The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-07
BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE.

6y JAMES y. NUN A1OE.
CHICAGO, June 6.--The Taft and
Roosevelt steam rollers met in head-en
collision in the first meeting OF the
national commtte" today, and tho
Roosevelt roller got the hardest bump.
These things happened in The eou.-
mttee and out OF il!
!. The Roosevelt men attempted 10
find out the strength of the Taft forces
in vote on tho question Of publicity
in the hearing of contests, They found
out that Taft has thirtynine votes
In the national committee to Roose-
vslt's twelve,
| :. The Roosevelt men sought to ar
RANGE Tor delays In every contest by
demanding that eight votes only be re-
quired to compel roll call. They
we're voted down viva voce.
g. The Taft men defeated n Roosevelt
plan to reduce the representation in
the South plan which would have
put most of the Taft bread-line dele
gates out of business That vote was
put over before the Roosevelt men had
time to offer any opposition.
T. The Taft men resurrected tina
Conklin resolution Of the convention OF
1880 which binds all hands not to
bolt and VIII try to slide through tho
coming convention to head off any run
OUT by the colonel.
), Practically conceding the election
Of Root as temporary and probably
permanent chairman Of the conventions
the Roosevelt men ceased their oppo-
siyion To the New York senator His
name viii not come sefore the commits
Tee and no official mention of him VIII
be made till Victor Rosewater SAYS
to the convention: II am instructed by
the national committees to present to
| you the name of Ilihu Root as Your
Temporary chairman.
| Ready For Second Struggle.
| After the preliminary slSirmish which
| began in the committee room in tho
| Coliseum at . O'Clock this afternoon
both sides are sitting back and im-
bibing courage for the second struggle
tomorrow.
| Both sides are still loudly claiming
| victory.
I Both sides privately are badly scared
/ Not until the committee begins tn
work on the contests tomorrow and
proves whether II has or has nor the
| COURAGE to hurl the Roosevelt mem
l.out into The avenue. will anybody really
know how they stand, afeanwhtlO
Dixon. says confidently that there is no
more chance of beating the colonel
than there is of beating an aeroplan0
with n moving van and Mckinley says
the steam roller will have the whole
Roosevelt crowd fiatter than pan cakes
inside the week.
Crane and Penrose led the processlon
to the Coliseum this afternoon. ana
went into action yhe minute they GOT
there. After some pow-woWing on Inssa
Roosevelt side, Senator Borah was tol0
off 10, run the game for the colonel
with instructions to get a test vote -
soon as possible. He got one.
On the question of admitting
newspaper men, Frank b, Kellogg. %
Minnesota, offered a resolution lets.
ting all press representatives in
Crane and Penrose instantly ops
posed It. They wanted to work II
! the dark. and made that fact vefE
plain Finally they agreed to com
promise on the press associations
only. The Kellogg resolution 49,
defeated by 80 TO Is. The proxy ~
! Flanagan, of Nevada. was not votes
| as II had been sent to Senator Dtx0M
who. In the interest OF good sporee-
| manship declined to use IL Ilater4
/ will be turned over TO Lucius Ldtto4%g
aur, II New York. and work Co.
! Roosevelt to the bitter end. ~
Roller Gathers Force.
| Having got his test vote. BoruHS
went after the right to hold up tM@S
| roll calls by permitting eight men IL
dSrnnnd such vote. Again 60
sream roller went over him tA
| time hard. and he came out Of t1$
| committee fighting mad III
| The third wallop at the RoOsavN
crowd was in the matter at
Southern delegates. After the hloS 4
the meeting adjourned until tomaq
| row morning, with everybody r4a1
TOR a scrap and everybody conn6G1
that the whole row will have "a
,nraahed out with many words on
floor OF the convention before ~
body win know who the rouino1
To be or on what kind " pIatfG
tie viii run. Ss S3$
Much Bitter Feeling.
While between the rivals there
eorne show OF friendly nAndc3a
and swapping tobacco ncrona