New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
Roosevelt Members of National Committee
Find Colonel's Cases Too Hollow to
Warrant Their United Support.
PRESIDENT GETS II DELEGATES
Serious Friction in His Opponents Camp Where NcE4atg
and Dixon Sow Dssension, and Detected Leaders
Fear the ColoneIs Presence Will Destroy
Whatever Chance He May Have
rEy stag Correspondent ot ~. Tribune


rBy stag Correspondent ot n. T.iour.
Chicago. June s.-Seventy-,wo 70 moth
ing in tavcr Of Taft Up 70 This. SATURDAY
night.
Steam roller Not BIT Ct II 1t
has b=en by the practically unanimous
vote Of the Republican National Commit
tee.
Not one Roosevelt contest thus far
presented has had sufficient me-t. 70 ell
able all the colonels supporters in ths
committee 10 vote for .he Rocssrelt del2
gates
( IN al the cases thus far decided thcre
have been only two divisions. One =
these occurred YESTERDAY over the 9th
Alabama District, when that sturdy and
loval supporter of The colonel CnCn
I Lvon. Of TeXos, voted for the 1att deli-
gates solely on the merit of their cl4ln.
The other occurred to-dav in ths case ~
the 9Th District Of Arkansas, on wh!ch
the vote stood 10 % 80 in support II
motion 70 seat all four delegates, "ifn
half a vote each. The Roose"elt sup
porters on the committee number fifteen
! Ormshv McHsrg, instltltor OF most ~
the Southern contests. having lost his
head and by the violence Of his language
emtittered the Southern delegates be
vond the possibility Of repair, has given
up the tight. and declares the Roosevelt
ties will appeal 70 the credentials COM
mittee Of the pational convention.
What Is the use Of wasting our en-
erev when We know What they will do?
, We are going to carry our fight 10 the
; committee on credentials" declared Ne
Harg this evening. Lyon. Kellogg ana
; other Roosevelt members bitterly resent
this mputatlon.
! No Chance Of Reversal.
That there is not the slightest chance
, that the committee on credentials, Whlcn
has been composed in large part or the
a very men whom McHarg has attempted
( 70 browbeat. and who assert that he ma
? grossly nsulted them, will reverse the
, action of the national committee, taken
D in almost every instance unanimously
every experienced Roosevelt ieade'
J knows That is the reason the R''S'-
: Welt leaders are 50 detected.
, Bill Finn orga:.ized his circus co'"'
, uittee this after .oon Bill calls II
. steering committee. He THINKS ''''
4 sounds better. He says its purpose Is 10
) nromote the interests of Colonel RooSe-
5 ,.oIt ON the floor of the convention.
which. being translated, means that IL
is to attempt TO create "a staihpcue loi
D the colonel regardless of I'll" merits ~
his claims or tn, wishes OF the people.
Politicians here do not believe th"
"'Bilr Finn committee will get any
where. They say the Taft forces are too
well organized, and that, moreover,
whatever chance there may have been to
gain strength for the colonel has been
disspated beyond redemption 10y the vio-
Ienco of McHargs Language and the
gross Misrepresentation of Senator
Dixon.
In to-days session McHars declared
that there is no Republican party SOUL
of Mason and piXonS line This as
, scrtion brought on him a storm or pro-
test not alone from the Taft men on III"
, ties as we'll. ..mong them being Mcssrs.
lC2pcrs. Of South Carolina, and LYON, Il
Texas.
b "If there is no Republican party in tn
South. why cid You 20 after Roosevelt
dclcgatcS"" demanded General Powcn
Clayton. and McIIarS had 10 answer
ready.
When tho case oi tho Georgia dele
gates.at.largc was being discussed ~
r. Johnson. a Taft delegate, pleading
the legitimacy Of his title 20 q seat. said.
1T was all harmonious. We had no idea
, there would bc any contest. The motion
; to make the action ol the convention
Unanimous was made and carried in tho
ease of each delegate: and all was pleas
Iant and peaceful until about April l. or
H. Then We had 1 visitor, ana NJ
I made "A courtly Southern bow IN the d.
Irection of McHarg, who blushed wildly
He said no more. bat the committee Wen
understood his meaning
Friction in Colonel's Ranks.
There is serious friction in the Roose-
yelt ranks. Senator Dixon issued an in
|
Nammatory statement last night IN
which he talked of the steam roller
land declared there was no justice in
yesterday's decisions OF the COMMITTEES
Almost simultaneously Colonel Roosevelt
Ianncuuced at oyster Bay that he hal
never expected to receive moro than two
votes from .Ilabama-those of the tw'
uncontested delegates from the Sd Dis
trict-and even showed to the newspa
per men his confidential list showing
that he could not expect more.
Even the newspaper men who arc
seeking 10 promote the cause of Mr..
Roosevelt are incensed at his course, for
= they all wrote dispatches declaring that
rank injustice had been done by the
committee. only to be confronted this
| morning by Mr.. Roosevelt's assertion
that in effect. he had no title to any ~
the seats from Alabama which his man
ayers had contested, and that the COM
mittce had done perfectly right.
Then, too, Senator Dixon does not be-
lieve in the "Bill Finn committee He
has an idea that this postmaster In ward
pclitics is out of place in a national con-
vention. and that his methods will serve
r only TO bring down ridicule on the de
! voted Rooseveltites. But "Bllr' is here
! and has organized his group OF strong