The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-12
COLONEL WINS
ONLY ONE VOTE
FROM KENTUCKY
Glorious Day for Taft Forces.
Who Win Every Contest,
With Single Ex-
ception.
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and rockbound countepance and out
curviug nose. inspired the hope that he
was going to start something, and he
was followed upstairs by an eager
crowd. When his talk was found to
run all TO principles and the hardest
word he had to call the colonel was an
anarchist. ripple Of disappointment
went around, 49,, All. ,,
'sWhv, he's another Bill Finn,
said one delegate He looks hard and
talks soft. What we need in this game
are fighting men, but there don seem
10 be any of 'em left.
Men sent out by the Taft orsanlNd,
tion TO sound the sentiment OF soto .
of the men who have been put lnto
tho convention bv the national com.
mittec. returned with the appaiilhs
news that some of them had gone over
IN tho colonel. When this word "as
brought to Peurose he immediately eot
the whole Taft crowd busy hndihg oui ouni
inst which men arc disahecteo' ~ ~
day tho Taft vigilantcs were busy Win
eyerv delegate who he's been or WIZ
be in contest. but there were no re-
suits that satisfied amy. ,. -, ~
While there has been little sato - -
race ar color or previous condition o.
servitude, one of the poiithicisanhs phs hv the
has been most closely watched ny the
Taft men bears the following E-pei;
GA square deal, o,.oa
nTbe Roosevelt national colored
beadonarters. 3522 South state street
HYon are cordially invited to make
the 'colored' Roosevelt headquarters
vour headquarters during your stay IN
Chicago Entertainment for deieeateA
and strangers. .tsp;u,,
Coincident with the arrival OF hlll
BARNES was that OF Governor haaIey
~ Missouri who went into the nation
al committee with the ever-readY PROXY
Of Sidney Beber. of the District OF
Columbia Hadlev says be has come
hore to fight and intends TO stay mere
for that purpose. He expects 70 De IN
fhe committee when they reach tne
Missouri contests. which are of much
importance 10 the colonel. Hadley is
one of the numerous candidates .o'
temporarv chairman Of the conVentlon
against Root He VIII get out OF the
way. however. if the Roosevelt people
can arrange win the La Fclette crowu
for thc choice Of Governor NcGovern
of Wisconsin.
The La Toilette and Cummins forty
siv votes aro all important Just now
and anv candidate for temporary cDair
,~an who can furnish them will get the
Roosevelt support.
Third Man Talk,
still another candidate and one who
made II lot of trouble for the laff
crowd was ".Iim" Watson OF Indiana
Watson is one of The Taft big four
from Indiana seated Monday. But IN
stead of talking Taft he has spent tine
day buttonholing the delegates ana
/. IL ,grlat An
on n third man
.fWhat's the use Of wrecking the
nartvg'' said Watson. Gwen all have
10 stay in it, and some Of us may want
some Offices some daY-possibly, II
we can ret rid OF this row by nomlna-
ting Hughes or even Cummins, let
do it.
That kind Of talk was not pleasant
in the ears OF Penrose, He sent around
to have it stopped, but Watson KEPT
right on talking Just the same, and
found q lot of listeners.
All the compromise tnlk thus far mas
come first from the Taft side. When
Senator Borah was in the depths Of
disgust after the committee meeting on
Monday. he INDUCED In little OF II
himself. but he did not pursue tue
subject today II is understood thaI
William L. Ward is another Of the
few Rooseyeltians who would listen tc
a compromise, but Ward will &c
through as long as the colonel ha:
the ghost of a chance.
After the committeeman, sweating
and tired. had strcamed into the Con
cress for dinner, the general impres
sion was that the day had marked ;
revival of the Roosevelt hopes. Th'
delegates are beginning to pour int
town now and all Of them are alarmed
at the prospect of nominating mai
who will drag the party down to de
feat in the fall
Roosevelt Red Fire.
While the Taft vigilance COMMITTEE
was hunting for stolen delegates, tn
Roosevelt vigilantes were busy wit
preparations for vast blowout to b
held Friday, at which Roosevelt re,
fire and oratory will be sent up fror
every street corner till the welkin ba
not a ring left in it.
More than three hundred West Vii
ginians, headed by Governor Glasscocl
will arrive Friday and form nucleu
for this big celebration. All the band
that can be hired in three adioinin
states will be on the job aud the Al
ditorium will be the theater of til
talking, with ample provisions for ovel
Aow meetings. The Roosevelt spell
binders, including governors. senator
and plain citizens, will take turns i
getting up enthusiasm. In short. th
meeting will be the first yell in th
proposed stampede for which the stag
is being set.
The national committee will conclud
its labors Saturday, lust three day
ahead of the assembling Of the COZ
ventiou. BY that time the makeup {
the committee on credentials will /
certain and the decision will be Il
the first time out OF the hands Of ii
bosses and in those Of the delegate
DID EEnINIGS