The Washington times., 1912-06-05
ROOSEVELT SWEEPS
SOUTH DAKOTA IN
IMPRESSIVE FASHION
Captures Ten Delegates,
With Taft Third in
< Some Places.
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scene should change the plan, Victor
Rosewater, vice chairman of the COM
mittee and member from Nebraska, will
be chosen. The committee will then
consider the report of the special conf
mittee appointed last year, of which
Committeeman Brooker, of Connecticut,
Is chairman, and which has revised the
rules of the committee. The nature Of
this report is not known, but 1t was be-
Heved today that 1t would clear up dis
puted points in connection with the
term of the members of the committee
procedure in handling contests and
other matters about which there mas
been dispute,
All OF tomorrow's sessions of the com
mittee We're expected to be executive,
but when the hearing of the actual con-
Friday, if present plans are adopted
here, the newspaper men will be per-
mltted to be present at the hearings.
Most of the members favored publicity
New and some of the others insisted
public hearings would consume much
more time than private, and would
committee, including lengthy night ses-
sions. While the hearings in the con-
tests Will be public, the committee will
that as soon as a contests has been pre-
sented by the opposing counsel the meet
Ing room will be cleared and the vote
,will be taken in executive session Then
the doors will be thrown open and the
result announced Fifteen minutes will
be allowed each side in district con-
tests, with the committee agreeing,
where contests are consolidated, to allow
the consolidated time on THE basis of
ntteen minutes to each contest.
1t was believed. where contests are
States. this will be done. Out of the
mass of claims and complex figures pre-
Sented by each side 1t was possible to-
Gay TO get a line on the action of the
committee. 1t seemed certain that the
I Iaft delegates would be seated in near
~ avery case, the only States where
exceptions exc were expected being Texas
The advance briefs Of the Southern
contests indicate for the most part that
the Taft delegates were elected at reg
uiar conventions officered by regular
OFFICIALS, and members of the committee
privately insisted today that thew could
not be expected to go behind the face
OF the returns in deciding the mooted
Sensational allegations were promised
in the Southern cases Lilly Whiteism''
VERSUS black and tam" was TO be
Louisiana, Virginia, and Arkansas, Nc
iarg. for the Roosevelt forces, will al
Iege, the blacks were. refused permits
sion to vote at the primaries or to have
any part in the making UP of the dele
gates to the convention. Dick admitted
that there might possibly have been
some precincts where the colored men
that II the committee wanted to throw
open the matter of negro representa-
htion IN the Southern States he might
e'llation by fhe Roosevelt forces that
would be interesting.
Among the men who arrived today
.chusetts. Frank B. Kellogg. of st.
Paul, national committeeman from
Minnesota; Charles T. Brooker, ma
tfonal committeeman from Connect
cut and chairman of the subcommittee
on rules and regulations; w. L. Ward
national committeeman from New
York, and Congressman Lucius N.
Littauer
Senator Crane was noncommittal in
the extreme. Asked what he thought
of the Taft victory in Ohio, he said:
II Just got in. What do you Think"
Kellogg, who has been claimed both
refused to shed much light on his at
titude.
II shall vote as my conscience die
tates and the evidence indicates" he
Kellogg was Roosevelt's trust buster
and the attorney who did the greater
part Of the work in the suit that re-
suited in the dissolution of the
Northern Securities merger.
Mckinley Statement.
Director William B. Mckinley of
the, Taft forces. after his arrival here
today. gave out the following state
ment:
president William II. Taft will be
the nominee of the Chicago conven-
ton. He will have approximately 900
votes on the first ballot. The princi-
pies for which he stands in this con-
test-the. preservation of constitu-
tional government, enforcement of the
laws and progressive evolution as op-
posed to revolution-will be written
into the national Republican plat
form. The sober second thought, not
the people, will be further reflected
at the polls by President Tafts re-
ELECTION for a second term term ~
conducted for the denomination, is
drawing to a close. The Republican
party, to which. as such, he has made
only incidental appeal in this con-
third term candidacy of Mr.. Roose-
velt, who, up to this time, has spoken
neither for his party, its principles,
it's President or It's leaders-but only
for himself. No terrorization or in
timida tion, on the part OF Mr.. Roose-
Velt or his managers can change the
result.
His personal presence in the conven-
ton ould only make the outcome more
certain against him. No compromise is
possible as between candidates, because
the fight is already won by President
Taft"
Dixon Statement.
Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon, the Roosevelt
campaign manager, gave out the fol-
lowing formal statement:
The Taft people deliberately stole
six delegates-at-large in Ohio. This was
a cold -blooded theft, and involved politi-
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lowing would not stoop to adopt. The
Ohio situation is a fine example of the
contrast between the tactics of the
Chusetts. where Taft carried the State.
Roosevelt, took no technical advantage,
and gave to Taft the six delegates-at-