Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — CONTEST NOT BASED ON WIND. [ARTICLE]

CONTEST NOT BASED ON WIND.

The Cincinnati Enquirers Indianapolis correspondent says you should have another guess, if you are predicting that the contests the Roosevelt brethren are preparing in Indiana for seats at the Chicago National -Convention are being founded on hot air. They’ are desperately in earnest, and are hopeful of being able to overturn the acfioiT of the state convention and the reSult in several districts. It is admitted by

i -■ . . * I most of them that they won’t have much of a chance of winning, uni ; ess a majority of the National J Committee is favorable to the nomination of Roosevelt. They are go- ■ ing ahead with their plans as though they believe that the jury ■- not liable to be packed against them, .and that the third-term candidate will be able to turn the trick • eventually against Mr. Taft. rhe contest for the seats of the our delegates at large, which will be. held by Char > s W. Fairbanks and 11. S. New. o’ Indianapolis: Joseph D. Oliver. . >uth Bend, and’ James E. Watson, Rushville, unless he National Committee decides to the c ntrary, will be based on the following grounds: 1. That Senator Will R. Wood !of Lafayette, permanent Chairman of the state convention, refused to -recognize Horace Stilwell of An-' derson. who was tryihg to place in ' nomination the Roosevelt slate of ■ delegates at large. -• That the action taken by: [Senator Wood did not give the con-’ vention a chance to vote on rjval candidates for delegates at [large. i • I •J. That the <’red--ntials Commit-' t< ‘ was not organized fairly when! -it unseated the Roosevelt member i from the Sixth Di triCt; ' | 1. That the Credentials Com-' I mittee retused to hear any evidence! [from the Roosevelt contingent regarding charges of -: fraud in the Indianapolis primaries. j 5. • That the Credentials Com- ■ mitt* 3 threw out the vote of Monroe County, which was for Roose,ve t. and permitted the Taft delfrom Pulaski and Warrick i counties, elected as the Monroe (county Roosevelt delegates were, to [hold their seats in the convention. The e are the main contentions that will appear in the briefs nowbeing prepared by the Roosevelt side. The latter’s leaders maintain that they will be able to show jto any fair-minded committee that , Roosevelt actually had a majority . of the regularly elected delegates ' to the state convention, but that they were “road-rollered” out of their rights. i , Senator Wood asserts that no ’ candidates were submitted by the j Roosevelt element. He says that he waited on them to make their . nominations, and, none being made, ' he put the question to the <x>nvention to determine whether or hot the Taft slate should be adopted. , But the Roosevelt managers assert with much vigor that Mr. Stil- ■ weW, who has a v stentorian voice, almost paralyzed his vocal chords trying to gain recognition for the sole purpose of- placing in nomination Mr. Beveridge, Mr. Lee,- Mr. Campbell’, and Mr. Fred K. Landis.- 1 They cahnot understand hoW Senator Wood failed to see or hear Mr. Sitlwell, for the latter is a large person and very vigorous when .in a fighting humor. Mr. Stilwell, it will be recalled, was in a fighting humor on the day of the convention, although he once moented the platform and besought the Rooseveft contingent to soft pedal while Senator Wood was completing his eulogy of President Taft.

Mr. Stilwell probably will be a witness for the contestors and he may be asked to yell a little for the benefit of the National Committee in order to show how’ ftfr his voice win carry. The Roosevelt managers al o will present to the National ■ Committee the evidence of alleged fraud in„t Indianapolis and the record showing that the Roosevelt delegates in Monroe county ‘were unsealed, while the. Taft delegates', elected in the same manrer. were seated. ‘ 1

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