Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-06-19
BY Special Leased Wire to New Mexican


national convention at 1890 p. n. to.
day was in the midst of a three hours
argument on the motion of Governor
Hadley of Missouri, to purge" the
temporary roll of so delegates contest
ed by the Roosevelt faction, but seat
ed by the national committee.
1t seemed likely that the debate and
| the vote on the question would last all
the afternoon.
! Although the convention faced the
! real struggle of the Roosevelt leaders
to obtain control of the permanent
roll of delegates, there was a notice
able lack of excitement or enthusi-
| asm about the convention hall today
Soon after Chairman Root had ar
| rived at l "a a. m he was flanked on
| one side by Governor Hadley. the
| Roosevelt leader, and on the other by
James Watson of the Taft forces.
As a preliminary to the days eX-
pected hostilities all three shook
! hands "and returned to their corners -
Three Hours Debate.
, Governor Hadley and Watson ar
ranged for an equal division of the
three hours debate that was to be al
lowed on the Roosevelt proposition to
substitute a roll containing 80 Roose-
welt delegates in place of 80 Taft fol
lowers seated by the national commit
tee. Before calling the convention to
| order, Chairman Root and the other
officers posed for a series Of pictures
This helped to delay matters several
minutes beyond the scheduled hour,
| II o'clock.
Chairman Root finally pounded the
table with his gavel at 11:15 and or
dered the sergeant-at-arms to clear
the aisles.
Fifteen minutes passed before
Chairman Root again took up his CAV
| el and with emphatic blows on the
table, insisted upon quiet and order
Then pounding the table against, Root
announced: THE eXercises-T mean
the business of this day-will be
opened with prayer by the Rev. Jo-
seph Stolz"
Senator Root announced the un-
finished business of the day.
Hadley's Substitute Motion.
The motion of Watson that the con.
! To
ICf the regular committees and the
substitute motion of Governor Hadley
that the Roosevelt list of delegates
! be substituted for the temporary roll
He also announced the agreement to
a three-hour debate and asked il
there was objection. There was not.
1t had been agreed in advance that
there should be no parliamentary
! points of order against the Roosevelt
motion, the Taft forces agreeing to
fight the matter out before the dele
gates.
AS Governor Hadley advanced to
the front of the stage to open the de-
| bate, round of cheers from the
Roosevelt forces greeted him. When
the tumult slbsided. Governor Hadley
began an explanation of the situation
confronting the convention.
He reviewed the events of yester-
day leading up to the ruling of nation
al committee chairman, Rosewater,
which quashed the Hadley motion to
purge the temporary roll.
Eve could have met Immediately
and forcibly have reversed this arAi.
trary and unparliamentary ruling, )"
cheered.
Instead we chose to wait patiently
until today"
Governor Hadley read the "indict-
ment" of the national committee as
uttered by Colonel Roosevelt in his
Monday nights speech in this city,
and it called out a big cheer.
A Great Voice.
at may be true that there are
many persons who do not agree with
us that Theodore Roosevelt should be
our candidate for President bit there
can be no difference of opinion that
his voice today is the greatest of the
western world" said Hadley.
He then read statement from four
teen members of the national com
mittee protesting against the action
OF the majority in seating many dele
gates, particularly in the California,
Texas and Washington cases.
Governor Hadley made an earnest
plea that personalities be left out OF
the debate declaring the question was
50 clearly one of principle that it
would not be involved with anything
else
Hadley was given the closest atten-
ton throughout. In closing, he de-
clared that when the vote on the sub
roll came he would contend that on
the question submitted OILY the votes
Of these delegates whose seats are
not contested be allowed to ballot.
The Law and Precedents.
"All law, all precedents agree" he
| said, that no man should be Judge
! in his own case"
Hadley was followed by w. T. Do
veil, of Washington, who argued in
favor of the Taft delegates seated by
the national committee from Wash
ington.
Mr.. Dovell characterized as reck.
lessly false, the statement credited to
Colonel Roosevelt that an effort had