The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21

Taft leaders half to death. That new
party WAS too much for them all at
onco. They had seen their own gal
leries go wild for the Roosevelt cause:
A little new party movement would
mean the loss Of congressman and sem
ators in all directions. 1t would moan
the certainty Of Democratic success. 1t
would mean that every federal Office
holder in the country would lose his
job.
Governor Deneen OF Illinois has to
come up for election. He didn 4 come
out for Roosevelt until Roosevelt had
won Illinois. Now what is he to do7
If he bolts, the steamroller may run
him down. IF he does not the Roosevelt
ians Will turn on him. And if he de-
serts the progTessives and thcir new
And Borah is a good deal In the
same fx. He is thoroughly converted
to the doctrine Of presidential prefer
enoe primaries but where will he be In
Washington If he leaves his partyF
And where will he be if he doesn't9
So there is trouble all along the line.
The Taft men have been going about
saving Roosevelt cannot carry his del
ecates with him. He cannot carry them
NOT all OF them He probably cannot
carry half of them.
The rest has mostly been houndcring
and ahope that time and the cooling Of
passions would point the way. There
have been rumors of this and rumors of
that-Hadley, Cummins, Borah OdelI
have been touted as compromise candl-
dates.
The meetings of the conventions have
been farcical. Many people pay large
This noon they got in pushing with diff
ficulty through eager crowds They
sat in heated atmosphere. Then they
stood for a prayer and applauded be-
cause it was short. They herl Jim
Watson, the Indiana man, Taft floor
leader, say to the waiting Chairman
Root;
NThe credentials committee has not
vet reported and as, until that report
is presented no other business can be
transacted, J move YOU. sir, that this
convention take recess until clock
this afternoon.
That motion carried, and that was
all mauy people got for the money they
had paid for tickets for that session.
Surely it was not much to get for say
$1,000,
Tickets were also sold for the aft
ernoon session. The people jammed In
ahoad Of the thunderstorm, Just as they
got their places and rain began falling,
as if the waters were coming down
at Lodore. the people for their money
and their pains heard Jim Watson say
TO the again waiting Root:
'EThe credentials committee has not
yet reported and AS, until that report
is presented no other business can be
tran sacted, / move you, Mr. President,
that this convention take n recess until
noon tomorrow,
That motion carried and then Root
tried to turn those poor people out into
the storm. He sent UP the bold but
stentorious Jim Harlan to shout mega
phoDically, "Thc light In this hall will
be put out in five minutes. All must
leave the plnce!'
The storm had made the hall dark
as night. To have put those lights out
would havo meant murder-perhaps by
wholesale.
A flag bad been nnfurled and Roose-
velt picture had been attached to
il. A wild man in the gallery had
started to lead the 'fWe Want Teddy"
chorus, and 1t was going at full swing.
A fter time policemen suppressed that
wild man and the Root Harlan threat
! OF turning the people out into the
storm was not carried out, So the eve
Want Teddy whooping went on for,
| say half an hour with more or less
vim.
The situation ia that Taft can be
nominated If they dare TO force his
nomination and that Roosevelt can
form a new party, backed by, say 200
Republican delegates any time he says
the word.