Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-11
NO ONE OF STANDING
WOULD BE INCLUDED
Roosevelt Informed as to the Feeling
Among His Supporters.
THEY MAKE CONCESSIONS
Apparently About Willing to Admit
That Senator Root Will Be
Elected Temporary
Chairman.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

BY N. o. MESSENGER.
CHICAGO, June lit is now settled
as definitely as anything can be settled
IN advance that q bolt from the reDub-
lican national convention in the event of
the denomination of the President cam
not be made effective. If the investiga-
tions that have been made with great
care are to be relied on not more than a
score of Roosevelt supporters among the
delegates would join i'm rump con-
vention.
Moreover. not one of the men of con-
sequence connected with the campaign of
the third termer would participate In a
bolt. This is the real situation, and the
third-term candidate knows by this time
what the feeling among his supporters is.
The Roosevelt forces are apparently
about willing to concede that the ad-
ministration will organize the convention
will elect Elihu Root temporary chair
man. and will control the committee on
credentials. Senator Dixon, director of
the Roosevelt campaign, still insists that
Root will be opposed. but the general
talk among the supporters of the third
term candidate is that they might as
the Taft people.
Seeking for an Alliance.
In quiet way the Roosevelt people are
sounding the La Toilette and Cummins
forces for the purpose of ascertaining
whether, in the event of an extremely
close race between the President and the
former President, the La Toilette and
Cummins strength might be counted on
to tip the balance in favor of the third
terrner.
The representatives of the Wisconsin
and Iowa senators who are on the ground
declare that under no circumstances will
the forty-six votes controlled by the two
candidates ever be turned over to Roose-
welt.
The thrd-term shouters are beginning
to come to town in large numbers. but
so far they have not attempted any unu-
sl,al demonstrations. Tomorrow is the
day originally set for mass meeting.
street parade and other doings. The gen.
eral drift of talk is that any amount OF
bluff and buster on the part OF the
supporters of the third termer will prove
ineffective. There has been so much
talk by the Roosevelt people about what
they intended to do that anything they
might do would be discounted in advance.
Arguments of Roosevelt Men.
Underneath the troubled surface of the
political situation here there runs deep
current of constant agitation by tine
Roosevelt supporters in behalf of his
nomination on three distinct grounds.
These appeals may be said to be directed
to the politicians, the financial interests
and the agricultural and commercial in
tad hn d1l
gates.
Col Roosevelt tiguratively IS taking
these men upon a high mountain and
showing them dominion of the earth.
Treating first with his latest move, his
appeal To the delegates from the Missis-
sippi valley and adjacent territory by his
promise to advocate Il deep waterway
from the lakes to the gulf, utilizing the
machinery and staff of the Panama canal
plant 1 found Yesterday that Roosevelt
men were besieging incoming delegates
systematically, drumming into them the
alluring prospect Of this stupendous
achievement.
Col. Sellers in his paln1iest day was
no more eloquent than these exnOrterS as
they painted TO the awe-stricken delegates
from the great Mississippi valley the
golden possibilities of this scheme Ii
was Senator Lorimers plan upon Ei-
gantic scale-the same device he used in
winning the support of men in Illinois
gard to party as Roosevelt hopes to win
them in this con a,ntion without regard
to faction
Not alone was the development of this
undertaking, the proper supplement to
the construction of the Panama canal,
credit for which Roosevelt takes unto
himself to benefit the states along the
river. but also to furnish an outlet for
the wheat and corn belt farther removed.
Support by "Big Interests"
This move of the colonels dovetails
exactly with the representations he held
out to the "big interests OF Wall street.
Many men have wondered during the
skyrocket progress of his campaign why
Roosevelt was able to obtain financial
support from big business. in view of his
radicalism: wondered why Wall street does
not take alright at the possibility or ms
nomination and send down prices OF Sc
curities. instead of which the spectators
are marking time and awaiting develop
ments with eauanimity.
The explanation given is simple. 1t
Is claimed that when he shied MS nat
into the ring big business was as
sured that Roosevelt would not be
dangerous. and that big business" had
nothing to fear from him. As he told
Hartman, he is "a practical man.. His
course in the celebrated tennessee
Coal and Iron deal, when. through the
compact with the United States Steel
Corporation, he checked the panic of
1907, has often been cited as evidence
of his practica bility. But beyond that.
big business was told that the
colonel has in view. il he is elected
President of the United States. a
scheme for the commercial aggrandfze-
ment of this country upon scale to
give 1t the commercial dominion of the
earth. He promises through the re-
I..h - tafi nf ha v,,or No nj 10 ~ inc
by the aid of the Panama canal by
discriminatory legislation which he
will hammer out of Congress. and by
every means within his resourceful power.
to give to American manufacturers
and producers the advantage over
Germany and England in South Ameri-
ca. He would make the western hem
isphere tributary to the American
shop and farm and would then dis
pute with the powers of the earth for
the commerce of the orient
The appeal to the politicians Is based
lCOntinued on Fifth Page.)