The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-21
Compromise Candidate Talk Not as Loud TODAY
as i Has Been and Roosevelt Bolt is Not
Causing Any Alarm.
NOMINATION NEXT WEEK PROBABLY
Report Of Credentials Committee Received at
This Afternoons Session Of the Republi-
can National Convention.

some one who might rally to his sup
port the rank and file from both
camps Jagged today because none OF
the men suggested would definitely
assure those who favored such al
movement that they would sanction it'll
II started. The Taft men insisted
that they were standing pat. Secre-
tary Hilles and Congressman McKin-
ley after count of noses, said that
they had more than the $40 votes nec-
essary to nominate Taft standing with
them. They declared that there was
absolutely no truth In the report that
they had offered to drop the president
for another candidate, either Hadley
of Missouri. or Root of New York.
But while the leaders were talking
this way, many Of the individual dele.
gates were asserting that they did not
believe the party shou1n renominate
the president, although they claimed
that he had won a distinct moral vic
tory through the elimination Of Col
onel Roosevelt as serious candidate
although the Roosevelt men abso-
lutely denied the colonel was out OF
the race. They contended that when
/ the vote was taken there would be a
universal surprise and that the pres
| ident should now step aside.
No Thought Of CumnIns.
/. Delegates of this stamp had not
crystallized their sentiment of any
| particular candidate. Many talked
Hadley. His fiery utterances and po-
| tent magnetism had made a hit with
them and they were suggesting that
with him as the party standard bearer
there would be little to fear from the
new party launched yesterday by Col
onel Roosevelt and his closest advis-
ors. Other delegates and they were
/ mostly from New England and the
south, wanted Elihu Root named. 4
a presiding officer he had made a HIT
with all of the Taft forces, but the
party bosses were insisting today
1 that suggestions of his nomination
were foolish Indiana was still boost
| ing Vice President Fairbanks, but his
boom was purely sectional.
Senator Borah had many friends
among the delegates although he per.
sonally had done all that he could to
discourage any boom In his behalf
There were also few Massachusetts
men who were sounding the praises OF
4 United States Senator Lodge of the
4 Bay state.
4 The situation so far as the candi.
4 dates were concerned, was shaped UP
so that it appeared If President Taft
4 were not re-nominated on the first
ballot he would probably not be named
at all. The managers of his cam
Y paign assert that he will be SO chosen
William Barnes is denying the renew
4 ed report of additional defections In
1 the New York delegation, insisted that
4 the state delegation was still morally
bound to the president. He pointed
out that the state convention asked the
3 delegates to do all in their power to
i bring about the denomination of Taft
4 and asserted that he saw little reason
why any delegate should choose te
4 disregard these instructions for any
Z other candidate.
\ Circulation of the report that the
credentials committee positively re
fused to aid the steering committee
1 by reporting in part on the contests
4 filed before 1t had depressing effec'
on both delegates, and spectators, ant
: fifteen minutes before II o'clock, the
4 hour set for the convention to meet
q there was only handful Of specta
-Itors in the galleries, while on the flool
i there was not to exceed a score o
delegates.
"What would be the use?" Devint
asked the messenger. "As long a:
there are to be minority as well as
majority reports on the action of this
committee / see no sense OF scattering
! the fire. Rather, believe 1t would be
q better to let the delegates wait unit
I we can put the entire matter before
4 them and then have an intelligent so
Tuition reached,
Devine's suggestion to the steering
q committee was that they meet, and
: adjourn until tomorrow but the com