The Detroit times., 1912-04-10
ROOSEVELT DELEGATES GO
TO BAY CITY IN SPECIAL
TRAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Nichols Will Make Sure That His
-FUrces=Afe- On the
Ground Early
CERTAIN OF BEING SEATED
ColonePs Friends Claim Control
OF Temporary Organization
BY Safe Margin
CERTAIN OF BEING SEATED

Chairman Nichols, OF the Michigan
hoosevelt committee, has decided 10
take no chances in getting the Roose-
Nelt delegation to Bay City in ample
time Tor the state convention, Thurs
uay. Mr.. Nichols changed his original
plans, Tuesday and instead OF going
10 Bay City, Thursday morning, the
delegation will leave Wednesday
night on special train over the
Pere Marquette railroad. The train
viii have sufficient sleeping accom-.
modations for 1872 delegates and their
friends, and win leave the Union de-
pot, Fort and Third.sts.. at 10 o'clock,
sharp.
The Roosevelt boosters want to be
on the scene TT the earliest possible
moment. Thursday morning, and
would not run the risk OF delay in GO
Ing 10 Bay City on the morning of
the convention. Also, the delegations
early presence on the scene will en-
able il TO go through the necessary
preliminary formalities to better ad-
vantage. The regular run to Bay
City does not take over four hours.
Asked what they would do from 2
O'Clock in the morning until III O'clock
the hour when the convention is call
ed. the Roosevelt delegates replied:
"Oh, Wen have plenty TO do"
I'VE will have 1872 delegates to the
convention" said Mr. Nichols, Tues.
day.
Substitutes have been obtained by
the chairman for those who dropped
out after the list was announced. Mr.
Nichols would not make public the
new list OF delegates. Tuesday.
"A number OF friends of the dele.
gates will accompany us, continued
Mr.. Nichols. Charles A. Gadd, John
w. Smith and Aid. McCarty will be
in charge of the train. We Will take
breakfast on the train.
I'VE will have $50 delegates in the
state convention outside OF Wayne
county With Wayne county we will
have Sf2 delegates.
There are l.312 delegates to the
state convention, 657 being neces-
sary for control.
what IL the Wayne county dele
cation is not seated, VA you be able
TO obtain the necessary 657?" Mr..
Nichols was asked.
81 won't admit for 4 second that
our Wayne county delegation II not
going to be seated" replied M.
Nichols. I'VE are going TO take our
place in the convention, and that is
all there Is to II. Put IL the other
way--if the. Taft people don't get
their delega ton seated from Wayne
BOUNTY they will not-Have any chance
TO name the delegates TO the national
convention"
With the Wayne delegation out OF
5the temporary organization there
would be l,120 delegates that will
name the committee 10 pass on the
credentials of the Wayne delegation.
A majority of the temporary orgapi-
zation would be So votes and the
Roosevelt people claim they will have
$50 delegates in the temporary or
ganiZation. The Roosevelt delegates
from Wayne county base their pre-
dictions on their being seated by as
serting they will control the tenn
porary organization.
Nothing doing but Taft" was the
way Senator Michael II. Moriarty, now
I'm Detroit, put 1t Tuesday morning
when asked about the Republican sit.
uation in Michigan. He claimed that
the Taft forces already had a major
ity OF 1913 for the Bay City convention,
independent OF Wayne and Kent coun-
ties.
Senator Moriarty, also known as
"Merciful Mike" halls from Crystal
Falls, in the upper peninsula, and rep
resents the thirty-frst district in the
upper house. He has been a con-
spicuous figure in Michigan politics
for many years, and was one of the
historically famous senate immortal
Nineteen" who placed thorns In the
pathway OF Gov. Pingree in the days
OF the noted insurgents fierce battles
against the corporations.
Senator Moriarty gained much pub
Lefty during the recent first extra
session OF the legislature, because OF
his flop from AN ultra presidential
primaryist TO an anti" He aneged
that the orders from his constituency
moved him to change his altitude.
The big bachelor senator Is dele
gate 10 the Republican state conven.
ton TO be held in Bay City, Thursday,
and, OF course. as has been intimated,
ls Taft man. Since the adjourn