Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-17

have demonstrated that they have not
the good Of the Republican party at
heart"
The Kings county delegates held a
meeting and Mr.. Woodruff thought this
was a good occasion to begin switching
to Roosevelt. At this meeting Mr..
Woodruff referred to the Texas out
rage and began talking like q Roose-
welt enthusiast. Colonel Michael ].
Dady and Marcus b. Campbell, two OF
the Kings county delegates called Mr..
Woodruff's attention to the fact that
the steam roller in use in Chicago was
the same that had always been used
OF such occasions, except there was a
different engineer on the pilot seat.
Taft Managers Anxious.
The situation in the New York dele
cation has created much interest in
the Roosevelt camp and some anxiety
on the part Of the Taft managers.
The New York state delegates who
are expected to vote for Colonel
Roosevelt are Mr.. Woodruff and
Comptroller William A. Prendergast
Of the Fourth (Brooklyn) district; J.
#. Hoffman of the Tenth (Brooklyn)
district; Charles II. Murray Of the
Thirteenth Manhattan); William Arch
err Of the Twenty-fourth (Mount Yer
nom district; William l.. Ward and
John j. Brown of the Twenty-tifth
CWestchester) district; L. N. Littauer
of the Thirtieth (Fulton) district, and
Percy G. Williams of the Thirty
second (Oswego) district.
Those who favor Hughes are 4. @.
Stevens of the T~hirty-ninth (Wyo-
ming district; Francis NJ. Hugo of
the Thirty-second Jefferson-Oswego-
Lewis district; william Il. Daniels of
the Fourth (Bufalo) district, and
Frank o.. Anderson of the Forty-third
(Chatauqua) district. George w. AL
bridge and J. l.. Hotchkiss of the
T~hirty-irst (Monroe) also are put In
the Hughes column, but would, it Is
anticipated, vote for Roosevelt as
against Taft
All day at the Roosevelt headquar-
ters governors and big and little mem
bers Of the camp edged their way
through the guarded door Of the ''presi.
Dental suit on the second floor Of the
Congress hotel, the bolt rumor per.
sisted and finally 1t was reported that
word had gone ont to he Roosevelt
men that they We're to carry the fight
for the unseated Roosevelt delegates
to the committee on credentials. then
into the convention and that If I'm
justice vas done they could with.
draw and hold separate convention.
When Colonel Roosevelt was asked
If such instructions had been given he
declared, That's nonsense" Some
n wanted to know how the colonel
thought 1t possible for the Roosevelt
delegates to countenance acting with
the men whose seats they contested.
Net Crossing Any 5rideec."
well cross that bridge when we
get to it," was his reply, and he re-
fused then to answer further ques-
tons about the probable action Of his
supporters in the convention. He an
nounced that Timothy l.. Woodruff
had come to say that he had shifted
from Taft to Roosevelt, but said that
he had no tden about the number OF
New York delegates that Woodruff
could bring with him.
Governor Hadley acted as chairman
of the conference. He said that there
had beer merely a general discussion
of the situation with particular ref
erence to the course to be pursued re- |
gard1ng the contested delegates, and
that If any decision had been arrived
at 1t wasn't time yet to talk about 1t.
He denied that the temporary chair
man question had come up.
Alexander p. Moore said that there
had been some talk about the tempo
rary chairman and hat Senator Bo-
name found favor with many.
There was also talk, Mr.. Moore said,
OF Governor Hadley for the job, and
much discussion OF the influence that
Governor McGovern Of Wisconsin as
Colonel Rooseyelts candidate for TEN
porary chairman might have OF the
La Toilette delegates.
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