Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-21
TAFT AND TEDDY
IN BITTER STRUGGLE

| away altogether before the end OF the
session.
The question of temporary chairman
is now of the utmost Importance to the
colonel. Shrewd enough to know the
tremendous value of a peaceful victory,
he is bending every effort to defeat Root
for temporary chairman.
! Through the streets all day have
marched scores of 1oen bearing banners
making attacks on the senator written
by the colonel and his friends and ex-
tracts from newspapers alluding to Root
as the jackal of the trusts.
Thousands of pamphlets attacking
him in a like manner are strewn over
the floors of the hotels and along the
pavement
Despite these assaults or Root, he
still will have STA votes for the chair
manship, according to the estimates of
Mckinley and Barnes.
Riot Plan Discussed.
The parliamentarians on both sides Of
the contest have been at work through
the afternoon perfecting plans for the
battle that is to begin with the falling
of Rosewater's gavel.
Representative Olmsted, who will take
a seat on the platform directly behind
Rosewater and instruct him just whom
he is to recognize and how he is to pro-
ceed, has been giving all the Taft men
who have part to play their final in
structions.
For the Roosevelt men, E. L. Lamp
son of Ohio is making up the parlia-
mentary programme and Albert J. BeV-
eridge, once senator from Indiana, con-
Quoted parliamentary school to which
all delegates were invited this after
noon
One of the plans which was still
under discussion at midnight, but which
both Lampson and Borah told the col
onel would not hold water, was to have
Hadley move the adoption of minority
report of the national committee con-
tanning Rosewater temporary roll the
instant Rosewater called the convention
to order. Then the Roosevelt candidate
foI chairman was to grab the gaveI and
the fun was to start
Lampson insisted that convention so
called could have no standing and it was
given out quietly late tonight that the
colonel had agreed with them.
Colonel Intimates Bolt.
Although Col Roosevelt in his speech
at the Auditorium came as close to sug-
gesting bolt as at any time during his
campaign, it had been tentatively decid-
ed by Roosevelt leaders to fight to the
end, through all of the parliamentary
channels open to them, before taking
any radical step.
Col. Roosevelt asserted that men
''fraudulently put on the temporary roll
by the dishonest action of the majority
of the national committee must not be
allowed to vote on their own cases, or
to vote one one another's."
Then he added:
1T is the duty of all honest members
of the convention to fight that action
from the moment the convention as
sembles. 1t is our duty to the rank and
file of the Republican party; it is our
duty to the people of this country to
insist that no action of the convention
which is based on the votes of these
fraudulently seated delegates binds the
Republican party or imposes any obli-
cation upon any Republican"
This outline of the Roosevelt cam
paign, coming from the colonel himself,
served to set at rest all doubht as to
change of programme from that de-
cided upon at a conference of the Roose-
velt leaders last night-'to fight from
the drop of the hat"
Fight From Start.
The Roosevelt leaders are going to at.
tempt from the very start to appeal
their case to the convention itself, minus
the contested delegates seated bv the
national committee. Taft forces are GO
ing to insist that the proceeding shall
move strictly according to precedent
On the eve of the convention both
sides plainly We're nervous. It was diff
cult enough for them to reach any sort
Of conclusion as to how the delegates
finally would line up on the nomination
and next to impossible to determine lust
what delegates could be depended upon
to put through the preliminary pro-
gramme Some of the delegates instruct
ed for Col. Roosevelt, it was known.
would not support all of the moves
made by his steering committee on the
convention floor while it appeared equal
ly true that many of the delegates in
structed for Taft did not feel obligated
to support his managers on any other
question.
These facts threw an element of doubt
into the situation and gave to every
prospective move in the convention an
uncertainty unknown in recent years in
the Republican party.