Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-13

HARD TO DOWN
LAFE YOUNG ONLY IOWA DELE.
GATE ON GROUND HAS
THOUGHT OUT MANY REASONS
AGAINST loWAM's SELECTION.
rBy J. K. Dougherty.1

lby j. Il DOugnerCy.i
Chicago. June 12.-(Special) SEQ
retary Taft will get 780 votes on the
first ballot.
This was the statement made by
Arthur 1. Vorys, the original head of
the Taft boom, when seen In his
suite at the Annex just after the word
had been received that the actual Taft
strength had been increased to $40.
And Mr.. Vorys does not seem to
be putting it much too strong. When
the national committee last night re.
ported the list Of contests then settled
the situation boiled down was like
this
Taft votes ...---...-.-... B10
Other candidates ......-......- 212
Remaining votes ....--........ 258
Total .--.--..... .--......... $50.
The only question remaining then
Is not whether Taft shall be elected,
but how large shall be his vote on
the first ballot. And as the situation
Is viewed right now in all quarters
but the bailiwick Of the allies the
answer to this last question may be
reached by substracting the vote ins
structed for the other candidates from
the total vote of the convention allow.
ing for a few scattered votes that can
not be herded into the Taft band
wagon. These votes will be few, too,
as the stampede Of the uninstructed
to Taft when 1t was announced he had
sufficient strength to assure him the
nomination was SO pronounced that
several additional seats were put in on
the band wagon to accommodate the
newcomers.
President Roosevelt has given 1t out
that Taft will have TOO on the first bal.
lot. This Is also the prediction Of
Manager Hitchcock of the Taft boom.
But Vorys' 730 may prove to be still
closer guess.
The Vice Presidency.
With the presidency settled beyond
has been tackled on all sides. The
result is that the vexing question is
not nearer solution, but, on the other
hand, has been made more compli.
Gated, by the launching of few add.
tional booms. Fairbanks, Cortelyou
and Dolliver were the only men the
early delegates and party leaders on
the ground would consider for this
some of the large eastern delegations
a few booms from beyond the Allie
ghanies landed in town with both feet.
Then the trio became sextette with
Governor Curtis Guild of Massachu-
setts, James A. Sherman of New
1 York, and John Hays Hammond OF
Massachusetts, as the new members,
and the sextette became double
quartet when the Washington delega-
| tion came in with Senator Samuel II.
Piles as it's vice presidential candi-
date, and Missouri arrived to press
the claim Of Senator William Warner.
In the same manner the double quar-
tet may be increased to a full male
choir when some Of the other delegar
ttons arrive.
DoIIiver Boom Hard to Down.
But no matter how the delegates
face the music furnished by the vice
presidential songsters, one thing IL
certain-Jonathon P. Dolliver will be
heard singing off the key. Doliivel
doesn't want the nomination, his
friends don't want him to have the
nomination, and the Iowa delegates
will fight to see that he does not gel
the nomination, so it Is certain that
there will be a loud, discordant note
. II an attempt is made to stage the
Dolliyer boom in the convention.
4 Lafe Young, the only Iowa dele
gate on the ground, has thought on,
about 800 reasons why Dolliver should
not be forced into the vice 2residenc,
against his wishes and he is repeating
just as many of these 999 reasons 4
every man with vote in the conven
tion as these men will listen to. Hi.
valient efforts have had their effect
but the Dolliver sentiment was 8,
strong that it would not be downet
, altogether. Senator Dolliver is doinl
,, his part handsomely. He has beer
warned that there Is danger of
. stampede il he should appear in tn,
convention, and not only is he not az
|. pearing, but he is keeping under cove
$50 closely that a score Of telegram
rushed to him by Iowans here remail
unanswered.
Convention Notes.
Senator Philander Knox has hi
: boomers on the scene in force. AS
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