The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-06-05
OFF FOR
THE CHICAGO BATTLE
Senator Dixon Goes All by Him.
self With shots at Ohio
Results.
THREE CARD MONTE
That Being His Description of
How Taft Got Delegates
at Large.
THREE CARD MONTE

Lean. sIave politicians. stout, fustered
politicians; politicians that ran laden
| with luggage and politicians that talked
about "bandwagons" and -steamrollers"
and contests. all flung themselves aboard
the two. sections Of the Chicago Limited
| that left the Grand Central at 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon bound for Chicago
and the crowded convention doings.
They were for the most part national
committeeman that have to settle the
contests for the convention seats next
Thursday. and they were scramble OF
Taft and Roosevelt men. The crowds at
the station watched the departure Curl
ojisly
| a special car 10 take some of the mixed
shouters TO the convention was hitched
behind the first section and those that
were left over had to get into the regular
compartments of the other.
just a. the gateman. loud in his All
aboard" was about 10 slam the gate
who should come along with regular
johnpaIlJones stride and two tistfuls OF
baggag" but Bainbridge Colby. one of
the lawyers who Is going to present the
case of the Roosevelt contestants to the
national committee. II was close finish
! but most everybody on the platform
agreed that Lawyer Colby had beaten
John j. Brown. ono of the Ward dele
gates from White Plains. to the tape by a
slight margin. Both these athletes bowed
from the observation platform az the cag
whirl"d away to Chicago
Some of those who went were William
l.. Ward. national committeeman and
Roosevelt ADJ iscr; Judge Charles II
Ducll. chairman of the New York city
Roosevelt committee; John W Hutchin-
son. Jr eastern Taft mana gcr,, and Mrs
Hutchinson, Lafayette b. Gleason. Sec
retary Of the New York State committee
and his wife; Charles f. Brooker. a Taft
man and national committeeman from
Connecticut; ]. Coleman du Pont. ma
tonal Committeeman from Delaware and
on" of IN" Presidents supporters Luciis
y. ILitaucr. a Roosevelt man. and Scna-
tor j. Mayhem Wainwright.
senator Joseph 4 Dixon. Roosevelt $
manager, went away to Chicago all by
himself on the Pennsylvania He will
ct there al The same time as those that
took IN" Central. He took parting sho,
at William Barnes. Jr chairman OF the
tttIllllilld1l Nldl' committee VINO SAlC
yesterday morning that Mr.. Roosevelt
candidacy represented nobody bu, the
Colonel
at is not humanly or physicaiy pos
slbl." SAID the Colonel's manager. 80,
Mr. Taft TO get a ma ioritv Of the delegate.
to Tn" national convention. His cam
palgn has absolutely collapsed Tha,
will b" "vld"nced on the result Of the frs,
roll call in the convent ION"
Then some one waved CODY OF Mr.
Barn"-- remarks at the Senator and he
turned about and said
If were Mr.. Barnes would not ge,
u'0 a controversy with Mr. Roosevelt II
IN view of the legislative investigation
which took place last fall"
w hat about ONO" piped a scribe
"On the u'iestio ION of the Ohio delegates
answered tn" senator. they have stoler
III" six Gcl" gates by tho three card monte
policy that shows III. extremes to which
the Taft non are put Then he wen
away from here
over at tn" Grand Central Judge Due,
was saving that the Roosevelt men wrr,
gong to win on IN" frst ballot He sait
that he was not going 10 help Ormsby
McHarg especi tally, a. some one suggested
lie SAID that he expected TO hold all tn,
d"lo gates needed for Roosevelt in oppo
srion to Senator Root as tcmrorar,
'hhirindh. Inc nGhI, ne sald, would Sct
an alignment Of principles. not ndi
viduals Mr. Ward said that il woulc
b" good fight and that he was Satisfied
with the stuat ion
Mr., Llttaior was confident of victor,
for the Roosevelt forces, said that the,
had already won, said there was nothinI
left bnt jumping on the band wagon
Nv" ought to have twenty delegate,
from New York at least and m least two
Of them from New York county" II,
Thought ha detected signs of wayern,
on IN" part Of two dele gates in the north
"rn part of the county
'It simply means" he cont nued. put
ting down tn" sides Of the band wagoI
and then watch them get on" MIR ID,
Pont said that there was going TO be q
big scrap" at Chicago and that he wa
inuch in favor Of open contests with tn,
newspaper men admitted