Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-22
USED TO EP|THETS WIN -FOUR BALLOTS
To Be Called "Thief Adds to Taft Forces Control ConVen
Appetite of Delegates ton in Votes on Contests
TAFT SUPPORTERS PLACID CT OSE VOTE ON CAL IFORNiA
Ebb Presidents Supporters Obtain Mar
larations Interviews gin Of Only Thirteen
RUMoRs LOSE THEIR INTEREST MISSOURI SAVES THE DAY
Presidency at Chicago. Disposition to Be Merry.
To Be Called "Thief" Adds to
Appetite of Delegates.
TAFT SUPPORTERS PLACID
Ebb and Flow of Statements, Dec
larations and Interviews.
RUMoRs LOSE THEIR INTEREST
Roosevelt's Vehemence Checked by
His OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
Vice Presidency at Chicago.
STAFF correspondent.

Special From n Staf Correspondent.
CHICAGO. Ill. June 2o-Senator Bran
degee met a Roosevelt sympathizer in the
lobby Of the Congress Hotel after yester-
days session
You must admit you're beaten now
Mr.. Brandegee remarked
I'll admit we've had our pockets
picked retorted the Rooseveltian. with
the acute attack of crouch then epidemic
in the coloners camp.
Then you are short skates" came back
Senator Brandegee.
Indeed, II takes a thick skin to be a
delegate in the present convention and re-
main unruffied. The insurgents were ac-
customed 10 chide their opponents by
calling them "reactionaries' and tariff
harons." Since this convention opened
none If the Taft men could get up an ap-
petite for breakfast until he had been
called thief or "robber' few times.
Through the example set by Roosevelt
those words have had the call during the
cyclone of emotion. They are beginning
TO become bromidc today.
Last night marked the ehb of the tide
of statements and declarations and inter-
views given out at the various boom head
quarters. For a couple of weeks they
have been so numerous that one would
become stale in the time IL took to get
from one headquarters TO the other.
There was time last night to read through
the latest statement before another was
handed out.
Subsistence of Rumors.
There was also a relief from rumors
and reports flying through the convention
crowds around the Coliseum and the no.
tells. Up to last night a visitor could
stand in the lobby of the Congress Hotel
and hear every kind of a report that he
wanted to hear-that Roosevelt was go
ing home. that he had called a convention
of third party. that he was going to
convention next day. that he had re-
leased his delegates. that he hadn't given
up the night, that Taft had released his
delegates. that the leaders We're in con-
ference TO pick d compromise candidate
anything and everything.
But now there is difference.
Now that Roosevelt has forced Taft's
denomination and the Taft leaders have
not forced the Roosevelt delegates to
bolt. who is going to be nominated for
Vice President? was a question fire.
quently asked. There were peeps into
Theodore's horse stable. from which have
been led the unexhbited presidential
racers to give room for the vice presiden-
tial dark horses.
Story of Rough Riding"
A striking story that was In circulation
last night and that was denied had to do
with personal encounter between Col
Roosevelt and Senator Borah. The Rough
Rider had been told of another blow to
his hopes in the way of delegates. the
story goes.
Wen go out now he shouted. jump
ing from his chair.
You will not remarked Sem
>ator Borah. sit down. colonel. and wait
for acts and he seized the colonel by
his coat tails and pulled him back into a
chair.
Mr. Roosevelt smiled at the senator and
exclaimed:
"Borah. you would make bully catch
as-catch-can wrestler
OF course, the colonel did not stay put
in his chair.
Charles p. Taft, brother of the Presi-
dent and delegate from Ohio, regularly
cheers with the big batch of Taft rooters
among the delegates and visitors in the
Coliseum when the votes favorable to
Brother Bill are announced He was in
happy mood today and wore conspicu-
ously on his coat front badge that a
Texas delegate, sitting near him in the
convention, pinned on him. The badge
bore the slogan Texas for Taft" All OF
which proves that boys will be bows. even
though they have white hairs and are
weighed with the solemn duties of pick
man lAt9 nope Will be at the head
OF ninety million people for four years.
"Bolting'-for Home.
Boiling was in the air among the
delegates this morning. 1t was not the
KIND OF boiling about which the Rough
Rider of Oyster Fay has been talking; it
was boiling for home. There has been a
terrible strain in bank accounts; cases
are coming 10 trial in the courts for the
lawyers. safes are dropping off for the
manufacturers, and crops are getting ripe
for the farmers. a stay in Chicago over
Sunday, at convention prices and with
notes coming due and with the baby get
ting Group at home. is not alluring. There
was a break in the delegate line last
night. and more are dropping out today.
II is common comment that four years
ago the final adjournment had been taken
before noon Friday of the convention
week. Here IL is Saturday afternoon,
and the convention barely organized.
j. b. S.