The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-20
Dol TIERS HOLD
War COUNCIL
Crowd Into Hotel Room and Hear
Roosevelt Tell Them That
Bosses Are Robbins
Them.
HALL UNDER CONTRACT
Everything Ready for Meeting In Or
chestra Hall After Being Thrown
Out Of Coll
scum.

| UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, June 20.-Since ten
O'Clock last night the radical Roose-
| welt followers have had no other
| thought than they would nominate
the colonel at convention presided
| over by Temporary Chairman Root. At
what hour this action would come, by
what immediate steps it would be pre-
ceded-these were regarded as mere
| details.
Since late Wednesday evening, Or
chestra hall has been under contract.
A committee On strategy has been in
almost continuous session and plans
i are ready for any contingency. For
strategitic reasons details Of the Roose-
welt plans have been withheld. But no
effort has been made to obscure the
4 fact that Colonel Roosevelt regards
the die as cast, and the birth of
4 new party at hand.
i The only 'if'' in the proposition,
when today's business began, was
that preceding the suggestion that the
+ roll of the Coliseum convention be
purged of it's eighty tainted" names.
i That the anti-Roosevelt following
would now consent to this was not an
ticipated. To remove the list of dele
(. gates challenged by the Roosevelt
4 people would be to surrender the anti
Roosevelt majority to the Roosevelt
j people. No contingency was counted
s on to move men like Barnes, Penrose
and Crane to any such action.
i The application last night of gag
i law" by the credentials committee
I. their determination at first announced
to have no publicity and to limit de-
bate to five minutes on side-was
gladly seized upon as the occasion for
the revolt which the Roosevelt people
have seen coming for several days. A
crowd of thirty or forty of Roosevelt'a
friends were gathered in the colonefs
suite at 10 o'clock last evening when
news of the committees action was
received
THAT settles it" exclaimed Roose.
velt This is where we ought to
quit We have waited long enough.
Tell our people to quit the committee
and get ready to quit the whole prop
osition."
This announcement brought the en-
tire party to its feet, cheering, and
messengers were rushed in all direc-
: tions with the news and with sum
mons for Roosevelt delegates to come
to the Florentine room. Here a few
minutes later the colonel addressed
them briefly and told them he would
4 have more to say to them at one
o'clock after he had an opportunity to
talk to the Roosevelt men on the COM
mittee on credentials.
In the meantime the Taft members
of the credentials committee had con-
tinued in session following the depar-
ture of the Roosevelt contingent and
had decided to change their original
rules so as to admit representatives
of the press associations and to allow
more liberal time for the hearing OF
each case. The Taft men admitted
that their action in this instance was
prompted by their desire to be entire
ly regular and to lay the consequences
of any bolt from the committee at the
door of the Roosevelt members.
While this action was being taken
by the Taft men on the committee the
Roosevelt delegates assembled in the
Florentine room for the promised adj
dress.
This is your fight now said Col
onel Roosevelt. You gentlemen are
the legal and fairly elected majority
The only question is-will you let
yourselves be tricked out of it?
Il said on the stump" Roosevelt
continued, land many of you heard me
If | fail to get the endorsement a,
the hands of the people shall have
!. nothing to say. But If / am tricked
by the bosses. shall have lot to
say. 1t is this second situation we
now face. The politicians are trying
to cheat us. Will you let them do it?'
A shout of noes followed.
Roosevelt called attention to the
fact that the opposition used the sixty
: votes challenged as fraudulent in
electing the temporary speaker and in
voting down the resolution which de
manded that the delegates whose
seats are questioned. stand aside and
permit their cases to be directed b.
! the unchallenged votes.
1T is useless for you men to go in
to that convention and permit YOU
protest against fraud to be voted
down by the fraudulent roll" he con
tinued. Il hope you will not go into
the convention and submit apair, r.