Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-06-15
With Lines Drawn Tightly
Between Taft and Roose-
velt Forces, Indications
Point to Iowan.
KENYON TO BE
HEARD BEFORE CLUB
Expect Aid From LaFol-
lette Men; Iowa's Magn1-
ficent Headquarters Next
to Taft's Managers.
(BY J. K, DoUGHERTY.)


Chicago, June 14-With the lines
tightened between the Taft and
Roosevelt forces and the probability
growing that the forty-six delegates
instructed for LaFollette and Cum
minis will be a force to be reckoned
with in the convention, the Cummins
for president boomers have redoubled
their efforts. Tomorrow Senator
Kenyon will address the Hamilton
club, presenting Cummins' good points
as presidential timber.
The club is giving hearing to all
candidates. The Cummins' workers
are doing effective work among the
uninstructed delegations and are
counting on help from the LaFollette
men, having assurance that Cummins
would be preferred over Taft and
Roosevelt by LaFollettes thirty-six
delegates if the nomination does not
come on the first ballot. Watch
Cummins, is the word given out by the
senator's managers
iowa's Magnificent Headquarters.
Iowa is not making much noise in
the hotel lobbies, as some of the other
states, but when you go upstairs
where the states have their headquar-
ters Iowa makes herself heard ef-
fectively. The headquarters of the
Iowa delegation is on the second floor
of the Congress hotel, formerly the
Auditorium Annex. The room is as
big as a dozen hotel rooms, faces on
Michigan avenue, overlooking the
lake, and with a dozen or more swing.
ing windows that give view Of the
waters. The room adjoins the Taft
Headquarters, the two rooms being
connected by a big arched doorway
Manager Mckinley Of the Taft cam
paign forces has requested Sergeant
alarms F. B. Clark of the Iowa dele
cation to have the doors between the
two rooms removed, so that they may
be thrown into one large room. Mr..
Clark was glad to accede to this re-
quest as the Taft people have the
''gold" room, mammouth ball room,
with a wide balcony extending around
1t, and by throwing the two rooms to-
pether Iowans are placed among the
elect where they will foregather with
all the administration leaders and
hobnob with more senators and other
highbrows than were ever assembled
any place outside the halls of congress.
The rooms are up one short flight OF.
stairs from Peacock alley and the en-
trance to the pompeiian rooms, one of
Chicago's show places
Directly adjoining the Taft and
Iowa headquarters are the rooms
of the Roosevelt managers, where
all the political fireworks are
manufactured, and where Manager
Dixon sits at private tele-
phone and sends the news direct to
the waiting colonel at Oyster Bay.
Down the wide hall few doors away
are the rooms Of the Iowa Cummins
boosters. Iowa is here with the bells
on.
Kenyon Marshals cummins' Forces.
The advance guard of 1owans are
here and big crowds are expected to-
dav and tomorrow when the special
trains arranged by the Cummins man.
ayers arrive. Senator Kenyon return
ed today from Washington where he
went to line up the Iowa delegation
with the Cummins' boosters. Ex-Sen-
ator Lafe Young is on hand and is
having as much fun as If he had landed
the senatorial nomination.
-. E. Davitt of Oskaloosa, sixth dis
trict committeeman, and Frank MINI
ocks of Ottumwa were also among the
early arrivals.
Senator Kenyon has announced no
plans for pushing the Cummins candi-
dacy Silent work among the dele
gates, sounding them on their willing
ness to support Cummins in the event
of deadlock, is the program at pres
ent If the situation looks favorable
when the time comes to nominate a
president. Cummins' name will be pre-
sented by Congressman Kendall OF the
sixth Iowa district, whose powers of
oratory are counted on to make a
great impression on the convention If
the nominating speech is made. But
whether this program goes through
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