The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-12
POLITICAL CONFLICT
IS NOW SQUARELY
UP TO ROOSEVELT
Three Courses Left Open For
Him, Declares Special Writ
er For The Times
BOLT, STRONG ARM" 1T
OR TRY FOR DEADLOCK
Weakness Of Contests Give C. O.
P. National Committee
Strong Nerve
BY OLIVER p. NEWMAN.
Author Of "The Fortunes Of the Sum-"

Author Of "The Fortunes Of the Sum-"
CHICAGO, June 12.-lt's time TO
get down TO brass tacks on this Re-
publican national convention. Dis
counting the claims OF the Taft and
Roosevelt managers-and wilder ones
nave never been heard-we find:
Roosevelt pre-convention hopes have
been soaked. r.
The so-called progressive politicians
who grabbed the Roosevelt boom In
the hope OF saving their states and
local organizations from going TO
smash In a normally Democratic year
are pale.
The national committee has kept its
nerve and means TO go the whole
length for Taft
The Roosevelt program of rush
ing" the committee and the conven-
ion on their feet by inflamed state
ments calculated TO arouse an in
dignant public sentiment has made
no headway.
The action OF the Roosevelt COM
mitteemen in voting TO seat the Taft
delegates has stamped the Roosevelt
contests in those cases as fake has
weakened Roosevelt in his other con-
tests-some OF which may have merit
r-and has drawn the stinger from de-
nunciation OF the Taft committeeman
for their steam roller" methods.
The Roosevelt campaign has shift
ed from threats TO bolt or to strong
arm" the convention to Herculean ef-
forts to get delegates from those not
instructed for anybody,
The facts today say unprejudiced
politicians point to the nomination OF
Taft
II this Is so, there are three courses
open 10 Roosevelt:
Frst-To bolt.
Second--To rough house" the con-
vention, by physical force throw out
the Taft contesting delegates, bring In
the coptesting Roosevelt delegates,
proceed In turmoil. and to claim after
wards that he is regularly" nom
mated.
Third-To accept the decision OF
the committee on the contests, get as
many uninstructed delegates as pos
sible. go into the convention with a
minority, ballot in more or less order
~ fashion and try to draw delegates
from Taft after the first ballot. In
dead-locked convention Roosevelt's
chances OF winning are good.
The third course would depend for
fulfillment on whether the committee
50 decides the contests that neither
| Taft nor Roosevelt will have major
ity on the first ballot
The one big Roosevelt fact today
proved by the votes OF his own men
ON the national committee-is that
| Roosevelt has not obtained and is not
entitled TO majority OF the 1913
delegates. He has obtained what
Taft has not--the Endorsement OF the
people nearly everywhere that pri-
maries have been held, but as the
convention is now made us. this does
not carry with II majority
The best index to the status OF the
| Roosevelt campaign today is shown in
the reports OF Judson c. Welliver,
chief Journalist in the Roosevelt
camp. who, through the Munsey mag
azines and newspapers, has been
leading the Roosevelt publicity cam
paign.
From the day after the Ohio pri-
maries until two days ago, Welliver
published a story every day that Taft
had been eliminated, that the Taft
leaders secretly admitted 1t and that
Roosevelt would have majority on
The first ballot
Now Welliver writes that neither
Taft nor Roosevelt will have a major.
ity on the first ballot.
The fact is, the Roosevelt people
expected the national committee to
|,desert Taft and they anticipated the
southern Taft delegates would STAN
pede to T. r. Immediately after the
Ohio primaries. Neither thing hap
pened.
For L. s. and Foreign Patents go TO
Barthel a. Barthel. 81 w. Congress-st