Five Flinn Delegates Desert.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 21, 1912:
Refuse to Go to the Roosevelt National Convention.
Special to The New York Times.
    PITTSBURGH, July 20.— William Flinn will be the lone Bull Moose National delegate from the Thirty-first Congressional District. Charles F. Frazee, who was Flinn's running mate and who sat with him in the Chicago Republican Convention, notified Flinn to-day that he would not attend the third party convention at Chicago on Aug. 5. The desertion of Frazee was a shock to Flinn, for Frazee owes his prominence in politics to Flinn as much as State Chairman Henry G. Wasson does.
    David R. Johns, Samuel C. Jamieson, William H. Coleman, and Judd Bruff also announced to-day that they would not bolt the Republican Party. Bruff was unheard of when Flinn ran him for Sheriff and elected him, and no one expected Bruff to cut away from Flinn.
    This leaves three of the eight Allegheny County delegates who will sit in the Roosevelt convention. Flinn will be there. So will Richard R. Quay, son of the late Matthew Stanley Quay, and Louis P. Schneider.