The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-11
Precautions Being Taken to Prevent Roosevelt
Forces from Storming the Republican Nation
al Convention One Week from Today.
COMPROMISE TALK COMES FROM HOTEL
Taft Forces Claim That They Will Control
Everything From the Opening Ode to the
Benediction in the Chicago Coliseum.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Seryics.l 4
CHICAGO, June 11.-That the
Roosevelt forces will not be permitted
to storm the convention hall when the
republican national convention meets
in this city one week from today was
the emphatic assertion of Chairman
Victor Rosewater and a dozen mem
bers of the committee. today. The
plan of the Roosevelt leaders, engi-l
neered by William Finn Of Pennsyl-
vania and endorsed by all of the mem-
bers of the Roosevelt steering COM
pan to have the convention refuse to
recognize the temporary roll made up,
by the national committee, and to go
ahead and capture the convention
from the start, will not be allowed to-
go through, according to these com
mitteemen Instead, Rosewater as,
chairman, will be protected in pre-
senting the name Of Senator Root OF
New York as temporary chairman.
Uuless the Roosevelt leaders recede
from their present position they Will
demand that their contesting dele
gates be permitted to vote on the tenn
iporary craftsmanship question. This
will not be permitted by the national
| committee which will have all OF the
convention machinery at its disposal
! including enough husky assistant ser
geants-at-arms to put over anything
| Colonel Bill Stone of Baltimore. the
a = r,,,c y,,ox, ordn
The Roosevelt men will from the
start oppose anything the national
committee may try to put through. If
they do this, the committeeman In
sist, there will be wholesale objec-
tions from the convention hall.
The two committees organized on
| behalf of the Taft and Roosevelt
| forces, which have been making up
the convention program and which
are referred to against their will as
the Vigilantes. are carefully guarding
| most of their actual plans for the con-
vention They are devoting most of
their public energies at the present
time to influencing the individual
delegates and the Roosevelt forces
were insisting today that they have
made decided inroads into President
Taft's strength in the solid south.
! William Barnes, Jr. the New York
state committee chairman, and the
arch enemy of Colonel Roosevelt, who
arrived here today, was Immediately
assigned the job of keeping the Taft
;p+oot tbropgl,
score of able iieutenants hurriedly
| placed at his disposal. will be in con-
stant touch with the leaders of all of
the Taft delegations and will hold any
! who show signs of weakening in line.
/ Barnes insisted On his arrival here
| that there was no question that the
Taft forces would be in control of the
! convention He declared that bluster
! would not prevail and that when the
cold facts were shown by decisive
roll call of the convention it would be
seen that the claims of the Roosevelt
supporters were unfounded.
The Cummlns Boomet.
But with the bitterness engendered
by the work OF the national commit
! tee in throwing out all of the Roose-
\ welt delegates who had tried to get
on the convention rolls through con-
/ tests came renewed talk again today
of compromise candidate. Most OF
/ this came from the headquarters on
the "a" floor of the Congress hotel
where Senator Kenyon had opened
4 headquarters for his colleague, Sena
tor Cummins of Iowa. The Iowa solon
has only ten delegates in the conven-
ton, but he and his friends think this
is enough to go on. They were insist
ing today that with the LaFollette
& strength absolutely intact at all times
the combined votes of the senators
from Wisconsin and from Iowa would
deadlock the convention and prevent
I, the nomination of either Taft OF
Roosevelt. But the suggestion of com
!, promise was welcomed only by the
men whose jobs would be endangeret
by party defeat. The Taft and Roose
velt leaders insisted there was nc
4 chance. They declare that from theil
4 view point the fight was already ovel
and their man the nominee.