The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-20
Henev areaks Out

There came tremendous pounding /
upon the doors OF the rooms. watch f.
had been locked by order OF the chair. |
man. and soon after Francis !. lie.
ney, OF san Francisco graft r1me, !
broke out into the corridor yelling at
the top Of his voice. Newspaper |
men, come here. want the news.
paper men Of the country to see what
these thieves are trying 20 do to us
in hero"
It came out afterward that acting
supposedly upon the orders of Col
onel Roosevelt himself, the Rough !
Riders forces i'm the committee in
sisted upon having the hearing made
public. This the majority of the
committee absolutely refused, and the
minority, finding that the doors were
locked, attempted first to persuade
the others to open them and then
broke them open by force.
Closely following Heney was Sui
Ivan, one of the Ohio delegates He
rushed into the hallway crying at the
top Of his voice: "Roosevelters walk
out Walk out Roosevelters. They
are cheating you"
He then Joined Heney in the cry
for newspaper men, and the other
members of the committee did the
same thing, shouting to those report
crs they knew by sight to come in
here and see what these men are
trying to do to us"
When the newspaper men surged
forward in response to the call the
doorkeepers stepped to the front and
standing between the broken doors
Of the rooms, refused to permit any
one to enter.
Halbert of Minnesota another
Roosevelter of the committee, yelled
to reporters to break through the
Gordon, and turning to his fellows
called out, Lets get through there
and tell them"
In a statement made for the press
Heney declared that the cause OF the
outbreak was the refusal of the ma
iority of the committee to throw open
ali the evidence which had been pre-
scented to ii by the Roosevelt follow
ers in the contested cases. Halbert
1t is said had presented a resolution
asking that the temporary roll of
the convention be considered only by
delegates whose right to sit was UNI
questioned, and that all underlying
evidence in the contested cases be
investigated
Gag Rule Charged.
This he said, the committee abso
lutely refused to consider, and st
tempted to put into force the well
known gag rule, by which the mi
nority would have had no chance at
all to say a word in defense of its
position"
Still another statement was made
by the Roosevelters, to the effect that
the majority of the committee had
adopted rules which would make
certain that the decisions of the ma
tional committee in the contested
cases would have been final and bind
ing upon the credentials committee
in making it's report to the conyen-
ton.
After the conference outside the
door of the committee room was over
Heney urgedethe contestants to 60 to
the Colonel's headquarters and confer
with him. This suggestion was fol
lowed and after conference with the
former President, the protesting meme
bers of the credentials committee re
turned to the room. They made it
plain, however, that they would not
remain unless their demand that none
but unprotected delegates should
have the right of voting upon con
tests was conceded by the majority
After a heated argument thai lasted
about half an hour the MAG ity re-
fused to grant this and the minority
walked out quietly at eleven forty
five o'clock.