The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-21

80 or 40 OF Roosevelrs friends were
gathered In the colonels suite at 10
I O'Clock last evening. when news OF
the committees action was received.
THAT settles e." exclaimed Roosevelt.
This Is where we ought TO quit. We
have waited long enough. Tell our
people 10 quit the committee and get
ready 10 quit the whole proposition.
This announcement brought the en-
tire party 10 its feet cheering and
messengers were rushed In all direc-
tons with the news and with sum-
monses for Roosevelt delegates 10
come TO the Florentine room. Here
few minutes later the colonel ad-
dressed them briefly and told them
he would have more TO say TO them
at a. m, after he had had an oppor-
tunity to talk to the Roosevelt men
on the committee OF credentials.
In the meantime the Taft members
OF the credentials committee had con-
tinued in session following the depar-
ture of the Roosevelt contingent and
had decided 10 change their original
rules so as TO admit representatives
OF the press associations and TO al
low a more liberal time for the hear
ing of each case The Taft men ad-
mitted that their action in this In.
stance was prompted by their desire
10 be entirely regular and 10 lay the
consequence OF any bolt from the com
mittee at the door Of the Roosevelt
members.
While this action was being taken
by the Taft men. on the committee. the
Roosevelt delegates assembled In the
Florentine room from the promised adj
dress by Col Roosevelt.
This is your fight now" said Col.
Roosevelt You gentlemen are the
legal and fairly elected majority. Inc
only question is-win you let your
selves be tricked out OF II. said
on the stump" Roosevelt continuU,
"and many OF you heard me-if ! fail
to get the endorsement at the hands
of the people, shall have nothing TO
say But IL | am uicked OF what Is
my Just due by action of the profess
sional bosses, | shall have lot 10
say. Il is this second situation We
now face. The politicians are trying
TO cheat us. Will you let them do it,"
A shout OF noes went up.
Col Roosevelt called attention 10
the fact that the opposition used the
votes challenged as fraudulent In
electing the temporary speaker and In
voting down the resolution which de-
manded that the delegates whose
seats are questioned stand aside and
permit their cases 10 be decided by
the unchallenged vote.
10
into that convention and permit your
protest against fraud to be voted down
by the fraudulent roll, concluded
Roosevelt. Il hope you will not go
into the convention again and submit
TO that sort OF business. | hope YOU
will refuse to recognize longer that
which has no right either In law or in
morals to be called the Republican
national committee"
The speech was followed by the
widest enthusiasm and as the Roose-
welt delegates crowded out OF the
room they took up modification OF
the battle cry OF I'VE want Teddy"
shifting it TO Wen have Teddy"
While the demonstration was
spreading through the hotel corridors
and 1000 people crowded into Michi-
gan-blvd., were demanding speech,
the colonel received word OF the ac-
ton of the Taft men on the creden-
tials committee amending their rules.
He was then in conference with his
chief lieutenants secluded in his pri-
vate apartments.
Quick to see the strategy OF the
Taft move, Roosevelt ordered his sup
porters on the credentials committee
back into the session OF that body
with instructions to Go through the
deliberations with a view to present
ing a minority report to the conven-
ton at the conclusion OF the re-hear-
ing OF the contests"
There was no idea on ehe part Of
Roosevelt or his lieutenants that there
would be any change c. the minority
committee on the contesting delega-
tions. The move OF sending the men
back unto the committee was strictly
a strategy move between the two fac
tions. II meant that unless some
break came In the committees DELHI
erations which made II impossible for
Roosevelt longer to restrain the more
radical OF HIS followers, the actual
break, now regarded as inevitable,
would come upon the taking of the