Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-04-27
SHOW ME- STATE
DELEGATES ARE
FOR ROOSEVELT
Colonel's Friends Capture
Big Eight After Twenty
four Hours Deadlock and
Adopt Resolutions.
CONFERENCE NAMES
TAFT DELEGATION

Leaders at Hotel Meeting
Select Four Men to Con.
test for Seats at the Chi
cago Convention.
St. Louis, Mo-, April 26.-Gov. Her
bert S. Hadley and his friends early
lican convention for Col. Roosevelt
after twentyfour hour deadlock in
which the Taft leaders finally were
driven to complete rout Eight dele
gates at large to the national republi
can convention, all Roosevelt men and
all instructed for him, were elected af
ter two Taft leaders had been elected
and then had resigned their places on
the Missouri delegation when the
convention voted instructions for
Roosevelt.
The convention will go down in the
annals of Missouri politics as one OF
the most stubborn and dramatic fights
in the history of the state republican
organization.
Mayor Frederick H. Kreisman OF
st. Louis, and Charles D. Morris OF
St. Joseph, the latter chairman of the
state committee, were. the Taft lead
ers elected and who resigned as dele
gates at large to the national, conven-
ton when the state convention voted
to instruct the delegation for Roose-
welt.
Violation OF Agreement Charged.
In making their designations they
charged violation OF "gentlemen's
agreement" by which they declared
the Roosevelt managers had assured
them that the delegates at large would
he uninstructed.
Gov. Hadley replied to the declara-
tions of Mayor Kreisman and Chair.
man Norris in this connection by as
serting that he had not been a party
to any so-called "gentlemen's agree.
ment." The governor asserted that
throughout the bitter fight which pre-.
ceded the formal opening of the con-
vention he had refused to attempt to
deliver the votes Of Roosevelt dele
gates on any proposition. ,.
The eight delegates at large at the
national convention, each with one.
convention follow: W.
Gov. Herbert S. Hadley, Jesse Tol-
erton Of Bronson, Walter S. Dickey OF
Kansas City, Fred Essen Of Clayton,
John u. ,McNeley of st. Joseph, Hugh
McInode of Joplin. John w. Tippin OF
Springfield. and Alfred H. Spear OF
Chamois
AS national committeeman from
Missouri to succeed Charles Nagel
secretary of commerce and labor, the
state convention elected Thomas X.
Neidringhaus of St. Louis.
Taft Forces Put up Hard Fight.
The Roosevelt forces only achieved
final sweeping success in the conven-
ton after four distinct fights with the
Taft leaders who resisted each step
stubbornly.
The first of the fight came on the
question Of seating contested delegates
from Kansas City, St. Joseph and other
important points in the state. This
fight occupied all Of Wednesday night
and late Thursday resulted in seating
of nearly all the Roosevelt delegates.
The second bitterly contested point
was that regarding the chairman Of
the convention Gov Hadley was
placed in that position after his fol-
lowers had demonstrated that they
held the balance of votes on the con-
vention floor.
The third struggle came in the
resolution committee, where Taft men
refused to indorse Roosevelt.
After the committee had submitted
one report to the convention 1t was
withdrawn and an amplifed report
containing a straight endorsement OF
Col. Roosevelt was presented and
report was as promptly voted down on
a roll call. 81
The final battle, after daylight had
flooded the big armory and the dele
gates were almost completely worn
out by their all day and all night
struggle, was the question of instruct
ing the eight delegates at large to the
national convention. The Taft forces,
led by member of the st. Louis dele
CATION made last rally in efforts to
prevent fat instructions for Roose-
velt. rrn
But they were swept off their feet
by the now dominant Roosevelt tide,
and by vote of more than 2 to l the
Roosevelt forces carried their point
which resulted in the withdrawal OF
Mayor Kreisman and Chairman Norris
as delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton and the election of Roosevelt men
in their places.
Taft Men Elect Delegation.
! After the adjournment of the con-
vention. a small number Of Taft sup
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