The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-10
Bolrah And R0se';Wdter Fight Over
 California .t%
Heney Charges. Taft Pur- pose Is to Throw Gut 26 Delegates of Pacific
 Coast State
CONTEST OVER 10 WEDNESDAY,
Temperature Becom e s Warm In COP. Commit tee As Indiana Contests Are Taken Up.

Are .Iaken up.
 Coliseum, Chicago, Jlue 1O.-Tnt control of the Taft leaders on the Re. publican national committee was ern
 phasized. today when, after George A. Knight, national committeeman from California; had forced the com. nnittee to take up the contest in the fourth district of California it was on request of Former Senator Dick sent over to "Wednesday. The Roose. welt forces, despite the importance Il the matter. were able to muster only 13 members of-the committee in their attempt to force immediate ac- tion. They gained a slight conces- sion, however, when the committee unanimously put on the temporary roll call of the uncoptested Roose. welt delegates from California. This any time By a two-thirds vote of the committees. :.
 The 1s Roosevelt votes were cast by Geor&e A, Knigilfs California: ". E.. Horah. Idal1o; A R. Burnam. Kentucky; Pearl WiEht. Louisiana: F. B. Kellogg, Mfhnetofa; Lucius Lit tauer, (unaer prcxy1, Nevada. W. l.. Ward, New York; John s. Capers, South Carolina: Thomas Thorson. South Dakota; Cecn Lyon. Texas; c. F. Noosss Utah., CT. Rogers Wis eOaxsaea Henry Mack, .4le Phisipplgee 5. [ Previous To this action. bitter per- sonalfties were indulged in. Borah forced Dick to admit that the entire California delegation's right to seats was questioned because of the fact that the, direct primary law does not conform with the call of the com mittee for the election of delegates. Borah flatly accused the Taft men of getting things in readiness to unseat all of the California delegates. Francis J. Heney, for the Roose- welt delegates whose seats were in question, scored the majority of the committee for plotting to disfran- chise sovereign state.''
 Chairman Victor Rosewater told him that he was present only by courtesy and that he was insulting the committee. Other Taft men took the same view and then Borah, his face livid with anger and his attitude breathing defiance, declared that, if the committee did not want to hear the truth from an outsider, it would have to hear it at length from an insider.
 Just when it seemed that a gen eral row was being precipitated, the motion to put the contest over until was made and it pre- vailed, ending the debate.
 Outside of the committee room, Heney said he had proof that the Taft people planned to throw out the entire Roosevelts delegation from and leave that state un- 
 4But they had better not dare make the attempt" he said.
 The committee then took up the Indiana contests. beginning with the delegates-at-large. Previously, it had put over the Arizvna contests until Wednesday. The electricity in the air showed again when Horace C.. 5tillweH, of Anderson, Ind, speaking for the contestants, said:
 '1 ask that you stop the progress of. the steamroller."
 Chairman Rosewater then began beating the desk wien his gavel and ordered Stillwell to confine his re- marks to the contest.
 "I object shouted Committeeman Thomas tDevine, Jumping to his feet. There is no steamroller here." -I
 Borah wanted to know why it was necessary for Devine to discfaim the ,tatement that there was steam 'oller. Devine replied:
 Either you or your associates are passing over to. the, news the charge that there is a l teamroller here."
 @It is not necessary for us to ped- He it out to newspapermen that there l s a steamroller here." said Borah. 1 They know one when they see itt md they can tell whether there is or here is not. such machine"
 Here Chairman Rosewater again l apped for order and told Stiliweu to | proceed. This aroused Borah, who l houted:
 "I want it understood that the l hairman of this committee is not he committee but only the chairman. l 1e has no right to interrupt as he loes every speaker who does not con | inc his remarks to things that are 'leasant to his ears. This committee 1 5 not a school and the chairman is 1 lot a schoolmaster."
 "I am member of this commit | ee," answered Rosewater.
 ''Yes. and nothing more than a | aember,'' said Borah. The commit ee itself is judge of what it wishes ) hear and for one I am tired of | he little schoolmasterly speeches vith which the chairman has inter upted various speakers before this committee. Let the committee mem CTS do their own objecting if they lease. When they object it is time pr the chairman to act and not be- pre-"