Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-06-12
ANYB0DY'S FIGHT
IN CHICAGO
Both Sides Are Praying a Deep
Game Of Bluff
TWO DARK HORSES READY

Taft Column Awarded 4a More Dele
gates-Does Not Increase Claims
Already Made-162 Delegates Yet In
Dispute and Roosevelt Needs 12o-
Presidents Supporters Not Person
ally Ardent-Dark Horses in Shade
Chicago, June 10.-Forty eight
Roosevelt contestants from Arkansas,
Florida and Georgia were rejected by
the Republican national committee.
This adds seventy-two to the presi-
dents column and assures him of $50
delegates, within ninety of the num-
Der needed to nominate. There are
still162 contests to be decided.
The tally now stands: Taft, $50;
Roosevelt, 400; La Toilette, SO;
Cummins, 10; in dispute, 1862. Taft
needs 90, Roosevelt needs 100; neces-
Sary 1Or cnOlce, 54U.
With the national convention ten
days off and nearly 200 contests yet
to be heard by the national committee
the outcome of the bitter factiOnal
quarrel in the party is difficult to FORE
cast.
1t Is easy enough to say the presf-
dent will be renOminated Or the col
onel will wrest the convention prize
from his former friend, but to produce
the evidence to prove either cOnten-
ton is something that no one has yet
done.
There is a good deal of bluffing on
both sides. Senator Dixon, the
Roosevelt manager, and Congress-
man Mckinley, the director of the
Taft campaign, are both ignoring the
old admonitiOn, Don't prOphesy I'M
less you know" It's part of the
game, and much of the claims handed
u at both headquarters is pure
buncombe.
Colonel Roosevelt has some able and
resOlute lieutenants in his army of in
surgents. They are fighters from the
drop of the hat, and if the colonel
will say the word they will neither
ask nor give quarter.
The one great weakness of the Taft
movement is the apparent lukeWarm-
ness of many of the presidents sup
porters. Many members Of the nationa
committee are only half -hearted in
their support of the president. Sew
eral who are standing up and voting
to seat the Taft delegates in the con
tested cases take little pains to con
ceal their dislike at the way in which
the president has treated them since
he has beer in the White House.
La Toilette is ready for the conven-
ton lightning to strike him; he will
not be greately surprised if 1t does
not do so this time, but he has the
knowledge that he and true progress.
siveness" have more votes than las
convention and still are growing, not
withstanding the efforts of Roosevelt
and Wall street to ditch" the pro.
gressive movement.
Senator Cummins, the other darl
horse standing under the tree, pa.
tiently waiting for the lightning Il
strike, is considered today a NOR,
likely selection in event of the con
vention going afield for a candidate
La Toilette stands for too much; he /
still four or eight years In advance o
his day, it is thought. Senator Cum
Minis is not kicking up much dus
now He reasons very calmly. H
tells his friends there is nothing t
do but to sit and let things run thei
course. That it will come, if
comes, and that anything they may d
win not change the course of tn
lightning a bit.
The nomination seems to be tn
primary consideration with Cummins
With La Toilette it appears to b
wholly secondary. He and his force
intend to push forward their prin
ciples. They believe that the princi
pies must ultimately win. La FoI
1ette is willing to go along with them
but they are first and without CON
promise, because they stand pars
mount. The line of opposition I
Roosevelt is uncompromising. He
considered the greatest of all menac,
to the progressive movement.
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