The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-06-19
FIERCE LINEUP.
OF BOLD FORCES
At the Chicago Republican
Convention.
THREATS MADE BY BOTH SIDES
And the Greatest Struggle in
American Political HiStO.
ry Precipitated.
PRESIDENT AHEAD AT START

Tafts headquarters, Chicago,
June live have the votes to
nominate President Taft. All claims
made by Roosevelt men that they
will stampede the convention would
be ridiculous We're it not for the
fact that they are coupled with
open threats. But they haven't
enough votes either TO control the
convention or nominate their candi-
date. They say they will bolt il
they cannot have their way. Well,
If so, then the Republican party will
continUe TO be the party of the peo-
pie"
This was the declaration Of Will
liam Barnes, Jr, militant leader of
the Taft forces, tonight Just at the
moment Roosevelt was announcing
from the balcony Of the Congress
hotel that he was here TO see the
will OF the people carried out.
Congressman Mckinley stated
that the coming of Roosevelt was
more bluff and buster" resorted
TO by the Roosevelt adherents.
Chicago. June 1.-THE Roose-
welt program is fight from the drop
of the gavel.
Immediately upon arrival last
evening, Colonel Roosevelt gave
this order to his followers:
"A fraudulent temporary roll
never will be adopted, There are
at least sixty delegates on the roll
who have been put there by fraud.
1t will not be the roll OF the conven-
ton. Fraud will be prevented by
any means necessary to prevent it,
That is as far as the Colonel
would go at this time. AS to ways
and means he declined to talk. Con-
ferences, however, began imme-
diately.
The plan of the Roosevelt mana
gers was worked out in part before
Roosevelts arrival, and is briefly
to object from the very. beginning
to the temporary roll of the conven-
ton offered by the national commit
Tee. "~-'f 't'-ssvN.p.,- ~
AS endorsed by Roosevelt, the
plan is to take any and all steps
necessary to make that objection
stick.
1t has been the ordinary practice
of national conventions to permit
the reading of the temporary roll of
delegates as made up by the ma
national committee. Later, con-
tests are referred to the credentials
committee, which approves the find
ings of the national committee in
making up the temporary roll. Then
the credentials committee reports
and gets the approval of the body Of
seated delegates.
In working out this program it
is evident that the delegates seated
by the national committee will sit
and vote on the rights OF others to
hold their seats. The Taft people
are relying on the procedure made
at the Harrison convention. In the
Harrison convention, it was agreed
that contested delegates, while they
could not vote in their own contest,
could vote on other contested dele
gates.
This proposition will be challeng-
ed from the start by the Roosevelt
people.
The first business in opening the
convention is the reading of the
call. This is followed by the read
ing, by one of the secretaries, of the
temporary roll-call. The first letter
of the alphabet will bring up the
Ninth Alabama case and names Taft
delegates from that district. This,
when read, will be challenged as
having no right on the list and the
demand will be made by the Roose-
welt delegates that its members
shall be excluded.
No business will be transacted
until the fight then begun is decid-
ed.
Roosevelt will have more than 400
delegates on the floor whose right
to sit is not open to question, and
1t is contended that the convention
cannot do business with these 400
delegates in a state of eruption.
They will insist on their point, and