Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — PARTIAL REPORT MADE BY CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE. [ARTICLE]

PARTIAL REPORT MADE BY CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE.

22 Taft Delegates are Seated; Tea Oat Of 72 la Hadley’s List Are . Approved. Working slowly through the list of contested delegates referred to it by, the republican national convention the credentials committee had up to 2 o’clock this morning seated 22 Taft delegates. This included 12 from Florida, against whom the Roosevelt forces made no contest and who were seated unanimously. Ten of the 72 contested delegates included In Gov. Hadley’s list of those whom he claimed the national convention “unfairly endorsed’’ were approved, —.' Perfect harmony prevailed in the committee throughout. The. Roosevelt members advocated passing the Florida, Georgia and other similar oases, but the Taft members of the committee Insisted on re-opening each of the cases passed on by the national committee. . Under the order of the credentials committee,, all of the Indiana cases were re-opened, although the two delegates from the Thirteenth ‘district were the vmly ones involved In the Hadley-Roosevelt charges of unfair action on the part of the national committee. The Roosevelt members on the national committee had voted for the Taft delegates at large from Indiana. The contested Indiana delegates included- four delegates at large and two each from the First, Third, Fourth and Thirteenth districts Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, who was one .of the Roosevelt delegates at large, and who lost in the contest before the national committee appeared as council for the Roosevelt delegates for the Thirteenth district. He charges that the Taft forces repeated votes in the Indianapolis primaries. The session today has been devoted to the further consideration of the credentials committee’s report.