The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-06
BITTER FEELING
IS DEvEL0P|N
Managers for TAFT and Roosevelt Ex-
press Themselves as to Con-
tests and Features Of
the Convention.
DIXON REFUSED TO 90
Roosevelt Manager Declined to sl'
With the National Committee
Which ls Controlled by
Taft Men.
DIXON REFUSED TO co

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, June When the first
meeting Of the republican national I
committee was held today, there
were several proxies presented from
committeeman who explained that
they did not personally desire to take
issue in the contests against either
President Taft or Colonel Roosevelt. !
Among these was Senator Scott OF
West Virginia.
The fight grew more bitter today
between the Taft and Roosevelt
forces. Ormsby McHarg contest
manager for Roosevelt, denounced a
published story regarding plan of
the national committee to dispose of
the contests for delegate seats by
seating two-thirds of the Taft dele
/ gates and one-third Of the Roosevelt
i delegates, in the $50 cases where the
! question of the right to a seat in the
I convention is the issue.
The Taft managers laughed at the
story and denied tnat it had come
4 from any of them. They were enr
4 phatic in asserting that practically
every contest would be settled by the
! Taft delegates being seated.
I Both the Taft and Roosevelt head
1 quarters today issued statements re-
1 peating assertions made several times
during the campaign.
4 Senator Dixon, head Of the Rnose-
welt forces, privately admitted today
that there was no chance for Roose-
! welt before the natioslal committee.
He said that he, personally, had re-
ceived telegraphed proxy from a
national committeeman, but that he
would not use it.
Z, Il would rather be licked" he said,
than to be forced to enter the COM
mittee and make spectacle of my
self"
, 1t was understood among the poll
ticians here that Roosevelt had de.
manded that Dixon go into the com
mittee and had arranged for the
proxy, but that after 1t was planned
Dixon refused to sit with the commit
tee.
Mckinley Defends Root.
Congressman Mckinley, chief of the
Taft supporters, issued lengthy
statement in which he defended Sen
ator Root in connection with the at
tacks that have been made upon him
by the Roosevelt followers and D.
Colonel RoN,evelt himself. He re
viewed Roots record as a cabine'
/. member, one of the Alaska boundary
commission, temporary chairman O
the convention of 1904, which nominal
ed Roosevelt. and as the persona
I friend of the colonel at Saratoga IL
; 1903 He said:
Every infant in arms in politica
matters knows that Senator Elih,
y Root is the tool of no man. If any
thing, he was master of Theodore
e Roosevelt during his presidency ant
Z MIR. Roosevelt SO valued his practic'
i worth 100000 year to re-enter hf
r cabinet as secretary Of state.
And Attacks Roosevelt.
: Mckinley bitterly attacked Roose
welt for his attitude toward William
Barnes, Jr., of New York. He sal
Roosevelt was to blame for the defea
\ by $4,000 of the republican party il
> the state of New York in 1910.
: Barnes retrieved New York stat
d for the republican party declare
If Mckinley. by electing republica
e Legislature in 1911. But it was to
t. late to save the United States senator
q ship which was lost in the landslid
e against Roosevelt the years before.
N Concluding his statements agains
e Roosevelt, Mckinley said:
THE fact is that Roosevelt ha
n changed, and with that change ha
d. come on his part. disloyalty to frient
n ships and treason to his party"
g Dixon's vitroic Statement.
Later today Senator Dixcn gave OF
N vitriolic statement in which he al
is sailed the Taft people for their stat
,e ments that they would be able to sea
lie practically all of the contesting Tai
s. delegates through the national con
n mittee. He said that If the high coui
ty and trustees Of the republican part
would agree to put through an arseni
Ie bottle program, they might as we
le agree to take the republican part
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