The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-06-20
ROOSEVELT DOESN'T
FEAR STEAM ROLLER
Oyster Bay Citizen, After Hearing
From George w. Perkins, Meets
Reporters With a Beaming
COuntenan e" Special
Train Rumor" Is Denied.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Special
Theodore Roosevelt will be NOM
mated for President. If ne is not
named by the convention called
by the present Republican Ma
uonal Committee to assemble in
the Coliseum June 18th, he will
be nominated by another cOnVen-
ton. Moreover, ne will maintain
that the cOnVcntiOn-WhichcV
one il il that dominates him-iS
the regular Republican cOnven-
ton. n definite program for the
Roosevelt movement for the next
few days has been mapped out
and has become known.
The colonel has not by any
means abandoned hope of being
named by the regular conven-
ton, I'm spite of the steam roller.
Taft men, when they tell one con-
fidentiaily what they think of the
situation, have not given up that
BELIEF either. This can be stated
on the highest authority.
The Roosevelt program, as il has
been mapped out, and as it is being
carried out in the hotel Hobbies and
the national committee rooms and in
the headquarters of the Roosevelt
faction, is very definite. It's first
move is a surprise TO the Taft men.
Taftites have confidently believed
that, after the national committee
got through crushing Roosevelt dele
gates. the task would be ended. THE
WHOLE FIGHT Is TO BE TRANS
FERRED TO THE CONVENTION IT.
SELF.
Already the first moves in this fight
have been undertaken. The Roose-
welt scheme, in short, is to grab the
committee on credentials. The mem
bers OF the national committee have
gone ahead with their program on the
theory that when the committee made
up the temporary roll the trouble
would be ended. Roosevelt leaders
believe that they will be able to get
men on the credentials committee
from some Of the States where they
have lost out before the committed
The RooseVeltians believe that by
putting their most forccful fighters on
this committee from the States thew
themselves control, they will be able
20 swing the committee. The clever
est strategists of the Roosevelt camp
are seeking TO get the proper men Sc
lected from the States where their
battle has been lost. They want men
who are favorable to them. or, fail
ing that, men who are not strong
Wllled, but who can be brought under
the sway of the leaders and fighters
from the Roosevelt States.
Still Fight in Committee.
In the meantime the fight before
the national committee will go ahead.
II the program is not changed the
Roosevelt men will not drop a single
one of the contests they have brought.
me plans, however, are comprehen-
siNe in case of defeat both before the
national committee and the commit
Tee on credentials. a fight on the
floor OF the convention itself will fol-
low.
With the temporary roll as made
up by the national committee seated.
the fight to get the convention as n
whole TO take up the contests will be
forlorn hope, but even that will be
attempted.
Then, predicted on the possibility
or losing again, Will come the most
spectacular movement seen in a ma
tlonal convention in many years The
Roosevelt delegates, claiming that
they express the will of the peopIe
because the bulk of them are select
ed by the voters themselves, will or
game their own convention
They will organize in spite of the
other convention just as they have
done-aS a sort of rehearsal-in a
halt-doZen State conventions. There
Will be the sounds of the gavel irving
to bring back order; there will be the
shouts of men trying to make them
selves heard above the din, and there
VIII, II the coloneIs hackers are
forced to adopt their plan, be the
most rlotouS scene ever staged in a
national convention.