Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-09
ROOSEVELTMEN
DECIDE ON MOVE
Delegates From ''Primary
States" to Organize and
Make a Firm Stand.
ARE EXPECTED TO FORM
NUCLEUS TO DRAW OTHERS
Will Be Put Forward as Represent
ing Sections Party Needs.
TWO TAFT FACTIONS NOTED
Supporters of the President Are Di-
vided Into "soft Pedal" Group
and the "Rough-House
Boys"
Will Be Put Forward as Represent
ing Sections Party Needs.
TWO TAFT FACTIONS NOTED


CHICAGO, ILL.,, June S.-Convinced
that their only hope rests with the
convention after the Taft steam roller
has done its deadly work. the Roosevelt
men today perfected an organization
which is designed to be a nucleus around
which to rally their forces for one last
stand.
Finn Of Pennsylvania, chairman: Knox
Of Michigan, secretary. and Senator
Dixon created themselves an executive
committee OF proposed organization
Of delegates from the so-called primary
states" that is to say, the states which,
through their primaries. expressed more
or less approval Of Roosevelt. These
states are North and South Dakota,
Wisconsin, Illinois. Pennsylvania, Ne
braska, Oregon, Massachusetts. Minne-
sofa, California, Indiana. Ohio and New
Jersey.
1t is proposed to rally the delegates
from these states into a compact or
ganization. They will be presented as
representing states upon which the re-
publican party must depend for electoral
votes to seat a republican President:
They will be steel sheathed and riveted,
with watertight compartments and COL
lision bulkheads. warranted to stand any
impact. The idea is to hold them be-
fore the convention in contrast to the
organization of delegates from the
southern states which cannot deliver
any electoral votes.
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Line upon line. precept upon precept it
will be dinned into the ears Of the as
sembled delegates that these men repre-
resent the real people, the plain people,
the republican people, in fact. and that
they are for Roosevelt whereat all wise
men are admonished to stop. look and lis
ten. They are expected to form a nucleus
around which can be gathered delegations
from hither and yon. They will be the
flying wedge" OF the Roosevelt rush
Readily can it be seen th2A such a pro-
gram contains elements Of force likely to
appeal strongly to wobbly Taft delegates
All the time during the decision of the
contests by the national committee the
Roosevelt managers intend to keep up
their loud cries and anguished screams
over being robbed by the committee.
Meanwhile. they will point continually
to this aggregation of delegates selected.
the choice of the people-of course, the
fact that less than 80 per cent of the re-
publican vote was cast in the primaries
will be side-stepped-and acclaim it as
an indication of the real sentiment of the
republican party in effective states.
Senator Dixon and Boss Finn, with 9TH
ers, called Roosevelt on the long distance
telephone today and oesought him not to
come to Chicago. They gave 1t as their
Judgment that he would hurt himself by
so doing and added that the fact that the
, Taft outfit were trying to taunt, cajole
or tease him into coming was sufficient
evidence that he should stay away. It
| is true that Director Mckinley of the
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