Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-17
IS CERTAIN
ROOSEVELT WINS.
Says Delegates Will Not Rec
ognize a Convention Dis
honestly Organized.
Iron a star corre,pondsnt.l

[From a Stan Correspondent.]
CHICAGO, June 17.-Former Gov
ernor John Franklin Fort, of New
Jersey, who is one of the members Of
the Roosevelt steering committee. isl
at the Blackstone, where he was seen
by the staff correspondent of The
Star and was asked how he viewed
the situation.
Mr.. Fort said: THE logic of the
situation Is entirely with Roosevelt.
1 say Roosevelt. meaning the great
popular cause which he represents.
1--WE are 1t a crucial period in u
history. The old order of things in
the Republican party and in the ma
ton which has produced the condi-
tions that aus the great popular
discomfort is passing away, and when
an epochal change like this occur 1t
is always attended by a convulsion.
We are having the convulsion now,
but nothing can arrest the progress
of the national reforms that are now
SO clearly defined in the minds of the
American people. Privilege is at its
last gasp. l believe that this week
the edi1ce of fraud and outrage built
up by the discredited men who are
desperately trying to force Mr., Taft
upon the party hat has distinctly and
emphatically repudiated him will go
to pieces like a house of cards"
fskPositIve Colonel VIII Win.
! The correspondent asked: What
is the plan of action, Governor, now
that you are up against the work
done by the national committee?"
Mr.. Fort replied: This Is the pro-
gram: We will insist that before the
convention proceeds to business the
delegate list shall be purged of sixty
or seventy names fraudulently placed
upon it by the national committee.
Unless that Is done the representatives
of the Republican party who were
honestly elected as delegates to the
national convention will not recognize
the legality of the convention organ
ization and will act accordingly. We
fully realize the solemn responsibility
to our party and to the nation tnat
rests upon us, and we will unfiinch-
ingly discharge it,
do you think, Mr.. Fort. that it
will come to tnat
Il do not. AS l said, the logic OF
the situation is with us, and l am as
confident that right will prevail In
the convention and that Colonel
Roosevelt will be the choice of the
Republican party as / am of the
coming of tomorrow'sssun.
Bryan in the Crowd.
The New Jersey delegates and
others are scattered among the hotels
on Michigan avenue, principally at
the Blackstone and Congress, and
others are at the La Sale. The TAFT
crowd, including Dalrymple and
others of Essex, have arrived. Promi-
nent among the Roosevelt leaders Is
Everett Colby, who was at h station
with a band to escort the New Jerr,
sey delegation on a march to the
hotel.
All the hotels are crowded and their
Hobbies packed with men from all
sections of the country, with Roose-
welt and Taft men unfortunately
mixed.
Franklin Murphy has a suite on the
&C. fioor of the Congress Hotel. He
is closely occupied with convention
affairs, and repeatedly he declared he
was confident that Taft would be
nominated, and treated as idle talk all.
rumors of a split in the convention.
Former Vice-President Fairbanks,
William J. Bryan and other national
notables mixed with the crowds
around the hotel Hobbies. The query
passed around as to what brought
Bryan to Chicago. There was an at
tempt to cheer him in the Congress
Hotel lobby, but the crowd was a Re-
publican one and did not enthuse.
Interest is on keenest edge.
Speculation was rife as to how
Mayor Harrison's police will be used.
The Roosevelt men fear that the po-
lice will be used to force Taft's
chances.