Omaha daily bee., 1912-06-16
GREAT THRONC
CREETS COLONEL
At The STATION
Roosevelt Party Reaches Chicago
Shortly Before Four O'clock
Over Lake Shore.
CROWD GATHERS EARLY
Long Before Noon People Began to
Seek Vantage Points.
HURRIED TO HIS HEADQUARTERS
Crowd Cheers, but He is Rushed to
Waiting Automobile.
BORAH STARTS DEMONSTRATION
Idaho Senator, in Speech at Hotel,
Makes Many Threats.
Crowd Cheers, but He is Rushed to
Waiting Automobile.
BoRAH STARTS DEMONSTRATION
Idaho Senator, in Speech at Hotel,
Makes Many Threats.
COLONEL WILL TAKE CHARGE
Former President Assumes Personal
Direction of His Campaign as
Soon as He Reaches the
Convention City.

CHICAGO, June 15-Colonel Roosevelt,
arrived at the La Sale street station al
3:57 p. m. He was greeted with cheers by
the many who crowded the station and
was whisked into a waiting automobile
and hurried to the Roosevelt headquar-
ters.
The preliminary demonstrations for
Roosevelt began early in the afternoon.
The first spark was kindled by Senator
Borah of Idaho, who addressed multi
tude of Roosevelt delegates in the F'loren-
tine room of the Congress hotel and in an
eloquent speech flatly declared that the
only salvation of the republican party
was Theodore Roosevelt.
Senator Borah. introduced to the dele
gates by William Finn of Pittsburgh.
was physically captured by the cheering
table. Standing there the senator. who
has been chosen as the candidate OF the
Roosevelt forces for temporary chairman
made his position in this contest as clear
as day.
mo matter what this national commit
lCt uOSSt LHO SSAoIOi uSSidiSuB ShS ~
publican party is going to be saved.
This is not going to be another
Titanic wreck as some of the Taft lead
ers seem to think. They have an idea
that they can get out in the boats and
we will sink. They are greatly mistaken.
We are going to hit the national COM
mittee iceberg head-on and the repub-
lican party is not sgeing to be scuttled."
Throughout the day discussion Of the
former presidents sudden trip from
Oyster Bay to Chicago held the fore
ground to the practical exclusion of other
e-convention activity.
AS the hour for the arrival of the
Roosevelt train came near, interest and
excitement in many quarters became in
tense. A number Of hours before the
train was scheduled to enter the La Sale
street station, hundreds Of people had
gathered at that point, determined to
hold their vantage ground until they had
seen Colonel Roosevelt. In the waiting
throng were many delegates to the con-
vention.
But these were not the only ones on
hand to greet the former president. Bat
Masterson, one-time resident Of the Black
Hills, South Dakota, and now of New
York, together with a number of his
friends and a crowd of western admir-
ers Of Colonel Roosevelt who reached
Chicago last night impatiently awaited
the train from the east.
All indications pointed to a lively
demonstration by the Roosevelt adherents
tonight. The leaders had planned the
demonstration for Monday nights mass
meeting at Chicagos largest theater, but
it appeared impossible to restrain the en-
thusiastic delegations until that time.
job Cut Out for Teddy.
The entire republican convention strug-
gle will center about Colonel Roosevelt
from the moment he alights from his
train here late this afternoon. 1t will be
his power of political manipulation