The Washington times., 1912-06-17
FIGHT TO BEGIN
ON FIRST ROLL
CALL TOMORROW
Want No Contested Dele
cations to Cast a
Vote.
PROGRESSIVES WILL
DEMAND A HEARING
Hadley, With His Powerful Voice,
to Act as Field Marshal for
Roosevelt Forces.

the Republican national committee sit
ting as umpire, the first hattie be-
tween tho Roosevelt and Taft forces
In the Republican national convention
will como tomorrow within fifteen min
utes after the national convention is
called at noon.
The fight will start when the first
state in the first roll call over the first
action Of the convention is under way.
It will be inaugurated by the Roose-
welt men.
Chairman Rosewater will call the
gathering to order. Theirs will be a
prayer by the chaplain cf the day.
Then, as representative Of the national
committee Chairman Rosewater will
recommend on behalf of the committee
tnat Senator Root, of New York. be
made temporary chairman.
Will Suggest Borah.
A Roosevelt delegate will move that
the name of Senator William E.
Borah OF Idaho be substituted for that
Of Elihu Root Then Chairman Rose
water will direct Secretary William
Hayward of the committee to call the
roll Alabama is the first State on the
list. The Ninth district delegates
were seated for Taft by the national
Sommttee com nha,,. A Roosevelt supporter porter
district men, and the fight over the
seating of the delegates by the COM
mittee steam roller will be under way.
This move has been definitely de
after a conference in which the col
onel himself took part. 1t has been
discussed with Chairman Rosewater
by the Oyster Bay candidate. Rose
water informed the colonel that under
way in which he could recognize any
committee and that as chairman he
would be bound by the temporary roll
rs made up by the committee. Rose
the Taft mae men Of oti the fst Ninth AisSams
district. AS chairman. and therefore
official spokesman Of the national
committee. he was bound by their de-
cisions.
Each Side Prepares Briefs.
The Taft men were informed of the
colonels fighting plan. Todays repre-
sentatives of Taft and Roosevelt forces
are preparing briefs on the points of
parliamentary law involved, and armed
with these, and acting as umpire in. the
cases, Chairman RoseWater will decide
for or against the challenge when the
question is presented.
Whatever his decision, an immediate
appeal to the convention itself will be
made.
Congressman Martin Edgar Olmstead
Of Pennsylvania is preparing the brief
for the Taft forces:
that man who is preparing the first
formal fight against President Taft
comes from from the Presidents own State.
The plan of the Roosevelt men to
force the fight at the very beginning
has two purposes. The first to force
the consideration of the entire contest
list by the convention at the same time.
II this is successfully accomplished the
States from which contested delegates
were seated will not be allowed to vote,
and as the Roosevelt men figure, they
VIII have delegates enough to control
he convention and seat their own men.
nder ordinary procedure contests are
taken up State by State on the report
OF the credentials committee. On vote
State by State the delegates seated on
saesnt sae temporary tbat & roll in all the States
are allowed to cast their ballots.
Advantage for Taft.
This gives a decided advantage to
the side whose contested delegates have
been seated
The Roosevelt forces objected to this
very procedure in certain State conven-
tons, notably that in Indiana, assert
Ing that II virtually gave the contested
meh who were seated the right to vote
on their own contests. 1t formed the
basis for one of the charges of thieVery
The second advantage this move will
give the Roosevelt men will be the early
line on the exact strength of the op-
posing forces.
According to the Taft men the Roose-
welt faction plans a bolt. II the first
hght goes against them they will start
the fight at once to nominate Roosevelt
for President. Some Roosevelt delegate
nr0hahlV Herhert g HadleV
OF Missouri, and the only Roosevelt
chief. who won real victory in the
tight before the national committee, will
move that the convention proceed at
cnce with the nomination.
This, as the Taft men view the case.
will be equivalent to an attempt to or
ganize a Roosevelt convention in the
coliseum at the same time that the reg
ular convention is under way. Should
1t be done, and the Taft men say that
1t will. while the the Roosevelt men
utter no denial, confusion that may
reach the proportions of a riot will pre-
vail.
Motion Out of Order.
The chairman will rap for order. The
nomination motion will be declared out
OF order. II the Roosevelt men try to
force vote. and so ahead with the
nominations-and the Taft motion is
made at all-the sergeant-at-arms will
be ordered to put out of the hall the
delegates who join in the attempt to
bring the motion before the house.
II will be a strenuous time for the
1,200 assistant sergeants-9t-arms who are
acting under the orders of Col. Will
lam F. Stone. Incidentally, the Roose-
Welt people Will be In stronger posi-
tion II forced from the hall than they
would be IT, led by the colonel or any
or his supporters, they carried out thu
iirst plans laid out by the leaders hero
of marching quietly from the hall and
through the streets to the First Regi-
ment Armory.
II will also bring the bolt II there is
bolt, at the very beginning of the
contest, instead of at the close. as the
Taft men had predicted after the
Roosevelt men had submitted to the
calling of the temporary roll and the
Philippine Roosevelt delegates in the
preliminary work Of the convention.