Arizona republican., 1912-06-14
EIGHTEEN CONTESTS
 DECIDED FOR TAFT
Manager Dixon Developing Into a Rainbow Chaser Predicts the Breaking Up of the Taft Majority on the Committee
ASSOCIATED PRnss D1sPATcH1


 CHICAGO June 13-The events of the day gave the Roosevelt leaders the first real cause for surface jubi- lation and they were not slow to take advantage of it. While the committee was ffisposing of the Missouri con- tests the Roosevelt delegates in Chi cago were assembled in the Congress Hotel listening to a speech by Will liam Finn, who urged that every man must do his duty and not give up the fight"
 Several hundred men in the room were cheering when the news reached the fringe of the crowd that Missouri had been won by the Roosevelt mem bers of the national committee. Fran cis J. Heney brought the tidings. and soon after, Dixon, the Roosevelt man. ager, arrived
 Amid cheers he advanced to speak If Roosevelt is not wanted by the convention for president of the United States next Thursday Dixon de- clared. you can back me against a wall and do anything you want with me- After he was loudly cheered, Dixon said the republican national committee could not get enough del egates for Taft to nominate him. The members of the national com mittee cannot stand the strain of public opinion much longer he de clared.
 Heney then took the rostrum. When he announced that the national com mittee had given the Missouri dele gtaes at large to Roosevelt there was tumult and then Finn asked: After that do you still consider the national committee forty thieves
 Yes" responded Heney, T still compare some of the committee with the forty thieves
 But. don't you think the committee is improving?" asked Finn.
 Only as to results" said Heney
 Governor Stubbs of Kansas. William Allen White and Edward C. Caring ton of the Maryland delegation shared in stirring up enthusiasm. The latter aroused cheers by predicting that the electors chosen in Maryland probably would be found with the electors of West Virginia and Pennsylvania sup porting Roosevelt in the electoral col lege even though he should not be the republican nominee.
 After this the Roosevelt members of the national committee began to arrive from the adjourned meeting in the Coliseum and were surrounded and were pressed for explanations of the sudden adjournment after the Missouri contest decision in RoOse- velt's favor. Prominent Roosevelt ad- herents are at a loss to understand the reason for the sudden adjourn ment
 Senator Borah said it was at the request of Senator Crane. The Idaho senator said he thought it possible that some of the committee leaders had been fooled by the evidence of the Missouri chairman and wished to look carefully into the evidence for the Texas and Washington cases be- fore bringing them up for the com mittee's action. These contests like those from Missouri were instituted by the Taft forces. Dixon took a diff ferent view. He said the Taft lead CTS on the committee were frightened hy assertions from their own ranks.
 Tt is positively known" said Dix on, that two members of the na- tional committee who have been vot-
  notice last night that they would go no further in unseating Roosevelt del egates regularly chosen. I know who they are and could name them if I would. There are other members of the committee who can stand the strian no longer. That is why Pen rose and Crane fled to cover this afternoon to counsel on change of plans"
 The Roosevelt campaign manager concluded his statement with a decla- ration that the Roosevelt forces would control the temporary organization in the convention and that Roosevelt would be nominated. He admitted that the Roosevelt forces might not control the credentials committee Dixon said there may be Taft men or the credentials committee who will stand for the steals of the Roosevelt delegates like the steal from Ken lucky and California. He said they may not nominate a candidate for ter days after the convention opens
 It was reported that a conference Of the Roosevelt forces had agreed upon a man to oppose Root Dixor would not admit this. It was reported that Borah had been selected and tha Roosevelt had agreed to the choice Borah is also mentioned as a prob able dark horse for the presidential nomination
 Many still believe that another mar