The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-11
STAGE SETTING
NOW c Q NJ PLETE
Headquarters of All Republican
Candidates Have Been
Opened.
VARIOUS CAMPS ARE BUSY
Nothing Will Be Overlooked i'll
Efforts to Capture
Delegates.
VARIOUS CAMPS ARE BUSY

Chicago. June 1o.--The stage set
ting for the Republican Nationa! Cen
vcntion was completed to-day with
the opening of the La Toilette and
Cummins headquarters at hotels. Cum
Minis headqua cters were established in
the same hotel that houses the Taft
and the Roosevelt workers The La
Toilette heaquartcrs. opened by AL
fred T. Rogers. national comm tteema II
from Wisconsin. are situated six blocks
from the others
The managers of the several head
quarters. together with their advisers
and associates. tonight completed
plans for the reception of delegates,
who are expected to begin arriving to-
morrow. Special committees to han
die the delegates have been named, and
will be on duty from this time until
the close OF the convention.
direct appeal will be made TO each
individual delegate by the campaign
manager OF each candidate for the
nomination, despite instructions or
pledges. No possible vote in the con-
vention Will be overlooked, and any
indication among the delegates OF
shifting sentiment Will prccipitatc n
lively scramble among the manager
A number OF prominent Roosevelt
leaders to-day declared reports Of a
possible bolt by the Roosevelt dele
gates. in case the Presidents friends
succeed in nominating Mr.. Tatt. were
without reasonable foundation.
Senator William II. Borah. of Idaho,
an active worker for Roosevelt in the
sessions of the national committee.
said:
NO bolt for me, have not even
considered such possibility. And
! don't eXpect to consider it,"
The Roosevelt headquarters were
particularly alive with meetings and
conferences this afternoon and to-
night. a number Of well-known
Roosevelt adhcrents. including Judge
Ben Il. Lindsey. of Colorado: James
X. Garfield. Of Ohio; Congressman
William Kent. of California, and Gif-
ford Pinchot, of Washington. were
the various councils held in the in
tcrests OF the former President
we have got them skinned de-
spite the work of the national COM
mittec." said Garfield who was Sec
, retnr" OF the Interior under Roose-
Welt. This committee cannot stop
the nomination of Roosevelt There
VIII be an uprising against the action
here.
This nation has been aroused. as
it has not been in a presidential cam
pa. Su " l'f'uN HitultIN, ana the YER
diet is ON the side Of the progress
sives. The convention proper will
undo the raw things this committee
may put over. Colonel Roosevelt
friends are confident Of the outcome"
Fra lin MacNeaeh. Secretary of
the Treasury. visited the Taft head
quarters during the day. and de-
clared that President Taft would be
nominated on the first ballot.
Oscar Il. IIundley. OF the Ninth Al
ALBANIA District. or which the Taft
delegates were seated by the national
committee. to-day sent a telegram to
President Taft protesting against the
action of the committee. The tele-
gram recited the contentious of the
osevelt delegates from that dis
Il CT AMI said In part:
The majority of the national com
mittec have voted to unseat the
regularly elected delegates from tho
Niath District OF Alabama Do YOU
vouch for this unheard-of act on the
part OF your partisans. and do you
desire your nomination secured by
auch methods"