Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-19
Cable News
end Of FIRST
DAY GIVES TAFT
APPARENT LEAD
Roosevelt Forces Declare They
Will Win Advantage
Today.
CEarly Morning Cable ReportJ

day of the 1912 Republican convention
In this city has slipped into history.
Nothing positive was determined upon
by the thousand delegates assembled
from all over the nation, but the end
of the day found President Taft's pO-
Sition stronger than ever, and the pros
poet OF Il bolt of the Roosevelt forces
fading rapidly, or at least growing
more remote.
Senator Dixon, campaign manager
for Mr.. Roosevelt, appeared utterly I'M
concerned at the election of Senator
Root. william Barnes Jr., the boss
of the New York delegation. takes the
other side. lie declares that Mr. Taft
will have a clean majority of five hun
dred and sixty votes. and his figures
were sustained to some extent by the
vote on the Chairmanship fight. Both
Barnes and Congressman Mckinley,
Taft'S manager. asserted last night that
the President has shown how thor
oughly he controls the political situa-
ton.
II was fifty-hvc minutes past
o'clock when the result of the voting
was known. the convention then ad-
journing for the day After the adj
journmcnt the leaders of both sides
declared themselves to lie satisfied
with the outcome of the first days
fighting.
The real fighting will not begin un-
I'll today, when the convention will
meet at II o'clock. Then the still un-
decided question of the Roosevelt SUBJ
stitutc roll will come I'D for final de-
cision
ono promIsc of rcul troubIc for today
lies In the fact that Boss FLYNN of
pittsburr compelled tho rcpctition of
the call of the PENNSYLVANIA roll on the
ground that when one of the aItcrnatcs
was called as having voted for Root
n mistake had been made. and that the
man had really voted for McGoycrn.
His protests were ovcrruled. however.
exceptions an of the Southern negroes
cast their votes for President Taft.
Word was passed to the Roosevelt
followers late last night to follow the
moves OF Governor Hadlcy, floor man
ager for Roosevelt
Taft Men JubiIant.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, June LIT was n
jubilant crowd of political leaders
which gathered at the Taft hcadquar.
tcrs after the ndjournment>ol the con-
vention yesterday, Senator Root, who
worked strcnuously both before and
after his election received the congrat-
ulations of his friends.
Following a long consultation, state
mCnts were issued by both Congress-
man Mckinley and William Barnes Jr
the leader of the New York delegation
MIR. Mckinley said that the. President
had demonstrated in the first vote how
absolutely in control of the situation
he was. Mr. Roosevelt, continued the
Presidents campaign manager. had ad-
mitted his own lack of strength by de-
clining to select and put In nomina-
tion a candidate for the temporary
craftsmanship. Instead. his managers
have attempted to effect "A coalition
with the followers of La Toilette. and
the combination has been repudiatcd
by the latter.
Roosevelt Not Cast Down.
CHICAGO, Ill, July l9-"I am u
better warrior than am "A prophet"
, said Theodore Roosevelt yesterday,
when seen at his room In his hotel
immediately after the vote for the tenn
porary craftsmanship OF the convention
had been announced and 1t was known
that the President had won the first
hard round MIR Roosevelt appeared
! In no wise cast down. however.
During the five hours of the rollcall
when his licutcnants were bitterly
, Contcsting every point on the floor Of
the convention, Mr.. Roosevelt kept In
! intimate touch with all that was GO
ing on, directing practically every move
| from his room, over "A direct telephone
wire with the Coliseum.
Following dinner, a crowd descended
upon the Roosevelt headquarters and
| by . o'clock the corridors and tn,
lobbiCs of the Lotcl were jammed witt
"A solid mass of struggling humanity
cheering for Teddy" The crowd wa'
SO dense that accidents were feared
and the police reserves were called
upon to clear the hotel.
The Wisconsin Split.
| CHICAGO, H.. June i9.-Thc actor
of the Wisconsin delegation In spllttinl
over the fight on McGovern IL regardc,
as ominOus by some of the Roosevelt