New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27
TO FIGHT FOR MISSOURI
Taft Men Name Rival Delegation
to Chicago. ~
ACCUSE ROOSEVELT LEADER
Say Hadley Promised Unin.
structed Delegates in Con.
vention Compromise.

, -. Louis April Ex-Governor Herbert q
Hadley and his friends early to-day SWIM,
the Missouri Republican State Conventior
for Colonel Roosevelt after a twenty-foa,.
; hour deadlock, in which the Taft leader.
finally were driven to surrender EIGHT
delegates-at-large TO the Republican Ma.
tional Convention, all Roosevelt men and
all instructed for him, were elected alta,
4, two Taft leaders had been elected and then
had resigned when the convention voted in.
structions for Roosevelt.
| The convention will go down in the an.
nails Of Missouri politics as one Of the most
stubborn and dramatic fights in the history
Of the Republican state organization.
Mayor Frederick II. Kreismann of n
Louis and Charles ID. Morris, Of st. Josenh.
the latter chairman Of the state committee
were the Taft leaders who were elected and
who resigned as delegates-at-large. In
making their designations they charged yto
lation OF a "gentlemen's agreement" by
which they declared the Roosevelt man.
ayers had assured them that the DELEGATES.
at-large would be uninstructed.
Governor Hadley replied to the asssr.
| tons Of Mayor Kreismann and Mr.. Morris
! by saying that he had not been a party "a
any so-called ''gentlemens agreement" Tn.
Governor asserted that throughout the bit.
! ter fight which preceded the formal open
ing of the convention he had refused 10
attempt TO deliver the votes Of Roosevelt,
delegates on any proposition. .-.
The eight delegates-at-larse, with a one
| half vote, follow: ....-
Governor Herbert s. Hadey Jesse ToIer.
ton o. al
| sas City; Fred Essen. of Clayton; John -.
McNeeley. OF st. Joseph: Hugh McIndoe.
OF Joplin ;>John w. Tippn, of Springfield,
| and Alfred II. Spear, Of Chamois.
AS national committeeman from Missouri.
; to succeed Charles Nagel. Secretary o.
Commerce and Labor, the convention elected
Thomas X. Niedringhaus, OF st. Louis
After the adjournment Of the convention,
Taft supporters met I'm a hotel and named
four delegates-at-large TO the national con-
yention. as follows: Joseph r.. Black, Rich
mond: John a. Duncan, st. Joseph John
J. Lahio. St Louis, and Harry ID. Train,
Kansas City. ....
Ex-State Senator Henry L. Eads presided.
and announced that resolutions condemnins
Governor Hadley for "hetraying" the TAFT
men in the convention agreement were
adopted. The resolutions also praised the
administration OF President Taft.
In the hotel paror when Chairman Eads
announced the result we're Otto F. Stitel.
Taft leader i'm St Louis, and eight other
Taft adherents. Other Taft men in an ad-
joining room counselled against naming
a rival delegation and advised sending
LAWYERS 10 the national convention. Eads
and Stifel. however. said they did not think
Taft protest woul1 have weight unless
contesting delegation was on the ground.
Mr.. Taft now has eighteen out Of a pos
sble thirty-six delegates and Mr. Roo.e-
welt has only fourteen. with no possl5ih'y
Of increasing that number BY more than
Sour. as only the delegates from the l5th
and 18th districts in Missouri instructed FOR
Seven districts in Missouri instructed FOR
Mr.. Taft end two more are pledged TO
him. while Mr. Roosevelt has only five dis
,rIcts TO his credit. The districts captureh
for Mr.. Taft are the lst, 3D. oth' Ith' "h'
10Th, 18th, 18th and l4th