The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19

While Mr. Root was made chair nan today and managed to deliver his
 keynote" speech, the fighting is to be renewed at II o'clock tomorrow when ,he motion of the Roosevelt leaders to substitute new list of delegates for those seated in sorae of the contested cases heard before the national com mittee, is to be taken up as the un- Finished business.
 No committees were named tonight and none will be until this motion to F'purge" the convention of "fraudu- Tent delegates" is disposed of. Today It was defeated on a point of order, but the Roosevelt forces declare that parliamentary practice will not be permitted to stand in their way to- morrow.
 Carried Gut Plans The Roosevelt people and the Taft people carried out their programmes as announced in advance almost to the letter. The Roosevelt people say tonight they are going to fight every finch of the way.
 There were cries of .'bolters" hurled at the Roosevelt delegates at times |during the session, but the contin- |gency of a bolt again tonight seemed l to be far distant.
 California, under the leadership of Governor Johnson, assumed bellig erent attitude almost with the start of the roll call, when the two Roosevelt delegates from the Fourth district, unseated by the national committee, were not allowed to vote. But they |confined their protest to eloquence. The two votes for Root were the only Evote cast for McGovern.
 There is prospect, however of another even more bitter struggle tomorrow when as unfinished business the convention will take up a motion of Governor Had ley of Missouri to strike from the tenn porary roll of the convention as prepared by the national committee the names of e2 delegates seated by the national com ,mittee in contested election cases and substitute those of the Roosevelt con testants.
 It was in precisely this effort on the part of the Roosevelt men that the whole day was spent in struggle.
 Hadley Starts Fight
 The chaplain had hardly finished his invocation of the divine blessing before Governor Hadley was on his feet ob- 1ecting to the personnel of the convention itself. This led to a long and intricate argument
 Chairman Victor Rosewater of the na- tional committee, upon whose shoulders had fallen the ordinary perfunctory. duty of calling the convention to order and presenting the recommendations of the , committee for temporary officers of the convention. found himself with an able bodied job of presiding over what seemed likely to be a turbulent and passionate war of factions. He was not in good voice and what he said '. as barely audible at the front of the platform. but trumpet voiced clerks, with megaphones. did all the necessary announcements. including the chairrnan's initial ruling upon the Hadly objection.
 This ruling was to the effect that un- til the ational committee had present ed the temporary roll. made up from the credentials from the individual states and districts and it's judgment upon contests there was no convention; the gathering , was a mere mass meeting. nohing could be done until a preliminary organization had been effected by the selection of u presiding officer lie held that absoiate- N no business was in order save the choice of such an officer He said he had
 
 no desire to be arbitrary in his ruling and would allow 20 minutes to each side to present arguments on the subject.
 Hadley and Fort for Roosevelt
 These arguments were presented by ex- Governor Fort of New Jersey and Gov ernor Hadiey on the Roosevelt side and HepYesentative sereno Payne of New York and x-RepresentatiTe James Wat son of Indiana in behalf of the Taft column After the arguments were con eluded Chairman Rosewater renewed his ruling that nothing was m order put nominations for temporary chairman. He saresented the national committees $ rec 1prnmendation of Senator Root and askei for further nominations.
 The Roosevelt faction made no fur ther opposition to this ruling and the ytll call was begun at s'i5 ?. m. "'-