El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-19

7 returns were made up by the officials
without even opening the ballot boxes.
There was no contest in that dis
| trict," shouted English wildly, waving
his fists in the air
The Lie Exchanged.
William HOlton Dye, Roosevelt
delegate in the Indiana delegation,
shouted at English
The latter yelled back: Liar, liar,
liar" and started toward Dye. Other
members seized the two men and kept
them apart.
So mucn disorder had occurred in the
galleries that the chairman ordered a
recess until all who desired to do so
could leave the building.
The delay tOtaled Il minutes and
then Record resumed his argument at
lacking the right of the contested men
on the Indiana delegation to sit in the
convention.
Morrison. of Arizona.
Robert z. Morrison. of Arizona, then
spoke in defence of the Taft delegates
from that state.
Morrison's description of the row"
made by the Roosevelt forces in the
Arizona state convention caused much
merriment. He said the Roosevelt
people at the end of the convention
marched out of the hall.
"Bolted." called a voice from the
floor.
Yes and we remained and passed
every parliamentary move that was
Colorado Man HOOted.
The next speaker was Thomas H.
Devine of Colorado, a member of the
Taft forces and slated for chairman
of the committee on credentials De-
vine sat in the session Of the Republic
can national committee as the repre-
sentative of Colorado.
He declared the Il protesting mem
bers Of the committee had listened to
their masters voice and signed
statement, the contents Of which they
did not know"
Turning to the southern contests.
Mr.. Devine characterized the action OF
the Roosevelt men in stirring up
those contests as "a damnable piece OF
business.
There were grOans and cheers at
this, and thereafter Devine was con-
stantly in trouble with his audience.
During Devine's denunciation of the
southern contests. someone yelled that
his statements were not true.
y on say they are not true- ne
shouted. But 1O1 contests were
thrown from the committee uncere-
mOniously."
Root Threatens a Texan.
w H. Featherstone, Texas dele
gate. kept yelling at .Devine. This
aroused the ire OF senator Root He
walked to the front of the stage again
Gentlemen Of the convention he
said 7 don't know whether you want
to hear what is said on this serious
subject, but l want TO say to you,
pointing at FeatherstOne) that, dele Z
gate or no delegate, If you don pre- I
serve order, the sergeant at arms viii /
be directed TO put you out
Root was loudly applauded-
Devine concluded with q defence Of /
the national committee, which brought '
a great chorus Of ''bOOhs' and Kisses
from the Roosevelt sympathizers.
Defends Lyon.
The crowd at this Juncture began to 1
call for Hadley.
c. c. Littleton, of Texas, a Taft dele |
gate, and a brother OF representative |
Martin ". LittletOn, of New York, was
introduced by governor Hadley, to say !
q word of defence for Cecil Lyon.
Lyon has built up an organization /
in Texas against which the gates of i
hell cannot prevail" he said as he /
concluded.
John D. 1Iackay "a Taft delegate at 4
large from Michigan asserted that the /
people were neither open or 4
fair minded in their consideration OF :
the contests.
A round of applause greeted Jas E /
Watson, who concluded the argument !
against the Hadley motion. From the I
gallery came a-shout Of "Hooray for
Sunny Jim"
watson asked whether the delegates /