The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-06-18
TEDDY TRIES TO
WIN DELEGATES
REtALCITRANT POLITICIANS ARE
GIVEN THIRD DEGREE AND
THREATENED WITH FUTURE.
Unless Roosevelt Leaders Win on the
Contests They Will Nominate Him
Han.

Chicago, June 17-With less than
"a hours remaining before the crash
OF the gavel will be heard in the fe-
publican national convention. the
Roosevelt and Taft forces tonight
struggle.
The real things that were happen
ing today were entirely lacking in
the spectacular 1t was while en-
thusiastic bands were playing about
headquarters of the various delega-
tions and while admiring throngs
sought to catch glimpses of political
heroes that the final heart-rending,
mind breaking struggles were pro-
ceeding within quiet rooms. IL, these
last clashes there was no place for
the weak man. Contending leaders
who have spent their lives working
to perfect every artifice in the game
of politics were besought to bear ex-
animation and quizzings that amount
to the third degree" upon recalci-
trant politicians from many states.
And these men heard forecasts of
what would happen to them year
from now, two years from now or four
years from now unless they agreed
to abide by the demands upon them.
The fire was merciless and as it
continued the keen-eyed, sleepless
inquisitors whose brains were keyed
up 70 the last degree of reaction,
watched for preliminary signs of
panic, or break.
Roosevelt Against the FieId.
Over one side of the struggle there
ruled the master hand of Roosevelt
and waging against him were men
whose political keenness would stand
a world test.
Summarily the situation is whether
the republican elephant" will re-
spond to the vigorous digs of either
of two contending drivers or whether
it will twist its trunk about each of
them in turn and hurl them aside to
go its own way. There were indica-
tions that the last contingency is not
at all impossible.
In this connection it became ap-
parent that the division of delegates
between Roosevelt and Taft on the
question of the nomination does not
hold on any other proposition to
come before the convention. This was
shown plainly by the attitude of the
Virginia delegation. Although prac-
tically all are for the nomination of
Taft, nine of the Virginia delegates
declared they would vote to Oyerrule
the action of the national committee
in seating Taft delegates over Roose-
ington and Texas
RooseVelt's Scheme.
This sentiment among arriving
delegates was seized upOn quickly by
Roosevelt and his advisers, who have
determined to attem9t to break down
President Taft's strength in the con-
yention through the medium of pre-
liminary ballots.
The Roosevelt managers propose to
focus the fight when the national
convention has been called to order
by orecipitating a roll call OF those
seats undebated by Colonel Roosevelt.
The Roosevelt men expect TO
achieve this end by demanding a roll
call on the temporary chairmanship
or The very first question that comes
up before the convention. Then it is
planned to have Governor Johnson of
California, cast the twenty-six votes
for that state on the question. This
action by Governor Johnson, it is ex-
pected will be objected to by the two
Taft delegates from the Fourth Cali
fornia district.
This juncture will be grasped by
the Roosevelt floor le2de- - ne ---2
upon which to get .Ie "expugated'' >
vote of the delegates. The dooG -~od>c.
will move at once that the tc-.- po- =
roll as made up by the national COM
mittee be rejected and that substi-
4ute roll, including the 70 or 80 dele
gates claimed by Colonel Roosevelt be
adopted.
In thus submitting the matter OF
the debated seats to the convention,
en- bloc. none of the delegates affected
nv 4he contests could vote on the
ouestion and the Roosevelt men be-
7ieve that such a poll would give them