Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-17
TAFT HAS 436
COLONEL 43O
CONTEST COMMITTEE CLOSED
WORK SATURDAY NIGHT.
TEDDY WINS ONLY 10 CONTESTS
President Given Delegates From
Washington and Texas After
WOrdy War-ROOsevelt i'm Chicago
To Take Personal Charge of Fight.

To Take Personal Charge of Fight.
! Chicago, June l7.-Its closing
| hours attended by exhibitions of
I tense partisan and personal feeling
among its members, the republican
national committee concluded Satur-
day night the hearing of the contests
involving 254 seats in the national
| convention, which is to assemble
Tuesday. The sum of its work is:
! Roosevelt l9, Taft 235. President
TAFT received 90 delegates, Colonel
Roosevelt 6. Al
All Of Washington IA went to the
president, against the protests of
Senator PoindeXter that the "coun-
try would judge the case" Out of
Texas Taft obtained 26 of the con-
tested 80, over the protest of Colonel
Cecil A. Lyon, who asserted: You
may depose me now, but | will be
back four years from now, when
many of You will not"
In Virginia. where the issue was
! drawn between the negro voters and
the regular state organization, the
president received the entire contest
ed delegation of 20. In the District
of Columbia he won two, Committee
man Sydney Bieber going to defeat
with the Roosevelt delegation.
The finish of the long contest hear
ings was marked by incidents more
| strongly indicative of the division
between the Taft and Roosevelt
forces than any in the preceding
days. Colonel Lyon fought each of
the Texas contest cases personally
and was defeated in all except two
of them.
In the end he was called upon to
fight resolution for an investiga-
ton and reorganization of the whole
structure of the republican party in
| Texas. Presented by a Colorado
man, it proposed subcommittee of
three from the national committee
to attempt change in the republi-
can organization of the state that
would destroy the system of county
representation described by the Taft
attorneys as survival of the rotten
| borough" methods of England
The temporary roll cali of the con-
vention will show total of 436 dele
gates for Taft and 430 for Roose-
and 166 uninstructed delegates, the
outcome of the convention presents
some interesting problems and posi-
bilities. The so delegates from New
York are among the uninstructed and
1t seems likely that whoever wins
these delegates will carry the con-
vention. Yet even this is not safe
conjecture, as the rival candidate
may receive the balance of delegates
and deadlock will result. Roose-
velt forces are bringing great press
ure to bear upon the La Toilette con-
tingent in an endeavor to obtain their
support La Toilette, however, sees
no reason why he should jeopardize
his chances for the nomination by
allying himself with either the Tat
or Roosevelt forces 1t is possible
the deadlock will result in the nomi-
nation of La Toilette.
In response to the distress cry of
the Roosevelt party, the coIonel him
self is in Chicago and will lead the
fight in person if necessary. Just
what the colonel intends to do can
best be guessed from his retort to a
reporter in Chicago when asked what
his plan of action would be. Mr..
Roosevelt replied, 81 will tell you
what ! will do when ! do It," 1t is
generally believed that he will ap-
pear upon the floor of the conven-
tion IN person and deliver speech
setting forth his principles and his
reasons for adhering to them, in the
hope that stampede may be started
in his favor. Cries against the steam
roller methods of the Taft contin-
gent in claiming all the contests are
loud among the Roosevelt forces, and
with the membership of the conven-
tion evenly divided, the fight for su-
premacy will call for all the general
ship and cunning that Roosevelt pos
sesses. Teddy is making a strong
effort to align the La Toilette men,
but so far has met with no response.
The situation, as it will be on the
opening of the convention next We'd
nesday is as follows:
Number of delegates ....1,07S
Necessary for choice .. $40
Instructed for Taft. ,..... 436
Instructed for Roosevelt ... 430
Instructed for La Toilette &C.. 36
Instructed for Cummins .... 10 r
Uninstructed. including New
fork's 80 ............ 166
or the 254 contests, 235 were de-
cided in favor of the president and
19 in favor of Roosevelt the colonel