The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-15
Windy City Began Early to
Prepare Welcome for the
Colonel That Will Shake
the Town.
MANY FIST FIGHTS
AND ROWS OCCUR
Clashes Between Rival Parti-
sans Take Place in Hotel
Lobbies and Excitement at
Fever Heat.
National News Association


CHICAGO, June 15.-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt today takes personal COM
mand of his fight for the Republican
nomination for president. At o'clock
this afternoon he will arrive in Chi
Cago. A noisy reception by the hosts
already gathered to take part in the
demonstration and another smashed
precedent will greet him as he steps
form the train. For the first time in
the history of the Republican party
an avowed candidate for the office of
President, himself an ex-president, will
appear personally on the scene of a
convention before which he seeks the
Office.
The noise that is expected to greet
the colonel started early today. Cheer
ing delegates and cheering persons
who are not delegates have been
marching through the hotel lobbies
shouting, singing. arguing and making
speeches. Their demonstration has ac-
centuated the bitterness and excite
inent that pervade the presidential
6ght. Personal encounters, quickly
suppressed by men who separated the
warning partisans broke out half a
Gozen times in the hotel lobbies where
the demonstration started
Songs and Cheering.
Roosevelt songs were interrupted by
cheers for Taft. Incipient Roosevelt
speeches have been interrupted by
Taft supporters and have been chang
ed into a riot of meaningless cries and
shouts as Taft and Roosevelt partisans
rushed up to take part in the fray. Per
sonal arguments between men of eth
er side have grown into alterations
between quickly gathered hosts. Every
fcne about the hotels where the poll
ticians have gathered is in a stage
bordering on hysteria. And the DEM
onstration started hours before the
colonel was booked to arrive.
For once Chicago is put in the same
category with her country cousins.
From indications this morning every
Eerson in the city interested in poll
tics will try to "go down to see the
train come in" The coming of the
train is to them the one important fea-
ture in the days events.
Whether the arrival of the Rough
Rider means stampede is the one
question that is agitating the leaders
of both camps. Taft men confidently
asserted today it meant nothing of the
sort. But the men who make this state
ment, most Of them, were present four
years ago when the galleries of the
Republican national convention broke
into the long Roosevelt demonstration
that could not be quieted.
One Taft man asserted that the ac-
tual coming of the Colonel would be
an anti-climax. The threat of his COM
ing, he said, had more effect than the
actual arrival He asserted it would
help the Taft cause to have the col
onel on the ground.
T. r. Men JuhiIant.
The Roosevelt men are jubilant at
the coloneIs coming. From the mo-
rnent he arrives until the convention is
over they believe the colonel will be
on his own statement that he is bet
ter fighter than a prophet"
The. real fireworks will begin with
tile arrival of the Lake Shore limited
Thousands it is expected, will crowd
the station. The demonstration was ex-
pected to continue as the colonel goes
to the hotel while he remains in public
view and even while he is in his own
apartments. 1t is to grow into a great
climax Monday night at a meeting at
the Auditorium theater where Roose-
welt is to be the great central figure
There is to be one figure and one
speech. During the hours the meet
ing continues and it is planned to
make it a continuous affair, opening
early in the evening and lasting until
late, Roosevelt, according to present
plans, will address the crowd