Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-18
TAFT MEN
DEPRIVED
OF SEATS
Exciting Scenes About Con-
%vention Prior to Calling
the Meeting to Order.
POLICE FORCE Is READY

Chicago. June 1S.-With the Republic.
an national convention about to open
today the anger Of the Taft men is
at the boiling point. The Roosevelt
plan, engineered by william Finn, to
oppose the seatissg of the Taft con
tested delegates caused them to confer
with police. The convention hall is
teeming with policemen and everybody
is fearful of Wild scenes.
The Roosevelt men. 1t IL said. will
begin their fight Immediately after the
prayer when Chairman Rosewater di-
reefs the secretary of the convention
to call the temporary rolls. The fight
is to begin. according to current talk.
when the state of California il called
Governor ohnson has insisted that he
would vote the delegation as unit for
Roosevelt, although there are two
Taft men IN the delegation.
When the chairman Of the California
delegation was handed the tickets for
the delegation by George Knight, ma.
tional committeeman for the state, he
gave he twenty-four Roosevelt men
lhei1 sSat uNhNhst pui u " elNt
the two Taft men in the state their
seat tickets and their badges by which
they could gain access to the con
vention.
The same process was gone through
in the seating Of Oklahoma, and thus
two of the twenty delegates for the
state accredited to Taft could not get
into the convention. When the national
committee heard Of this they deputied
National Committeeman p. D. Parker
of Ala bama to see to 1t that the Roose-
welt delegates from the Third Alabama
congress district should nOt be given
seats In the convention. But Major
Barker had already distributed these
seats, it vas stated.
Extraordinary Police Guard.
The Taft cbieftains have beer busy
taking steps TO preserve peace in the
convention II possible. Twenty mem
bers of the national committee, headed
by Senator Crane, had a long confer
ence with Governor Deneen of Illinois,
and with the police authorities Of Chi
cago. At this conference, 1t is stated,
IT was decided that the entire police
force of Chicago, If necessary, shall
be In the Coliseum.
Governor Deneen, after this confer
epce, visited Colonel Roosevelt and
Finn and informed them that he
would insist on lawful and orderly
procedure In the convention. When
the national committee asCertained
that the Roosevelt state chairman of
California and Of Oklahoma mad not
given the Taft delegates OF those two
states their tickets to the convention.
the national committee ordered new
tickets printed for the delegates, and
80 the Taft men will be on hand.
The Taft chieftalns issued a state
ment saying In substance. that the eff
fortL of the Roosevelt men to win dele
gates from Taft have resulted In the
acquisition Of but two southern dele
gates.
President Koenig of the New York
county Republican committee, declar-
ed that the New York state delega-
ton was stronger for Taft than at any
time during the past month. 1t looks.
h said, MS though all but ten, and per
haps eleven, of the delegates would
stick to Taft,
Plans were formulated for taking
before the convention committee on
credentials contests representing seats
for between ninety and 100 delegates,
which Colonel Roosevelt insists he Is
entitled to.
Roosevelt Fights Root.
An intense fight has been going on by
the Roosevelt people In an effort to de
feat Senator Root for temporary chair
a Roosevelt has ~buttonholed dele
gates In his headquarters at the Con.