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Show taft and sherman 01 hbct ballot i ROOSEVELT DELEGATES REFRAiN FROM VOTING AND CONTEST IS ONE-SIDED. j Roll Call Shows Only 243 Delegates Supporting Policy of Former President, Presi-dent, While La Follette Gets f! Votes, Taft Receiving 561. Chicago. William Howard Taft and James Schoolcrat Sherman ate the regular Republican nominees ff '. president and vice-president of tht-TJnited tht-TJnited States. Following a long and arduous ses sion of the Republican national con vention, President Tuft was renominated renomi-nated at 0:25 o'clock Saturday night, and less than an hour later Vice-President. Sherman was renominated by the convention. Roth nominations were ninds on the (list ballot. Senator T.a r'oiiette's in a prolonged outburst lor' t.,,.ir can didate. The nominating of candidates fol , lowed the adoption of the platform re i ported to the convention by the plat-i plat-i form committee. This platform favors a protective tariff, but says that there should be some reductions, declares I that the recall of judges is unnecessary, unneces-sary, favors treaties with Russia and other countries to protect American citizens abroad, promises an inquiry into the high cost of living, and urg-os laws to increase the safety of ocean travel. i, The reading of the Roosevelt statement, state-ment, asking his friends , to take n; part in the proceedings, was the one dramatic incident of the day. A demonstration dem-onstration occurred which lasted at least twenty minutes. Utah's eight voten were cast for . President Taft. Arizona, Colorado, , ' Wyoming, Montana and Nevada dele-I dele-I gates were also a unit for the president, presi-dent, while seven of Idaho delegates ; voted for Cummins and one for Taft. : Washington cast fourteen votes for : the president, Oregon eight for Roose i velt and two refused to vote. Two o" ; California's delegates voted for Taft, while twenty-four refused to vote. ; President Taft received 561 of the 1,07S votes in the convention or twen-t3"-one more than a majority. Sher-! Sher-! man s vote was 597. ! The decision of the Roosevelt people peo-ple under direction of their leader, to refrain from voting, left no other candidate near the president. The ' announcement of the ' Taft victory j was greeted with cheering from his ; adherents and groans and hisses from the opposition. All others dropped from the race and Mr. Sherman was the only candi date for vice-president regularly I placed before the convention. A mo-! mo-! tion from New Hampshire to make the j nomjnation by acclamation was de-! de-! clard out of order. There were many : scattering votes on the rollcall that : ensued. The revolt of the many Roosevelt I de'egates in the convention was open j from the moment the permanent roll containing the names of contested delegates was approved. A "valedictory" "valedic-tory" statement was read in behalf of Colonel Roosevelt asking that his name be not presented and that his delegates sit in mute protest against all further proceedings. A great majority of the Roosevelt delegates in the Illinois and all in the Missouri and Idaho delegations declined de-clined to follow this advice, but Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt's sway over delegations delega-tions from California, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wes't ! Virginia was all but absolute, j Most of the delegates from these ! states announced their purpose o( j . ) , r J i&w;afti WILLIAM H. TAFT. if Jll I w wC 111 Hon. James S. Sherman. name was the only name presented to the convention for the presidential nomination besides that of Taft. Sherman's Sher-man's was the only name presented for the vice-presidency. A motion made to make his nomination unanimous unani-mous was objected to and a rollcall ordered. The vote for the presidential nomination nomi-nation was: Taft, 5G1; Koosevelt, 107; La Follette, 41; Cummins, 17; Hughes. 2. Present and not votin?, 34S. Absent, 2. The vote on the vice-presidential nomination was; Sherman, 597; Borah, 21; Merriam, 20; Hadley, 14; Beveridge, 2; Gillette, 1. Absent, 71. Not voting, 352. The convention adjourned at 10:29 p. m. There were two exciting features of the long session, which began at 10 in the morning and continued till nearly midnight. Two hours before the nomination of ; Taft the personal boom of Theodore 1 Roosevelt gave its last expiring gasp. in a twenty-five-minute demonstration. I The second incident was a near riot in the Massachusetts delegation pre ! eipitaled by Chairman Root. ! When the delegates from the Codfish state, their minds made up to have no hand in! the matter, refused to vote when their names were called, Root ordered that the names of the alternates alter-nates be called. This caused a near riot in the Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts delegation, but presently I they quieted down and voted. They lost four votes, but they gained one point of more importance. Chairman Root did not again during the rollcall insist on the call of alter nates. Once or twice they were called" but they never voted against their, principal's desires. Votes were cast for Colonel Roosevelt, Roose-velt, La Follette, Cummins and Hughes, although only the names of President Taft and La Follette were presented to the convention. Many of the Roosevelt men, following follow-ing the instructions of Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt sat silently in their seats while the votes were being cast, taking no part at all in the proceedings. Walter O. Harding of Ohio presented present-ed the name of the president to the convention John Wananiaker and Nicholas Murray Butler were among those who made seconding speeches. M. I!. Olbrich of Wisconsin made tho chief nominating speech for La Follette. Fol-lette. Big demonsl rations followed the presentation of each name. Earlier in the evening the Roosevelt forces led j helping give Mr. Roosevelt an infle-1 infle-1 pendent nomination at another ball later in the evening. I Immediately upon the formal an-j an-j nouncement by Senalor Root of thu ; nomination of President Taft the roll. call for nominations for vice-president was announced. ! J. Van Vechten Allcott of New York I nominated Vice-President Sherman and C. Tyson Kratz .of l-'ennsylvant i nominated Boise Penrose, bill received no second.. There were no other nom- j inations. I The roll call resulted as follows: j Sherman, New York, 597; Governo ' Hadley, Missouri, 14; Senator Borah, j Idaho, 21; former Senator Beveridge, Indiana, 2; Charles E. Merriam, Chicago, Chi-cago, 20; Howard Gillette. Chicagc, 1; not voting, 352; absent, 71. Idaho' : eight, votes were cast for Governo.' ! Hadley of Missouri. A resolution appointing Senator j Root chairman of the committee tn notify the president of his nominatio'i and naming Thomas Devine of Colorado Colo-rado chaiiinan of the coinmir.'.ee i i notify the vice-president, was adoptc-l while the delegate:; hurried from Ihu hall. |