The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-18
WARRING FACTIONS
BITTERLY EARNEST
Roosevelt Side Will Try to Pre-
vent Any Action Except By
Majority Of Delegates Who
Are Considered Uncontested--
Taft Men Firmly Oppose.

Chicago, June lS.-Ihe Warrlhg lai'
and Roosevelt forces gathered at the
Coliseum to-day for the opening OF tie
fifteenth Republican national convention
with the battle lines on both sides APP
parently holding firm and with the lead
ers and delegates predicting that the
session would make an epoch in the
annals of American politics. The at
mosphere was electric with bitterness
and personal animosity.
Thousands were unable to obtain seats
and they thronged the hotel lobbies
and the vicinity of the Coliseum. Many
political veterans said that it was the
worst crush of humanity in their con-
vention experience.
The managers of the Taft fight con-
cluded their plans for the fight on the
convention floor on the assumption that
the temporary roll prepared by the ma
tional committee would show Taft
majority by small margin and that
it would be the temporary roll Of the
convention. The Roosevelt men planned
to prevent this through the following
resolution addressed to the body of
the convention, which was ratified at a
meeting of the Roosevelt delegates this
morning:
Resolved, That no election of tenn
porary or other officers of this conven-
ition or resolution or other proceeding
shall be taken as an act of this conven.
ton or have any effect unless it shall re-
ceive on the roll call the affirmative
votes of $40 delegates whose seats are
lncontested, and this resolution shall
govern, and be in force during, the
Temporary organization of this conven-
tion and until the permanent organiza-
ton thereof shall have been effected"
The Taft leaders are opposed to this,
and the more moderate members of the
Roosevelt organization counseled against
1T.
500 Policemen on Duty.
Five hundred policemen are on duty
at the Coliseum and hundreds of dc.
tectives and plain clothes men are scat.
tered through the city, searching for
pickpockets. Assistant Chief Schuetter
INSTRUCTED the police not to allow anyone
10 pass the lines or enter the Coliseum
without an official ticket and not allow
smoking in the building. The number
of visitors to Chicago for the conven-
tion is estimated to be well above l50,-
900, Every hotel downtown is crowd
ed to its capacity and many are at
the outlying hostelries.
The La Toilette platform was COM
pleted last night and is very carefully
Ia1 ha I n Fol Co
that the features may be stolen by the
opposing platform builders. II was an
nouneed to-day that the suffragists
would oppose the efforts Of the suffra-
gists to have woman's suffrage plank
put in the platform of the convention.
Crowd Began to Pour in.
At l0:l5 the band in the Coliseum !
played America" and the people be-
gan to stream in. BY l0:30 there was
q good sprinkling of people in the hall,
but there was no excitement. There |
were policemen at every corner. every |
door and every aisle. The doorkeepers |
and ushers keenly scrutinized the tick |
cts. A solid road of police stood along |
the front row, between the delegate seats |
and the platform, and plain clothes men |
were scattered about. The crowd was |
dense when the doors were opened at |
10 o'clock, two hours before the CON
sention was to come to order.
New England Members of Committees.
The members of the committee on
rules and order of business, chosen by
the state delegations, include: Connec-
ticut, Everett A. Lake; Maine, II. p.
Gardiner; Massachusetts,. A. G. Weeks
New Hampshire, Lyford A. Morrow
Vermont. John L. Lewis. The commit
tee on permanent organization ineludes
Connecticut. Irving II. Chase; Maine,
Il. p. Gardiner; Massachusetts, Hovey
+. Slayton; Vermont, William r. War
ner. On the credentials committee is
Charles S. Baxter of Massachusetts.
The members of the committee on
platform and resolutions, elected by the
ltate delegations, include; Maine, A. T..
ktearns; Massachusetts,, A. B. Hart
New Hampshire. F. w. Hartford; Con
hecticut. Charles II. Clark; Vermont
John L. Southwick.
For the first time in the history of
Republican nomination conventions, no
picture of the president hangs in the
Coliseum. The hall is draped with bunt
ng and mountain laurel. with tri-col-
,red shields and flags. The chairmans
liable of the day is about third Of
Inc frnY,, tbo south ond nf fha rae. | I