The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-14
ROOSEVELT D0NS COWBOY S0MbRER0 AND ANNOUNCES
 HE'LL MOVE ON CHICAGO
FIRST BLOOD
 FLOWS FROM
 DISNEY'S NOSE
Grant Victor Plants it in Row Over Seating of Delegates
 From Oklahoma

Chicago, June 14-"If the national committee acts like bunch Of thieves in the Texas convention then they must expect us to treat them as such." declared Ormsby McHarg. the Roosevelt contest manager, before the opening of today's hearings.
 We are clearly in the right and if the committee pays any attention to merits we will get nearly all of the S9 seats."
 It was obvious early today that the Virginia contests, where 20 seats are at stake and the Texas contests. with 30, would develop really serious clashes.
 The national committee hoped to finish both Virginia and Texas today. making it possible to finish the con tests Saturday. When today's ses- sion was called, there were to be de- cfded contests involving two delegates from North Carolina, two from Okla sfloma, two from South Carolina, eight from Tennessee, thirty from Texas, twenty from Virginia, fourteen iron, Washington, and two from the Dis trict of CoIumbia
 The Texas contests are based on the fight of the Taft forces to oust Cecil Lyon, the Roosevelt State manager, from leadership in the Texas Republi- can organization. The Taft claims are based on the fact that Lyon dis regarded the call of, the national com mittee and had the Texas delegates to the national convention named at the State couvention. Thereupon, the Taft men held district conventions and put through their own slate. Later, Lyon held district conventions and elected the Roosevelt delegates a sec- ond time.
 In the Virginia contests, the Roose- welt contestants base their case on the claim that the Taft organization is lilly white'' and that the district conventions, at which national dele gates were elected, excluded negroes.
 If the national committee takes the IA contested seats in Washington away from Roosevelt and gives them to Taft. the reason assigned N1u be that they were elected from the State at large instead 6f by dfstricts
 First blood was spilled just outside the national committeeman door E tor, United States marshal, a mem Der of the Oklahoma delegation, and q Taft adherent,. sitting in the national convention on proxy, swung hard right to the mouth of l.. c. DiSney, of Muskogee, another Oklahoman. The punch brought the c1aret. victor's well directed punch brought a second. not from Disney but from Pat Dore. another Oklahoma Roosevelt booster. and for few minutes the sideshow outside the Committee room dwarfed the main performance inside.
 Police pried the warning Oklah0ma clansmen apart and quieted the dis turbance
 The row started when Disney, vofc- ing his own opinion as to the extreme smallness of the chance of a Roose- welt man getting a fair break in ths committee, rounded out his remarks with an opinion of Victor which the latter did not construe as compliment ary.
 The national committee. by a vivs voce vote, seated the Taft contest ants in the 3rd Oklahoma district They are Joseph A.. Gill and J. N. Ga11itand.
 The contest from the first Tennessee district was another fight between rival Taft factions arriving over local differences. The national committee by a viva yoce vote. seated Sam R Selb and R. E. Donally.
 The contest from the first South Carolina district was between riva Taft factions only. The nationa committee by a viva voce vote seat ed Thomas L. Grant and A. Aaron Prio1eau.
 In. the End Tennessee contest the national committee, by q viva vocs vote seated the two Taft delegates T. A. Wright and John J. Jennings Jr. This was taken to carry with H recognition of the Austin faction as the regular organization.
 Except for one bitter clash between Roosevelt and Taft partisans, the hearing of the Republican national committee of contests, Friday morn ing, was without excitement
 In two of the three districts that sent contesting delegations alr parties concerned were pledged to Taft sI
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