Arizona republican., 1912-08-04

wholly on tie Marion county primary and as there was no evidence to i'm peach the result certified. the title of the convention whose proceedings called forth such loud charges of theft and fraud from MT. Roosevelt
 Kentucky.
 In Kentucky a contest was filed against only three Of the four delegates at large. The fourth Taft delegates seat was uncontested. The three con testants admitted they were not elect ed by the convention which sent the Taft delegates or by any other. They only contended that If the Roosevelt forces had had a majority they would have been elected. There were 2,356 delegates summoned to the convention by its call. There were 449 of these whose seats were contested. If all of these had been conceded to Roosevelt 1t would have made the Roosevelt vote 297 votes less than a majority. The appeal to the committee on credentials from the decision of the national com mittee was abandoned, as it ought to have been.
 Michigan.
 In Michigan the state convention had in it about 200 delegates There were only two counties in dispute or contest. One was Wayne county, iD which Detroit is situated, and the other fx no avid left no doubt that the Taft men car ried by a very large majority Wayne county, but it was imma terial whether this was true or not, because, leaving out both Wayne county and Calhoun county. the only counties in contest. the Taft delegates outnumbered by several hundred the Roosevelt dele gates, and they had a 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.
 Texas.
 Tn Texas there were 249 counties, of which four have no county govern ment. The 245 counties under the call of the convention were allowed to have something over 1000 delegates, repre- senting them. who were given authot ity to cast 24S votes. Of the 245 coun ties there were ninety counties in which the total Republican vote was but 2,O00 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- ventiOn been held. It was shown that Colonel Cecil Lyon, to whom had been assigned as referee the disposition of the patronage of the national RepHb- lican administrat ton for ten years in the state, had been in the habit of con trolling the Republican state cOnven tion by securing from two federal of ficeholders in each of these ninety-nine counties certificate granting a proxy to Colonel Lyon or a friend of his to represent the county as if regularly conferred by a Republican county or ganiza ton. The national committee and the committee on credentials and the convention after the fullest investi. gation decided that these ninety-nine counties in which the Republican vote was so small and in which there was no Republican party. no convention. no primary, no organization. was not the proper source for a proxy to give a vote equal to that to be cast by the other 146 counties in which there was Republican organization and in which primaries or conventions were held. The two committees therefore held such ninety-nine proxies to be illegal and not the basis of proper rep resentation. The two tribunals who heard the case decided that they should deduct the ninety nine votes from the total of 245 and give the representation to those who controlled the majority of the remainder. The remainder was 152 votes, and out of that the Taft men had carried eighty-nine counties, having ninety votes. This gave to the Taft men clear majority in the state convention and with it eight delegates at large.
 WASHINGTON.
 The contest in Washington turned on the question whether the Taft dele gates appointed by the county com mittee in King county, in which Seattle is situate. were duly elected to the convention or whether a primary. which was subsequently held and at which Roosevelt delegates were elect ed. was properly called. so that its re- suit was legal. Under the law the county committee had the power to de