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SENATOR ROOT
GETS THE CHAIR
ROOSEVELT FORCES LOSE FIRST
IMPORTANT skIRMIsH BY
$50 TO 500 VOTE.
T. r. IS OUT OF ORDER.
Both Factions Claim That Close Vote
Means Victory to Them
Others Predict OZARK
Horse"
T. r. IS OUT OF ORDER

Chicago, June 19.-Against the
threats, charges and bitter invection
Of the Roosevelt forces. the Taft sup
porters in the Republican national
convention put through the first por-
ton of their program by electing Sen.
ator Elihu Root, Of New York, tenn.
porary chairman. In spite Of the fact
that Victor Rosewater, chairman OF
the national committee, consistently
ruled out of order every motion made
by the Roosevelt forces, it required
more than five hours to reach vote
on the chairuanship.
Vote $50 to SOP.
The calling Of the roll was beset
with difficulties from the first name
on the list Of delegates. but in tho
end. when the tumult died away, Sen
ator Root was found to have won by
the vote of 55S to SOP over Governor
Francis E. McGovern. of Wisconsin,
with 10 scattering votes and five not
voting or absent.
Both Forces Claim Victory.
Both the Taft and Roosevelt forces
claimed that this vote indicates that
their candidate Is absolutely sure to
win. The advantage appears to be
with the president. however, for, while
he Is sure to !ese some Of the votes
that were cast for Senator Root, it is
claimed that he will gain. if instruc-
tions are lived up to. some of the
votes independently cast for Meow.
ern.
Those leaders who have been urging
q compromise candidate ever since
they arrived in Chicago are pointing
to another angle in the figures and
claim that they show that it Is es-
sential to name a so-called dark
horse" to save the day for the Re-
publican party.
While Mr. Root was made chairman
and managed to deliver his keynote"
speech the fighting will be renewed,
when the motion of the Roosevelt
leaders to substitute new list Of
delegates for those seated in some Of
the contested cases heard before the
national committee. will be taken up
as the unfinished business. No COM
mjttee has been named yet and
none will be until this motion to
purge" the convention Of "fraudu-
lent delegates" is disposed OF.
Ii was defeated on a point Of order,
but the Roosevelt forces declare that
the parliamentary practice will not be
permitted to stand in their way
Tho PNncoyolt Voop1o and Tho TaS -
people carried out their programs as
announced in advance. almost to the
letter The Roosevelt people declared
that they will fight every inch of the
way.
The cry Of "bolters" was hurled at
the Roosevelt delegates at times dur
ing the session. but the contingency Of
bolt seemed to be far distant.
California. under the leadership Of
Governor Hiram Johnson. assumed
belligerent attitude almost with the
start of the roll call, when the two
Roosevelt delegates from the Fourth
district. unseated by the national COM
mittee. were not allowed to vote Two
votes for Root was the only enchroach-
ment in that state upon the vote cast
for McGovern. Later. PENNSYLVANIA
made fierce protest against the vote
Of an alternate
There is prospect OF a bitter
struggle when. as unfinished bust.
ness" the convention will take I'D a
motion of Governor Hadley of Mis-
souri, to strike from the temporary
roll of the convention, as prepared
by the national committee. the names
of 80 delegates seated by the national
committee in contested election cases