Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-18
BIG BATTLE
 BEGINS TODAY Taft Men Will Have 500 Po- lice and l,20O Assistant
 Sergeants
TO PREVENT DISORDER.
Barter and Sale of Negro Delegates Continued All Day Yesterday
 Roosevelt is for Peace.

Cnlcago, June l7-The last nient of threats and counter-thr ct, has ended. Tne final tally of detneates has been taken. Tomorrow at uOer VIII begin the openlIs struggle in the battle that Will decide whether William H. Taft or Theodore Roose- welt Or neither of them is to 5e the presidential nominee of the Republi- can party.
 At midnight the plans Of the Roose- welt men had bean completed. Taft scouts, picking them up as fast as they were formulated reported to their leaders who made prepara- tons to meet them The Roosevelt plans include riot as a possibility The Taft counter plans embrace q police detail of five naEd.ed men and a reserve of 1,200 assistant sergeant at-arms to back them up.
 After a prolonged and active TOW in the Roosevelt camp with Dixon and Borah on one side and Bi! Flynn and Governor Johnson on the other, the Colonel gave out that he was with Dixon and Borah for peace. But riot talk is still in the air ard a po- lice detail was not abated af.er the Colonel's declaration.
 There is the Roosevelt plan of ac- tion:
 Chairman RosewateG of the Nation al Committee, who will be directed hy Representative Olmstead, of Pennsyi- vania, will be permitted to call the convention to order and announce:
 "Gentlemen, I am directed by the National Committee to present to you the Honorable Elihu Root as your temporary chairman.
 A Roosevelt delegate, probably Governor Hadley, of Missouri. will place in nomination Senator Borah, of Idaho, as the Roosevelt candidate against Root.
 The Laollette tribe will then, ir ali likelihood, present the name Of Me Govern, of Wisconsin, as their can d.diate deserving the right to recall it if their action promises to help lBorah.
 As the roll of state $ called each state whose delegate was thrown out ever the protests of Roosevelt com mitteemen will make a second pro- test but will not start anything.
 If ,Borah is chosen pace will en- sne If Roct is elected. we'll, tonight the Roosevelt people say peace Will also ensue, but there is still strong likelihood that somebody VIII grab the gavel from Rosewater, cas a Roosevelt convention and tha; in- side of two seconds there will De all uproar in the big convention haa' such as never been seen at po:iA- cal ,< thering since the party began it's career.
 Tho Taft men confident tonight that Roosevelt is beaten, declare that order will be preserved. Even IT u is necessary to throw the Colonel himself out of the hall.
 The Roosevelt men su"e that IaH is beaten, make fewer threats ,hah they did last night, and the friehaS 2, cummins, hopeful of tilt, deadlocN' i+ tight and wait developments.
 As tbe hour of the convention ap' ,,oaches there is 3 growing disgust with the kind of talng that has Teen going on since the srimmage so. the nomination began. All daN ..S1ay the barter anl sale of negro a.leoates continued. All day decenl delegates, seeing the tratf'c caff'eo m under their own noses, talked o' sin..ng a way to put stop tc H
 It was nc<ceable that more lal' than Roosevelt men spoke of conpro- mise, Their fight is first to oea' l. socond to hold their organization together for 1913, and if. at th'a eleventh hour they were not he'a hack by the fear that in the transfs: many of their delegates would oe gathered in by the Colonel, and wlfss tonight would be carrying the Tai' .ho news of his abandonment.
 The revised Taft figures give to the President 5eo delegates, majority o1 ,91 to Roosevelt 472 and to cunmin's