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2 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNL, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1912.
BOLT ARRANGED
BY ROOSEVELT
FACTION CHIEFS;
Seeing Thev Have Not Votes
Enough to Control Conven
tion, They Decide on
Radical Action.
(Continued From Page One.)
physical fight begin on the floor of the
convention, and thou carried to the platform-
Alabama hus born picked to statt the
skirmishing:, with the rough and ready
hut unseated TtXtOI behind Colonel Cecil
. Lyon to do the reul storming when
the signal Is given.
iul in the melee Senator William ft.
Rorh is apon the programme to snateti
the gavel from the Blender hand of the
diminutive Victor Ilosew&ter, and take
control.
Borah Opposed to Rough Work
It ia hut f.nlr to Senator Horah to state
that he if Opposed t" thnt programme.
He kdvleed against II In the Roosevelt
Olincil Of war t ti t k I t .
vii itor Roaewater Is to be import-mi.
only as the chairman- now- of the na
tional committee. He will give the or
ders for the Tuft forces, but he will
not try to enforce their,. A higher, and,
tn any physical contest, a better man,
la to b on the job for that particular
J purpose,
Rosewater, by custom, Is to call the
convention to order and he in command
unto h temporary chairman i chosen
Bol he l to he only the vocal chair
man: the rcHi acting chairman is to he
Barman P. ScTiuetUer, assistant chief
f police of lilcago.
it win not tie front Rosewater, hut
from Sbhuettler thai Borah will have
td snatch the gaveL And SchuetUer. he
it unVjsstood, a. the hero of th Hay
ma rice I riot. He is six feet and seven
inches tall and weighs pounds in !
flfrlitltiK condition.
SchuetUer will have a( hie hack and;
around him If""' picked plain clothes men. I
At the doors there will he five hundred
uniformed men listening for his whistle
And aiding and abettinc will be a force
of assistant sergeants-at-asms so big
that till hands are ashamed to mention
the number
Force Intended.
There is the schedule of the primar
len for the first battle. And when the
time comes the Rooseveltians mean to
force the fighting.
The battle If it cOmes, wilt start even
before the election of a temporary chair
man Is attempted, it will be over the
makeup of the convention.
Coflonel Roosevelt's demand if this
That the delegates Against whom his
forves have decided there Is a real con
test, shall not be given seats In the con
vention. He contend! that they shall
not have a voice In the election of the
temporary orpanlaztlon and that the
states they represenl shall not have
members on the credentials committee
Those r!er rntes tiumher seventy-eight,
which in to say that out of the 354 con
tester seaU". in addition t) the nineteen
Roosevelt delegates seated seventyelghl
others were steam rolled by the national
committee.
if the colonel can throw out those
seventy-eight Taft men he will control
the convention and the credentials com
mittee. He will be able to defeat Root
for temporary chairman, place his own
men on the permanent roll and nominate
himself without bolting.
And that is what Be means to do if
force can accomplish his purpose.
Hadley to Begin Fight.
Five minutes after the convention Is
cuiieri to order the fight will start. Pol
lowing the prayer by Father Callaghan,
and the reading of the call of the na
tional convention, Governor Hadley of
Missouri Is to offer n minority report
from the national committee members
who w ere road rolled, demanding that
Die seventy-eight delegates in contest
shall not be allowed to ta.ke part in the
proceedings until the convention Is per
manently organized.
Rosewater will rule the report out of
order, and Hadley will appeal front t ho
decision and demand a rolicail.
The call on the first state Alabama
win bring on the riot Two seats from
that state for 'lie Ninth district are
among the seventy-eight Rosewater and
the whole Taft crowd will Insist on their j
right to vote, the Roosevelt forces will
legist, the uproar Will be starter and In I
its midst Borah Will grab the gavel and
take command. That is 'he Roosevelt'
scheme, as coolly planned its a naval
demonstration has ever been planned by
j hoard of strategy.
Plan Is Roosevelt's,
And so determined Colonel Roose- j
Veil to carry out that plan that he has
jelven to Governor Dnn?n as the alter
native to accepting his share of the bur
den Of currying It .ut. Ih ultimatum
that he. Roosevelt; will put an indepen
dent candidate for governor of Illinois in
(he ftel, against Deneen and beat him
for -;., tinn. And the Illinois delegation
battled for eigiu hours todaj over th
quesUon of whether the would accept
tne Roosex eit plan without amendment
Let It be understood thHt BO close s
the count of noseh by the Rooseveltians
themselves that they regard the consoli
dated co-operation of Illinois as essen
tial to the SUCCeSS of their plans.
And when the eight hours' struggle in
the Illinois delegation was ended, no
.-ran was sure just what that delegation
win do when It get on the floor of the
convention.
Governor Deneen claimed that no more
tnan eight of th flf tv-eight would back
sway from the fil! Roosevelt programme.)
Th Roosevelt -instructed but Taft -hearted
members Insisted they would have at
least twelve and perhaps twenty to op- 1
pOSe the Roosevelt S' lieme of taking vio
lent control if peaceful domination I.- de
nied. Texas to Lead Battle.
But it is Texas that is to lead the
real battle, when the time comee for
force. The twentj -six unseated support -ot
Colonel Lyon will lead the rush.
The colonel is to see that they get seats
In the convention and he Is not afraid
but thai they will come when he whis
tles if they can.
There are other details of the Roose
velt plan. First of all. the doors of the
convention hall are to be stormed, if
that -an be effected. A mob is to howl
m the entrances, force, crowd and in
timidate, if the Roosevelt men are. not
rernvltted to enter.
Rut anyone who sruesses that the Taft
leaders have made no preparations to
tOp the Roosevelt battle plan is mis
taken. They are the best of all pre
pared to meet force. The fifjfi police and
the unknown number of United States
- hals Is the answer to any demonstra
te. n with arms or fists. N'o detail In
their preparations to head rft any erup
tion ; that sort has been overlooked.
GEORGIANS IN LINE
FOR THE "PRESIDENT
CTTI"AGO. June 17. Twenty-six of
Georgla'6 twenty-eight delegates to the
national convention, including all the Df
gioes. went on record for Taft at tho cau
cus of the delegation today Clark Grier
and ,T. II. Boone, both white delegates,
served notice that they Intended to dis
regard tiie instructions and vole for
Roosevelt.
Pe-veral of the negro delegates heeame
to disorderly while Mr. Boone, who is
I j .
SOME SKETCHES OF CONVENTION NOTABLES
Study them carefully and you can easily pick out the men who are fighting tor
and against the strenuous man from Oyster Bay.
postmaster at Hazelhurati Ga., was ex
plaining why he would vote for Roose
velt, that Boone lost his temper and called
the disturbers "a bunch of infernal scoun
drels." The negroes Advanced on Boone
whereupon he picked up a chair and lilted
it menacingly into the air. Peacemakers
separated the combatants and Boone re
tired. Later he returned to tho hall and
apologized to the chairman
Henry Lincoln Johnson, recognized
leader of the twelve negroes on 1 he dele
gation, said he thought Mr. Boone also
owed an apology to those men he had
designated as "scoundrels ' BOone em
phatically declined to apologise
The tesi of the relative strength of Taft
and Roosevelt In the delegation came on
a resolution that the chairman cast the
delegation's entire vote as a unit for Taft.
J. C Styles, -I L. Fererson and S. H
Bllncey, Whose names were attached to
the letter made public last night by
Roosevelt headquarters, voted "yes."
The three admitted privately that they
had signed the letter under the misap
prehension that the state leaders had gone
over to Roosevelt.
While tiie caucus was in progress cries
of "throw him out; lie don't helong in
here.' came through the door
A moment later the door opened and out
came a negro wearing a Roosevelt badge,
propelled by 8 dozen willing haids. The
nesrro was Dr. .7. M, Lewis of Chicago,
who said he was looking for Grier to tell
him that he had located A. N', Fluker, one
of the delegates Injured In a wreck early
mday Orler had claimed that Flnker
was friendly to Roosevelt and that the
Taft forces were trying to hide him. The i
Taft supporters denied they had tried to
hide Fluker.
Delegates in Accident.
CHICAGO, June 17. More than a score
of men and women, among whom were
members of the Georgia Taft delegation
to the Republican national convention,
were injured today, some seriously. In a
collision between a Pennsylvania passen
ger train and several empty coaches in
the .cards of the union station here Two
locomotives were partly wrecked and
windows in several of the coaches were
shattered-
PROTEST IS MADE
TO THE PRESIDENT
CHICAGO. June 17. At a mass meet
ing of uncontested Roosevelt delegates,
called together after 11 o'clock tonight,
a thousand -word protest was wired to
President Taft against "the announced
intention of Victor Rosewater, cilalrman
of the national committee, to allow the
contested delegates to vote on their own
cases."
The meeting was attended by all who
could be drummed together at the late
hour and all were Invited to sign the
document.
Mr Taft Is asked to use the weight of
'
hie influence in this crisis to prevent euch
action hy Mr. Rosewater. It is claimed
by the protestants that there are about
seventy-nve delegates who are generally
regarded as not honestly entitled to vote
in the convention. It Is urged as con-'
itrary to justice and to parllamentar v law
that these contested nelegateg vote on
their own case... "They will In effect n
vote.' says the piotext, "If they vote on
the temporary organization of the con
vention." The protest proceeds:
'A nomination h a convention so
mad? up could not command the respect
of the American people. It is our desire
to appeal from the biased, factional de
cision of a national committee, a ma
jority of whose members have been re
pudiated by the Repunlican voters to the
000 uncontested delegates who repre
sent the Republican party today.
"We are threatened with 8 denial of
tiie right to make that appeal. This
threat will not be carried out unless you
at least tacitly consent to it. because
the majority of tho national committee
assume to be working under your lead
ership." Most of the contested cases are thrn
outlined to the president, partlculai stress
being laid on those from Texas, Washing
ton nnd California.
The telegram concludes:
"These are but samples, Wo are will
ing to siihtnlt these cases to any court,
to an arbitration board, to the lion un
contested delegates, or to any tribunal
except the beneficiaries of the fraudulent
decisions of the national committee In
our opinion the rank and file of the Re
publican party will neither tolerate nor
support a nomination made by delegates
seated In this fraudulent manner. In
this crisis in the history not only of the
Republican party, but of free govern
ment will you remove this blot from
the Republican party, by calling on your
supporters In this convention to disavow
this action of the national committee?"
ELECTION OF ROOT
NOW A CERTAINTY
CHICAGO. June II -That Senator
Root will be ejected temporary chairman
of the national convention immediately
after cpnverilnc; tomorrow was asserted
'.onlght after a meeting of lepresenla-
tlvea of practical ail state delegatUons.
The meeting was attended by the
chairman of each of the states having
a Taft delegation and by a representa
tive of the faction favorable to Mr.
Taft in states where the president Is In
the minority.
Representative oimstead, the parlia
mentary adviser of the national commit
tee, told the conference that no proceed
ing legally would be permitted tn inter
fere wtth the election of a temporary
chairman as the flrat order of business
after the prayer and the reading of the
call. '
After the meeting adjourned Mr.
Barnes gao the press ihe conclusions
arrived at.
"Mr. Root will have ninety-two ma
jority over all," be said, and added
"Theae arc rockbott.on figures. They
have been prepared after a thorough
canvass of the delegates
"N'o other business will he transacted
until the organization is completed This
Is In the line of wall known parliamen
tary practice and any attempt to devi
ate from it will be for the purpose of
creating disorder to deceive ih- pub
lie" Strong Protest.
CHICAGO, June 17 Members and
member.'-oleci or the Republican national
committee and four state commit tet
chairmen, thirteen in all. .n a public
statement today denounced the action of
the national committee in making up the
temporary roll call of the national con
vention. The proteetania who signed the protest
were Ilcnrv PJ. Wesson, chairman Penn
sylvania Republican state committee;
Walter y. Brown, chairman Ohio state
committe, . Rorden F Whiting, national
committeeman-elecl of New Jersey; Wil
liam .llen White, national committee-mam-elect
Of Kansas; Meyer LlSBner,
chairman California Republican state
committee and national committeeman
elect; R. B Howell, national commlttee-man-elect
of Nebraska; Thomas Thorson
national committeeman of South Dakota;
i. A. Caswell, national committeeman
elect of Minnesota. Thomas H. Neighb
haua, national commltteeman-elect of
Missouri; Richard Pearson national com
mitteeman of North Carolina; George C.
Pristley, national committeeman of Okla
homa; William Seymour Edwards, na
tional committeeman of West Virginia,
and Frank Knox, chairman Michigan
slate committee.
Thr statement follows
We denounce (lie fraud by which the
discredited majority of the Republican
national committee R8JI made up a tem
porary rojl of the national convention,
and we deny the right 'f the committee
to make a roll that might result in a
nomination that Is effected by dishonesty
and trickery. We desire to serve notice
on the committee and on the convention
thai the rank and tile of our party never
has permitted dishonesty In the party
machinery to be a test of partj regular
ity' Strenuous Reception.
CHICAGO, June 17. Colonel Roose
veil's reception to the Roosevelt delegates
and alternates todav was the most stren
uous experience he has gone through
since he reached Chicago.
SevOraJ times before the apparently
endless string of enthusiasts had passed
him, he cried out. "Not another man;
not another one."
I fe beean the hand shaking with ylm
and enthusiasm, but after a half hour
of it perspiration was roiling down his
face, his Voice was getting weaker.
Once he flashed out In another indig
nant protest against the action of the
national committee of the California
contested delegate case. He declared
"thcro was never anything like It."
"That's the kind of action that makes
revolutions," he exclaimed.
Three flashlight photographs. taken
within ten feet of Colonel Roosevelt,
helped to increase hlb nervousness and
make the long procession more than his
patience could endure. Finally he de
clared :
"Hold the line as 11 is and I'll pass
along It."
Policemen did the best they could to
hold 1t, and the colonel, with a bodyguard
of policemen and plain clothe? assistants,
was hustled to the hack end of the room,
up a private siair cas,- and around
through the hotel corridors to the room
of the Illinois delegation, where an "ex
perience meeting" was being held be
hind closed doors.
As Colonel Roosevelt was forcibly pro
pelled Into this room policemen pushed
the crowd back, blocked progress down
the stairway and stopped every one. Th,
declaration Of the guardian of the Illinois
headquarters, that "only Illinois delegates
could get in." dispersed the crowd tern
porarily.
Lineup in Illinois.
CHICAGO. June 17 At a second cau
cus tonight, forty-one members of the Illi
nois delegation voted to support any can
didate for temporary chairman presented
by the Roosevelt faction It was assumed
thai the candidate wotid be Senator Ho
rah. Six voted in favor of Senator Root,
four did not vote, and seven were absent.
Preparing for Bolt.
CHICAGO, June 17. The Oklahoma
delegation today recognized the possibil
ity a bolt nnd In caucuses by a vote of
IS to 2 defeated a resolution binding lt
aelf to support the nominee of th con
vention for president and vice president.
Trams to Saltair every l- minutei
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TJancinjr at Salt Palace tonight.
BATTLE BEGINS
AFTER OPENING
PHERIS MADE
Governor Johnson of Califor
nia Promises Lively Time in
Republican Convention as
Soon as the Blessing
Is Asked.
BY EDWARD H. HAMILTON.
By In tet national News Service.
CHICAGO, June 17. "If there. Is to
be a prayer, that prayer may get
through In peace. But after that
the fighting will begin at once."
So declared Governor Hiram W,
Johnson Of California this evening when
asked how soon the clash would come In
tomorrow's convention. The governor
smiled in glee at the thought of combat,
for cine Johnson dearly loves the fray
the wading in With both fists- the punch
ing of heads fof course In metaphor! and
the. knockdown and dragout of poll
tics. "Will California lead the fisrht?" was
a natural question.
"I don't know that California will lead
the fighting,'1 was the reply, spoken re
luctantly and regretfully, as if the apex
of fhe scrapping wfldge was the position
in which the governor lotfged to be.
;N'o, I don't know that we will lead the
fight, but you cap say that we will fight
fOr our rights from tiie start to the end.
We will have our I went J -six ---ote.9 solidly
count ! '
"Then will Uabams lead of in the
Roosevelt firing?" I Inquired, trxing to
gei the plan of battle agreed upon.
Refuses to Give Plan.
"Aa to the plans for the contest, I am
not at liberty to speak." replied the gov
ernor, "hut everything after the prayer
will he fought over
"How do yon think the convention
stands for 'he balloting?"
"There Is no man in Chicago tonight
who knows that," put In Framis J.
Heney, who was with the governor.
"That s JUB( about the situation," as
sented Johnson. "N'o man ran say how
the convention stands between Roosevelt,
and Taft or between the progressives and
the conservatives. Tomorrow we will
get a teat Until then all is guess work
and uncertainty."
Meyer Llsaner, chairman of the Re
publican state ,-entral committee and the
new national committeeman from the
state, was very busy todav In circulat
ing a protest agalmst the aetlon of the
national committee In seating so many
Tafl delegates and unseating so many
Roosevelt oien Finally, lie issued the
following denunciation, Signed as repre
Committee Attacked.
We denounce the fraud by which
the discredited majority of the Re
publican national commit tee has made
up a temporary roll of the national
convention, and we. deny the right
Of the committee to make a roll that
might result in a nomination that Is
effected by dishonesty and trickery.
We desire to 5rve notice on the
committee and on the convention that
the rank and tile 0f our party never
has permitted dishonesty In the party
machinery to be a test of party regu
larity. (Signatures i
HENRY E WA8HON,
Chairman Pennsylvania State Com
mittee WALTER BPOW.V.
Chairman Ohio Ctate. Central Com
mittee. BOHDEN" T. WHITING,
National Committeeman -ejeet of N"ew
Jersey.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE,
National f'ommitteeman of Kansm
METER LI6SNER,
Chairman California Republican Stat
Committee and National r0mmit-tedman-elect.
R R. HOWELL,
National Commltteeman-elect Ne
braska .
THOMAS THoRSON,
National Committeeman. South Da
kota. L A. CASWELL.
National Committeeman Minnesota
THOMAS K. NIEDRINGHAl'-S
National Committeeman, Missouri
RICHMOND PIERSON, j
National Committeeman. North Caro
lina. GEORGE E. PRIESTLY.
National Committeeman, Oklahoma
WILLIAM SETMOUR EDWARDS
National Committeeman. West Vir
ginia. PRANK KNOX'.
Chairman Michigan State Central
Committee.
Called on Roosevelt.
The Callfornlans made a call on T R
in the morning and shook him by his
moist, engaging hand. Then that dele
gation Issued its statement of Its own
case against the national committee put
It in printed form, sent It to everv dele
gation and appointed missionaries to
visit those delegations supposed to be
wavering or unfriendly and ask them to
stand by the fai- western state n tu
effort to kep Its delegation of twenty"
Six Intact under t!i, leadership or -T,-,y
ernor Johnson.
Meantime Morris Meyerfeld Jr the
Orpheum circuit man one of t)-,e tn.
Taft delegates seated in place of Tharlec
B. Whaeler and Philip Bancroft, has -ir
lived on the scene. He 1 not full of
fight and bludgeoning, but very mlldlv
says he will take his seat In the dele
gation and cast the vote.
"Well, you're going right Into the
deputation
proves valuo. Tested throughout
Ihree gpnerations known the
world over as the most reliablepre
ventiveand corrective of stomach,
liver, boavel troubles so unequal
crl reputation has been pecuml by
BEECHAM'S
PILLS
Sold everywhere 'a boxen 10c. 25c
midst of a hard light, ' I said to him
at tho Blackstone.
"Oh, 1 am a man Of peace always a
man of peace," he said with a smile.
'What do yon propose to do m this?"
"Oh, I shall ro in and take my seat.
Then I shall cast my vote That Is nil.
I am not going to hit anybody or call
anybody name" '
"Where's E. ii Tryon, your col
league?" "He was to have heen here today but
now I understand he Is not coming until
tomorrow. But we'll both tie in Our
seats.'
Will Ignore Taft Pair.
The Roosevelt Callfornlans will en
tirely ignore the presence of Tryon and
Meyerfeld There may even be an ef
fort to put Wheeler and Bancroft in the
seats of the two Tnft men. In any event
Wheeler and Bancroft will be In the
seats of t lie alternates ready for any
emergency.
The "slide' to Roosevelt that seemed
to he starting yesterday did not gather
snowball increasing proportions to.ja
There were claims of converted dele
gates mostly negroes and counter
claims that the conversions had not
taken pla-r
But there was less thrill, less excite
ment, less singing and marching than
on previous davs. The Roosevelters hot
tied their enthusiasm for the big meet
ing at nielit. and iher never has been
any Taft enthusiasm at any stage of
the play So the day before the ble: flchl
baa been generally voted stupid, vacant
and forlorn
Tomorrow, what? Perhaps some
broken heads. perhaps a bolt and the
splitting of the old Republican party.
Certainly much throbbing of hearts and
straininc of voices in one of the greatest
conventions of all American history.
California's statement of her case for
the Roosevell delegate was prepared
by Assemblyman C C. Young of Berke
ley, former Mayor Clinton T.. White of
Sacramento and Francis I- Heney, law
yers all. Then Chester If Rowell of
Fresno, editor, was commissioned to boil
the work down to shape. When all the
work was done, this was the way the
case In the Fourth district was put be
fore the delegates:
Issues in California Case.
The national Republican commit
tee has refused to recognize the cre
dentials of the secretary of the
State of California as to two of the
elected delegates front that state on
the ground that the law Of Califor
nia provided for the election of all
the delegates bv the state at large
Instead of electing part of them at
large and part of them by districts.
At the California primary election,
there was. as provided hy law, one
group of twenty-six candidates run
ning' at larice aF Taft delegates
These candidates were not segre
gated on the ballots by districts and
all of them were voted on by the
voters Of the entire state AM the
candidates for delegates assented to
this law, by qualifving to run, and by
running under It, and the candi
dates for presidency personally
assented to It, by filing over their
signatures their approvals of the
lists of delegates running under their
respective names. President Taft
was the first candidate to thus send
in his approval and thus became a
pj.rty to the election under the pro
visions of the law.
The Roosevelt delegates were elect
ed by majorities averaging over 76,000
and their ejection was accepted by
everyone In California, including the
Taft con. mi ttee, the Tnft newspapers
and the- candidates themselves. Cer
tificates of election were issued to
them by the secretar of state, which
are the only certificates Issued to
or presented by any claimants from
( alifornla. Subsequently a contest
against two of the elected delegates
was Inspired from outside the State
and the national committee, on that
contest, has unseated the two dele
gates named in the contest and has
seated the two defeated candidates
named as contestants
Three of the Roosevelt delegates,
Hiram W. Johnson. Charles S. Wli"il
er and Philip Bancroft, were resi
dents of the Fourth congressional
district, comprising roughly, the
northern half of the ity of San Fran
isco. Three of the Taft delegates,
Abbie S. Krebs, Morris Meyerfeld
Jr.. and E. H. Tryon were likewise
residents of the Fourth congres-donri!
district though. like all the Other
candidates, tney were voted on in
the whole state at latge.
District a New One,
The congressional dis;rlr-L i?, a new
district, but the election was held
under the law in the old precincts
It happens that the new district line
cuts through the middle of fourteen
precincts, m which 165S Roosevelt
j votes were cast. In these precincts
Ik, r. , 1 1 J . .
rne rnree Kooaeveit candidates for
delegates who resided In the district
received votes and the three Taft
candidates received 883, t?sr. and 885
Notes respect tveh .
The registrar of voters, in making
up his nrst returna to the secretary
of state, arbitrarily divided the votes
in these border precincts between the
two congressional districts, and the
secretary of state, mistakenly- sup
posing the returns to represent the
ascertained vote In the two districts
taaued a certified statement that the
tWenty-StX Taft delegates had re.
eelved majorities averaging about 50
In the fourth district. Both officials
Biihsequen-lv discovered th3lr mis
take and rescinded their certificates
and affidavits from them were pre
sented to the national committee,
showing that it was impossible "to
determine which candidate received
the most votes within the boundaries
of the Fourth district. The whole
city of Fan Frnncisc,-,. comprising the
Fourth and Fifth districts- the
Roosevelt candidates received VOteS
averaging 21,600 and the Taft candi
dates vot.-.s averaging 18,250
Settir.er aside the law of California,
the national committee arbitrarily
chose two of the three Roosevelt
delegates who lived In their district
and unseated them, and as arbitrar
ily chose two of the three Taft can
didates who tesided in the district
and seated tiiein. it will be seen that
the decision was based on neither
law nor fact, since It was In direct
repudiation of the law and had no
facts other than guess Work as to
the vote and arbitrary selection as
to the two Individuals.
Says Contests Law.
Tt will he seen that the contest was
not against the election of those
delegates, which was undented, hut
against the law Itself and the right
of the state to pass It
The law passed the mate legisla
ture by unanimous vote of both
houses, it was accepted by all
parties and factions. All candl
dates ran under Its provisions and
all the votes were cast under It No
attempt was made by lh" Taft tac
tion to conduct a primary In any
other manner, and no protest was
made against the law. In fact the
law was expressly accepted, In writ
ing, bj the Taft organization and hv
PTeaidenl Taft personally To repu
diate It now is plain ' welching" on
their pari. They should not h.ie
submitted their case to the election
if they did not Intend to abide bv Its
results.
The law itself was the result of
the deliberate Judgment of the h-gls
lature and the people of California.
It was their opinion that since the
BREAK mil
OELEGATIONWD
PLANOFWl
Said to Interpret njffll
1(1 M Ho Must Vojiw
T;,n Iy on FirsifcA
W ILL OPPOSE R0o A)
TEMPORARY CHjAc
Senator Smoot ChosegAios
man of Delegation
James M. PetersooEw
Richfield Secretanllhe
By F. V. TITZ GftirM THE
Special I i The Tribune Hfe
Cure AGO. 111., j,1Dt ,. Ci
'n. T-niM Fhjm
and Jamea M p.tHat
The r.n V alternnte fln, "mtt
and In his plaee u,. w,,; Mi
en Burner X. Smith of fait7BlN
Taft ,,,,,-,. wrj ,hcJrtli
'he yandmrr c,-,-nrri(.,s 0,miri.
tlon b - th. t ,.ih rj.!, "BM?
William Spry repr' A
credential.--. -ommlKo, i'
Joseph Howell on th,: comr.'i'JM J'
manent organization. f.-..5"pftzs '.
ator Sutherland r,r '
resolution, -, ,.; u-r .h-jsTjU1
the c-.rn nut t-o on rules ijijB
business.
Smoot to Notify NomimjB
t 'nitod States S-iuto-r Rifc W
represent rui, f.n , : v; ::,,JN ra'
fv (he successful caniMatf ?)MW,!
of his nmr; ln.it,.-,- th Jfc ''-'(
tor Gr-orge Sutherland wP! IjJ "
like service fnr the vlc jsW"1'
nominee. Colonel C. e. LooB
animonslv or .-fa, g mJRP '
nation-,; . .m:v it te from l'ttl lm'
Ix)cse Is a -.ire: sr Rooj;v)t J
and he ar-n.-cjv.-J ,i.3t in (flL -the
re-nomination nf PntsMiistHW'
"'""i'd resitn fi-f.ni ti: r.atltTtfBljD '
tee. Ie declared, li'iwrner, lB
was the nominee of the connHjcne
would work for his ekrlloo.m, ((Vl
not i-o-isi.-io-.-,ti; ,r on thHjit,,
enmmille under the rlf'-UMaHljiim
How Loose Will Vote.
Colonel Loose will vott mi
nomlnati - i .f Tut on ''-yfcnp
iot hot j-.-.-. I.,-, 1,1 . v.'.;i not
on ar.v .-'ik-, ,-r-j mc hilloL foisK,
will otr. for the teni.noratjt ,
Iiosr n l,y ti... R.i' S"V,-;t fidBj
other ?('Voi .Ir.lrC-H.los 1
stronc Co- T.;fl; ami will "'tmyj,
tor Root fo. icmp'T.iry chL'tifm
C R Holllnsraworth of F'Tj,
l-.ccn chosen a an h"norarr Sbto i
dent of the convention. w:y
Will Get in Hall.
The following reiddJil itmi tn
been appointed Scrge.inlS-UdBl! all!
the Republic;, i national pvui:
llairc S Joseph. E. U. CaJUMbctu
Ml',...;, l Tool? m, B In m
Moront Heine.-, ci,.r.vln K JB tit
M. As !' wn ariM :
lin Am. .lie !hf otlvr r?a!eB5
In ntteiidan.-e;..i I '"L'BPPt E
fessoi Kiioch Jo-rK(-r.fC".
son. Keith M rtenaen,
Ma i'd Mi'- Pabcork, f'MtBte
Gardner. S-Jendricksoc, to
a ltd re- so Ti-"'iuc. K
OV-'at- fti..u ,HPHM
I;, in at i A!fBTOlr
- Olotiel -v-rJg -r
!n the yP'!t
.''.PT'5"'
i,e w'" the 1-..r:v.;n;i.rr. I.BntJjip
I r.,-'rc-s who flrota PJ
'who 'lemnaw !JW
we: "p'a'.-srd fore inj 'qJ
From' 'the languags .f.JE,.
lejepraphed hy c,";?Kbi2?
Rents th e on the comaWjA
understood fTh -dK!'
la. '' However. II is .P" -
fn" Th n ttWTADD'
e be?-n ln
Question at Issue. Ife;;
menLor"th',Vf'Tl fSK
what I hey r-l'' ' B
How. he 1" L KiD
-: '
'ifiHotfB
ir'ne' pu' :;; ' r yi.'
Hse 7hnAnUncan fffuW
tht i-'-c-y;;'- rlvthetj
tlonal contention i Iff fBBSP
nominee l.ls JObJP''
thr.'.w ,ha! ' , Pk M
HThcnsSSsS
on tomorrow nd then ljSjMH
of the doma lr
.roun-.h or to iMSaiT
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" It ' sWaR
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