Bisbee daily review., 1912-05-24
TAFT MEN ID ATTEND {. ]. p.
 MEETING HERE
Both Factions Will Enter Session of County Committee Satur-
 day Evening
ANOTHER SPLIT IS
 POSSIBLE HOWEVER
of President Ex- pected to Withdraw If Any Opportunity
 Is Offered

The cat is out Of the bag. The fumes of gasoline that went up from COchise county roads Wednesday were from the automobiles of Taft leaders who were winding up a cam. paign that started immediately after the Benson meeting. It was learned from authoritative sources yesterday that the Taft men would enter the Roosevelt meeting here on the even. ing of May 20 and would try to cap ture 1t.
 Taft leaders claim more detection in the Roosevelt ranks. and assert that they will tie. the Roosevelt ele- ment. up in a double-bow knot al the meeting in Bisbee
 The Roosevelt leaders are also claiming defectlons from the Taft ranks. and that they will have big. ger majority in the Bisbee meeting than they had in the Benson meet ing. It is not probable that enough defections have occurred or will oc- cur in their ranks to render the power Of the majority less effective. So the plan Of the Taft men is probably to again withdraw from the meeting
 The Taft men make no secret of the fact that they will withdraw if given an opportunity. and in answer 10 their critics from the Roosevelt side, they cite the fact that Roose- welt is contesting Tafti delegations from the southern states that were pledged to Taft before Roosevelt threw his hat in the ring"
 Two Delegations Possible
 If the Taft leaders, Gardner, Locke Cassidy ct als, withdraw from the meeting. it is said the Roosereh crowd will then declare the offices oi chairman and secretary of the county central committee vacant, and will elect one of their own faith to each of those offices. Then they will name sixteen Roosevelt delegates to the state convention and have their ere dentials signed by their own officers
 In order to make it appear that the delegation was not hog-tied for Roosevelt, one or two Taft men may be selected on the delegation. This would also throw a jayelin into the sensitive skin of the regulars.
 If they withdraw, the Taft men
 
 he wards of Uncle Trusty will square off for the encounter to be held at Tucson on June 3.
 The fruits of the mysterious move ments of the regulars for the past week are not Known, but the Taft men appear confident Of their ability to get away with the stunt that the! nave arranged foi the Bisbee meeting Emisaries of the Taftistas have been to every nook and corner of the county in the past week. and what ever their mission, they believe that they have been succe ssful. Anyway, there will be a great chance for Tad's Joys and Glooms" theatricals at the Bisbee meeting.
 The Roosevelt men, admitting their inability to core single-handed with the expert parliamentarians of the Taft camp, have employed a ''parlia- mentarian." The majority of the Roosevelt men on the committee are young men, The deiusion that nun bers was all that was necessary was exploded at the Benson meeting, when the Taftistas executed one of the cutest forlorn hopes ever seen in the county. The Roosevelt men have profited by the experience, how ever, and now they are being coached" by their employed 'parlia- mentarian."
 The fault Of this arrangement is. however, that their parliamentarian will not be on the floor of the meet ing, not being a member of the com mittee or even of the republican party. The Roosevelt leaders will absorb all they can by their correspondence course in parliamentary tactics, and will leave the rest to Renshimol.
 Benshimol looms large as a republt can party leader in the event the Roosevelt faction finally gets the up per hand in the party in this county. The ability of the Douglas man as a leader is admitted by the Taft men, one of whom said If it had not been for Benshimol at the Benson meeting, we would have had the Roosevelt bunch voting agai.st them selves"
 There will be no meeting al Bowie on May 9, or at any other point out
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