Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-18
DELEGATES ARR|V|N G
Advance Guard Already at
Chicago.
SUBJECTS DISCUSSED
ACTION IN THE WISCONSIN CASE
APPROVED.
Some Protest Against the Selection Of
Cortelyou-A Compromise Sug-
gested-1nteresting Gossip.
Staff Correspondence of The Evening Star.

June morning, as June mornings are known
in Chicago, a steady stream of vaisse-
laden delegates to the republican national
convention poured along Michigan avenue
today and became engulfed in the big
hotels on the lake front. This was the
advance guard of men who order things
done. Tomorrow the men who do things
and who utter loud shouts will begin to
arrive, bringing bands and banners and
high silk hats and consuming thirst But
first the men who order things done must
have their innings, meeting together in
committee rooms and fraternizlng in the
lobbes the Forakers, the SCOTS, the
Spooners the Lodges and Paynes and 9TH
ers Of the national leaders. So last night
the immense lobbies of Auditorium Annex
looked like annex of the United States
Capitol, thronged as they were by states
men and half hundred newspaper corre-
spondents from Washington The senators,
representatives and national leaders form
ed little groups in corners with their heads
together in close confab, then breaking
up and minglng with the crowd that
surged through the brilliant halls, were
women In evening dress looking on, and
so into the great Pompeiian hall, where
fountain plays under colored lights and
ten score men and women sit around lit
tie tables and walters come scurrying with
bottles and trays.
Three Subjects Talked About.
At this stage of the proceedings the ad-
vance guard talked mainly of the three
subjects. the Wisconsin muss, the vice
presidency and the objection to Mr. Cor
telyou being made national chairman.
There are mischiefmakers on hand, too,
who are busily engaged in putting the drop
of gall in the overflowing chalice Of good
will and good feeling which the national
convention will hold out to President
Roosevelt. There are whisperings and
backbiting, and that too, in quarters where
the President would be surprised to find
unkindly sentiment. 1t was naturally to
be expected that this convention would be
lacking in enthusiasm. The orderly con-
currence of republicans on candidate and
platform in advance of the convention
would tend to reduce demonstrations. The
Presidents enemies-and no man will deny
that there are those in high places in the
party who are unfriendly-are assiduously
circulating the impression that the lack Of
enthusiasm Is due to codness toward the
head of the party. There will certainly be
a fly in the ointment If these gentlemen
topic last night was the outcome of the
first round in the Wisconsin fight. The La
Toilette faction were knocked clear over
the ropes. They are coming up somewhat
groggy, but still game and full of fight.
They will get all the fight they want be-
fore they are through with 1T, the other
fellows say.
Three Happy Men.
loI;ol 81
Senators Spooner and Quarles and Repre-
sentative Babcock as they received the con-
gratulations of their friends when the ma
tional committee had unanimously decided
after a one-minute executive session to
give the Spooner men recognition on the
temporary roll. The rotund figure of Mr..
Babcock seemed to expand several inches
as he beamad in the crowd, and Senator
Spooner was "a cocky and as springy as a
game rooster Us he ruff1ed about the corri-
dors with an air that seemed to say II you
haven't had enough, come at me again
The national committee made short wor {
of the La Toilette people. Governor La Fol-
lettes crowd went into the meeting with
considerable tluster. Their attorney, Mr.
Chenworth, went SO far as to express rear
of the outcome of the election in Wisconsin
next fall, IL the La Toilette faction were not
recognized. What do you mean by that,
said Senator Scott, "are you trying to blum
the national commttee?' The attorney for
the La Toilette faction parried the thrust
without returning 1t.
Senator McComas, one OF the nauonai
CON mitteemen, said after the meeting that
the committee was unanimous from 'he
simple fact that 1t was plain the spooher
faction had possessed a majority Of the
TO he IA NJ
vention and were entitled to recognition.
He added that the La Toilette people con-
victed themselves by their own statement
and exnlanation. The Spooner factions pro-
gram is to carry the case to the supreme
court Of Wisconsin, on a mandamus direct
| ing the Secretary of State to put the
Snooner ticket on the official ballot. They
are confident the court will decide In their
favor and will argue as a precedent the
| South Dakota case several years ago, when
| under similar conditions the South Dakota
supreme court held that the recognition OF
| n ticket by the national convention shouId
| be accepted as fixing the party status OF
| contesting delegates.
La Toilette and His Followers.
| Governor La Toilette and his followers
were undaunted by their defeat before the
that defeat that surprised them was the
| unan,mity of the vote seating the "stal-
wart" delegates. They Immediately planned
| to carry the fight into the committee on
credentials and from there TO the floor
| of the convention.
| But whatever the decision of the conven-
| ton may be, the battle will be resumed In
| Wisconsin, first through the legal channels
| TO be followed in such cases ana resound
| at the polls The La Toilette people claim
| that the regular state convention is the su-
| preme authority to be recognized by the
| court which would place the electors at
| the heads of their ticket. The La Toilette
| people claim that three-fourths off the re-
publicans will vote their state ticket and
| that therefore the electoral ticket would
| have more strength II it is combined with
those names
Secretary of State Houser, Gov. La Fol-
| lette's chief lieutenant said after the COM
mittee had thrown them out:
THE national committee has perpetrated
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