The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-08-01


in the regular convention and no
person properly accredited as dell
egate was excluded or debarred from
participating in its proceedings.
Cochran and his followers bolted af-
ter his deposition. assuming that
all the committee who went out with
him had the right to act on the COM
nlittee It left the committee standing
twelve for Taft and seven for Roose-
welt SO it was simply a question
| whether a majority of the commit
tee had the right to control It's ac-
Etion ora minority. The boiling
convention which Cochran held was
not attended by a majority of the
duly elected delegates to the con-
yention vt did not have the Gre
dentials from the various counties.
land its membership was largely
made up of bystanders who had not
been duly accredited by any county
in Ntl,e district. It's action was en-
tifely without authority.
! Tennessee-Second District.
In the Second Tennessee district
there were fifty-nine delegates I'M
contested out of possible los in
the convention. There were forty
nine contested. The Roosevelt con-
testants in the forty-nine refused to
abide the decision of the committee
on credentials and withdrew leaving
fifty-nlne uncontested delegates.
These tifty-nine delegates, part OF
whom were Roosevelt men. remained
in the convention. appointed the
proper committees, settled contests
and proceeded to select Taft dele
gats. There can be no question
abopt the validity therefore of their
title.
: Texas-First District.
The only remaining districts are
the nine districts from Texas. OF
these. the First district was COM
posed OF eleven counties, each coun-
ty having one vote, except Cass coun-
ty, which had two. The executive
committee, composed of one repre-
sentative from each county, made up
the temporary roll, and In the con-
tests filed from two counties seated
! both delegates with one-half vots
: each. The convention elected the
2 two Taft delegates, giving them
5 10 IA votes. Tach county. was
represented in this vote. A minority
representing "a votes holted the
regular convention, and held rump
meeting. The national committee
by unanimous vote decided the con-
testN in favor OF the Taft delegate
y Second District.
: In the Second Texas district there
: were fourteen counties. Two coun-
ties were found not to have held con-
! yentions. and one county to have nc
! delegate present. The convention
was then constituted by the dele
cations that held regular credentials.
1.-THE report OF the committee on Gre
dentials was accepted upon roll call
and then the representatives OF five
: counties withdrew from the hall.
The representatives OF four of these
! counties held a rump convention.
The regular convention remained IN
session several hours, appointed the
! usual committees, which retired
land made their reports, which were
! accepted, and elected two Taft dele
gates to the national convention,
and certified their election in due
form to the national committee,
which without division asked for,
held them properly elected.
Fourth District.
: The Fourth Texas district consists
OF five counties, each having one
vote in the district contention unaer
the call. One county, Rains, chose
an uncontested delegation. and that
one was for Taft. The other four
counties sent contesting delegations.
The contesting, delegations appeared
before tile congressional executive
committee to present. their claims,
but the committee arbitrarily re-
fused to hear anybody. Having ex-
ihausted every effort to secure hear
ing, the four contesting delegations
: together with the only uncontested
delegation of the convention. with
drew to another place and held a
convention and elected Taft dele
gates to the Chicago convention.
The congressional convention which
elected the Taft delegates was com
posed of more than majority. and,
indeed. of practically all the regu-
larry elected delegates. The ma
Itional committee held the title OF
the Taft delegates to their seats val