The Washington times., 1912-06-11
IGNORE FRAUD CRY
IN DECIDING CASES
BEFORE COMMIT TEE
Taft Followers Are Expected
to Give Him All Ken
lucky Contests.
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In the convention. In, none of these
counties was there a contest presented
before the committee on credentials In
the State convention, and the filing of
the notice Of contest is the first time
that any complaint was ever made with
reference thereto. If the 40 votes which
were In contest could all have been
given to the Roosevelt forces it would
have made his entire strength still short
OF Q majority by 2s7 votes in the State
convention. The elections Of Senator
Bradley, Judge Breathett and w. d.
Cochran, were made unanimous by the
convention. No one of the 400 or 300
gate, J. e. Wood, was elected by a
tremendous preponderance Of vote"
Holds Balance of Power.
Walter L. Hauser, OF Wisconsin, La
Toilette national manager, today gave
out a statement in which he declared
that the wisconsin Senator would hold
the balance of power when the conven-
ton gets down ITO business. He sad
the La Toilette strength, counting upon
the ten delegates instructed for Senn-
said there would be at least this num-
bfr who would vote for neither Taft nor
Roosevelt.
Hauser admitted today that II Ia
Toilette controlled enough votes to dead
lock the convention on candidates, he
would force into the platform plank
favoring scientific revision of the tariff
the initiative, referendum, and judicial
recall, and his own IDEAS regarding tho
regulation of trusts, making 1t possible
for a man or firm to recover II forced
out of business by a trust.
Governor Hadley of Missouri was here
today to look after the interests Of the
State. The executive laughed when
asked about the Taft followers claim
of strength in Missouri, and said that
a few politicians, but that the large
welt.
Roosevelt Men Arrive.
Governor Glasscock Of West Virginia,
one of the original seven governors who
sought Colonel Roosevelt as a candi-
date, arrived today. With him came
Colonel Baldwin. OF Baltimore, Roose-
welt supporter.
Emerging from long conference with
Senator Dixon. Clifford Pinchot, former
chief forester, and James R. GARFIELD, Of
Ohio, former Secretary of the Interior,
both dyed in the wool" Roosevelt sup
porterss declared themselves supreme
ly confident" that Roosevelt would be
the choice of the convention.
Plan to Check Stampede.
That the Roosevelt forces will not be
permitted to storm the convention har1
when the national convention meets
was the emphatic assertion of Chairman
victor Rosewater and dozen members
OF the committee today.
The nlan Of Tho PnnaapoIk
engineered by William Finn of Penn
sylvannia and indorsed by all Of the
members Of the Republican steering
committee. to have the convention re-
made up by the national committee
and to go ahead and capture the con-
Vention from the start, will not be
allowed to go through, according to
water. as chairman, will be protected
In presenting the temporary roll of
delegates as made up by the national
committee and in presenting the name
OF Senator Root of New York as tenn
porary chairman.
Ready for a Clash.
Unless the Roosevelt leaders recede
from their present position they will
demand that their contestinE dele
gates be permitted to vote on the
temporary Craftsmanship question.
This will not be permitted by the
national committee which will have
all OF the convention machinery at its
disposal including enough husky as
sistant sergeants- at arms to put over
anything Colonel Stone, of Baltimore,
the & &sesgeant.at-arms, may order.
oppose everything the national commit
tee may try to put through. II they
do this. the committeeman insist, there
Will be wholesale elections from the
convention hall.
The two committees organized on be-
half of the Taft and Roosevelt forces
which have been making up the conven-
tion program, and which are referred
to against their will as the "vigiiantes"
are carefully guarding most Of their
actual plans for the convention as
they are deyoting most Of their public
energies at the present time to influence
ing the individual delegates and the
Roosevelt forces were insisting today
that they have made decided inroads
into President Taft's strength in the
solid South.
Barnes on the Job.
William Barnes. jr., the New York
State committee chairman. and the
arch enemy of Colonel Roosevelt, who
arrived here today. was Immediately
assigned the job of keeping the Taft
delegations intact. He. through a score
of able Heutenants, hurriedly placed at
MS disposal, Will be In constant touch
with 'the leaders of all of the Taft
delegations and will try to hold in line
any who show signs of weakening.
Barnes insisted on his arrival here
that there was no question that the
Taft forces would be in control of the
convention. He declared that bluster
would not prevail and that when the
cold facts were shown by a roll call of
the convention 1t would be seen that the
claims of the Roosevelt supporters
were unfounded
But with the bitterness engendered by
the work of the national committee in
throwing out all of the Roosevelt dele
gates who had tried to get in the con-
Vention rolls through contests came re-
newed talk again today of a compromise
candidate. Most of this came from the
"A" moor OF the Congress Hotel. where
Senator Kenyon had opened headquar-
ters for his colleague, Senator Cummins
of Iowa. The Iowa Senator has only
ten delegates in the convention, but he
and his friends think this is enough to
90 on.
Hope for a Deadlock.
They were insisting today that with
the La Toilette strength absolutely in
tact at all times. the combined votes
OF the Senators from Wisconsin and
Iowa would deadlock the convention
ana nrauant nomination