The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-17

clear with ehlS men.
 Plans, today, were perfected for the Roosevelt battle program in the con- vention session. tomorrow, ct confer ences of the Celonel's leaders. The roll call fight will precipitate the first clash. Seating of the two Taft Cali fornia deleEates-atrIaree inserted by the committee is the nrst state light expected to be precipitated. .
 A series of conferences between the Colonel and his deutenants has re- suited in the naming of Governor HadIey, of Missouri, as the floor lead- CT of the Roosevelt fighting forces in the convention.
 Hadley will marshal his forces around the original plan of battle to demand of the convention that the temporary roll cali be made up onty of those delegates whose seats are uncontested. The Roosevelt 4erees are fighting the California mfxup ae the greatest principle in the makeup of the convention. 9 D
 Chairman Rosewater is expected, tonight, to submit his answer to a question propounded by the Colonel himself
 Rosewater. interrupted a, Cabinet Session" of the Rooseveltftes and had long talk with the Colonel himself. The gossip. today, was that Roosevelt told his unexpected guest a few warm thoughts about certain members of the national committee.
 Commenting on the California fight, Governor Johnson declared, to- day, that California will not submit to robbery of any of the fruits of
 'Roosevelt's victory there.''
 -'"The theft of two delegates select ed by 77, ,000 majority in a primary which Taft himself acquiesced was so outrageous as to focus attention on the state,'' said Johnson.
 Colonel Roosevelt himself was the center of great activity today. Many lors and had a word privately with him. So great was the jam in and near his rooms that the elevators were unable to care for the crowds and many visitors had to puff pantingly up and down the stairs.
 The early hours of the day were utilized by Roosevelt in meeting the Jersey, Oklahoma and some from H. linois. It seemed clear today that Colonel Roosevelt had exercised the recall on delegates-at-large from Massachusetts. When it was discov- cred that President Taft had won out on the Presidential vote from the Bay State, the Colonel announced that he would surrender the delegates at-large who were at first pledged to Taft. Today it was stated that they would vote for Roosevelt despite his utter ance.
 'I am certain that the delegates-at- large from Massachusetts will vote for. Roosevelt in the convention,'' said MaGhew Hale.
 The effect of the big Roosevelt rally to be held tonight is obviously feared by the Taft leaders. Big delegations of Roosevelt shouters are here from the West and Southwest, they say. It is insisted that the national conven- tion was for the people at large and come, first served, was the motto and they found that many voters endorsed this view.
 All that was needed today was the word of someone in authority. Roose- welt followers expect to find some word in the Roosevelt headquarters tonight that would justify them in de- went so far as to express the hope that Roosevelt himself would lead them.
 Just how Root was to be tput over" in the convention hall was not re- vealed by Barnes and his men. It of such a part for Root had been received.
 It was reported, shortly after noon. today, that the Virginia delegation, solid for Taft at an execu- tive session., today, had voted unani- against the selection of Sem ator Root for the temporary chair also against permitting dele gates seated by the national commit tee in contested cases to vote on their own places in affirming the tempor- ary convention roll.
 The stiffening up process to hold the Taft supporters firmly in line was the order of the day around head quarters. Tonight, Director McKin- ley has arranged a conference of all the Presidents delegates. Aside from the desire to keep the delegates away from the Roosevelt meeting, the plan is to put through a pledge for ac- ceptance by every delegate that he will stick to the President through thick and thin.
 Taft managers, he asserted, have boiled each delegation from which assertions to Roosevelt were claimed and found only. two, Charles Banks, of Mississippi, and Timothy Wood ruff, of New York.
 An organized attempt was begun, today, to get the solid Texas delega- tion for President Taft.
 Today's meeting of the Texas dele