The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-09
ROOSEVELT TO BOLT,
BACKERS ANNOUNCE
"We'll Hold Our Convention
Right Here in Chicago"
They Threaten.
INTIMIDATION IS PLAN
Vigilance Committee Headed
by Finn Will Try to
Scare Delegates.
BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE.

By Interns tionA News Service.
CHICAGO. June 8.-When fortysix
more contesting Roosevelt delegates
from Arkansas, Florida and Georgia,
had been carelessly tossed into Wabash
avenue bv the national committee to-
day, the Roosevelt leaders got out the
big stick, busted it of and prepared
to batter the steam roller TO atoms
with it.
A vigilance committee headed by
"Bill" Finn. the Pennsylvania boss,
was appointed to 90 after the Taft
men. The committees programme is
brutally direct. 1t will visit every ar
irving delegate and address him thus:
''If Roosevelt is beaten, We are 60
ing TO hold a convention of our own,
probably right on the scene of carnage.
That will beat Taft. The only way
you can hope to win in November is by
voting for T. R. Think it over.'
Finn, who is burly Of build, iron
gray as to hair and close cropped as to
mustache, steely blue eyes and the
owner of a chin like the ram Of bat
tleehip, thought out this plan fifteen
minutes after his arrival today.
Dixon welcomed it ioyously. A meet
ing Of fifteen delegates, chiefly from
primary states, was got together before
most of the politicians had breakfast
Among them was Governor Stubbs of
Kansas, one of the inventors of the
Roosevelt boom and a very Leonidas in
a fght.
There was little discussion. Finn
stated his proposal. ''We can knock
- out of their steam roller he said,
"as soon as the delegates get here. The
only thing to do is to grab them and
hang on to them. They III be good
After second meeting when it was
told by Bainbridge Colby how to keep
within the law, the fifteen members
went out after such delegates as are
already here. They will meet daily till
convention time and will not be dis
turbed even if the remaining 100
Roosevelt contestants go the way OF
their bapless predecessors.
Lord High Intimidators.
The vigilance committee is composed
as follows:
William Finn, chairman, Pennsyl
vania; +. A. Knox, secretary, Michi-
gan; T. x. Neidringhaus, Missouri; w,
R. Stubbs, Kansas; G, C. Priestly, Okla
homa; Dwight Hurd. Arizona; Edwin
NJ Lee, Indiana; Nathan Merriam, Neb-
raska; M. j.. Purdy, Minnesota; John
L. Hamilton, Illinois; S, S. McNinch,
North Carolina; Robert Burton. North
Dakota; L. A. Dickson, California; H.
W. Coe, Oregon, and Galen L. TAFT,
Maryland. Notice that most of them
are westerners. All OF them are saw
age fighters.
Already there is about as much peace
around here as there is at dog fight.
Even the colonel and the president in
their happiest hours never were so pic.
turesquely descriptive of each other as
are the men who arc now representing
them in Chicago.
Harry New replied TO Dixon S charge
tnat the TeacllunarleS are muruerlDE
the Republican party.
''We murder it, heyf Why they are
not only planning to murder it, but to
mutilate the corpse afterward.''
Penrose Facetious.
"How," commented Boies Penrose,
who stood putting black cigar as he
lowered over the other committeeman,
% Not even assault has been commit |
ted. +" Then he added reflectively, |
Not yet. -
George w, Perkins, growing sudden |
ly sensitive about questions as to when |
he was going to open the pay window
for Roosevelt, departed in the after
noon for Cleveland. He sat into some
Of the councils in the morning and left |
an overwhelming victory for
the colonel,
Perkins's place as n strategist was
taken by Walter Brown, who started
all of Taft s present troubles when the
national committee met in Washing
ton in December. Brown was made an
honorary member Of the vigilance COM
mittee, as was also Senator Borah, who