The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1912-05-02
ROOSEVELT MEN
GAIN MISSOURI.
FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION BY
TAFT FORCES DEVELOPS IN
ALL NIGHT SESSION..
HADLEY IN THE SADDLE
Heated Discussions Prevalent Afte,
Long Day of DeadIock.-coioneI's
Cohorts Expect to Control
Delegates.

convention Hall, st. Louis, April 27.
Although they claimed absolute con.
troll, Gov. Herbert S. Hadley and 9th.
er Roosevelt leaders in the Missouri
Republican convention met formidable
opposition at late hour last night,
When they attempted to force Taft
managers to accept a minority of the
delegates at large from Missouri to
the Republican national convention.
A fight which had delayed the OPEN
ing OF the convention from 10 o'clock
in the morning until o'clock at
night was resumed after the conven.
tion had been called to order and
continued for hours, while delegates
protested in vain at the continued de.
lay.
Fear of disruption of the conven-
tion, quicted for a time by the formal
call to order, was renewed in the early
morning hours as the bitterness in
creased and delegates held heated con-
ferences in various quarters of the
convention hall.
Delegates settled down for an all
night session after midnight when
committees had failed to report back
to the convention and the fight be-
tween leaders continued.
The convention accepted the fol-
lowing temporary officers, recon.
mended by the state committee:
In naming by district members Of
committees to take up the work of the
convention the disputed delegations
reached were from the Third dis
trict. Chairman Joseph Black an.
nounced that the thirty-eight uncon,
tested members of his delegation were
evenly divided. Under instructions
from the chairman, the secretary then
passed the roll call to the fourth dis
trict.
While the various committees were
at work on credentials, regulations and
other matters, the body Of the con.
| vention took recess.
The Roosevelt men, however, declar-
ed that delegates at large to the
national convention would be instruct
ed for Roosevelt and that no agree
ment had been made.
Arguments on this point in COM
mittee room caused the recess to be
| extended to a late hour, while dele.
gates chafed under the further delay
in the proceedings.
The credentials committee, domin-
| ated by Roosevelt men, returned the
following report to the convention:
Recommended that out of 13 con-
| tsting county delegations, eight
Roosevelt delegations be seated; one
| Taft delegation be seated and in the
remaining four counties that both
Taft and Roosevelt delegations be seat
| ed with half vote to each delegate.
| A roll call was demanded and
granted on the adoption of the creden-
tials committee report which gave the
Roosevelt forces control. The roll
call showed that the report had been
adopted by vote of 1,l201a to 31h.
The committee on permanent organ.
| ization and order of business recon-.
mended for permanent officers the fol-
| lowing:
Governor Herbert S. Hadley, chair,
man; James A. Finch, Scott county,
secretary; John Legendre, sergeant-at-
arms, the secretary and sergeant-at-
arms to appoint their assistants.
Governor Hadley took the gavel as
permanent chairman of the Missouri
Republican state convention early this
morning and the Roosevelt forces took
control of the convention from the,
Taft leaders, who had fought stub,
| bornly to this point.
The eight delegates-at-large to the,
national convention, each with a one.
half vote, finally elected by the state
convention, follow: Governor Herbert
| S. Hadley. Jessie Tolerton of Bronson,
| Walter S. Dickey Of Kansas City, Fred
| Essen Of Clayton, John D. McNeeley
of St. Joseph, Hugh McJndoe of Jop-
| lin, John w. Tippin Of Springfield and
Alfred H. Spear of Chamois.
| AS national committeeman from
Missouri to succeed Charles Nagel,
secretary of comm cree and labor, the
] convention elected Thomas X. Med
ringhaus of st. Louis.
Delegates Are Instructed.
| The final battle after daylight had
flooded the big ar!nory and the dele
gates were almost worn out by their
all.day and all-night struggle was on
the question of instructing the eight
| delegates-at-large to the national con-
vention. The Taft forces, led by
| members Of the st. Louis delegation,
made a last rally in efforts to prevent
| flat instructions for Roosevelt. How
| ever, they were swept Off their feet
| by the now dominant Roosevelt tide
and by vote of more than two to
one, the Roosevelt forces carried their
| point, which resulted in the with
drawal of Mayog Kreismann and
Chairman Morris as delegates to the