The Detroit times., 1912-06-15
ROOSEVELT COMING
SPURS BOTH SIDES TO
DESPERATE RALLY
Managers Make OPTIMISTIC
Claims, But There Is Feverish
Anxiety AS To Outcome
FORMER PRESIDENT DUE
IN CHICAGO AT A O'CLOCK
Plan Is To Buttonhole Office
holders and Tell Them Tafts'
Reelection Is Impossible

The sight OF the colonel's hghtingl
face Will be the last straw needed TO
complete the utter rout OF the Tart
forces."-SenatOr william r. BoEnh.
leader of the Roosevelt fOrees.
He's licked, that's ALL Volume OF
sound never nominated a candidate
Theodore Roosevelt In coming here
admitted that his managers could not
save him and his blum and bluster win
be OF no avail."-Willinm Barnes, Jrs
Taft field captain.
CHICAGO, June 15.--With Theodore
Roosevelt speeding toward this city
today, party leaders on both sides ad-
mitted that the storm center OF the
Republican national convention, from
this evening on, is TO be the colonel
himself. The statements OF Borah snd
Barnes, managers of the two hostile
camps, show their position as they
want the public TO know II. But
neither subscrioes fully TO the rIsi-
| tion Borah realizes that more dele
gates are needed 10 cinch his cause.
Roosevelt must furnish them. Barnes,
also realizing this, is fearful OF the
outcome. 1t is not the noise that the
Taft men would like TO have eliminat-
ed. The Roosevelt shouters are en-
thusiastic, but the Taft lea<ers con-
slider most of their delegates noise
proof But they do fear the effect OF
the Roosevelt personality on unsteady
oftice-holding delegates. Ths Rb)se-
welt plan is personally to buttonhole.
Taft delegates who hold flee and
who were originally a;Icirted by
Roosevelt TO recall TO those ,sen that
he has always been friendly 10 them
land then repeat the Penr :c state
ment that they know Taft w0uid have
a hard time being elected but that
he had 10 be re-nominated. Roosevelt
Is then expected 10 Try 10 convince
these inen that II nominate his cleo
tion is q certainty and the Roosevelt
managers are hopeful that tEe bread
land butter" argument will .'Ste good
J effect in greasing the ytys for the
stampede for Roosevelt, thty declare,
is certain 10 come,
The Taft managers insisted today.
after a final checking on OF doubtful
delegates, that they were certain that
they had more than $40 men who
would stand by them through thick
and thin. They are dynamite proof,
declared Senator Murray Crane after
. talking with the other leaders.
That a national convention Is as
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: cagoans today The blare OF the band
was heard for the first time as the
marching delegates filed OF their spe-
cial trains and proceeded TO the ho-
; tells reserved for them. The corri-
: doris OF the Congress Hotel, where
all of the headquarters but La Fol
lettes are located, were jammed with
a perspfring. badge-bedecked crowd or
fanatics, who aired their views about
their favorite candidate at the slight
est opportunity. Arguments were
frequent and heated but they were
entirely oratorical, the hotel detec-
tives and plain clothes men detailed
there breaking up the debate fights
as soon as there were signs OF the
participants mixing 1t. Elaborately
: gowned women, wives. daughters. rel
atives and friends OF the delegates.
: wove their way back and forth
through the throng. The seats along
: Peacock Alley. and in the elaborately
decorated lounging rooms and cafes.
Q were all filled with men and women
!, all more anxious TO be seen than 70
i see.
. Up one flight the Taft and Roose-
8 welt men had opened public headquar-
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