Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-06-15
BARNES SEES
VICTORY FOR
THE president
State Chairman Of New
York Republicans Says
Taft Will Have 555 Dele
gates in Convention.


Chicago, ILL.,, June 14.-After a
careful review OF the situation
William Barnes, Jr., the New York
state chairman today asserted
that President Taft would be nolni-
mated on the first ballot "The presi.
dent will have 555 delegates on the
first ballot" he said Roosevelt will
have only 468 I am confident that
these figures will represent accurate
ly the first nominating vote in the con-
vention." Mr.. Barnes was asked If he
would conduct the campaign in New
York as state chairman, If COL Roose-
velt was nominated.
There is no question about that
he replied. Roosevelt will not be nomi-
nated.'
Both Factions Confer.
Delegates to the republican nation
al convention in anticipation Of the
coming to Chicago of Col. Roosevelt
and history-making episode in Amer
lean politics today went back to the
first nomination Of Abraham Lincoln
in 1860 in efforts to find a parallel for
the fight being waged here.
Roosevelt men kept at high pitch
by frequent conferences and mass
meetings in which their-leaders at
tackled the actions of the national COM
mittee with bitterness, pointed to the
death of the old Whig party as their
theory Of what may happen in Chicago
next week.
Taft leaders, declaring that the ac-
ton Of the national committee in
seating the Roosevelt delegates from
Missouri, was indicative of its fair
ness, laughed at the predictions Of
Col. Roosevelt's followers and the con-
tinucd talk Of a bolt. ..--.o..-e
The Roosevelt managers today. an
nounced that Ii all the remaining con-
tests before the national committee
are decided In favor Of President Taft
he will lack fourteen votes Of the
necessary number to nominate. These
figures and others compiled at both
Taft and Roosevelt headquarters
brought the situation down to point
where discussion of deadlock and
possible dark horse" candidate loom
ed large.
Col. Roosevelts leaders further de-
clared that as the situation now
stands the Taft forces actually count
less than ten votes in their favor.
Others insisted that yesterdays de-
velopments in seating Roosevelt dele
gates from Missouri left the presi-
dent eleven short of bare majority
on the temporary roll.
The fight for the uninstructed dele
gates, the southern delegates and the
thirty-six LaFollette delegates from
Wisconsin and North Dakota today be-
came intense. Every possible argu-
ment is being used by the campaign
managers on both sides to get the ad-
vantage in these quarters.
The Roosevelt men directed a con-
certed effort toward the southern
delegates in attempting to make them
believe that they would represent an
absolutely certain majority against
President Taft's side, both as to, the
nomination and matters pertaining to
organization of the convention.
AS a result of the tightening of the
Taft-Roosevelt lines, the LaFollette
delegation looms larger than ever as
a strategic force and In the calcula-
tions of the managers Of the other
camps it ranks a close second to the
southern and uninstructed vote in the
convention.
Cummins Boosters Arrive.
There was an influx of Iowa leaders
early today and made activity around
the headquarters of Senator Cummins.
r. J. Fleming of Des Moines, who has
managed many campaigns in Iowa for
Cummins, Joined Senator Kenyon for
conference. William Dows and
Luther Brewer Of Cedar Rapids, the
latter delegate at large from Iowa
and instructed for Taft, say the six
teen delegates that are instructed will
stand by the president. These dele
gates are insisting that the ten Cum
minis delegates vote with them for
Senator Root for temporary chairman
of the national convention. This ques-
tion is causing considerable discussion
among the Cummins men.
The Iowa delegation will hold a
caucus Monday morning and select
it's members of the various commit
tees. It Is understood that Geo. D.
Perkins of Sioux City Is slated for the
committee on resolutions and John T.
Adams of Dubuque will be made ma
tional committeeman.
Poindexter Also on Ground
Senator Miles Poindexter, delegate
at large from Washington, whose seat
is contested, arrived today and joined
the Roosevelt forces.
hn To- 4,,f
the steam roller" said the senator in
speaking of the Washington contests,
"but am going before the committee
and present our case anyway.
The Taft leaders now insist that
their candidate will be in as good a
position to make an open fight for
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