Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-30
l|AAD]lEY CHOSEN FOR CHAIRMAN

ROOSEVELT CHOICE r He GAIN,
CONTROL OF CONVENTION.
e0yernor Will Accept If No oths.
Progressive Is Decided
Upon.
JEFFERSON City. May 28.-1n q lette,
received by Governor Herbert Hadlev
Solonel theodore Roosevelt asked
tnlm to be temporary chairman of tho
republican national convention to be
nelo IN Chicago, If the Roosevelt forces
succeed ~ getting control of the con.
Ivention. ~ 80
/, MI. Hadley will accept if he believe,
ne can best serve his faction of thu
party' put he would greatly prefer that
some other progressive be selected for
ltne place. He so told the colonel in
letter in answer to his request.
Governor Hadley was one of tha
eagnt governors who wrote to Colonel
Roosevelt asking him to become can.
o1date. It was announced from Wash.
lngton several days ago that Governor
dadley was one Of four men who
would be considered for temporary
ena1rman of the Chicago convention
IA case the Roosevelt forces secured
control, but the letter received from
Colonel Roosevelt is the first intimac
ton that the Missouri executive IL
his personal choice sor the place.
:, See Delegates Have Papers.
Observation-Disclosures Of Republi,
can political headquarters here are
taking no chances Of delegations fail.
ing to have their credentials in Chi
cago within the time limit set by the
Republican national committee. Dele
yates elected to the Chicago conven-
ton have been urged, through their
chairmen or state leaders, to see to it
that credentials are in the hands of
Secretary William Hayward by May
Goth.
Both the Taft and Roosevelt men
have sent urgent messages of this
character to several states. In the
case of the California delegates it was
found that the state law requiring
canvassing of the returns would not
permit the filing of the delegates Ger.
tificates within the time set and they
were urged by the Roosevelt headquar.
tiers to communicate this fact to the
national committee, requesting an ex-
tension of time.
Texas Delegates May Bolt.
Fort Worth. - While indications
pointed to control of the state con-
vention here by Roosevelt forces and
the selection Of eight delegates from
the state at large favorable to him,
there are possibilities of a bolt, grow
ing out of fractional differences. State
Chairman Cecil A. Lyon, recognized
leader of the Roosevelt forces, claimed
Ut votes in the convention. This
claim included uninstructed votes,
which he said are assured for Roose-
welt and was made before the DISPOSE
tion of contests by the state commit
tee. H. F. McGregor, Taft campaign
manager claimed "a instructed votes
for the president.
Only the delegates at large will be
chosen by the state conventions. All
the districts have selected their dele
gates nine of them sending contests to
the national convention
Thinks Colonel May Bolt.
Washington. - Representative Nc
Kinley of Illinois, director of President
Taft's campaign, in a statement de-
clared that it was Colonel Roosevelt's
apparent intention to bolt" if he il
not nominated at Chicago.
Starting out, as he did, a mere re-
ceptive candidate" said Mr. McKin-
ley, "Mr. Roosevelt has made rapid
mental progress in the past three
months to bring him to the point
where he feels it incumbent upon him
self to attempt hold-up of the party
which has twice made him president.
"The Republican party has been in
the habit in the past of making de-
1iberate choices of it's presidential can
didates, and it is not used to the pro-
cess Of having a gun poked under it's
nose, accompanied by demand from
any one candidate to stand and de-
liver
II am firmly convinced that the Re
publican national convention this year
will make it choice deliberate one,
and that President Taft, with his ma.
tority Of the convention already in
Z hand, will be the nominee on the first
ballot
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Quick Special Session Asked.
Mankato, May 20. ~ The executive
committee Of the Minnesota Better De.
velopment league in a heated session
that lasted after midnight passed res.