Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-20

phere of Washington are quietly ad- vocating the nomination of Senator Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa. It isf not intended that President Taft shall be abandoned without an apparent struggle to bring about his nomina- ton.
 The program is to force a ballot late tomorrow if possible that will be without result. The Taft vote on the first ballot, if present predictions hold good, will place him about ten or fifteen votes below the necessary $40.
 It thus will be demonstrated to the friends of the President that all the earnest efforts of his political gener- als to win success have failed. And with gladsome hearts they will tie to the man who will by that time have been selected as a new candi- date
 All this they hope to accomplish to- morrow, but the rules of procedure may prevent the concluding ballot from being taken until Friday. l Never for minute have the so-call ed Taft men really wanted Taft nom mated. It has been however, rightly necessary for them to keep him at the front on their lines and to maintain their contentious that he was their candidate and that he had their loyal support.
 When it is remembered that the very men who, up to now have been supposedly supporting the president, are the very men who four years ago
 were opposing him, it may be seen
 that the president has been leaning
 his candidacy upon broken rods.
 The Days Session.
 Chicago, H., June 19.-Under the
 leadership of Elihu Root the Taft
 forces today, by vote of 564 to 510
 took command of the convention, re-
 ferred the seventy-eight contested
 Scdlo IO d SliOHS 1olI COlIAullIOO oA
 credentials and made preparations te
 go grimly ahead with the nomination
 of President Taft.
 The steady grinding of the Taf machine was interrupted only once for Roosevelt, which resulted, like thu other Roosevelt demonstrations, il : nothing. motion to substitute thu Roosevelt roll for that made up by thu National Committee was admitted, ar !, gued for three hours and defeated I Governor Herbert s. Hadley, o Missouri, who led the Roosevelt fight > tried every preliminary trick know . to him to keep the contested dele e gates from voting on their own cases - He failed in every instance. His ori
 ginal motion to substitute the rol l. was amended by James B. Watson, tn 't Taft floor leader, so as to refer tn 1t matter to the committee on creder l. tials. Governor Deneen, of Illinois g. moved to remove the contested dele 1t gates from voting on all cases. Wa + son moved to lay this last motion o e the table, which brought test vote { B. 564 to table, against 51O not to tab l. five not voting. The ordinary ma D. ters were disposed of in short ordt l. and the whole affair was referred by K viva voce vote to the committee c at credentials as at present constituted. r. The committee will stand about
 to 24 in Taft's favor and will wit u- each unconcern approve the stea r. roller roll and give Taft enough vot' mt to nominate him if his packers sti t. choose to do so. In any event they a of absolutely in control of the conve m ton and have within the past tv h. days rubbed MT. Roosevelt out effe
 lively.
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