Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-04
z ALABAMA MEN
BOLT TAFT RANKS

CHICAGO, June 4.-There was great
JOY In the Roosevelt headquarters TODAY.
a telegram from Alabama caused it.
Ihat message announced that the Ions
prophesied and eagerly hoped for. STAN
pede of Southern Taft delegates to Roose-
welt had begun.
Oscar IL. Hundley, of Birmingham.
wired:
Two delegates Instructed for Taft
from the Third Congressional district
have just given out written statements
they will support Roosevelt, based upon
the fact that 80 per cent. of their con-
stituency favor his nomination"
Thu W delegates from that district
and their seats are not contested. are
Byron Trommell n John b. Daughtry.
Beginning of the End.
That Colonel Roosevelt had gained two
additional delegates in his fight was not
the real cause of the joy the telegram
caused. The Rooseveltians have been
proclaiming for two weeks that the
Southern delegates will flock to Roose-
Welt, and the fact, as they read it, tina
the stampede had begun was what gave
the colonel's supporters so much hap
piness.
Il. W.. Sims, Alexander H. Revell and
ormsby McHarg, who are still in charge
of the headquarters because of the failure
of Senator Dixon to arrive, took the
slump of the Taft delegates to Roosevelt
as merely the beginning of what they
hope will happen. They took that as a
sign that their prophesies would be full
filed and that their desire to have the
said Southern delegates change their
faith would be granted.
II stand by my original prophesy that
25 per cent. of the instructed and unin-
structed delegates of the South who
have been claimed by Taft will vote for
Roosevelt" said Mr.. McHarg.
Mr.. Revell, chairman of the Roosevelt
committee. just back from oyster Bay,
whe'e he visited Colonel Roosevelt,
either did or did not give an interview
today in which the old threat of A
Roosevelt bolt was restated more en-
phatically than it has ever been.
Mr.. Revell would not say fatty
whether he did or did not give the in
terview. He just said it was foolish to
talk about it," and that he would not
get into a newspaper argument" and
then gave out a typewriter statement
containing no word about a bolt, and
upon which he said he stood. But two
afternoon papers printed the bolt" in
terview, in which they credited him with
saying:
Both ak Too Soon.
There are some contests where a de-
cfsion by the national committee against
the Roosevelt delegates would be SO
fragrant and unfair as to change for a
situation and make a bolt necessary.
I would lose my respect for a man
who would sit docilely by under
such an outrage and not make a pro-
test in behalf of the people in the only
effective way OPEN"
The language of that interview was
entirely at variance with the way other
Roosevelt leaders have been talking. Mr..
Sims, Mr.. McHarg and all ave ~suavely
Edlu llOll liz DC6iliiAhS thdt NV a .
sumed the. national committeeman to be
clean, fair and unprecedented gentlemen
who would decide the contests upon
their merits Mr.. Sims repeated their
position in those words yesterday, and
Mr.. Revell, in his later statement. used
an entirely different sort of %conversa-
ton without Withdrawing anything in
his first interview, If he gave 1t.
There are views and views about Mr..
Revell's first statement. A rather pre-.
yailing one was that in the first inter-
view, If he gave it. he stated the exact
Oyster Bay sentiment as he learned II
Saturday, but that he gave 1t out prema-
turely and that the brakes were applied
later. The Taft leaders unanimously be-
lieve such to be the Roosevelt intention,
only they think the colonel will bolt II
he is not nominated, whether 'outrages"
Acommltted or not.
he whole Roosevelt camp were more
rrietAag TO talk about the change of the
Do erAAlabnma Taft men than they were
re,,o ~ prospective bolt. But on the
= ohriefside it was denied that there will
, ocomly more OBJECTIONS. Two of the
n,ha FERN national committeeman who
.nonsiAontests reached town and both de
.as Ehat there is any merit in the
sAvelt contests or that there will be
80 Hump of the Taft delegates. They
M JHenry S. Chubb, of Florida, and
polis33'rai roWeii clayton OF ArAahsas'
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