Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-06-21
GIVING TAFT The DELEGATES
ClilnENlI\LS COMMITTEE Is
SLOWLY GOING OVER ALI
CONTESTED SEATS.
OTHER Committees BUSY
IL Is Believed Tint All Of the Commits
tees VIII Make Reports 10 the
convention To-day.

CHICAGO, lll, June 2O.-(Speclal)
Whatever may be- the outcome OF
the republican convention when it
meets tomorrow. oklahoma has come
In for a largo amount of prominence
win Doth factions, United States
Marshal Grant Victor Is special man
on guard for The TAFT forces at tho
convention, being assigned 10 duty at
the speakers stand and especially dell
cgaled to look after members OF tho
TAFT family.
Together with Harry New. chair
man of the committee on arrange
mrnls, who made special request for
victor, hc has been on duty day and
night ana tonight Is guard to the inner
circle of the credentials committee.
Victor close 10 Leaders.
Victor is regarded as the man who
was responsible for the two Taft dell
egates from the third Oklahoma dis
trlct and charges were preferred
against him on that account together
with his activity here at the conven-
tion has tended to put him very close
10 the leaders OF the Taft crew
throughout the country.
Among the Tulsa people who aro
here ana who have been earnestly
supporting the president are 4. s. At
torney William j. Gregg, j. w. Harris.
w. l. keneau, Grant h. Mccullough,
william Sells, George G.. Bayne and
Eugene Lorton and wife of the World.
Pat Dore Is the oklahoma guard at
Roosevelt headquarters George
PrIestly led Perry, l.. q. Disney VIII
liam Cochran and many other Roose-
Welt supporters from Oklahoma are
very active In delegations. 1t il
claimed over 200 Oklahomans are In
attendance at the convention
Everything points TO the renomlna-
ton Of Presldtn Taft on the first bal
lot either tomorrow or the next day.
Perfect Harmony.
CHICAGO, June 20. - Working
slowly through the list Of contested
delegates referred to It by the repub-
lican national committee the creden-
tlals committee had. up to 10 o'clock
tonight seated 22 Taft delegates. This
included twelve from Florida against
whom the Roosevelt men made no
contest, and who were seated unanl-
mously.
or the 70 contested delegates in
cluded in Governor Iladleys list OF
those whom he claimed the national
committee unfairly" indorsed, the
following had been approved by the
credentials committee at 10 O'Clock:
Alabama, ninth district, 2; Arkan-
sas firth district, Arizona, deegat-
es at large, g.
Perfect harmony prevailed in the
committee room throughout the even
ing The Roosevelt members advocat-
ed passing the Florida, Georgia and
other similar cases, but the Taft
members Of the committee insisted on
reopening each Of the cases passed on
by the national committee.
Steam Roller Perpctuatcd.
Perpetuation of the steam roller"
50 far as the national committee Of
the republican party Is concerned, and
recognition of the direct primary plan
Of electing members Of the committee
We're the two radical and apparently
contradictory changes made today in
the rules governing the national com
mttee by the rules committee Of the
convention
Roosevelt members Of the commit
tee did not oppose either. They will
however, introduce a minority report
to the convention. insisting on re-
In the convention and upon the right
of the various states to dictate the
method and manner under which
their representatives, on the national
committee shall be elected. In other
respects the rules that governed the
republican convention of four years
ago We're adopted % to 6.
The steam roller amendment pro-
vides that when any member of the
committee bolts or refuses to support
the nominee of the republican party,
he shall be summarily deposed. The
COmmitte then Is empowered to name
his successor In the past the sue
censorship was dictated by the state
central committee Of the state affect
ed.
CHICAGO. June 20.-When. at 10
o'clock tonight. the working sub
committee Of the platform committee
began what it was hoped would be Its
final sitting preparatory 10 presenting
a report TO the full committee, 1t had
tentatively agreed upon all the impor
tant planks except those relating TO
the tariff and finance
The principal contest of the day was
over the tariff declaration and dealt
with the definition OF the measure OF
protection one Of the planks pre-
sented reiterated the contention of
1908 that tho protection should be
to the difference between
the cost of production In the United
States and abroad, while another un-
dertook 10 substitute for this de-
that the protection should
be sufficient to maintain the standard
Of living prevailing among the labor
ing people of the United States.
The second suggestion was pre-
sented BY Senator Lippltt, of Rhode
Island who urged the great difficulty
OF ascertaining the exact cost of pro-