The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-18
q MAJORITY
INDICATED bY
TAT 5 COUN7 I
Claims of Roosevelt's Man.
ayers Grow Feeble, but
Fighting Spirit Remains
at Fever Heat.
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| Finn and Governor johnson on the
| other, the colonel gave out that he was
| with Dixon and Borah for peace. But
| riot talk is still in the air. and the
police detail was not decreased after
the colonel's declaration.
Here is the Roosevelt plan Of action
Chairman Rosewater Of the national
committee, who will be directed by
Representative Olmsted of Penusyl-
| vania, will be permitted to call the
| convention to order and to announce:
Gentlemen, l am directed by the ma
tional committee to preesnt to you the
Honorable Elhu Root as your tenn.
porary chairman
A Roosevelt delegate, probably Gov
ernor Hadley Of Missouri, Will place
in nomination Senator Borah of Idaho
as the Roosevelt candidate against
| Root
The La Toilette crowd will then, IN
all likelihood, present the name of Nc
Govern OF Wisconsin as their candi-
date, reserving tho right to recall it II
their action promises TO help Borah.
As the rollcall of states is called.
each state whose delegates were thrown
out over the protest Of Roosevelt com
mitteemen, Will make a second protest
but will not start" anything.
May Grab Gavel.
| If Borah is chosen peace will cnsue.
If Root is elected, well, tonight the
Roosevelt men say peace Will also en-"
sue, but there is still the strong like
lihood that somebody will grab the
gayel from Rosewater, call a Roosevelt
convention, and that inside OF two sec
onds there will be an uproar IN the
| big convention hall such as has never
| been seen at political gathering since
| the party began its career.
The Taft men, confident tonight that
Roosevelt is beaten, declare that order
will be preserved, even If 1T is neces-
sarv to throw the colonel himself out
| Of the hall.
Claims of the Rivals.
The revised Taft figures give to the
president $50, majority of 2l, to
Roosevelt All and to Cummins and La
Toilette a.. The Taft lines have held
all day, despite the activity OF the
colonel Even If the twenty spare
votes 90 glimmerng in the watches
of the night. they are sure that Roose'
| Welt is beaten, No figures are given
out by the Roosevelt men. y majority
of four votes was the best that they
figured in private when the last count
WAS taken.
That neither side is confident is
proved by bold attempt on the part
of the Roosevelt men to capture
majority through a trick this after
noon, and by the blind panic on the
| Taft side until the scheme was partly
abandoned.
| Cecil Lyon of Texas, George A.
| Knight Of California and the Okla
homa national committeeman, when
asked for conv ention seats and ere.
dentials BY the Taft delegates seated
by tho steam roller from their states,
| refused TO give them up. There was
an instant rush of the delegates 10
| Taft headquarters and wild cry for
heIIR:, ,ho vows of tbe dreadful
thing planned by Lyon ct al. reached
William Barnes, that cXcltable boss
began running around II, Splrals.
| &c he dashed upstairs to tell Crane and
Mckinley about 1T, Scouts wore DIS
patched to all parts of the Congress
| dered to withhold credentials from
Roosevelt delegates. There was talk
of robbery and piracy and battle and
murder. and sudden death. Til FEW
minutes later word came back that
everybody save Knight OF California
had Welded the tickets.
Panic Ends Suddenly.
Late tonight Knight was still stand
ing firm. When asked what he was 60
ing to do about it, he replied tnat he
did not know Meyerheld ana lFyon,
fhe two Taft delegates whose seats
we're wrcstcd from Roosevelt III the
California contest. 1t is the general
belief that he will keep the credentials
in his pocket tomorrow and that II the
two delegates oct INTO tho hall NJ all
they will have to be seated by the con
ycntion.
Tempest in teapot as the incident
WAS. it illustrated how closely the lines
have drawn within the last tWchtS'
four hours aud what narrow margin
each side has on which TO build the
glowing prophecies that are going forth
amoug the delegates.
In the hope Of pressing his person
aIitv more forcibly on the situation
than he has vet been able ia do, Col
onc Roosevelt himself went among
the members Of the Illinois delegation
this afternoon, first with AN appeal and
then with threat, What he wanted
was pledge that the delegation
would vote soldly for the Roosevelt
temporary chairman. thus beIpiug to
throw the organization to the progrcs-
sive side.
Roosevelt Threatens Deneen.
His side did not count for much
TWENTY-FIVE Of the delegation listened
To him respectfully and said they
guessed they would vote for Root.
Then, growing angry, the colonel, look
ing suuarely at Governor Depeen, who
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