The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-11
Taft Forces In Com- pIete Control of Ma
 chinery Say Not
BARNES OF M.. Y. ARRIVES
Takes Charge of Taft Forces,
 Confident of Success
Credentials Committee Is Nov Claimed for Taft By
 Safe Majority

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 Chicago. June Afi-That the Roos.s
 welt forces will not be permitted to storm the convention hall when the Republican national convention meets
 In this city, one week from today,
 was the emphatic assertion of Chair
 man Victor Rosewater- and a dozen members of the committee. today.
 The plan of the Roosevelt leaders. of ' .,l a1'u ss. members of the Republican steering committee, to have the convention re- fuse to recognize the temporary roll made up by the national committee and to go ahead and capture the con- vention from the start. will not be allowed to So through, according to these committeeman. Instead, the op- position will be protected in present Ing the temporary roll of delegates as made up by the national committee and in presenting the name of Sena- tor Root, of New York, as temporary chairman
 Unless the Roosevelt leaders recede form their present position thev 1Iill demand that their contestine dele gatee be permitted to vote on the tompQFArY chairmanship question. This will Mnf be permitted by the national conaMittee which will haye all of the sconvehtion machinery at it's disposal inciudins enough husky aSsistant thing EuioneI BaIf~Stuns, of BaIfi-
 more, the sergeant-af arms, may crd- err
 The Roosevelt men from the start may oppose everything the committee might try to put through. If they do this. the committeeman insist, Mere will be wholesale elections from the hall.
 William Barnes, ,Jr., the New York State arch enemy of Colonel Roose- welt, who arrived here, today, was immediately assigned the job of keeping the Taft delegations intact. ants, hurriedly placed at his disposal. will be in constant touch with the leaders of all Taft delegations and will try to hold in line any who show signs of weakening. Barnes insisted on his arrival here that there was no question that the Taft forces would be in control of the new convention. He declared that buster would not pre- vail and that when the cold facts were shown by a roll call of the con- vention it would be seen that the claims of the Roosevelt supporters were unfounded
 But, with the bitterness engendered by the work of the national commit tee in throwing out all of the Roose- welt delegates who had tried to get on the convention rolls through con tests, came renewed talk, today, of a compromise candidate. Most of this came from the .A' floor of the Con gress Hotel, where Senator Kenyon had opened headquarters for his col league. Senator Cummins, of Iowa. The Iowa Senator has only 10 dele gates in the convention but he and
 l. frs~ H.. IL to go on. They were insisting, today. that. with the LaFollette strength absolutely intact at all times, the combined vote of the Senators from Wisconsin and Iowa would deadlock the convention and prevent the nomi- nation of either Taft or Roosevelt.
 But the suggestion of compromise was welcomed only by the men whose jobs will be endangered sby party. de feat. The Taft and Roosevelt leaders insisted there was no chance. They declared that, from their viewpoint. the hghC was already over and their man the nominee.
 The Roosevelt leaders were worried, today, over the open boasts of the Taft men that they will control the on credentials. thus affirm ng the work of the national commit zee and making the temporary roll of delegates prepared by it the perma- 1ent roll of the convention. So cer- ain were the Taft claims that Jos- ,ph Healing, the Indiana expert se- ected as chairmap qf. the Tafts visi- antes, or as they prefer to be called. steering committee, gave figures.
 "We will have the committee, g. to l." he said.
 Senator Borah, Senator Dixon. Frank B. Kellogg and other of tho leaders took exception to his. statement. They declared that 'nly by the most beiligerent robbery ould Taft put such a program through md that, if it was done and the con-, 'ention ever permitted to receive 2 eport of that kind, real trouble could lot be averted.
 Borah insisted that the convention vill be controlled by the Roosevelt orces and will seat every delegates ntitled to a seat.
 The first simon-pure vice-p-esiden- ial headquarters to be opened, today. -ere ill charge of D. H. Lamberton, Of Vt He was booming Gov rnor J. A. Mead of Vermont, for sec nd place on the ticket. Vice-Presi- ent James A. Sherman. who is a andidate to succeed himself. will open is headquarters, tomorrow, if present 1auS r1o2teriai1Zc.