The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-10

or at least some plan modelled along
4 this line, acceptable as one of the big
planks in the platform. Other forces
i dame rumor named George W.
Perkins, although his friends denied
it--were trying to impress on the
: Roosevelt leaders that the one thing
: this country needed was stable
/ currency" and that some plan as the
i Aldrich commission arranged, but
= changed so that the standpat machine
could get no credit, was needed to aid
Il Roosevelt with the bankers and to
3 start the wheels of prosperity
4 when he was elected"
i Alfred Crozier of Wilmington. adj 4
j mittedly one of the most expert auth |
: critics on matters of finance, arrived
here today to oppose the Aldrich plan I
! endorsement. He said that he was t
( surprised to find apparent sentiment
4 for the scheme in both camps. The
monetary plank in the platform, It I
was certain today, will precipitate
! bitter fight and the Roosevelt people
| were declaring that if they We're in
control of the situation they would
I hold open meetings of the platform
committee so that the people at large !,
might know who advocated certain
planks.
George w. Perkins has reserved
almost an entire floor at the Black
stone hotel for his headquarters
There is also in this hotel Clifford
Pinchot, former chief forester, while
Thos. w. Lawson of Boston has
quarters there and ex-boss Finn
/ sleeps there, although he spends most
of his time in the Dixon headquarters
in the Congress. Roosevelt, when he
arrives here, will have two rooms on
the fifth floor of the Blackstone that
have been reserved for him for sever
al weeks.
Depending on Emotions
Nearly every delegate will be on
band by Wednesday or Thursday
The convention really entered on the
enthusiasm stage when 100 Roosevelt
boomers from the Pacific coast rolled
in and Immediately started cheering
the colonel and his hat through the
corridors of the hotel They are the
vanguard, the Roosevelt leaders adj
mitted of more than $4,000 shouters
who will be brought here to i'm
press the delegates that the Roosevelt
enthusiasm is real. senator Dixon,
Senator Finn and all of the Roosevelt
men, are depending great deal on
emotional work to help them break
the solid Taft ranks. They believe
that plenty of noise will have its eff
feet and they intend that it will be on
tap. That will be the strong card of
the Roosevelt men and they all insist
that it will be winning one. With
Roosevelt in person leading the cheer
ing and issuing vitriolic broadsides
against the attempt to rob the peo-
pie of their rights" the Roosevelt
men believe they will impress the
delegates to such an extent that many I
will be able to justify the desertion of +
the president.
There was report here today that {
Roosevelt had been privately assured |
that he would get the LaFollette dele
gates later on, probably after the first I
ballot was cast for president. This !
was promptly denied by the LaFollette
headquarters, although the rumor was
so circumstantial that 1t specifically
named three men who had announced
/ they considered they would have
obeyed their instructions when they
/ had cast one ballot for the Wisconsin
header.
/ The first delegation to put in an ap-
! pearance to fight for platform plank
reached the Congress today and dis
I cussed its hopes with the leaders in
both headquarters. 1t represented tbs
!, National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
4 ton and was headed by Jane Adams
I CT Hull House. The suffragettes are
4 delighted with their reception althoug.
4 they admit they have no hope of win
ming their fight and having universal
suffrage placed in any of the big par
i ty platforms this year. But where in
the past they have been source of
J merriment they were today accorded
J a dignified reception and their state
ments were courteously listened to.