Show 10 EN SPLIT SPLITS S OF REPUBLICANS Knockdown and Fights Principal l Feature of Florida Convention WARM OF OFFICE HOLDERS TWO SETS OF DELEGATES FIN FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY ALLY SELECTED St Augustine Fla Fin Feb 6 Florida Republicans stand conspicuously in the limelight today as being the firs to tl hold their convention to select delegates to the national convention and it is IsaId said aId here that the strenuous and exciting excItIng exciting ing scenes enacted today are a forecast i dt 5 similar scenes in other otner southern states rotates caused caus d by the efforts being made by b the Republicans for control in the national convention Two conventions really were held hed at atthe atthe atthe the time in the same hall hail The progress of at business was frequently in interrupted interrupted by knockdown and S fights Office Holders in Evidence The Th office holders faction was called to order by the chairman of the state committee and they proclaimed them themselves themselves themselves I selves as the regular party but they lid did not succeed in carrying out the pre prearranged prearranged prearranged arranged program The Taft sentiment was too strong for the leaders to hold in incheck Incheck incheck check and resolutions were adopted endorsing William H Taft for the pres presidency presIdency presIdency On the tho other side of the hall hail i the contesting convention took conser conservative conservative conservative action and chose ChOS delegates delegat s un untrammeled untrammeled Untrammeled trammeled by positive as assurance being Joseph N Strip Stripling Stripling ling who led the movement that despite the fact that they were branded as bolt boIt ers by the other convention the dele delegates gates they named would be seated in inthe Inthe inthe the national nati convention Taft Their Man ManThe ManThe ManThe The office holders convention adopted resolutions approving the pol policies polIcies ides of the Roosevelt administration and the conservative manner manner In which he has carried them out and Instructed the delegates elected to th the national convention to support the presidents policies and the candidate who Is in sympathy with and who will carry out these policies and then proceeded to name William H Taft as such candi candidate candIdate candidate date The convention adopted res resolutions resolutions resolutions condemning In strong terms the attempts to influence and control by ly bythe lytho the tho use of federal patronage through governmental office holders the delegates to the national conven comen convention tion in the interests of any presidential candidate Delegates Chosen The office holders convention n elected as delegates to the national convention J N Coombs member of the national committee from Florida Joseph E B BLee ELee ELee Lee a negro collector of at internal rev revenue revenue revenue Henry S Chubb receiver of the United States land office at Gaines Gainesville Gainesville Gainesville ville M I B MacFarland collector of customs customs at Tampa and four alternates The convention elected as delegates Joseph N Stripling former United States attorney J Dev Haz Hazzard Hazzard Hazzard zard J H Dickerson B R 14 Robinson the two latter colored and four alter alternates alternates nates na tes The congressional district conventions of the First and arid Second districts of Florida were held by each faction im immediately immediately immediately mediately after the adjournment of the state convention and each of those con conventions conventions conventions elected two delegates to the national convention and adopted the same resolutions as the state conven conventions conventions conventions of their respective factions had al already already already ready adopted Plenty of Work for The Tn Th If city marshal mar hal and a dozen police policemen policemen policemen men Sere ere on duty dut in the hall hail and were frequently called upon to eject unruly delegates of both conven conventions con n were negroes The Taft Tart conven convention convention convention tion had bad a complete delegation from each county aggregating In the opp opposition convention there here were two or three counties not represented but about delegates participated parti The Taft convention nominated five presidential electors but the opposition convention delegated de legated the choice of elec electors electors electors tors to a U state committee named bj b J the 1 convention |