The Washington times., 1912-06-16
Progressive Stock Goes Up
After Long Con-
ference. T.
WEAKNESS IN MANY
STATES POINTED OUT
Lineup On Permanent Chairman
Not Expected to Develop
!. Full Strength.
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port for temporary chairman the man
whom the Roosevelt forces put forward
When, however, II comes to the cre-
! dentfals fight, different array of
forces will be presented.
First, the progressives Of all shades
La Toilette men. Cummins men, Roose-
welt men-will get together in favor of
q decent settlement Of those contests
that have been unfairly dealt with by
the Taft machine. For the first time in
the convention, 1t may be expected, the
progressives will make a showing of
solid front at this point. In doing this,
they will be REINFORCED by important
accesstons from the Taft ranks, of men
who, like Woodruff, consider that the
thing is too strong, who are unwilling
to 'countenance the outrages that have
been put through the national COM
mittee. There are some scores of dele
gates who, nominally favoring Taft, are
VI this frame Of mind; they confront
the one opportunity most useful to the
Roosevelt men. of undoing the wrongs
that have been attempted, and making
this convention, after all, decent and
fairly representative.
The reports Of delegates in this atti-
tpde. coming from many quarters to
great unrest to Taft generals. 1t was
situation they had not expected. I can
illustrate It with the statement which
one Taft instructed delegate from a
ing. He said:
I'm our State, I am confident not over
10 Per cent OF the people are for Taft.
Our delegation, It developed during our
conversations on the train en- route to
Chicago, every last man-not an excep-
tion-really would prefer to see Roose-
welt nominated.
yet we were instructed for Taft; the
n . n al
missions in good faith, and intend to
VII, Ws snSdI. viii vote , for ,a Taft and we, we
when IT comes to the credentials report,
we do not feel that we are bound to
support outrages. We will not vote to
sustain report that countenances the
steal Of Texas, Of Washington. Of Ari-
zona, of the Fourth California. I can't
yet say whether we will be unanimous
In this position. but i think so.
Believe In Square Deal.
''our feeling is that the same honor
able consideration of the obligation we
assumed when we became Taft dele
gates, requires us to do the square thing
when a proposition in plain common
. honesty Is involved. That Is all there
10 to this credentials fight
This Western delegate stated the case
not only for his own delegation, but for
large number of other delegates. The
possibility of the Taft forces actually
losing control at the point of the Gre
denttals fight is now giving them more
worrying than anything else: and the
Roosevelt people are planning a de-
termined fight.
1t was freely predicted today that
there might be two days of discussion
before the report of the credentials
committee is adopted and II is the
Roosevelt plan to make a powerful APP
peal to the moral sense Of the delegates
at this point: Colonel Roosevelt has
been insistent in his refusal to say
whether he will address the convention
but there is general belief that he will
especially among the Taft forces, and
whether he does or not, there will be a
terrific hammering home. bu such meu
as Hiram johnson, Senator Borah, Gov.
ernors Hadley and Stubbs. Frank
Heney, and many others of the argu-
ments that the national convention 1t.
self cannot in self-respect and common
decency submit to what has been at.
tempted.
Every Man a Crusader.
Reliance is placed by the Roosevelt
people in two things.
First, there are practically no veal
CT wavering Roosevelt delegates. Every
Roosevelt man here is crusader
Their opponents dcspairingly call then
fanatics. Whatever the sdtectives, the!
hrs about the most earnest, determined
last-dltch lot Of fighters that have beer
seen in a convention since the Gran
3e6, and there Is not a man anIonl
them that dreams of Fharjng the fat
that was accorded to Grant. They ex
ptct TO win; they have confidence tina
I the righteousness OF their cause will
make them the victors. They poin:e'
tonight to the contamination Of tho ma
tional committees work. which the TAT
a.Eh not N-h
nominate Taft as to defeat tie pro
RIessivs movement at any cost.
Second while there are no weak spot
in the, Roosevelt armor the Taft scat
of-matl has no strong spots. 1t is veal
in Indiana where the Republicans o
all factions want to redeem the State
and know they can not do 1t with Tai
where the splendid Republican organi
cation that has twice elected a govern
or, would be wrecked II Taft were I
be presented as an invitation to part
York, Delaware, all over the Republi
can sections of the North and West
Finally. they are weak In the South
Wnere the federal OFFICES are the stake
Devoted to Roosevelt.
But the thing that Taft's manager
account as most dangerous Of all +
them is the fact that there are som
nifty delegates from Southern States
who are Federal officeholders, but wer
appointed originally by ROOSEVELT an
have simply been continued under Taft
These men not only owe their origina
tenure OF position to Roosevelt, but al
most without exception they have beer
In the past personally close and devote
TO him. They owe a nominal loyalty I
Taft Their sentimental loyalty run
toward Roosevelt, and so do their inter
ests, for they know that they are Ger
tain to lose their positions II Taft /
nominated and the country goes Demo
cratic.
With the Roosevelt people lacking
few votes of enough to organize tn
convention and nominate. the Taft peo
pie count that they have enough to d
the business, provided there are n
serious losses. But suppose Roosevelt
busies himself with personal confer
ences and appeals to the men of thi
very class in the South? That is wha
he IL expected to do. with the utmos
force and effectiveness, in the mex
sixty hours. The Taft managers ar
doing everything possible to keen 'thei