The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-08
POLITICAL WAR IS
UP TO ROOSEVELT
FOR NEXT MOVE
Former Presidents Supporters
Believe He Will Arrive in
Chicago Next Week
STEAM-ROLLER KEEPS
TAFT MEN IN CONTROL
Contesting Delegations Are De-
feated Before Committee and
Bolt Talk Fills Air

CHICAGO, June S.-The crux of the
entire situation in connection with the
Republican national convention today
rested with Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
Accepting as fact that he will reach
here next week and Immediately enter
on the active management OF his own
fight for the Republican nomination,
his leaders today rested on their oars.
They said that the air had been clear
ed by the determination OF the nation
al committee to seat none but Taft
men and that now they would concen-
trate their strength on the unopposed
delegates.
The Taft leaders were doing the
same thing. With the record OF the
ninth Alabama before them, they
stated that under no circumstance
would single Roosevelt delegate be
seated with the possible exception or
Washington state, and there were
some Taft men who insisted that the
steam-roller would be a vital adjunct
in disposing of that particular con-
test 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 weaker members.
While the Roosevelt chieftains simply
declared that, as they could get moth
ing from the national committee they
were forced TO see II they could not
get something from the delegates
themselves.
The belief is now a concrete one
with both sides that Roosevelt will
personally assume charge Of the stu
alton Immediately on his arrival here
next week, that he will be defeated In
his skirmish for position, and that he
and his followers will hold a conven-
ton OF their own. They will absolute
ly deny that they are boilers. Instead
they will insist that they are the 81
mon-pure Republicans of the country
and in every state where the progres-
siyes are In control they will demand
that their nominees be considered reg
ular and as such given the place on
the official ballot TO be voted next fall
that the regular Republican candi-
dates usually occupy. And they pri-
vately declared today that they would
carry their point on this question.
While they are doing so the Taft
ohieftains. were getting ready to give
the president a progressive running
mate as we'll as to promulgate pro-
gressive platform that they think will
be a winner before the voters. While
there has not been the suggestion OF a
boom for any candidate for the vice
presidency up to the present time, the
Taft leaders say that the man select
ed will be a progressive. Today their
favorite was Senator Albert b. Cum
Minis, Of Iowa. II he can be drafted
the Taft men smllingly admitted that
he would bring to their column the
Iowa delegates who were instructed
for his nomination for the presidency
and they also said that he would get
them some votes from the western
section OF the country where the 81
mon-pure progressiveism of Col.
Roosevelt has been called into ques-
ton.
None OF the delegates on hand
would discuss the Cummins boom. IL
was privately circulated on gum-shoes
and Senator Borah, most ardent OF the
progressive workers, declared that,
while clever. the plan could hardly
work"
In his regular public statement Sen
ator Dixon, leader Of the Roosevelt
forces, today insisted that his follow
ers would control the convention when
the delegates began voting. He dep
recated bolt talk saying the colonel
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