The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-09
Forty More Contesting De-
Iegates Are Tossed
Into Wabash
Avenue
BOLT IS BELIEVED
TO BE ONLY HOPE
FOR THE COLONEL Z
No Roosevelt Man Believes
That Rough Riders Con-
tests Will be Decided
in But an Unfair
Manner
by JAMES J. MONTAGUE.

Hiol = @|tNS@LtNE EAptSGSttL QeiegatES =
from Arkansas. Florida and Georgia
had been carelessly tossed into Wab-
ash avenue by the national commit
tee today. the Roosevelt leaders got
out the big stick, busted IL off and
prepared te batter the steam roller
10 atoms With il
vigilance COMMITTED headed by
Bit Finn, the Pennsylvania boss,
was appointed TO go after the dele
gate-looting Taft men. The commits
tees program is brutality direct 1t
wilt visit every arriving delegate and
address him thus:
IT Roosevelt is beaten We are 60.
ing to hold convention of our own,
probably right on the scene Of carnage
That will beat Taft The only.s way
you can hope to win in November liz
by voting for r. K. Think ii over
Finn. who is burIy of build, IRON
gray as 10 hair and close croppei
moustache, steelv blue-eyed and the
owner of chin like the ram of a
hattleship, thought out this plan fif-
teen minutes after his arrival here to-
day.
Hold Meeting Early.
Dixon welcomed IT joyously A.
meeting of fifteen delegates, chiefly
from primary States was got together
before most of the politicians had
breakfast Among them was Cover
nor Stubbs of Kansas, one of the In
Ventors of thr Roosevelt boom and A
very Leonidas in fight.
There was little discussion Finn
stated his proposal. We can knock
out OF THEN steam roller" he said, "as
soon as the delegates get here The
only thing to do is To grab them and
hang onto them. Everybody agreed
and after a second meeting. which
tSiI y.S- =. Ia
10 keep within the law, the fifteen
members went out after such dele.
gates as are already here. They win
meet daily till convention time ard
VIII not be disturbed even IL the re-
naming 1870 Roosevelt contestants 90
me way of their haptess predeces-
sors.
The vigilance committee liz come
posed as follows:
William Finn, chairman. pannsy1.
Vania; F, A. Knox. secretary. Micni-
gan; T, *. Neideringhauss, Missouri:
w II. Stubs, Kansas; q. c. Priestiy.
omaha; Dwight Hurd. Arizona Ed
Wa NJ, Lee, Indiana, Nathan Mer-
RAM Nehi aska: NJ. L. fIurdy. MINI
1esota; John l.. Hamilton. Illinois.
=. > MeNininch, North Carolina;
- = bert Burton. North Dakota; t. A.
Dickson, California f, " Coe, 0re-
N7--Nf N~''NA ''Ah''1'' L. AsttAs maryland.
All Savage Fighters.
Notice that most of them arc yyest
erHers. All OF them are savage tight
crs
There is no longer any doubt s..at
If the Taft men try the tactics on the
convention floor that they have pltr.
sued in the national committee VERT
table knockdown ana Clragout win res
suit
Already there is abour as much
peace around here as there is at a deg
iight. Even the colonel and the presi-
dent in their happiest hours never
We're SO picturesauely descriptive ce
each other as are the men who are
ROW representing them in Chicago.
Harry New replied to Dixon's
charge that the reactionaries are MUIR
dering the Republican party with the
remark We murder il, hey9 Why.
they are not oniv planning to murder
It. but To mutilate the corpse after
ward. :. -
"Huh!' commented Roles Penrose.
who stood putting a black cigar as he
lowered over the other, committees
men. mot even assault has been com-
mitted. Then he added rettectiveiy:
Net yet
George w. Perkins. growing sud-
denly sensitive about QUESTION: TO-
Then he was going to open the pay
window for Roosevelt. departed In tila
afternoon for Cleveland. He sat into
some of the councils in the morning
and left predicting an overwhelming
victory for the colonel.
Perkins place as strategist was
taken by Walter Brown who started
all Of Taft's present troubles when tho
national committee met in Washing
ton in December. Brown was made
an honorary member of the vigilance
committee as was also Senator Borah
WI omit bucking the steam roller at
the coliseum long enough TO sit with
the vigiIantes at both their meetings.
Fear CoioneFs Presence.
The fear that the colonel despite as
surances to the contrary is likely to
drop into town, and start sornethin9.
at any moment still hangs menacin9
over the' Taft tribe. Mckinley said
this afternoon that the colonel viii 10
| here after the committee gets DOWN
to the contests in Indiana and KEN
tucky which viii be about WedneN-
day.
'"Mckinley doesn't know what NJ
was talking about" was Ftnn's re-a
| joinder to this. Il asked a man from
I illinois why they elected Mckinley to-
congress He said 1t was because h4
was rhe biggest liar in Champaign, and
| that was an easy way to get rid o.
| him."
| Those observations merely give an
| inkling of the general tone ~ the
| conversation that il flying about H.
/ Coliseum and the Congress. hi
i Just about dinner time one OF tn
vigilantes proposed plan for use III
/ the event OF defeat. Wen hnv0
majority OF the members OF the 1xS
sianaI COMMITTEES after this cnnrQUxa
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