The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
Taft Gets Seventeen Dele gates as Result of the
 Days Work
F. I. HENEY AND TAFT
 MEMBERS CLASH
Roosevelt Given Ono Delegate From the Eleventh Kentucky District. Governor Hadley of Mis-
 souri Is Present

Chicago. June 11.--one delegate TOT Colonel Roosevelt. the first awarded him since the national committee began the hearing of contest cases last Friday and 1T for President Taft were the net results of today's session of the repup- Iican national committee.
 In all 101 delegates have been ac- corded President Taft since the com mittee opened Its hearings. The one placed in the Roosevelt column today was D. c. Edwards from the Eleventh Kentucky district. The Taft forces on the committee refused by vote oi ss to 19 to seat both of the Roosevelt delegates. whose places were contested but agreed to split which gave Col onel Roosevelt and President Taft each one delegate from the district.
 The half victory for Colonel Roosevelt came at the end of day in which all the other much discussed contests from Kentucky had been decided in Presi- dent Taft's favor. In come of these the Roosevelt men had acquiesced; in oth- CTS they had mustered a vote of from Il to l7 against the Taft decisions.
 Senator Borah Protests
 Senator Borah, the most active Roose- welt adherent in the committee, pro tested against splitting the Eleventh district delegation.
 If one is given, both should be- he declared. John G. capers. Senator Borah and Francis J. Heney led an effort to seat both Roosevelt men. but they could muster only 19 votes. The split delegation was then unanimously seated
 President Taft's four contested dele gates at large from Kentucky, headed by Senator w. o. Bradley, were seated with only Il votes in the negative. He was given the six from the First. Sec ond and Tenth districts unanimously.
 The contest against the two in the Ninth district was withdrawn and the five from the Seventh, Eighth and Eleventh districts were won against the votes of the Roosevelt forces.
 Sharp interchanges between Francis J. Heney of San Francisco and Taft members of the committee characterized the long days session over the Ken lucky contests. Mr. Heney, who will appear tomorrow in the hearing of she California protests. repeatedly referred to frauds in Kentucky elections.
 Governor Hadley of Missouri who Is to come before the committee this
  Missourio, was also in the committee during the day on the proxy of anoth- CT member.
 Restrictions upon the time of argu- nent were abandoned in the Kentucky cases today and all evidence was heard at length. As result the committee tomorrow will begin it's sessions at 9 o'clock with the prospect of night ses- sions the remainder of the week.
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 The national committee was called to order by Chairman Rosewater at 10:15 a. m. The roll call showed 45 members present or represented by proxy. The case of KentuclSys four contested dele gates at large was the initial case. The committee settled down to business with out preliminaries
 The Kentucky contestants were quick ly in place. In a telegram, Senator w O. Bradley at Washington. one of the contested Taft delega tes, declared the Roosevelt contest should not be con sidered by the national committee. be- cause the notice of contest and the Roose- welt credentials had not been filed within the allotted space.
 The contest notice, or protest, was filed within the specified time Secretary Hay ward declared. He added no credentials were filed to show that any contesting delegates had been elected.
 Ormsby McHarg. speaking for the Roosevelt forces said one argument would cover the case of the delegates at large and the district delegates from the First, Second and Fourth districts.
 Judge ORear, heading the contesting Roosevelt delegation, began the Roosevelt arguments. "The charge we have made in Kentucky he said. "is that the ma chine methods have gotten so far into the republican party that the independ- ent voter has little choice between the re- publican and democratic parties"
 Judge ORear declared he would try to show there was a deliberate plan 10 carry Kentucky for the President against the wishes of the people. and that this plan was participated in by the party leaders and the republican state commit tee.
 Officeholders at Bottom
 Federal officeholders. Judge O'Rear said. were at the bottom of the trouble fin Kentucky. Most of it occurred in coun- ties where federal officeholders were county native charmen They sat ir judgment" he said upon the creden- tials and rights of all delegates. Ir Breathitt the delegates proceeded under the regular call. The county chairman would not call the convention together sc each side put up chairman. The Roose- welt man won.
 The convention proceeded to elect state delegates, he said. Witness said wher they appeared they were confronted wit, a contest The Taft delegates. he said were selected at meeting in the office of Taft man and the convention seated the Taft delegates.
 His arguments covered not only the state convention, but the primaries and conventions throughout the state.
 Judge ORear declared conditions throughout Kentucky were such that few districts selected delegates in ac- cordance with popular opinion. Tn the etate convention presided over by Sena- tor w. O Bradley. he declared the con- trol by the Taft forces had been pro- cured by seating contesting delegations
 We do not claim we were elected. ' said Judge O'Rear, ''because there was no opportunity given us to elect The total vote was taken from Roose- Welt In the First district amounting to 62- Tn the Second Taft forces saw in advance they were outnumbered in the Davis county convention and hur- ried to the hall and elected Taft dele gations before any one else fell tc the ruse and had chance to come in-
 Opposed to Bolting
 Judge O'Rear said he was opposed to boiling, but added if they had bolted in the Kentucky districts it would have been of no avail. because the conven- tions were being conducted by the regular party organization If these county chairnen had been long in of