The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-15
ROOSEVELT
 ID CHICAGO
PROFOUND SENSATION CREATED D BY THE COLONEL IN ACTUAL
 " STARTING TO CITY.
COUNTER CHARGE OF GRAFT
Negro Delegate in Taft Camp Stirs Up Hornets Nest-Tsft Men Say Roosevelt Knows He is
 Defeated Man.

Chicago, June 14.-Colonel Roose- velt's actual start from New York this afternoon to inject his own per- sonality into the situation surround ing the battle for delegates to the Republican national convention was practically the only topic of conver- sation after the fact became known here.
 To the Taft leaders the announce ment of Colonel Roosevelt's coming was in the nature of red rag to a bull" Director Mckinley of the Taft campaign management, issued state ment soon after MT Roosevclt's 5 starting became known, in which he declared unequivocably that the cer- tain Taft strength was 594 delegates -54 more than enough for a nomina tion He and all the other Taft lead CTS declared Roosevelts coming was the surest possible indication of des- peration and knowledge of defeat He asserted that at conference of the Roosevelt people held Thursday aft ernoon their most optimistic figuring showed Roosevelt total of 7S votes short of the necessary $40.
 1 More significantly, however was the table of delegate figures which accompanied Mir. McKinley's state 1 listed in the Taft column included all the contested delegations, GA in number, from Texas, Virginia and Washington, upon whose cases the na,.onal committee has still to pass | About the same time rumors were current everywhere that the Taft ma 1 jority on the committee had decided definitely to give Taft every remain l ing vote within their power from the contests still pending before the committee. Early in the evening it was expected more or less formal caucus of the majority would be held before the night was over to adopt this as a definite policy.
 | With the increasing defniteness ot | these rumors came an even more | definite decrease of such peace talk" as had softened the situation to some extent during the preceding 24 hours. | Expressions on both sides were dis tinctly truculent.
 I Some of the more exhuberant Roosevelt adherents proposed a ":n- umphal entry for their candidate: | but 1t was instantly discouraged by Senator Dixon and others of the more l experienced politicians among the l Roosevelt leaders. They expressed the opinion that such a procedure would | be unwise and probably would have | effects quite the opposite of those intended by it's proposers. These councils prevailed.
 Arrangements had been made for t mass meeting to be held next Mon- l day evening-the night before the | convention-in the great Auditorium theater in Roosevet's behalf. with a list of well known speakers. It was said tonight that MT Roosevelt would be the only speaker on that occasion. 1 Whether he will be given opportu- nifty to speak before the convention depends altogether upon whether ne | desires to do so. Even his bitterest opponents here concede tonight that So distinguished a Republican, for merly president of the United States, must be welcomed by the national convention of his party to place on the platform. It was not known to- night whether Colonel Roosevelt would think it expedient to attend the convention in person.
 As for MT. Taft, his principal rival for the nomination, nobody here has serious thought that he will come to Chicago under any conceivable conditions In fact it has been pos itively announced by the president 1 that under no circumstances will he come to the convention
 Whatever their views on the sub ject of Colonel Roosevelt's coming to the convention, there can be no doubt that it has caused a profound sensation on the part, not only of the | leaders of all the candidates but of the rank and file. All other talk subsided while all hands talked about Mir Roosevelts coming to Chi cago.
 One thing that happened during the evening interrupted even the talk about Roosevelt's trip. That was the issue from the Roosevelt headquart- CTS of what purported to be a letteS to Director Mckinley bf the Taft campaign from Charlei Banks, one of the negro delegates at large from
 Mississippi, seated by the national committee. and credited to Taft. In this letter Banks purported to be re-
 turning to Mckinley a sum of money alluded to in the letter as "a few
 hundred dollars" and referred to as
 having been advanced to him by the
 Taft people for expenses of some of
 the delegaets from Mississippi"
 The reply of the Taft headquarters,
 in the form of remark from Mir.
 Mckinley, was brieE and oracular,
 Mir. Mckinley said;
 'T hope every Republican will read
 the Banks letter with extreme care and then draw his own conclusions. | lf.,for,,-oc o~1 s1Tp,,,tro+t~o Ttr