Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-10
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quent plea in behal of the Roosevelt
delegates-at-large in Indiana, and il
was expected hat the contest would
be the sharpest thus far between the
Taft and Roosevelt forces.
Doubt existed early today as to
whether the fourth Indiana district
case would be called. Rumors were
current that the contrasting delegates
would not press their arguments In
this case. The first. third and thir-
teenth district delegates are con-
tested.
With Mr.. Colby and Ormsby Nc
Harg as counsel for the Roosevelt
| delegates was Horace G. Stillwell, OF
Anderson, Ind. Former Senator Dick
and Frederick C. Bryan, the Taft
attorneys, were aided by Merrill
Moore, of Indianapolis.
The Arizona and California dele
gates reached Chicago last night, but
their contest cases will be deferred
for the present.
Despite their strangle hold on the
national organization the Taft leaders
became so disquieted yesterday by
the activities Of the new Roosevelt
yigilante committee that they put
into commission a set of vigilantes
of their own.
This committee, headed by Joseph
B. Healing, of Indiana, met in the
morning and, after deciding to ignore
haughtily Colonel Roosevelt's claims
of fraud and violence. made plans to
shadow every delegate from the mo-
ment of his arrival, lest he fall into
the hands of the enemy.
After the Roosevelt Hoosiers, in
| Guiding Senator Beveridge, Edwin M.
Lee. former Congressman Lands and
C. H. Campbell, the big Four" have
been thrown out, the Taftites plan
to get rid of the Roosevelt men from
| California, Washington, Missouri and
South Dakota. Murray Crane and
Frank A. Lowden are a little wobbly
on this piece of piracy, but Penrose
hopes to get their nerve up to the
sticking point before those States are
reached on the list.
Notwithstanding these sinister
plans, the Taft confidence has been
| shaken. With every contest decided
in their favor, they will have only
555 delegates, but fifteen more than
they need to nominate, according to
views of some of the leaders.
What will happen to that extra hf-
teen II Colonel Roosevelt suddenly hobs
up through a trap door in the convention
hall and begins to make a speech is q
thing the Taft managers hate to thinl
about.
STAMPEDE is a word that is not
,,,antinno1 a.aonu thaf, TT iq tho one
horrible fear hat faces them night
and morning and haunts their trou-
bled days.
Senator Dixon has announced that
he had no chance to. get a square deal
in the national committee, but he
says he is going to make every figh'
just as If he expected to win 1t and
then appeal to the craftsmanship o.
the delegates to back him up. He
has been reinforced by the arri'
val of Clifford Pinchot, whose voice
and purse are both at the ser
vice of the colonel, and of Francis ]
Heney, the fighting prosecutor of the
Pacific coast. Bill" Finn was KEEP
at work all day driving the vigilanc,
committee around in search of ar
TlNllS ueltSdLtS anu DOlllllS tucill u
as fast as they arrived.
The Taft forces were added to b,
T. A. NARROW. national committee
man from Montana, and Secretar,
Nagel, who holds a like commission
from the party in Missouri. Mage
said he came only to arrange fol
printing, and would leave for ST
Louis in the morning. AS a matte
of fact, he will not be permitted t
sit In the committee.
Pinchot had no information to Civ
after his arrival beyond the fact tina
he regarded Roosevelt's nomination
as certain. He says he will stay un
til the last vote Is cast, but will no
try to Jimmy himself into the conven
ton with a proxy.
Pinchot, Borah, Dixon, Stubbs, o
Kansas. and cambridge Colby, VIII
furnished the legal knowledge neces
sary to the Roosevelt strategy, al
met in Dixon's rooms yesterday an
announced that they had just begul
to fight.
Dixon Is Confident.
I'VE have more delegates than the,
know anything about" said Dixol
after the meeting. I'VE are afrai
to show them our full strength nov
for fear it will scare them so the,
will be too easy to lick. But just wal
till we get going and see what hap
pens to them.
81 have heard that they have a Wig
lance committee of their own, but w
are not in the least afraid. You mus
remember they have already claimel
all the contests there are, so they vii
have gained nothing by the piracie
they are now committing"
Dixon appears to be rosily conf
dent that the colonel will be nomi
mated on the first ballot and his con
1dence proved contagious about tn
Roosevelt headquarters. Indeed
throughout the Congress Hotel all da
there was far more Roosevelt tina,
Taft talk. and at least two of tn
hackers of the President were tryinI
to dispose of their bets on him.
The Taft vigilantes.
In the Taft camp Penrose remains
grim and taciturn all day, talkin
but little, but predicting victory ever
time he opened his mouth. 1t was a
his suggestion that the Taft vigi
lantes were appointed. This commit
tee. which will keep active until con
vention time, is composed as follows
Boies Penrose. 6 feet 6 inches
weighing $50 pounds. red-faced an
dictatorial in manner; chairman.
Murray Crane, 5 feet 8 inches
Weighing about 10 pounds, furtiv
and pussy-footed; general director.
Joseph 3. Healing. practical poll
tician of Indiana, and persuader.
william Barnes, loud OF voice, BIT
short of expedients; general helper.