The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-08
Dixon in Chicago Over Long
Distance Tells Colonel
What They Did to Him
in Contests
HIS DELEGATES FROM
TWO STATES KICKED \
OUT TO START WITH
All Rough Riders Supporters
Gather in Conference for
Purpose OF Prevent
ing Further Devas-
tatIOnS
BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE,


CHICAGO, June Without SO
much as the CULVER of an eyelash.
thirtyeight Taft reactionarfes on
the national committee today "a
hurled off the temporary roll OF .M
the convention twenty -four Roose-
welt contrasting delegates from Ala
hama and Arkansas including tKo
who in the opinion Of almost
everybody had q perfectly. good
case.
Whercupon the following incidents
occurred in heWildering succession:
| First. senator Dixon charged Ih0
Taft thirty eight with numbering tbs
Republican party, with scuttling the
Republicanship. with foully and deltb-
erateIv stealing Roosevelt delegatcSss
cold bloodedly. and with premeditn-
tfon. These are his actual words, not q
| fancifuI paraphrase.
! Second. A. e. q. d. council of war
was called for the purpose Of prevents
| ing the further devastations of the
| reaetienary roller. In this conferences
will sit George ". Perkins. who came
tn Chicago this afternoon. Governor
Stuhbs. the Roosevelt champion or
Kansas: Governor Hadley of Missouri.
who wants To tail tho Roosevelt kite:
/ Albert j. Beyeride, Of Indiana: Walter
Brown. of Ohio, and last. but foremost,
t boss. who has been ordered by -u5
colonel TO come TO Chicago. and put
I an end III the rough work." vhic1
/ the Taft crowd clearly purposes to
continue to the bitter end. This coun-
/ ell will meet early tomorrow morning.
| Third The long distance telephone
/ to Oyster Bay carried to the colonel
1 the news that the committee mearS
t tn throw him If il can. ttfta ssiEftss---
ton that he had better get here k'ir1>
self, and get here quickly.
! Fourth. Chcered by their early VIC
tories, the Taft people got our of the.
locker the name of sunny jim Sher-
man. and attached it to the Taft slate.
as e-presidential candidate.
| Fifth. Preparations were made by
both sides for a fight on the floor cf
the convention. which will be the dean
struggle of one wing of the party or
| the other If Roosevelt loses every
one Of his big leaders will walk out
| Already the Taft people are making
ready to hamstring the progressivsS
| by an attack on direct primaries. wnicn
will lie continued in every state m
the Union Ii Roosevelt wins he aud
his crowd will not rest till all tne
Cranes and Penroses in the game are
driven into retirement. Whatever
happens now the party is split too
wide to be joined again by election
day. u
Z! Start Gag Rule.
/ Ii was not until the committee, by
an overwhelming vote had siieuced
Senator Borah's protest against the
/ gag rule that Dixon admitted that the
game was stacked against T. K.
| Within two hours after Borah, still
talking earnestly. was discourteousiw
interrupted by Chairman Roseate-. ana
summarily autvoted. ard the trouble
started.
10 show that they intended to be
I fair the Roosevelt people Voted
I against their nwn contests which
looked tiimsy Then came the Ninth
Alabama, which looked on the level.
The best they could get was D votes
against So. and-that IL the sum total
of the strength in the committee. JUST
by way of Jest. Lowden. of Illinois. and
Rosewater Of Omaha. both violent
Taft tartiSans. voted with the Iioose---
,veit mem on that contest. whersupUn
two Roosevelt men. Lyon. Of TEXAS.
! and Rogers. OF WISCONSIN, switched
to the old side making the result the
same,
/ To say that there was trouble when
the news that the Taft. crowd were
using tbs hludaeoa- caIn.s-doE:1a~ "a tho
Congress, is to speak feebly.
Dixon sent instantly TO Borah. who
was the floor fighter for Roosevelt for
confirmation. fie got ii by return
messenger,
Dealing Crooked Game.
They are stacked against US, ana
they are going to deal a crooked game
to the end was in effect the word
that Borah sent back
Dixon next went into conferences
with Perkins, whose arrival a little
earlier had attracted widespread at
tention. Perkins. who had been sit
ting pracidly at the Blackstone all the
morning. predicting that the ''gentl0-
men who are for Taft viii be fair.
hurried over to the CongIAss with hiS
moustache bristling
When he came out of the Dixon
headquarters he had little to say, but
he made no further references ~
gentlemen"
Hold General Conference.
The general conference which ID t0
find ways.and means to stop the brutal
career Of the roller. was arran9oN
shortly after Perkins visit. Finn wtDas
get here at midnight, but StubhM
Hadley and Beveridge are not axs@
pocted unfit tomorrow When thor
get together the plan is to take eacl1%
Taft man on the COMMITTEES aat3nSSa
point out to him in plain terms thN&s
the nomination of the president fnen1
a Roosevelt bolt. and ask him what k&s
lis going TO do about 1t. sssS
Their Last Card. SS3
This is the last card the EOooeve1
men can play. bar the dramatic ~
rival Of T. r., which is still coutoi
plated. If neither argument Or ~ III
suasion moves the COMMITTEES.
fights will be of till the mix-nn ~
the election of Roet as fempoG1
chairman
The Root matter has now beoG
sof tremendous Importance. n
knoOa that the Taft men maaM 81
make the New York senator ~