The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-17
WILL TRY TO REJECT
TEMPORARY R0LLCALL
Failing in That They May Bolt
the Convention and Hold One
Of Their Own in the Same
Building There Are Fears
of Serious Trouble.


cation from Washington state, whicl
was refused recognition by the nationa
committee at the caucus here last night
decided to press the fight on the conyen
ton floor. They sent resolution OF
protest to Chairman Rosewater, sayi le
mo candidate whose nomination de
pends upon methods used by you car
carry our state" The Roosevelt man
ayers are busy to-day completing ar
Tangements for to-night's mass meeting
at the auditorium. Roosevelt will be
the only speaker
Prominent men from many states will
be subjected by Roosevelt and Taft Lead
ers to conference room interviews OF
the type known as the third degree
Every effort is being made to swing
the balance one way or the other. Rooso.
( velt's managers plan to precipitate a
roll call on the first question that comes
up after the convention opens, in which
only delegates undisputed by Roosevelt
can vote. Then they will try to have
the national committee temporary roll
call rejectS5 and seventy or more Roose
velt delegates seated.
\ Victor Rosewater of Nebraska, as
chairman of the national committee, viii
call the convention to order and de-
eide whether to entertain CT refuse the
motion of Roosevelt men to consider the
second list of delegates. He may in
sist on awaiting the credential commit
tees report, which probably would not
! come up for consideration before Wednes-
day. Chairman Rosewater conferre /
with the other members of the national
committee to-day, and members are. re-.
/ ported to have insisted that the chatr
! man follow the usual procedure.
1t is said that if the Roosevelt lead
ers fail to get this vote on the con-
tests at once, they plan Immediately to
proceed to the nomination OF Roosevelt,
holding convention of their own with
I in the convention hall. The Taft man.
ayers held numerous conferences to-day
in an effort to evolve methods of block.
! ing this scheme. There are many pre-
dictions of serious trouble during the
convention. Caucuses of state Gelega
tions were frequent to-day, and Roose-
velt planned to meet all his delegates
at reception this afternoon.
Talk of a compromise ,and,dste con.
tinued in many quarters, with the narIe
of Justice Charles +. Hughes prominent
and with the La Toilette AMI CummIns
supporters confident.
The Taft forces characterized as "too
lpuerile to talk about" the plan of the
Roosevelt men to substitute a new tenn
Iporary rollcal for that created by the
national committee. 1t was said at the
Taft leaders conference that they did
net care how early the Roosevelt forces
started the inevitable conflict Repre-
sentative 0lsmtead of Pennsylvania an
nounced to-day that he would be near
chairman Rosewater from the moment
the convention opened, in order to keep
him straight on parliamentary procedure.
Gov. Hadley said: "We are not un-
masking our batteries today. No dele.
gate with stolen credentials shall vote
in this convention if we can help it. BY
tomorrow we will have our Elans COM
pleted."
"What will you do?" he was asked.
Nothing that is not regular and
American; nothing that will not be ap
preeiated by the American people"
Senator Dixon, Roosevelt's campaign
manager, emphatieally declares that the |
temporary rollcall of the convention at
this time showed that Roosevelt would |
be nominated by majority of at least |
AZ and that Senator Borah would be
chosen temporary chairman over Senator
Root by large majority. I'VE are go.
ing to fight from the jump" he said |
He declared that many southern dele
gates, instructed for Taft, would vote
with the Roosevelt forces on the organ.
ization.
The most spectacular of this mornings 1
arrivals was the historic Blaine club /
of Cincinnati, about 375 strong. The |
members wore white hats that have |
made their appearance familiar to con
yentions for many years. From Ne
braska came 100 Boosters" led by /
Gov. Aldrich, enthusiastically cheering |
Roosevelt. DR.. Thomas L. Rhodes, per
sonal physician and military aide to
President Taft, reached the Taft head
quarters to-day.
Will Vote for Roosevelt.
In a suite at his hotel headquarters,
this morning received his dele
gates from Illinois, New Jersey, Okla
homa and Massachusetts. Matthew Hale
of Boston later announced that the eight
delegates-at large, VINO
were renounced by Col. Roosevelt in ia
vor OF Taft, would vote for Roosevelt.
In view of the tactics OF the nation
al committee in deciding the contests III