which con- sisted of delegates from six counties. Proceedings were regularly held; per manent organization effected, the re- port of the committee on resolutions adopted and delegates pledged to Taft were elected The undisputed evidence indicated that a fragrant attempt had been made to deprive Taft of this dis trict, to which he was justly entitled. The national committee sustained the title of the Taft delegates and alter mates by practically unanimous vote.
 Fourteenth District.
 In the Fourteenth district there were fifteen counties in the district. When the executive committee met at San Antonio to make up the temporary roll there were ten members of the com mittee present whose right to act was undisputed of whom six were for Taft and four for Roosevelt. There were four other Roosevelt men present whose right to vote was disputed and who were clearly not entitled to repre- sent their county at that meeting. One of them held the proxy of the commit teeman from Kendall county, who was dead, and the proxies from three other counties were held, two by postmas- ters and one by an assistant postmas- ter, while under the election law of Texas no one who holds an office of profit or trust under the United States shall act as a member of an executive committee either for the state or for any district or county. The temporary roll was made up by Taft members, having a clear majority without per hitting these men to act under their proxies. There was a contest over the oh contains the city of San Antonio. Full consideration was given to this contest, but the testimony was overwhelming that Taft carried the county by a vote of four or five to one. On the proper basis the total vote in the district con- ventiOn was SiXty-Seven. of which the number instructed or voting for Taft was thirty-seven and one-half, the number voting or instructed for Roose- welt twenty-eight and One-half, not vOt- ing one. The Taft delegation was therefore seated al Chicago.
 CONCLUSION.
 The purpose of this resume of the contests in which there was any shad- ow of substance has been to inform IuOSb " nO nave uOI IlLDc UT to read the longer and more detailed account of them contained in the larger pamphlet It is not essential to make MT. Taft's title indisputable that all men agree on every one of the issues raised. They were decided by the tri bunals which uniform party usage had made the proper tribunals to decide such contests. If those tribunals acted in good faith mistaken judgment would not invalidate their decisions. As a matter of fact, an examination of the facts show that the tribunals were right in every instance. There is not the slightest evidence that they were moved by other than a mere desire to reach a right conclusion. On the other hand, the action of the Roosevelt men in bringing 16O contests that they promptly abandoned strongly tended to show the lack of good faith in the prosecution of all of them. Those who support President Taft can well afford to stand on the record in this case and to asseverate without fear of success ful contradiction that the delegates whose seats were contested were as fairly seated in this convention as in any in the history of the party.