The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-08-06
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county ny cnHTSeS OF ITHuu anu repent.
ing These charges were Of general
character. without specification except
as to one ward OUT OF fifteen wnrds.
.nnd then the impearhing witness ad
United he could not claim fraud enough
ito change the result Ia that ward The
national committee. upon which there
were fifteen anti.Taft men, rejected
the Roosevelt contestants and gave the
Taft delegates their seats by a unani.
nous vote. Senator Rorah and MIR
Frank b Kellogg. both Roosevelt men.
made speeches In explaining the votes
in which they said that the case turned
wholly on the Marion county primary.
and as there wa1( no evidence to i'm,
peach the result certified. the title Of
the Taft Delegates was clear. This Is
the convention whose proceedings
called forth such loud charges Of theft
: spafsk. wAk from Mr. Roosevelt
Ne~ Kentucky.
: contest was filed
In SfesMree Of the four delegates
'eyeMr ne fourth Taft delegates
H. uncontested The three con.
united they were not elect
'vention which sent the
peeh " or by any other. They
posended that II the Roosevelt
Mad had majority they would
re been elected. There were 1850
,ut,iegates summoned to the convention
by Its call There were 40 Of these
whose seats were contested. II all OF
these had been conceded to Roosevelt
4 hA nta
297 votes less than majority. The
appeal to the committee on credentials
from the decision of the national com.
mit,eo was abandoned. as 1t ought to
have been.
Michigan.
In Michigan the state convention
had In It about 100 delegates. There
were only two counties In dispute or
contest. One WAS Wayne county. In
which Detroit II situated, and the other
was Calhoun county. The evidence
left no doubt that the Taft men car.
ried by very large majority Wayne
county. but II was imma terial whether
this was true or not. because. lea wing
out both Wayne county and Calhoun
1Es2punty 1.-The only counties In contest
the Taft delegates outnumbered by
several hundred the Roosevelt dele
gates, and they had clear majority
out of the total number of votes that
should have been In the convention.
The contest was so weak as to hardly
merit recital
sss~----- Texas.
In Texas there were 240 counties. Of
which four have no county govern
ment. The 245 counties under the call
q of the convention were allowed to have
something over 1000 delegates. repre-
senting them. who were given author.
tty to cast PAS votes. or the 2I5 coun
ties there were ninety.nine counties In
which the total Republican vote was
but 1000, In fourteen of which there
were no Republican voters. In twenty
seven Of which there were less than
ten each and In none OF which was
there any Republican organization and
- In none Of which had primary or con
Nyention been held. II was shown that
Colonel Cecil Lyon, to whom had been
assigned as referee the disposition OF
the patronage OF the national Repub.
iican administration for ten years In
trolling the Republican state conven.
ton by securing from two federal OF
dceholders In each of these ninety nine
Y counties a certificate granting proxy
to Colonel Lyon or friend OF his to
X represent the county as II regularly
conferred by n Republican county or
ganization The national COMMITTEES
and the con,nYiee on credentials and
'n-sthe convention after the fn!les, invest!
cation decided that these ninety nine
y counties In which the Republican vote
was so small and In which there was
no Republican, party, no convention, nc
primary. no organization was not the
proper source for proxy ~ give q
vote equal to that to he east by the
other 146 counties In which there was
Republican organization and In
which primaries or conventions wer,
held. The two committees therefor,
held such nlnety-nlne proxies to b
illegal and not the basis OF proper rep
resentation The two tribunals wht
heard the case decided that they SHOULD
deduct the ninety-nine votes from thu
total OF PAS and give the representation
to those who controlled the majorit,
OF the remainder The remainder wa,
1872 votes. and out of that the raf
men had carried eghty-nlne counties
having ninety votes This gave TO thu
Taft men a clear majority In the STATE
convention and with II eight delegates
at large,
WASHINGTON.
The contest In Washington turned oil
the question whether the Taft dele
. gates appointed by the county com
mlttee in King county, In which Seattl
ia situate, were duly elected to tn
convention or whether primary
which was subsequently held and a
which Roosevelt delegates were elect