The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-06-19
STAMPEDE HUNG
OVER CONVENTION
ANrlrAFr FORCES STRIVE TO
START STAMPEDE.
DEMONSTRATION THEIR WORK
ROOSEVELT WOULD ACCEPT IF
TAFT COULDN'T LAND.
UNDERSTANDING IN CHICAGO
NEBRASKA DELEGATION HAS
STOOD BY TAFT.
THEY OBEYEO INSTRUCTIONS
VICE PRESIDENCY is OBSCURED
BY DAYS EVENTS.
WILL WAIT ON FIRST PLACE
CONVENTION KEEPS APPORTION-
MENT ON OLD BASIS.
CONVENTION KEEPS APPORTION-
MENT ON OLD BASIS.


NEBRASKA DIVIDES ON VOTE
Thought During Morning in Chicago
That Another Effort to Stampede
for Roosevelt Might Succeed-WouId
Have Accepted if Taft Failed
Chicago, June 18-From staff cor.
respondent: Roosevelt talk filled the
air during the hours just before the
convention convened for today's ses-
sion. Calculations Of leaders we're up.
set by the stirring events Of yesterday
and Roosevelt's nomination was con.
sdered an open possibility.
Hand of Anti-Taft Forces.
The 5o.minute Roosevelt demonstra-
ton yesterday afternoon, which swept
the whole convention into a stormy
sea Of mad enthusiasm for the presS
dent at Washington, was the result of
efforts on the part of the ant-Taft
forces to stampede the convention to
Roosevelt. In the wild excitement
delegates called and cried for -Four
years more of Roosevelt"
Then came a night for reflection.
Taft Men Confident
At breakfast this morning the TAFT
men we're still confident. Test votes
had shown their early control Of the
convention so secure that the Taft
leaders thought that the situation
would not drop from their grasp. They
found strength in the fact that the
president was behind them and that
on the whole the closest friends of
Roosevelt were working for the nomi.
nation Of the war secretary rather
than for Roosevelt stampede.
Think Roosevelt Might,
But when the convention convened
at 10 o'clock many delegates had be.
gun to believe that Roosevelt should
be the candidate. This was mingled
in thG buzz of talk in the lobby and in
and
Stampede Talk in the Air.
Another effort to stampede the con-
Vention may be successful. This was
what careful students of the situation
at close range thought this morning.
Yesterdays outburst was too far
away from the nomination hour. But
with that hour approaching the stu
alton became intense. The Roosevelt
personality and his hold on the popular
mind, reflected in the big crowd in the
galleries, is the stuff of which stam-
pedes are made.
Teddys Position.
If it is shown that Taft cannot be
hOIIndltd II is DtIIeHeC al ms hOur
that Roosevelt will accept the nomin-
alton. An effort is being made to bring
about this situetion.
Nebr7sk1 Sticks to Taft.
The Nebraska 6sleg5tion will vote
for Taft, cbeying Instructions Every
delegate Of the sixteen is instructed
Ter Taft.
Vice Presidency Obscured.
The vice presidency has been en-.
ti'ely obscured by the events Of yes
tcrday Nothing more will be done
until the presidency c disposed or
Apportonme1t Unchanged
The effort to change the Lasis Of
r"rl esertaticn in future conventions
lost in the convention by about ten
votes.
Nebraska split on the vote, casting
seven for the new proposition and
niue against.
The new basis would have given
each state four delegates at large and
one delegate for each 10000 vVtes
cast. w. N. n.