The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-12
PARTY DISRUPTED
Up IN MICHIGAN
Two Sets Of Delegates at Large Sc.
Iected by the Republicans After
Stormy
Session.
LOSERS ARE VIOLENT
Roosevelt Boomers Denied Admission
In the Hall and Held
Convention Of Their
Own.


BAY CITY, Mich. April 1.-THE re-
publican party in Michigan today
stands disrupted as never before in
the history. of the state.
The riotous scenes which marked
the convention yesterday when a num-
ber OF delegates were injured and
strong arm tactics employed, has
done more than anything else to con-
vince the people that preferential
primary is BEST said one of the delN
gates today.
The result of yesterdays convention
was two sets Of six delegates at large
to the Chicago convention, one In
structed for Roosevelt and the other
for Taft and means that the final fight
will be made on the floor of the ma
tional meeting
More than one hundred Roosevelt
men today made affldavits. which will
be presented to the national commit
tee, that although supplied with tick
cts of admission by Secretary Paul
King, of the state central committee,
they were refused admission to the
hall when they presented them at the
door.
1t is believed that public sentiment
has been so reused by yesterdays con-
vention that never again in Michigan
will state convention be called to
nominate candidates or name national
delegates The enactment of new
and comprehensive primary law is ex-
pected.
The Critical State.
PHILADELPHIA, April 12.-On the
result of the primaries in the state
Saturday may hinge the republican
nomination for the presidency. Astute
politicians who have watched the
! political barometer with the deepest
interest, today declared that If Presi-
dent Taft is beaten in the Keystone
state, or even if he fails to get the
major portion of the seventy-six dele
gates to Chicago, his political for
tunes will sustain their severest blow.
Senator Penrose holds that view pri-
vately. He has warned his lieutenants
throughout the state that he will hold
them personally responsible and he
insisted that there was no doubt that
Taft delegation would go to Chicago.
4 Penrose was absolutely certain to-
day that he would control the state
convention which elects the delegates
\ at large. The district delegates will
be elected tomorrow and the Penrose
4 organization was working frantically
today to secure control of these. The
Roosevelt followers were loudly in
sisting today thas they would give the
machine surprise and the activity OF
i the Penrose forces proved that they
4 believed the stumping tour of the col
onel had made inroads into theiI
} strength The farmers of the state
are unalterably opposed to reciprocity
and the rival followers have made the
most of this fact.
Should Roosevelt win a victory il
!, this state, it was conceded by the poll
ticians today a condition would arise
, which would necessitate careful think
ing. Many said it would mean eithe
the colonel or a compromise candidate
such as Justice Hughes Of New York
They admit that Hughes is not can
, didate, that he doesn't want to be, bu
!, they also say that no man is BIZ
enough to refuse presidential nomi
, nation rendered him.
So, great interest will be felt in tc
morrows results. The Penrose OF
ganization claimed today ten of tn
twelve districts in this city, but pr
vately admitted they would be wei
satisfied to split the delegates. The,
also said that Roosevelt will get onl
ten of the country delegates, with
fine fight on for the eight from Pitts
burgh.