The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-06-19
Roosevelt Forces Lose First Skir.
mish in National Convention.
DETAILED STORY OF EVENTS.
Motion to unseat Contested Del
egales Not Entertained.

Su4CdSO, JuAC AGAINST LAX
threats, charges and bitter invective
or-the Roosevelt forces, the Taft sup
porters in the Republican nationa
convention put through the first por
ton OF their program by electing Sen
ator Root Of New York for temporary
chairman
In spite of the fact that Victo.
Rosewater, chairman of the nationa
committee, consistently ruled out o
order every motion made by tn
Roosevelt forces, it required NOR
than five hours to reach a vote on tn
chairmanshir.
The calling Of the roll was bese,
with difficulties from the very drsl
name on the list Of delegates, but in
the end, when the tumult had died
away, Senator Root was found to have
won by vote of 55S to 5O2 for Gov
ernOr McGovern of Wisconsin, with
fourteen scattering votes and four not
voting.
This morning both Taft and Roose-
welt forces are claiming this vote in.
dicates their candidate sure to win.
The advantage appears to be with
the president. however, for while he
Is sure to lose some of the votes that
were cast for Senator Root, it is
claimed that he will gain, il instruc
tions are lived up to, some Of the
votes cast for McGOvern.
Those leaders who have been urging
a compromise candidate ever since
they arrived in Chicago insist the fig
ures show it is essential to name a
"dari horse" to save the day for the
party.
The fighting is to be renewed to-
day, when the motion Of the Roosevelt
leaders to substitute new list OF
delegates for those seated in some OF
the contested cases heard before the
national committee is to be taken up
a. the unfinished business.
The Taft leaders say that ample
oppo, snity will be given for discus
sion of the proposition.
At a conference of the Taft leaders
II was sad they had scaled down and
cut cut the doubtful votes from th'
Root total and their final analysis
showed 542 votes for the president
two more than enough to nominate
Even these figures, it was said, in
cluded a few "wobbly" delegates and
might be changed.
The Roosevelt leaders were frankly
surprised at the Root vote and claimed
they expected him to poll between SIS
and $50. They professed to be jubi'
liant over their view Of the situation.
but at the same time it was impossi-
bic for them to figure out a paper ma
jority for the colonel.
The Roosevelt people and the Taft
people carried out their programs as
ANNOUNCED in advance almost to the
letter The Roosevelt people say they
are going to fight every inch of the
wa
Cries of "bolters" were hurled at
the Poceevelt delegates at times dur.
ing the session. but the contingency
Of q holt seems far distant.
California BelIiserent.
I California, under the leadership OF
Governor Hiram Johnson, assumed a
belliEerent attitude almost with the !
start of the roll call, when the two
Roosevelt delegates from the Fourth !
district, unse.ted by the national com
mittee. we're not allowed to vote. But
thev confined their protest to e'o
uueuce: the two votes for Root were
the cnly encroachment in that stat
upon ths vote cast for McGOvern
Later Pennsylvania made fiercer pro |
test akains& the vote of an alternate. !
The Roosevelt men did the best they |
could. demanding the omission Of the
name Of every delegate objected to
on th. ground that he had been i'm.
properly seated by the national COM
mittee. The roll call went on merci-
lessly. at times amid deafening confu- u
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