Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21

hHu cOunCer-LnredLS mas endeQ. Inc nnaI
tally of delegates has been taken. Tues
day at noon will begin the opening strug-
gle in the battle that will decide wheth-
er William H. Taft or Theodore Roose-
yelt, or neither of them, is to be the
presidential nominee of the Republican
party.
At midnight the plans of the Roosevelt
men had been completed. Taft scouts,
picking them up as fast as they were
formulated, reported to their leaders,
who made preparations to meet them.
The Roosevelt plans include riot as a
possibility. The Taft counter-plans en-
brace police detail of 500 men and
reserve of 1900 sergeants-at-arms to
back them up.
After long and active row in the
Roosevelt camp, with Dixon and Borah
on one side and "Bill' Finn and Gov
johnson on the other, the colonel gave
out that he was with Dixon and Borah
for peace. But riot talk is still in the
air and the police detail was not abated
after the colonel's declaration.
Here is the Roosevelt plan of action:
May Grab Gavel
Chairman Rosewater of the national
committee, who will be directed by Rep
resentative Olmstead of Pennsylvania,
will be permitted to call the convention
to order and announce:
Gentlemen, l am directed by the ma
tional committee to present to you the
L fnr1a 1e1 Y-xr
chairman"
Roosevelt delegate, probably Gov.
Hadley of Missouri, will place in nomi-
nation Senator Borah of Idaho as the
Roosevelt candidate against Root.
The La Toilette crowd will then, in all
likelihood, present the name of McGov-
ern of Wisconsin as their candidate, re-
serving the right to recall it if their ac-
tion promises to help Borah.
AS the roll of states is called each
state whose delegates were thrown out
over the protest of Roosevelt committee
men will make a second protest, but will
not start anything.
Ii Borah is chosen peace viii ensue.
If Root is eIected-well, the Roosevelt
people say peace will also ensue, but
there is still the strong likelihood that
somebody will grab the gayel from Rose
water, call a Roosevelt convention and
that inside of two seconds there will be
an uproar in the big convention hall,
such as as never been seen at political
gathering since the party began its ca
reer.
Taft Men Promise Peace.
The Tai. men are confident Roose-
velt is beaten, declare that order Will be
preserved, even if it is necessary to
throw the colonel himself out of the hall.
The Roosevelt men, sure that Taft Is
beaten, make fewer threats than they
did, And the friends of Cummins, hope
full of deadlock, sit tight and wait de-
velopments.
AS the hour of the convention ap-
proaches there is growing disgust with
the kind of thing that has been going
on since the scrimmage for the nomina-
tion began. All day the barter and sale
of negro delegates continued. Ali day
decent delegates, seeing the traffic car
ried on under their very noses, talked of
finding way to put a stop to it.
It was noticeable that more Taft than
Roosevelt men spoke of compromise.
Their fight is first to beat I. r.; second,
to hold their organization together for
1913. And if at this eleventh hour they
were not held back by the fear that in
the transfer many of their delegates
would be gathered in by the colonel, the
wires would be carrying to TAFT the
news of his abandonment.
The revised Taft figures give to the
president $50 delegates, majority OF
21; to Roosevelt 472, and to Cummlns
and La Toilette 46. The Taft lines
have held all day, despite the activity
of the colonel. Even if the twenty spare
votes go glimmering in the watches OF
the night, they are sure that Roosevelt
is beaten. No figures are given out by
the Roosevelt men. A majority Of four
votes was the best they figured in pri-
vate when the last count was taken.
In the hope of pressing his personality
more forcibly on the situation than ne
has yet been able to do, COL Roosevelt
himself went among the members OF the
Illinois delegation this morning, first
with an appeal and then with threat.
What he wanted was a pledge that the
delegation would vote solidly for the
Roosevelt temporary chairman, thus
helping to throw the organization to the
progressive side.
His appeal did not count for much.
Twenty-Five of the delegates listened
to him respectfully and said they
guessed they would vote for Root. Then,
growing angry the colonel, looking
souarely at Gov. Deneen, who heads the
delegation, said:
Fight Is on Root.
eff there are two nominees at this
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