The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-11
BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE.

CHICAGO, ILL, June 10.--To the
amazement OF the Roosevelt generals
commanding, fourteen OF the Colo
ners personal national committee
men today voted with the Taft ma
jority to seat the four delegates az
aarse from Indiana, who, according
to the Colonel himself. we're the re-
suit OF. crooked misrepresentation
of the will Of the people"
These four rejected delegates, con-
sisting Of no less personages than
Albert J. Beveridge, Edwin M. Lee,
Frederick Lands and Charles III.
Campbell, were the Coloael,s pride,
joy and main reliance When his
own crowd threw them out of the
convention. like bricks out OF a wag-
on, it took Mr.. Roosevelt two hours
and half to tell Manager Dixon
over the long distance telephone
what he thought about it.
The decentralization that followed
! this astounding action by the Roose-
welt committeeman lasted till late
tonight, when the Roosevelt forces
pulled themselves together and went
INTO EesssfbH 10 set, NudL can Sltil Do
done. They insist that their candi-
| date II going TO be the nominee just
, the same. but they make no denial
Of the fact that they are grievously
| disappointed in their national conn
nitteemeu.
! For the latter Senator Borafi, who
is the undisputed leader, said to-
! night:
u would cut Oft my right HAND
! before / would vote to seat illegally
any delegates, whether for Theodorea
! Roosevelt or William II. Taft. IL
, MIR. Roosevelt gets every delegate
/ lie is entitled to he will be nomt-
mated. despite anything that has hap
paned today. These delegates were
not entitled to their seats. They
We're elected in regularly called
: III tD31a1i- ,y NJ 4 majority Of six holi-
sand TO fourteen hundred. Not over
two hundred fraudulent votes were
cast, not nearly enough to upset tho
result | was voting for primary
10 seat certificate--not any delega-
ton"
With the four delegates at large,
who were cast ont of the Coliseum
by the national committee, were sir
district delegates. f ak!ng total OF
ten for the day from Indiana and a.
Grand total of sixty-two fer the week.
On the district delegates the Roose-
Welt committeeman put up fight,
but never mustered more than four.
| teen votes.
Gloom Abounds
! Gloom fell like a pail over every
/ Roosevelt supporter In the Congress,
when word came in that even the colo
nel's private committeeman had been
kicking his contests around. Why did
| they do 1t, what is the matter with
them Don't they know We need
every delegate We can get? Didn'tl
they hear whar TIE colonel said about
these rotten Indiana primar'es?"
| These were some OF the questions
'ha' nve-vtodv could ask, and nobody
| could answer.
Not till Borah. hot, tired, disguste6s
hut firm OF purpose. came up from the
Coli~eum did anybody get any expla~s
nation. NJ
/ His statement thsr the contests wArGs
rejected because they were not ''riEhtsS
failed to satisfy What did the Tam
pecrie do about the Ninth AIabasal
ldistr'ct?" asked the man.
..In this politics. or a contest In 1&as
itruism?'' asked another.
| eorah Firm. S
Poran. however was firm. and
were the rest of the fourteen fcrna1s
faithful. All Insisted that -N--- h1H9
not deserted the colonel, and wifi
found voting with him whenever
can come into the committees wttGS
case. ss}
t Despite this optimism on the
OF committeeman, however, the t4a1
-. dntA f.ssr< ~
| breaking Of the bad news in the na
I ing. and continped throuShout fhA
Let's stop this everlasting Nq
house hv Sa'nr to a man vU can tn
mate without breaking m thu ~
| was the way one romiptfteNtnMzS&
| Il, and tk~-. were others "a 60t1
irhat agreed with hsna-