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Show uo TEXAS COLONEL IN REPLY TO TAFT Sherman, Texas. Aug. 3. Colonel Cecil A Lyon, chairman of the state Republican executive committee, today to-day made public a reply to the White Ho'use statement relating to President Taft's nomination T-he Lyon statement state-ment deals with the selection of Texas delegates to the national convention. con-vention. "Respect for your office," the statement state-ment read, "precludes such an answer an-swer to your statement on the merits of tho Chicago contests as would bo mndo bv me to any other citizen of the United States. "Referring to the Texas case, T will say that your statement as to the number of counties of Texas Is correct, cor-rect, but practically the entire statement state-ment of facts concerning the Texas cases is incon-ecL" Colonel Lyon denlod he had been In the habit of controlling the Republican Re-publican state convention by securing from the federal office-holders in ninety-nine Texas counties a certificate certifi-cate granting a proxy to Colonel Lyon or a friend of his to reprosent the county, as if regularly conferred by a regular Republican county convention. conven-tion. oo |