The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1912-06-22
M'KINLEY CLAIMS |
VICTORY is sure
Confidently Asserts Taft Will
Be Nominated to Sue
coed Himself.
DECLARES ROOSEVELT
FORCES ARE WHIPPED.
Campaign Manager Believes the
Colonel VIII Suffer Con-
/. tlnued Losses.


quarters general atmosphere Of sat
isfaction and relief greeted the swarms
of delegates who crowded the ante
rooms. Director Mckinley and his
staff presented an it's all over but the
shouting attitude and confidently as
serted that the vote Of 564 to $40
against the Roosevelt forces in the
convention showed conclusively that
Taft will be renominated. .@
They claimed that Roosevelt would
lose on the nomination roll call forty
six of the $40 votes he had. They
claimed that Wisconsin's twenty-six
votes, North Dakota's ten and the ten
Cummins votes from Iowa would de-
sert the Roosevelt column on any de-
cisive vote. From this they argued
that the real Roosevelt strength In
the convention was at the most AGA
votes.
President Taft's denomination is a
certainty" said Director Mckinley.
Each succeeding roll call from now
on will show steady losses from the
Roosevelt column and gains for Taft"
A statement was issued by McKin.
ley In which he said: ~
president Taft will be renominat-
ed by the national Republican conven-
ton now in session in Chicago. Theo-
dore Roosevelt has been eliminated as
a candidate before the convention.
Two test votes have demonstrated
that he cannot be nominated. The
delegates have repudiated his third
term pretentions. His managers have
resorted to every known method Of
political strategy, but without success.
They have attempted combinations
with other candidates, they have
adroitly presented unfair and revolu-
tionary plans of procedure under the
pretense of honesty, and they have en-
deavored by every means to make
Taft delegates break their solemn
pledge and instructions. In the face
Of these desperate efforts the Taft
column has steadily grown.
Now Seeking Another Leader.
"The Roosevelt followers, knowing
that their candidate can never get
enough votes to give him a majority
Of the convention, are now seeking in
hopeless and discouraged fashion for
another leader. Their search will be
in vain. President Taft's demonstrat.
ed majority in the convention repre-
sents delegates who have come to Chi
cago determined to renominate him
and they will not be swerved from
that purpose.
They have shown their loyalty and
devotion to the president upon two
test votes and their solidity was not
In the least affected by deliberate
but futile attempt to stampede the
convention through carefully
planned demonstration.
Roosevelt not only lost in votes,
but his delegates INDUCED in forty
minutes Of continuous cheering for
Governor Hadley of Missouri, one OF
his campaign managers, showing a de-
cided tendency to desert the Roose-
welt standard.
"Roosevelt's repeated threat to bolt
has not materialized and statements
are made by many of his leaders that,
should a bolt be attempted, it will not
be generally participated in.
"The solidarity of President Taft's
lines and the wavering Roosevelt
forces tell their own story of victory
for the president and the bursting of
the Roosevelt bubble" .,.H
The Taft leaders, while outwardly
ridiculing talk of Roosevelt bolt, prf-
vately admitted that the colonel,
when 1t becomes apparent, as they
say II will, that the credentials com.
mittee will not interfere materially
with the Taft delegates selected by
the national committee, will undoubt-
eddy order his followers out Of the
convention.
But the Taft leaders declare that
the real leaders of the Roosevelt
movement will under no circum-
stances go to the extent Of holding a
rump convention to give Roosevelt an
independent nomination.
A general congratulations meeting
was held In the Taft public reception
room and the leaders dropped in from
their labors on the various convention
committees to felicitate each other.