Excerpt from Party Platforms and Conventions, Together With Votes and Proceedings of the Republican, Democratic and Progressive National Conventions of 1912
The Republican Convention The Republican National Convention met at Chicago, June 18. Interest in the outcome, however, had been centred upon Chicago for about a week previous to that date, during which time the National Committee was occupied in hearing and deciding 252 cases of contested delegates. A few of these were contests of one set of Taft or Roosevelt delegates against another set, a few were of Taft delegates against Roosevelt delegates; but the great majority of them were cases in which Roosevelt delegates were contesting the claims of Taft delegates. The net result of the contests was the seating of less than 20 of the Roosevelt contestants. Some of the cases were decided unanimously, notably those of 12 of the 14 delegates from Alabama, and the 4 delegates-at-large from Indiana, in which the Roosevelt members of the committee voted against the Roosevelt contestants. In many of the others there was no roll-call, the supporters of the Roosevelt claims not mustering enough votes to demand one. Some of the contests were withdrawn before a vote could be taken on them. In general, the Roosevelt claims were supported in the committee by from 3 to 19 votes out a total of 53.
The first test vote in the convention was upon the election of the temporary chairman. Senator Root was proposed by the National Committee, and Gov, McGovern, of Wisconsin, was put forward by the Roosevelt forces. The result was: Root, 558: McGovern, 502. As 540 delegates constituted a majority of the convention, this vote showed that the Taft delegates had a narrow lead. The question was, could they hold it?
The next test was on a motion by James E. Watson, of Indiana, to table an amendment offered by Gov. Deneen, of Illinois, which provided that none of a list of about 90 of the contested delegates should vote on the membership or the report of the Credentials Committee, which was to pass upon the cases that had been before the National Committee. This motion was carried by a vote of 564 to 510, and all delegates were thus left free to vote upon all cases, except that, according to custom, no delegate could vote upon his own case.
Gov. Hadley, of Missouri, then offered a resolution barring a block of 72 delegates from voting on any case in which any one of the 72 was interested. This resolution was defeated by a vote of 569 to 477.
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