New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-17
BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE.
downright. 1912 BY Samuel C. Blythe

Sunday was largely devoted TO seeming
and boiling.
Sedulous seethers were constantly
stepping on ones feet I'm the hotel LOB
bies and seething into ones face. ana
buoyant boilers boiled up, boiled out ana
boiled over here. there and everywhere
II was the same upstairs in the rooms
that shelter the professional seethers'
They were not seething in view OF the
spectators. but they were doing lot
more of il. for. as is well known, they
have a lot more Of it TO do.
The net result of the days ebullition
was plenty Of bubbles and steam but
nothing more tangible. When the SER
goants and cOrporals who are running
this show. or are being run by 1t. wien
is closer to the fact closed down for the
night they were In exactly the same
case as they were In the morning, when
they had their eggs. Not one OF them
knew what is going to happen and not
one OF them did not claim to know ex-
actly what is in prospect.
Claim Everything, Concede Nothing.
No. OF the political aphorisms IS:
Claim everything. The men who are IN
charge of the various affairs OF the vari-
ous candidates are ably aphoristicaL
They claim everything Then. following
out political precepts. they concede
nothing Thus the eager seeker AFTER
information learns that Taft Is sure TO
win. that Roosevelt is sure TO win, that
Cummins and La Toilette are sure to
win and that there is nothing TO II but
Hughes or Borah or some one else.
And. casting a general average, the re-
suit obtained is that while sopebody Is
certain To win. nobody In chicago
knows who that somebody will be.
II was hot in the morning, but in the
afternoon the breeze came skylarking In
from the lake, and the wited Projectors
and solvers, and compromisers, and com
/ promised. and prophets. and seers. ana
fanatics. and fantasies chirked up
amazingly. and the mass Of misinforma-
ton that was handed about in places
where these persons gathered would dam
Niagara.
This was the way Of IL: A report came
that Taft Georgia delegate had
switched TO Roosevelt. a man heard
this report Presently he told IL to an
other man. That man came along and
told another man that half dozen
Georgia delegates. he had heard on the
highest possible authority, had switched
10 Roosevelt. The third man made the
number dozen. and the fourth man
galloped down Peacock Alley, In the An
mex. shouting. The stampede has be-
gun, The stampede has begun"
Still. there were one or two definite
things. Tim" Woodruff Of Brooklyn,
after hutterinR about for weeks finally
lighted I'm the Roosevelt cote. and
claimed he brought four other Brooklyn
birds Of passage with him. Mr.. Wood
run said he could not stand the high
handed methods OF the national com
mittee. being a sensitive person and hav-
| ing his nerves wracked by the presence
Of Bull" Barnes. also Of New York. as
a Taft leader. There was some other
shifting back and forth. but the net re-
| suit Of the day was that while one side
may have gained some and one side lost
some neither side knows exactly what
ii mas and neither will know until the
first test vote comes
The CoIonel's Emphatic you"
The star of the days performance was
Colonel Roosevelt. He sat most Of the
time in his room in the Annex and saw
the boys as they were brought TO him.
Nor has the colonel lost any of the mag
netism by which he used TO make his
callers at the White House think they
were at that moment the exact persons
Of all the worlds population he most
loved and most desired TO see.
"Of course" he said. 81 am glad to see
you'-with heavy emphasis on the you
and | know you"-with hard bearing
down on the 'you"-and so on; and he
kept lot Of them ribbed up for the
fight
The Taft fellows mOurned at the spec
tacle. 1t was terrible. they said. to SEE
an ex-President OF the United States
actually canvassing for votes. "A sure
sign that the Republic is headed toward
the reefs. The Roosevelt fellows. hav-
ing been torn with certain internal ieal-
ousies and having suffered from leader
ship that had more leaders than there
were followers. said il was great. and
cheerfully turned the burdens OF the
campaign over TO the colonel, hoping he
Will pull them through.
The Near Treason Association. having
completed It's labOrs at late hour on
Saturday night by standing by "Sammie"
Perkins In the State OF Washington con-
tests, took an excursion to country
club but they were "A worried set. they
had performed according TO plans and
specifications and now they are wonder
ing II the actors they have selected will
sneak the lines assigned to them or will
decide to do a little mpromptu acting of
their own when they get in the limelight
They do not know, nor did 1t cheer them
up any. to have Montana man tell
them the story of the time the late VIII
bur f.. Sanders, OF that state, rode into
a town years ago where the citizens were
about to have lynching. Sanders
strobe into the crowd. stop this" he
shouted. stop this! There has been
too much OF this high handed business
I'm this state. ] protest. This must not
go on. This man must not be hanged In
this summary manner. Give him a fair
and impartial trial and then hang him Il"
Root Makes His Own Ice.