The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-08

Cu1CaSO,~ June o.-Ine cruX or the
 entire situation. in connection with the
 Republican national convention, to.
 day, rested with Colonel Theodore
 Roosevelt. Accepting as a fact that he will reach here, next week, and immediately enter the active manage ment of his own fight for the Repub. lican nomination, his leaders, today rested on their oars. They said thai the air had been cleared by the de termination of the national commit tee to seat none but Taft men and that now they would concentrate their strength on the unpledged dele gates.
 The Taft leaders were doing the same thing. With the record of the 9th Alabama before them they stated that, under no circumstance, would a single, Roosevelt delegate be seated with the possible exception of Wash ington state and there were some Taft men who insisted that the
 'steamroller" would be a vital ad- junct in disposing of that particular contest. So both sides sent their most trusted men out to grapple with the delegates as they rolled in.
 The Taft leaders frankly admitted that they were "stiffening" the weak CT members while the Roosevelt chieftains simply declared that, aa they could get nothing from the na~ tionai committee, they were forced to see if they could not get something from the delegates themselves.
 The belief is now a concrete one on both sides that Roosevelt will per- sona1ly assume charge of his fight immediately upon his arrival here, next week, and that he and his fol- lowers will hold 8 eonyentfon of their own They absolutely deny that they are bolters. Instead. they will insist that they are the Sfmongpure Repub- licans of the country. The Taft chief tains were getting ready to give the President a progressive running mate as well as to promulgate a progress sive platform that they think will be winner before the voters. While there has not been the suggestion of boom for any candidate for the vice. presidency up to the present time, Taft leaders say that the man selected will be a progressive. To- day, their favorite was Albert Cum mirrs, Senator from Iowa. If he can be drafted, Taft men smilingly admit, today, that he would bring to their column the Iowa delegates who were instructed for his nomination for the presidency and they also say he would get them the home votes from the western section of the country where the Simon-pure progressive ism of Colonel Roosevek has been brought into the question.
 None of the delegates on hand would discuss the Cummins boom. It is privately circulated on gumshoes but Senator Borah. most ardent of progressive workers. declared that, while clever, the plan "could hardly work
 The Roosevelt men continued to in- sist, today, that if the national com mittee seated every single delegate from the contested districts, Taft would only have majority of IS delegates and that this would be off, set by the LaFollette delegates from Wisconsin and North Dakota. The managers ~iso believed this and were asserting that they would hold the balance of power in the and would be able to d1c- tate both the platform and the noml-' nee Some of the Roosevelt leaders were suggesting that they could get the LaFollette strength if they would abandon Governor Hadley, of Mis- souri, as their candidate for tenn porary chairman against Senator Root of New York and declare for Cover nor Francis D. McGovern, of Wiscon- sin.
 Senator Borah, however, was op- posed to this program. He stated that he was for Hadley and that, so far as he could influence anything he would oppose compromises that were founded only for a tactical advan- tage.>
 In his regular statement issued, to- day, Congressman Mckinley reiterat- ed his claims and replied to Senator Dixon's charge that the result in the 9th Alabama was the work of the and an outrageous rob- bery of the people,"
 '"The very fact that Colonel Cecil Lyon, who is one of the most loyal of the Roosevelt leaders, admitted that the affidavits of majority of the committee from the 9th district showed that the Taft convention was regular is proof enough that we had the right on our side despite the in cendiary utterances of the Roosevelt manager declared Mo- "but the Roosevelt people have got so used to trying to delude -he public that they keep on doing 90 even when they know that they nave no honest grounds to stand on."
 Its damn lie!" declared State Senator William Flynn, of Pittsburgh, when he was asked regarding the re- port that he was going to organize popular demonstration to impress the committee with the force of the Roosevelt claims Flynn also stated that the report that the police of Chicago might have to forcibly sup press him. was a good joke"
 He stated that Colonel Roosevelt was coming here but declined to say when he was coming.
 "All that is certain he said, ''is