Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1912-06-18
Oyster BayCandidate Holds
Reception to Supporters
and Police Had to Dis
perse Hand-Shakers.
PROTESTS AGAINST
COMMITTEES ACTION
Colonel Takes Opportunity
Between Hand Clasps to
Deride the Work Of the
National Body.

National Body.
Chicago, June 17.-In his suite at
the headquarters hotel Colonel Roose-
velt this morning received the dele
cations, from Illinois, New Jersey,
Oklahoma and Massachusetts. The
colonel shook hands and chatted with
each individual delegate.
After the Massachusetts delegation
had visited the colonel, Matthew Hale
OF Boston announced that the eight
delegates at large from that state. who
had been renounced by Colonel Roose-
velt In favor OF President Taft, would
vote for Roosevelt.
'In view of the tactics of the ma
tional committee in deciding the con-
tests in other states" said Mr.. Hale,
q believe the eight delegates at large
from Massachusetts, will vote for
Colonel Roosevelt"
Col Roosevelt's reception to the
Roosevelt delegates and alternates
today was the most strenuous expert
ence he has gone through since he
reached Chicago. Several times be-
fore the apparently endless string OF
enthusiasts had passed him, he cried
out: Not another man; not. another
one, Once the colonel broke out OF
the reception line in which he was
surrounded by policemen and specta-
tors and started across the room to-
ward one Of the side doors.
The reception scheduled for IL
o'clock began about 11:20 and until
IL o'clock Col Roosevelt was the
target for handshakers and bouquet
tossers.
Col. Roosevelt began the hand
shaking with vim and enthusiasm.
After half hour Of it, however,
perspiration was rolling from his face,
his voice was getting tremulous and
he was skipping over half dozen
hands at time.
Once he flashed out in another In.
tignant protest against the action OF
the national committee on the Cali
fornia contested delegate case. Greet.
ing party Of California delegates he
declared, There was never anything
like 1t" ....."
"That's the kind of action that makes
revolutions" he exclaimed. Three
hashlight photographs, taken within
ten feet of Col. Roosevelt as he
stood at the head of the line. helped
to increase his nervousness, and make
the long procession more than his
patience could endure. Finally he de-
clared:
Hold the line as it is and I'll pass
along it."
Police Try In Vain.
Policemen did the best they could
10 hold it, and the colonel with a
body guard of policemen and plain
clothes assistants was hustled to the
back end Of the room up private
stair case and around through the
hotel corridors to the room of the
Illinois delegation where an expert
ence meeting was being held behind
closed doors.
AS COL Roosevelt was forcibly
propelled into this room. policem en-
pushed the crowd back blocked the
passage down the stairways and
stopped every one. The declaration
of the guardian of the Illinois head
quarters, that only Illinois delegates
could get in" dispersed the crowd
temporarily.
The Roosevelt leaders caucused
with many of the state delegations to-
day previous to the general caucus
OF the full delegations. Twenty OF
the Missouri thirty-six delegates who
are for Roosevelt conferred with the
leaders in the Roosevelt headquarters
and determined to stand by the Roose-
velt program through thick and thin.
They also fixed up slate naming Wal
ter 8. Dickey for chairman Of the
delegation, Thomas K. Neidringhaus
for national committeeman in place
Of Secretary Nagel; Gov Hadley for
committee on resolution Jesse Toler-
ton. credentials committee and Chas.
Rendlan for permanent organization.
At a meeting of the Ohio delegation
q resolution was adopted authorizing
A. L. Garford of E1yria to cast thirty
four OF the Ohio forty-eight votes for
Roosevelt and all propositions In the
program of the Roosevelt forces.
Wore New "Hat."
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, wear
ing his new fighting hat, a compro
mise between sombrero and rough
riders headgear, came into Chicago
late Saturday and was acclaimed by
thousands of his supporters and ad
mirers The hat was in the air
throughout the automobile ride from
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