Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-06-04
Vanguard Of Political Hosts
Arriving in Chicago for
Committee Contests; Bolt
Talk is Renewed.
ROOSEVELT BOLT
RUMORS REVIVED
Reported That First Regi-
1nent Armory, Near Coli
scum, Has Been Rented
by T. RS Friends.

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the political hosts who are to, make
Chicago their camping ground until
the nomination of a republican cand1'
date for president arrived today and
hotel corridors and republican nation
al committee headquarters were
thronged with the skirmish line.
Joseph B. Healing of Indiana, opened
the Taft headquarters in readiness for
the arrival Of Congressman William
B. Mckinley, the head of the Taft
forces. who is expected before night.
Ormsby McHarg. who is to repre-
sent the Roosevelt men in contests,
also arrived with batch of briefs to
be submitted to the committee In
the hearings.
The claim OF r. B. Howell. elected
republican national committeeman
from Nebraska that he should be
seated in place Of Victor Rosewater,
the present committeeman from Ne
braska, continued to be the main
topic Of conversation among the poll
ticians.
Mr.. McHarg and other Roosevelt
leaders said that they were taking no
part in the Howell controversy and
members of the national committee
who are allied with the Taft forces in
timated that the claim OF the Ne
braska man will be quickly settled by
the committee when 1t was formally
presented. They took the view that
as the national committee is not or
ganized by statute the election Of a
committeeman by state primary or by
other means would not necessitate the
ciH 0f hn
change the membership before the
completion of the convention.
Alexander H. Revell, head of the
Illinois Roosevelt league, arrived from
the Oyster Bay conference. He said
that the general Roosevelt committee
was appointed to watch the progress Of
Affairs and declined to discuss the
question of the temporary chairman
ship which has been preferred to Sen
ator Elihu Root by the subcommittee
on arrangements.
Adams on Taft Staff.
"The great thing which we are
working for said Mr.. Revell. "is the
nomination Of Theodore Roosevelt.
We shall stick to that great idea and
pay little attention to nessentials.'
Joseph B. Healing announced that
the Taft headquarters staff would In
clude William Barnes, Jr., Of New
York: Newall Saunders Of Tennessee;
Senator Murray Crane, of Massachu-
setts, Senator Penrose, of Pennsyl-
vania: Former Senator Hemenway of
Indiana: j. T. Adams Of Iowa; G. ].
Diekeman Of Michigan.
Charles D. Hilles, secretary to the
president, is expected although the
lime Of his arrival is not now known.
Bolt Rumors Continue.
Rumors of, an impending bolt, re-
lterated and as often denied, have
stirred the republican national con-
yention atmosphere and Of recent days
have been given considerable weight.
The latest story, which has not been
verified because Of the unwillingness
Of politicians to discuss 1t, Is that fol-
lowers of Roosevelt have secretly
rented the First Regiment armory In
anticipation of q party split.
It can be said authoritatively, how
ever, that for two days past electric
lans have been busily engaged in the
big structure putting in telegraph
wires Who will use them Is a mat
ter of much conjecture.
Colonel Joseph B. Sanborn, COM
mandant of the regiment, yesterday
said as far as he knew no Roosevelt
men had hired the hall or had an op-
tion on it. An aid in charge of the
building said the League of Republi-
can clubs and Young Mems Republi-
can club, have options Of day each
,or its use. He, too, said he knew OF
40 contract with Roosevelt followers.
Sanborn Makes Denial.
"As far as know the Roosevelt peo-
ple have made no overtures toward
the renting of the armory,'' Col. San
born said. ''If such have been made
the fact is unknown to me-
The armory building is practically
the only place near the down town
district big enough for "rump" con-
vention. If either side anticipates
bolt 1t will assuredly get some place
where it can crowd in the outside fol-
lowing for a hig-hip-hurrah affair.
II bolt is to come it will in all
probability come from the Roosevelt
camp. President Taft could hardly
,ather his followers about him and
march s,sit of the convention, in event