The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-19
TAFT FORCES PREP PARED
 FOR BOLT
Some of the Machine Leaders Say They Would Welcome
 Walk Out by Teddy

! d
 Their Reasons For This Are
 Given--Say Roosevelt Electors 1 Chosen at Bolting Convention Would Not be Legal
 Chicago. June 19-That they expect and hope that Colonel Roosevelt's in. fluence on his delegates will result in their loolting or attempting the orga, nization of a second convention on the coliseum floor was admitted by the uncompromising Taft leaders, just be- fore the convention resumed it's ses- sion. today. They carefully counted forth through Hadley of Missouri that the seated Taft contested dele gates be eliminated They declared that they had against this proposition
 more votes than were cast for Sena- tor Root yesterday. And they will welcome walkout by the Roosevelt, forces as they declare positively such a move would purge the party Of populism, socialism and all other is-
 sues. They also say that such ar,
 action would not be countenanced, by
 the Republicans of the nation.
 '1The Roosevelt men have helped orr
 ganize this convention" said William
 Barnes, IT,. today. They were beat
 en in a fair test of strength. If they
 try, after being beaten, second time
 ations of the convention and put out
 their own declaration of principles
 and their own ticket into the field
 there is nothing to prevent them. But
 they can make no pretense of reg
 uIarity for any such program if bas-
 lN@~ ~pfvFra ess
 Other Taft leaders took the same
 view. They stated that the regular Republican convention came into be-
 ing with the election Of Senator Elihu
 Root as temporary chairman and even
 though the Roosevelt men put a tic-
 labelled regular by claiming that the
 candidate named by the Root conven-
 tion is fraud tainted. By mandamus
 proceedings, brought in every state,
 the anti-RooseveH men will, if nec-
 essary.. they say, force the recognition
 of their ticket as the regular Repup-
 lican ticket and they will, they say.
 prevent the recognized Roosevelt elec-
 tors in such states as Missouri. Penn
 sylvania and West Virginia, voting
 for anyone but a candidate bearing
 the trademark of Republican regular ity.
 The legal experts of the Taft forces
 spent nearly all of last night exam
 ing the law and precedents affecting
 such a condition and they have agreed
 that the progressives' plan cannot De
 made to stick legally. The one thing
 certain to be accomplished, however
 if the Roosevelt men hold their side convention as they threatened, Will be the nomination of President Taft
 by the delegates who remain in the
 convention and recognize it's regular
 ity.
 Should the Roosevelt. delegates take their n rnedfclne'' and if sbeafeH on the roll question continue their fight to
 the end. 1t is generally admitted a
 dark horse candidate is probable.
 Many leaders who insist that what IS
 wanted now is candidate who could win at the polls, believe the President could carry off such; a victory.
 If the Roosevelt forces draw out. then the delegates in the regular con- vention will have no alternative out to name the President for second term. There would be no use of put ting another candidate into the field at that stage. Taft men insist. as the President would be fa1s sstronger than any who might be drafted for a fight. The crux of the situation, therefore. rested with the Roosevelt men today. The real Taft leaders quietly went about confidently asserting that their adherents would remain regular. They claimed to believe that all the Roose- welt bluster over the temporary roll was for the purpose of getting right" with the people at home. The Taft chieftains insisted that regularity was strong card in their favor to pre- vent a bolt and they claimed that at the outside not more than one-half of the Roosevelt men would participate in any proceedings that would lay them open to being accused of being bolters.
 &l,~ State contests to be considered and Congressmen to be elected and there were number of big Taft men-the ones that went into yesterdays Tight,
 determined to battle with all their might but if licked to acQuiesce in the will of the majority who declared that the Roosevelt chiefs were weaken ing. make them take their medicine was the last word of Congressman McKin- ley to the floor managers as they en- tered the convention hall. This att
 titude was taken by Secretary Hilies of semi-panic prevailed among the
 Taft men, today they were an ada
 mant wall against the Roosevelt forces. They appeared to be satfs-
 fled after yesterday that Roosevelt was entirely eliminated as formid- able candidate and were willing to make concessions to prevent certain
 we'll known progressives from getting outside the party breastworks.
 But whether there is to be a dead- lock on the nomination with a good
 chance for the naming of a dark
 horse on whom the Republicans of the
 country can unite or whether MT. Taft is to be the choice of the convention
 now in session. rests entirely on what the Roosevelt men do after the vote
 is taken on their motion ito purge the
 ro1r' today. This vote was expected
 to be reached about o'clock this af- ternoon, .but the result will probably not be known for two hours, as that