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Chairman Root Rules No Mi
nority Credential Report
Will Be Received.
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vote was challenged, the convention
was thrown into disorder. The Cali
fornians arose and shouted at the
chairman. Johnson was gaveled down.
Delegate Dye. of Indiana, protested
against the vote of his delegation on
the ground that the contested delegates
were voting on the other contests.
Hadley ’s Motion
Goes to Vote.
J D Wadsworth, Jr., of New York,
rose to a point of order. He was recog
nized. His point was that Governor
Hadley's resolution was in effect an
indirect method of endeavoring to
avoid a ruling made by the chair days
ago. He said the resolution, in his
opinion, was out of order.
Root said:
"The chair was notified of the inten
tion to offer the resolution. The chair
has been in grave doubt of his right
to entertain the motion for substantial
ly tin reasons stated by the gentleman
from New York.
"It would deprive delegates whose
seats are contested of any right to vote
on cases in which they are not con
cerned.
“For this reason the chair has been in
grave doubt of its right to entertain
the resolution. It is so evidently in the
interest of the Republican party, how
ever, that the chair has decided to per
mit the resolution to go before the
convention.”
Delegate Watson, of Indiana, then
moved that Hadley’s resolution be ta
bled. Hadley’s resolution follows:
"Resolved, That in the vote upon the
adoption of the minority report of the
committee on credentials that the dele
gates named In the list attached hereto
and whose names are on the temporary
list of the convention, but whose seats
are contested, shall not have the right
to vote in this convention until bls
right to sit in this convention Is de
termined under the terms of this res
olution"
The vote of Maryland was challenged
as to accuracy and the chair directed
the calling of the roll of state dele
gates. The result showed an even split
—8 and 8.
There was great intersst in the New
York vote. The report of the vote was
challenged and the roll was .-ailed.
The New York poll showed that the
original vote as announced. 76 to 13,
was correct.
Moves to Table
Hadley's Motion.
James E. Watson, of Indiana, moved
to lay upon the table a motion of Gov
ernor Hadley to substitute the report
of the minority for the majority re
port upon the seating of delegates from
the Ninth Alabama district.
Governor Hadley asked if the tabling
of the other motion had not carried
the majority report with it.
“It did not," ruled the chair.
There came so much noise and stil in
the galleries that the chair directed
that order be restored under penalty
of having the police clear the galleries.
"The question is on a motion of the
gentleman from Indiana to lay the res
olution of the gentleman from Mls
soulr on the table." said the secretary.
"A vote aye is in favor of the major
ity report. A vote no is in favor of the
minority report.”
Another call of states went on.
When Idaho was reached, site swung
■into the column of the Taft folk, and
■the delegates of the faction let out a
ripping yell ns the 8 votes were re
corded.
Maryland could not let her vote get
by without a fight. After a challenge
from a delegate, the list of delegates
was called. She voted 8' ayes and 8
noes.
Wisconsin Swings
To Taft Column.
Then Massachusetts, which had al
ways voted 18 to 18. got mixed up in
a wrangle and iter vote was challenged,
but the challenge did not shake the
deadlock and the vote remained thd
same.
New York added one vote to the Taft
column and dropped one from the
Roosevelt list, showing 77 ay es. 12 noes
and 1 absent.
Oregon gave one more vote to the
Taft column than she did on her pre
vious vote, which was 5 to The vote
was challenged and the ’oil called. It
resulted * ayes. 4 noes, and the Taftltes
applauded the gain.
The biggest break of the convention
came when Wisconsin switched 25
votes to the Tuft column
She had voted solidly against the
majority report on the former ballot
The reason given for the change was
that Wisconsin desired to sustain her
member of the committee on creden
tials.
William T. Dovell, of Washington,
came forward with the Arizona report.
The details of two meetings held on
May 15 were read. Each of these
meetings, ran the report, sent along
delegates to Tucson June 1. whence
came the two contesting delegations.
The majority report seated the Taft
delegation.
"I move the adoption of this report,
and that it be substituted for the ma
jority report," said J. J. Sullivan.
"I move that the motion of the gen
tleman from Ohio be tabled," said
James E. Watson, of Indiana.
‘'hairman Root put the question and
F.ancle J. Heney, of California, de
manded a roll call on the question.
William Flinn, of Pennsylvania, sec
onded the demand for a roll call.
Heney cast the vote of California
■■nd started a bit of horst plav with a
delegate from New Hampshire, who
started to guy him. He announced
with relish:
"California casts 24 votes no, 2 not
voting."
Idaho and Wisconsin
Swing Back to T. R.
Idaho swung her pendulum-like
votes back to the Roosevelt column
and the vote of Maryland was chal
lenged.
Massachusetts lost one Taft vote
because of the refusal of a delegate to
vote. The vote was yes 17 and no 18.
The loss was made ||p when New
Mexico switched one vote from the
Roosevelt to the Taft camp.
There was a loss of four in Oregon
to the Roosevelt host due to the fact
that the delegates were not in the
hall.
Virginia gave Roosevelt a gain of
two votes and the vote was challenged.
The challenge was withdrawn.
This time Wisconsin swung back to
Roosevelt with 26 noes.
W. Prentiss Parker, of Massachu
setts, asked leave to put bark the lost
Taft vote which was missed because
of hia absence and his vote was re
corded “aye," restoring the statuts.
Governor McGovern, of Wisconsin,
announced that Delegate McGhee and
himself wished to be recorded as vot
ing no.
The steam roller went the rest of
the journey toward seating the Ari
zona delegates by a viva voce vote,
adopting the majority report of the
Credentials committee.
Delegates Seated
Without Roll Call.
It required only -40 minutes to get
through Arizona and Dr. M. N. Lan
drum. of Montana, presented the ma
jority report seating M. B. Burrow and
S. A. Jones, for the Fifth district of
Arkansas. Both of these men belong
to the Taft faction. The majority re
port held that the contesting Roosevelt
delegates were named at a “rump''
convention which was called without
authority.
Governor Hadley offered the minor
ity report which was designated by
Chairman Root as a “statement of
views of the minority members.” It
was identical with the Alabama protest,
including the protest against the right
of members of the credentials commit
tee to sit after they had either served
as members of the nhyonal committee,
which heard the original contests, or
had themselves the subject of contests
as to their right to sit in the conven
tion.
Janies E. Watson, of Indiana, moved
to table Governor Hadley’s motion to
substitute the minority report w'hlch
promptly followed the reading. By a
vote taken without roll call the con
vention decided to adopt the motion
to table and then accepted the major
ity report without a calling of the roll.
The contest was settled in twelve
minutes and It was the first upon which
the Roosevelt people did not demand
a calling of the roll.
There were seventeen other contests
to be decided and the precedent of dis
pensing with the roll call was taken
as an indication that the action upon
the remainder of the list would be
swift.
Another little recess was taken wait
ing for something from the credentials
committee.
Two minutes before 4 o'clock the big
gavel in Chairman Root’s hand de
scended heavily upon th® official ta
ble.
All of the delegates sat up and took
notice as W. T. Dovell. of Washington,
came to the front with the majority
report of the committee on credentials
op the contest from the Fourth Cali
fornia district, where two Taft men
were seated by the national commit
tee.
The 24 Roosevelt delegates clustered
together to discuss the advisability of
bolting if the credentials committee
and convention upheld the national
committee.
The report called for the seating
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of E. T. Tyron and Morris Meyerfleld.
Jr.. Taft delegates, over Wheeler and
Bancroft, the Roosevelt representatives.
It was stated that In the primary elec
tion Tryon got 10,570 votes to 10.240
for Wheeler and that Meyerfleld got
10.531 to 10,209 for Bancroft.
The committee reported that the
state committee In California had no
power to supersede the ruling of the
national committee by resort to a state
law. It war, held that the. supreme court
of party law was the national commit
tee.
Hugh T. Halbert, of Minnesota, pre
sented the minority views. He called
for the seating of Charles T. Wheeler
and Philip Bancroft, declaring that the
majority report was deliberate attempt
to thwart the will of the people of
California expressed by 77,000 plural
ity at the primary election.
“Such an outrage has never been
perpetrated.” began Halbert, when the
chairman stopped him. Halbert moved
to substitute the report of the minor
ity for the report of the majority.
Mr. Watson, of Indiana, moved to
table. Mr. Watson said
"I desire to make a motion in re
gard to this contest, coupled with a
request. You have heard the majority
and minority report on the contest. I
now move to lay the motion to sub
stitute the minority report on the ta
ble. But on account of the principle
Involved in this contest I ask unani
mous consent that 20 minutes be given
each side to argue the question."
The California delegation was on its
feet shouting and howling. Chairman
Root came to the front pf the stage
and said:
"Gentlemen of the convention, the
gentleman from Indiana asks unani
mous consent for debate on this ques
tion. Do we have such consent
Heney Opens
Debate on Report.
Objections came from a New York
delegate but it was withdrawn, and the
chair announced that Governor Hadley,
of Missouri, would control the time for
argument for the Roosevelt people,
while Sereno Payne, of New York,
would marshal for the Taft side.
Hadley yielded to Francis J. Heney
to start the row, saying that Governor
Johnson was unavoidably absent at the
time.
Heney said
“The question involved In this case
Is one which goes to the very root of
self-government. It involves directly
whether the people of a sovereign state
may decide for themselves how they
shall select delegates to a national con
vention and on top of that there is
the additional question whether, after
a state has passed a law, their will
may be overthrown. If the president
of the country has agreed to the pro
visions of a state law and loses by 77,-
000 shall the delegates be allowed to
crawl out and the state be robbed ?
“For 44 years California was gov
erned just like Pennsylvania by a ma
chine owned and operated by a rail
road. Two years ago the state threw
off the machine. It wrote into its con
stitution as a mark of its new freedom
the initiative and referendum and the
recall.
"Such things as that startle such dis
tinguished persons as he who presides
over this convention as revolutionary.
They startle such people as Big Steve,
of Colorado.
“Treason If Taft
Accepts Those Votes.”
"The California present election law
has a provision that the delegates may
pladge themselves to vote for the can
didate receiving the highest vote. It
is true that the men did not pledge
themselves. But that does not suit
this case. They could not have been
on the ticket at air unless they made
affidavit that they would accept the
decision of the state-wide vote.
"They did make affidavit. But not
only that; they could not have been
put on the ticket after that unless
President Taft indorsed their affidavits.
And he did. If their votes
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A point of order was made by Wil
liam S. Vare, of Pennsylvania, that
Heney was not confining himself to the
issue.
"The gentleman is not yet over the
line to a point where he will be called
to order,” said Chairman Root.
Heney raised his right foot and step
ped over the plush-covered rope that
bounded the platform in contemptuous
pantomime.
’’Now it is claimed that two men.
Tryon and Meyerfleld, received the
highest number of votes in the Fourth
congressional district,” he went on.
“The secretary of state has certified
that nd man on earth could tell who
received the highest vote in the dis
trict because the state had been re
districted. though the election was held
tinder the old assembly district law.
“Certificates and affidavits of register
and the secretary of state said this was
true. In the two congressional dis
tricts the Roosevelt men had the most
votes.
"No one on earth except the 38 ma
jority on the national committee or
the majority of the men in the creden
tials committee, whose seats were part
ly stolen could determine this mat
'elHeney said that the two Taft dele
gates did not dare sit in their seats in
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the California delegation. They were,
he said, on the platform.
Sereno E. Payne, of New York, was
applauded by the Taft men as he de
fended the action of the committee.
The opposition, led by California, hoot
ed him.
"I desire a patient hearing.” he be
gan, “and I shall try to confine myself
to the issue, except in one instance.
“Gentlemen, this is why these two
gentlemen seated by the committee
have not been seated with the dele
gation t instead of on the stand. The
governor of California and chairman
of the - delegation took the convention
tickets for these men and put them in
the pockets of the two men who had
no right to sit in this convention."
He recited the vote of the several
candidates and the Roosevelt forces
hooted him. They groaned and cat
called until Chairman Root came to
the front of the stage.
Meyer Lissener, of Los Angeles, stood
in his chair in the California delega
tion and called “Liar, liar!” to the
speaker.
Root took command of the situa
tion.
“Gentlemen who ( refuse the same
courtesy to this speaker that they gave
to Mr. Heney,” he said, "may rest
assured that no Republican cause was
ever won by groans on either side of
the question. Mr. Payne resumed:
“I am going to talk my full 20 min
utes and if you seek to drown my voice
1 will finish my speech if it takes four
hours.”
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the Roosevelt people sought to substi
tute state for national rule in the con
trol of the party. He read from au
thority to show that each congression
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own representatives and that the na
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LaFollette. would get a certain number
of delegates and they had this law
passed to make the election state
wide.
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representatives ? Why don’t you elect
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gation.
“The Republican national convention
has nothing to do with that,” replied
Mr. Payne.
Mr. Payne read the call for the con
vention, demanding that the electors
should be chosen by the districts, and
he added:
"That is the Republican law, and
when you seat those two men from
California you are voting to give these
districts the right to be represented
here.”
“Stand by the Time-
Honered Principles.”
He pleaded with the convention "to
stand by the time-honored principles of f
the Republican party,” and was ap
plauded and hooted as he left the stand. /
James Watson then spoke. (
"The question before us is one that
presents a principle. In California at
a preferential primary a majority of
the Republicans voted for Roosevelt
delegates in the Fourth district at the
same primary a majority voted for
Taft delegates.”
Meyer Lissener cried: “You can’t
prove it.” Watson resumed.
"I have the certificates filed by the
registrar, showing that the Taft dele
gates received a majority in the dis
trict. Before the contest in the nation
al committee, it was never denied that
these men won.
"Can the majority of the party in
Los Angeles, no matter how big it may
be. name the delegates from San Fran
cisco?
“I speak for the right of every dis
trict to name its own delegates. Our
friends held a primary. They wanted
to get near the people and it is the
people of the district who should say
who shall be their delegates.
“Gentlemen, this is no better than
the unit rule. And unit rule by pri
mary is no better than unit rule by
convention." He was applauded as
he closed.
Governor Johnson was applauded as
he came to the front of the platform. e
Governor Johnson said: . •
"The question involved in this con- '
test far transcends any contest over
the particular test of two delegates. K
strikes at the very rock upon which
Republican progresslveism is founded
in the United States.
Johnson Throws
Challenge Down,
“The question is the one that will
have to be settled in November —shall
the people rule? (Cheers.)
“While it may be a shock to my
friends from New York they might as
well recognize that the revolution is
on and that progressiveness Is sure to
triumph.”
