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2 CIG RULE PUT ON ROOSEVELT MEN Chairman Root Rules No Mi nority Credential Report Will Be Received. Continued from Page 1. 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 I / X A \ “Your summer suit, gentlemen, can be purchased to-day.” Never mind the money. Your credit is good at this store. Nice, cool, breezy, summer, 1912, clothing for particular men. Also summer clothing for women and children. All on credit. cjAlenter C&, Co. 71WHITEHALL STREET—UPSTAIRS ■ inis ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, J UNE 21, 1912. THE TEMPTATION OF MOSE S (50ME • / kA r\C fill -rS, i CAUJNC '«cI - ( MOSE' ' I &x /I ® & Jo'/ T / / y [ / / x - J L £27 / /jx - 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 Bargain Hints From McClure’s Greater Values Women’s Skirts, SI.OO $1.50 Values Xew shipment of Women’s Skirts. The lot includes Serge in all white and white and black striped; also white pique in the’diagonal corded effect. Stylish and attractive patterns. Others advertise the same kind of Skirts special OO at $1.50; our price *p*»vV* Children’s Dresses, 50c Up to $1.50 Values Special table of Children’s Ready-to- Wear Dresses, ages 6 to 14 years, suit able for vacation and picnic days. On special sale Saturday only, each W Bathing Caps, 10c Made of soft rubber, with elastic rubber band to ad just to head. 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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 FOR ADDITIONAL CON VENTION NEWS SEE PAGES 4 AND 5. > , q 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.” Then he said that the contention of 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 al district had the right to name its own representatives and that the na tional political law of the party de manded that each district should be represented directly. “The Republican rule.” he said, "dif fers from the Democratic rule where the state committee selects the dele gates is a.’ peculiar way and at a pe culiar time. “Afraid Taft Would Win Some Delegates.” "They were afraid that Taft would get a certain number of districts and LaFollette. would get a certain number of delegates and they had this law passed to make the election state wide. "Why shouldn’t a district elect its representatives ? Why don’t you elect ailllllll jlllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllHllllllllliWl SS i Combwy I '1 j = ICool Knit Underwear! ''■* - iiiiibi i.ii. mi rnmm ir-i n 1 Specials for Saturday! 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( "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.”