The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-08
POLICE PROTECTION IS ASKED BY MEMBERS OF REPUBLICAN
 NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
DEMONSTRATION EXPECTED
"This is a National Convention, and Not Prize Ring" Says New, "and We Will Stand for No
 Rough Tactics"

Chicago, June 7.-Colonel William F. Stone, sergeant-at- arms of the Re publican national convention, tonight appealed to Mayor Harrison for police protection at tomorrow's sessions of the national committee, which is con ducting contest hearings at the Col iseum. Colonel Stones action, he said, was prompted by reports that certain Roosevelt leaders had pre- pared to take steps to intimidate the membership of the committee in it's deliberations on the contests. Other members of the committee, including Col Harry s. New, of ln- diana, Senator w. Murray Crane of Massachusetts, Senator Newell Sand CTS of Tennessee and others. said they had heard reports of a planned Roosevelt demonstration at the com mittee room during the hearings
 There will be no rough house, 70 said Colonel Stone, in the committee, neither will there be any demonstra- | ton permitted on the outside of the Coliseum. Drastic measures will be adopted if any controversy is at tempted, l have asked the city au- thorities for protection at the com mittee hearings"
 Colonel New was 10th to believe reports of premeditated thuggery. Such a report as this" said Colonel New, seems to me incredible. Ger | tainly no one is foolish enough to be- lieve anything can be gained for a
 aanse by the adoption of such meth ods.s
 1 This is supposed to be a national convention and not prize ring, and the dieBSty and good order of it's pro- ceedings will be enforced peaoeably
 we hope. but if any one attempts to employ force of any kind, he will
 find his methods will be resisted with sufficient vigor to make the outcome very different from what had been 1 intended"
 1 United States Senator Joseph M. | Dixon of Montana, Colonel Roosevelt s campaign manager, declined to discuss | these reports, saying only he might | nave some comment to make later. Congressman w. A. B. Mckinley. director of the national Taft bureau, specified William Flynn of Pittsburg as the Roosevelt leader who he had been informed was expected to start trouble.
 Mir Mckinley also stated he had received reliable information to the effect that George w Perkins of New ! York had been called to Chicago by I crtain Roosevelt members of the na- tional committee, to head off any pos sible disturbance
 ! Flynn was expected to reach Chi cago late tonight Senator Dixon said that if he could procure a proxy in the national committee he would give it to Flynn.
 Congressman McKinley's statement regarding reported threatened trou-
 ble, was as follows:
 Reliable information has been re-
 ceived, indicating that the sole pur- pose of the coming of William Flynn of Pittsburg tc Chicago, at the in
 stance of Theodore Roosevelt, is to | take steps to intimidate the Repub-
 lican national committee, if possible 1 in it's deliberations on the contest ol
 delegates seats in the national con
 vention.
 Tt is understood the plan which
 Mir Flynn is expected to follow is to
 organize crowds of Roosevelt follow
 CTS, who shall make demonstrations
 at the Coliseum for the purpose oi
 attempting to overawe the national
 committee"
 l Roosevelt members of that body to- day deprecated the plan and, it js
 said, appealed to George w. Perkins l l,@ f4s. most intimate friends, to put an end to it.
 Mir. Perkins had made no comment I on this report up to tonight
 Former United States Senator
 James A. Heminway, of Indiana
 whose seat in the convention is con.
 tested, arrived today as did Unite-
 States Senators Newlands of Nevada