The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-08
Roosevelt to Take Personal Charge of
 His Fight Next Week
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and in the absence of his fellow can- didate and. in defiance of his boast full square deal maximum, attempt to sweep the Republican national con- vention off it's feet
 Mckinley said that Colonel Roose- welt had been invited to attend the meetings of the national committee and hear all arguments before the committee and that the Colonel had refused.
 "The logic of the situation" said Mckinley. points to Roosevelt's bolt ing. When he does, he will find him. self defeated by a large n1ajority.
 Senator Dixon said, today, that Former Senator William. Flynn would be the next national committeeman from Pennsylvania.
 Former Congressman "Jfm" Taw- ney, of Winona, Minn., made his first appearance in the committee while the 4th district of Arkansas contests was being heard He held the proxy of Committeeman John W. Rlodgett, of Michigan.
 The contest in the 9th Arkansas district was a duplication of the others that had preceded 1t, it being admitted that the Roosevelt men would bolt In extenuation. w. s. Holt. heading the contestants, said that he and his colleagues had been prevented entering. the. convention hall by armed deputy sheriffs, who denied them admittance To this the Taft men replied by saying trump convention" was called by Sid B. Red ding, clerk of the federal courts at Little Rock. Bedding, they said, was a. contestant before the national con- vention four years ago and appeared in person before the national com mittee. They further said the case was decided against him and he did not appeal to the committee on cred entials.
 real struggle of the Roosevelt forces national convention from the Taft forces began here, today.
 Fifteen representatives of 15 states, where the Roosevelt men are strong est. met behind closed doors at the liam Flynn, former state senator from Pennsylvania, chairman, and Frank Knox, of Michigan, secretary. / mediately round up'' delegates to the convention regardless of whether they are instructed.
 Each individual committeeman was told that the only hope of. the Roose- welt forces was to get individual dele gates to agree to a vote against sus- taining the national committees ac- ton in making up the temporary roll call. They were told that this would be the real test in the convention. Flynn explained that the convention would go on record against Roosevelt in every district. He told l the committeeman that, even though the Taft leaders could get every vote they claim their majority would not exceed 25 and he urged his followers | to influence individual l delegates so that this margin could | be overturned on the first roll call | after the committee assem- mbled and ] the Roosevelt contestants seated in- l stead of the Taft men put on the roll 1 by the national committee.
 This development overshadowed l and dwarfed the sessions of the na- tional committee. While that body | kept the well-oiled 'steamroller" running on schedule in the Coliseum, the big men of the Taft outfit gath | cred in the headquarters at the Con- gress Every move by the Roosevelt | chieftains was reported and steps | taken to checkmate it.
 Congressman Mckinley got into | touch with William Barnes, Jr., the l New York leader by long distance l telephone. He told Barnes that the | forces under State Senator Flynn had | quietly passed the word that they would get 34 of the New York dele gates on roll call to upset the work | was ordered to 'sget busy and stiffen to come to Chicago as soon as possi- ole to aid in getting other state dele cations into line.
 Because of the whirlwind battle begun by the Roosevelt forces, the air | ,f sleepy confidence that has pervad- ed the Taft headquarters since it was certain that the national committee | would put only Taft delegates "on guard disappeared. There was hur- rying to and fro of the Taft chief -ains and nothing was overlooked hat might strengthen their cause.
 Both sides. today, put into force the real program that will be adher- ,d to in the next fortnight.
 So busy was Senator Dixon that for he first time in week he failed 70 ssue 8 formal statement assailing the Taft claims. Instead he quietly in- reduced Flynn and Walter Brown. he Roosevelt Ohio reader to the reporters, saying: