Show HE t TRUTH T H U T ABOUT i THOSE DELEGATES P roosevelt alt contests InS ad to deceive ite tho pubic AIL ALL BUT 74 WERE ABANDONED the contest tu in ashington asb Ington turned on the question whither the taft dele entes tes appointed by the county com I 1 ga in alag 16 ing county la in which battle scat tie Is situate cro duly elected to be I 1 conven convention tiou or whether a primary was subsequently held and at IV hibb delegates aare elect ed was ws w s properly called so that its result ans legal under the law the county committee had the pot er to do ile cide whether it U would select the delegates directly or should call a primary in somo some of tho the late one course was pursued and in n other chuu ties the other in ling iong county the committee comm attee consisted of men tho the majority of whom were for tart tar and that majority acting through it its 4 ex aree autive committee elected selected he the tatt taft dele gates to the state mean slean time the city council of seattle had bad re districted the city it before had precincts pow the same territory was divided up into precincts fhe chairman of the coulty committee rai ra a n lie ila bad had beta bet a elvin authority by general to HI fill reca vacancies ucles occurring in be the committee A general meeting of the committee had bf been en held after tha the city council bad had directed the redistrict ng ot of the city in n which it was resolved the chairman not dissenting that representatives could not be selected to fill the new uri ud til an election was hold in to september 1012 1011 2 thereafter and IQ in spite ot of this conclusion the niumea the right by his bin appointment to add to tue existing committee pue precinct corn com and with tt jacw botin voting lu the commuter committee it Is I 1 claimed that a mary N w as ordered there woe so much confusion in the meeting thit that this it doubtful however the fact Is that the tau tait men protested against any action by a con ailtee so constituted on the ground round that the chairman hal no authority to appoint the new committeemen they refused to tall take part in the primary maryv nud aud so sn 0 1 the la follette men the 0 deport cd ed the of votes in th li xilma almary ry to be over 3 the velt by the number to be G out oc of a usual total u vote of 75 the action of ur the chairman chair mau ot of the committee in attempting to add precinct V elcinet el men lo 10 the old committee was of courie ie I e yond hia his power the revolution reo lution theorizing thor izing him to fill vacancies t course applied ont to those placed which became vacant after W bwy y had been filled and clordy did to new precincts it could not 14 it the nature oc of things apply to a aze from the old system to a complete akif system ot of precincts created by las tire city 1 council because it they wernae were to bo be filled the entire number of new precincts different from the old must bo be filled one system could not te ina mada do into the other 1 b a add lional ot of committeemen no laver will rily ay that such action by the committee thu constituted was legal therefore the n alan which tho the lawful of 10 to tool OL in electing taft dele delegates gatei who made a majority in the state convention nn As the only one which could be as valid CONTESTED DISTRICT N ALABAMA ninth district the muth alabina contest turned on the question whether the chairman of 0 a diet let committee lud had power to fill vacancies vac andu whether a committee man mart who had bad sent his to take effect only in case he was not DOI present belius present should be e prevented frota from acting na as committeeman and third on the identity of 0 another committeeman the written reola lion tion under which the light tight of the chairman to appoint to vacancies wa was claimed showed on ita its faige that the tho specific authority woe was written in la in dIl different weding and different colored between the lines A humber of 0 affidavits were oled filed by commIt trott ahn were present when the resolution nn was passed to ellow show that the rcola HOD tion contained no ach such authority thia this gave rie to a location of 0 tact fact upon which a very laiso majc ity of bobb the national committee and mhd com on credential held told that the lead pencil insertion wa was a fl gery that the chairman did not hive ibe me aa au therefore to appoint ts t the vacancies and therefore the action oi ok his hl committee was not valid abu made it vece sary to lolet J ct the contest a ait aitt itt the committee decided the two our oter ou r issues of 0 tact fact before them tn in fator af the taft contention althou although ab the first decision dc llon wn wag conclusive An KANSAS fifth Dittie fc in the ruth arkansas the question was oae one fit at the identity of one action faction or the other as a the mn party this a condolon followed the example of the convention o 0 of 0 1903 la in holding hoklin that what was known sis the redding faction waa was not tha the publIcan Ile party that it way a defunct organization and anti had bad only buly lle life at 4 e end at each loor four year tears for the of aa it aa 10 aba ati nall eatn nj a the v era rei rejected act it w was shown how that the other or taft bad had been la in active existence aa as the lie Ile publIcan party bad had nominated local ticket and bad had rua run a congress mau california fourth district te fourth california presented this question under the elate state law the delegation two from cich etch district was elected on a general la in a group of tw twenty allty six cach delegate might cither either express bis his presidential pre prefer once or agree to vote for tho the ti till il candidate receiving the hinbest number in the sate vate in the fourth district tho the two from that district on the taft ticket expressed n preference Ile ference for laft but did not agree to vote for the candidates bar ins thi the highest tate late vot mp these taft in tho the lourte district received a m of 1 more than the 1100 evelt delegates in that district the u cibil forbade any law or the acceptance of any law which it the election of delo dele gates by districts distrI ets in to other words the call of tho the national convention was at variance with tee the state law the state law bought sought to enforce the state unit role rule and required the whole hole twenty st it V delegates Ls s to be voted for all over the state assigning two to each dis arfet on the ticket to bide abide the state wide election atlo the republican convention convent lon has insisted las isted upon the unit of the district since I 1 asso that har been tho the party lav law this conven tion recognized the barty law and anti held it to bo be more binding than that of the abat i law and ani allowed the two delegates who had elred in the th fourth di district a vote larger than their two assigned to that to become in the convention this w clearly lawful for a R state has ha no power to limit or control the basi of representation ut of a Tol voluntary tary national party in a national convention the fact thai that president taft by telegram approved all the twenty six dele antes as representing him Is 1 said to be un an estoppel against his claiming the election of two of those delegates in their fount district what Is there inconsistent lo 10 his the can of all bis his delegates and the eli ele alor of two of them why should he bo be th chuff estomo to claim that part of toe tie hw lim was wai inoperative because in to with the call of ot the convention INDIANA district in to the thirteenth indiana there was no question about the victory of the laft wen because tho the temporary chair s lun lau representing the taft side was conceded ron ceded to hive hire h ire been elected by one naif balf a ute rote more then tle this one halt half vote extended through the riotous proceedings and although though ul it v as not nit wide as a barn coor it was enod enough h 11 be ch nirman put ali question ns to elect electing lag the taft and after continuous object jn in lasting three honre declared the vote 1 roosevelt mn thus pre rente cl I 1 a rol toll call and then bolted KENTUCKY seventh district in n tle the seventh kentucky 1 district dist rilet the vote rote of the convention was 1156 luiere wire contests from four clun ties involving ninety ore votes rotes ac cording to the mice rules of the party in kentucky where two seats of creden bials are presented those delegates nhjose credentials are se approved proved by the county chairman arf ri entitled titled to pal pat ticie ite in the temporary on the roll the taft chairman as ns elected by ninety eight votes and forty even votes were cast cost for the candidate the committee on credential tal as then appointed con bitting of one member named by each county delegation the majority report of the committee was adopted by the convention no del e seats scats mere contested being permitted to vote on if its own case As soon as the majority report of bf the als committee commit ee had been adopted the adherents bolted there vas not the slightest reason for sustaining the contest for or Boo roosevelt sevelt cugh district the elath kentucky district was cora etl of ten countice cs having votes of which eighty two were betes eary sary to a choice thena the was no con test in clr of the coundi coun count leq fi and at al it 11 duh the men calmed that hero there ft as one tu in spencer enty no canles conies was presented alast the stating of p the regularly elected taft dele tic from that county this gare gave tie raft de delegates leates eighty four votes or two tuo more than were necess for or a choice lo 10 other words assuming assum lu that tte Ito ovelt met meg vere verc entitled to all ill ho e delegates from the counties la in which they filed died coil tests in tho the dis 1 brict convention there remained a clear majority of delegates who i toted voted for tho the taft delegates to chiago I 1 Re register gisler I 1 i u itis register re I 1 mamber that jou yon cannot vote unless ofir namee names appear up ou on lie the regist rallon lists R daya days are nil all I 1 in october a bellowe nel allos lowe 80 15 29 5 and |