The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-18

| breasts in Chi
caso. in addition to her known
and justly celebrated springs.
Life. o: course. would be dreary
affair without hope, but political life
! for Taft leaders and Roosevelt, leaders
Without this Inspiration would be Inn
possible. The consequence is that this
| struggle. which. as all our best literary
| lights say. will become historic In
the annals OF our politics. has devel-
oped line OF hopes than whom the
| world has seen no super!ors Lacking
| definite knowledge OF what will be the
! outcome OF the eight they have all
turned TO the consolation Of hope. aided
and abetted By a claiming department
that works slowly and continuously
| and claims everything in sight, out Of
sight or however slight.
PerpIerins Situation.
This IL perpieXing to the students of
The situation. for when IL lie discovered
that Senator Dixon announces nrini!
that NJ. Roosevelt will have So votes
on the ballot that shall decide whether
SIR. Roots high tenor voice or the
clear baritone OF Senator Borah shall
keynote thu occasion, and !mm ,diately
thereafter Mr.. Mckinley shouts to the
eager world that Mr.. TAFT will have
600 votes a the same instant, hurried
computation shows that the sum of
these is some hundred votes more than
there are in the convention. and OBJ
viously leaves Mr.. La Toilette. with mis-
stern and rockbound th!rty-six. and
Senator Cummins. with his ten voting
Tor their favorte sons. somewhere
outside. say on the base OF the Logan
statue on the lake front Likewise IL
eMcites the suspicion that some eminent
political managers are hbbing. to say
nothing OF trying TO get the pot with
a small pair.
Far be II from ne TO intimate even
that either OF these distinguished claim
agents is exceeding the speed limit.
can only say. in my opinion. they think
they have this number OF votes. but
which the results Will show. and both OF
them will be entitled TO one more long,
cohesive think apiece on Tuesday.
Still. 1t IL we'll for them to keep think
ms to the bitter end The little detail
that the sum OF their thoughts exceeds
the sSm OF the delegates Is OF no con-
sequence. These are Strange times.
brethren. and II may have to be ar
ranged to put in a hundred or more
delegates. in order that fully supply
may be on hand. II certainly would
be annoying to Senator Dixon TO fnd
that his $50 delegates who will stand
forever for It. r. shrinking In number
before his very eyes. and the humili-
rowing to see II he should observe his
bunch of SIS falling from view and
rounding up the 500 mark. Perhaps
they have increased the size OF the
convention. a most ingenious manner
of proving their prophecies. But that
remains to be seen.
Plans Unrold~d.
What Monday developed in the way of
the greatest interest was the gradual
81 = . To-. @F ~,
Briefly stated. the plan of campaign is
this: First. those pesons who came
here expecting to participate in love
feast are hereby warned that ;he adj
vance notices from both sides announce
battle murder and sudden death. AS
far as can be learned, Victor Rosewater
intends to open the proceedings
mildly Possessed OF we'll moduiated
voice of pleasing timbre. 1t is his inten-
tion to step forward precisely at noon
on Tuesday. and after rapping three
times with his gavel. say; Gentlemen.
That, it is understood, Is about as far
as Mr. Rosewater Will advance along
political lines.
II reports are to be believed. the riot
will start at thar moment. and in fif
teen minutes the fighting will be gen.
eral along the front. No man can tell.
1t Is said. what will happen. One pro-
mitigation is that Colonel Roosevelt,
having brought his trusty axe from
Oyster Bay. will appear on the scene
and chop a few sections out Of the
Hon. William Barnes, OF New York,
while the other side has put it in cir
lation that the ferocious Murray Crane
will climb aboard the Hon William
Finn and lacerate him In full view of
all those who are on the spot.
BE all this as 1T may. the Fact is.
there IS not coat of mail left in Chi
'Sago. and various statesmen and pa
triots have rented helmets from the
gallant fire laddies in order to protect
the most useless portions Of their anat.
omies--their heads
The appearances OF Colonel Roosevelt,
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