The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-10
lNDlANA'S CONTESTS
WILL BE HEARD TO-DAY
Roosevelt Men Continue to
Plan Stampede and Rosily
Predict Triumph in
Convention.
BY JAMES. ] MONTAGUE.
BY International News Service.

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BY International News Service
~ HICAGO, June a.-The TAFT leader,
became disauieted today by the
activities of the new Roosevelt
vigilance committee and put into
commission set OF visilantes OF
their own
ibis committee headed by. .JosenI, y
heai!ns OF Indiana met in the mornirp
and after deciding to ignore haurhtiIv
colonel Roosevelt's screams Of fraud and
violence, made plans to shadow every
delegate from the moment of his arrival
lest he fall into the hands Of the enemy.
After the Roosevelt Hoosiers. inchidinr,
Senator Beveridge. Edwin NJ Lee. former
congressman Landis and e. II. Campbell.
The big four, have been thrown OUT, the
Taftites plan to get rid of the Roosevelt
men from California. Washington. Mis-
souri, and South Dakota,
Notwithstanding these plans. the Taft
confidence has been shaken today With
every contest decided In their favor. they
VIII have only 555 delegates. but sixteen
more than they need to nominate.
Roosevelt Stampede Feared.
What will happen to that extra sixteen
If Colonel Roosevelt suddenly bobs up
through trap-door in the convention
hall and begins to make speech Is a
thing that the Taft managers hate to
think about
stampede" is a word that is not men
toned among them 1t is the one horrd
fear that faces them night and morning
and haunts their troubled dreams.
Dixon declared this afternoon that he
had no chance whatever OF getting a
square deal In the national committee
but he said lie was going to make every
fight just az X he expected TO win 1t.
and then appeal to the sportsmanship of
the delegates 10 back him up. He was
reinforced today by the arrival Of Clifford
Pinchot, whose voice and purse are both
at the service of the colonel, and OF
Francis j. Heney. the fighting prosecutor
of the Pacific coast. ''Bilr' Finn was
kept at work all day driving the yigi-
ance committee around In search Of ar
irving delegates and bottling them up as
fast as they arrived,
Nagel in Small Favor.
The Taft forces were enriched by the
addition of T. A, NARROW, national com
from Montana, and Secretary
Nagel who holds like commission from
The party in Missouri. Nagel said he
,ame only to arrange for printing, and
would leave for ST. Louis In the morn
ng. As q matter OF fact he will not be
permitted TO sit in the committees. He
,at In the Missouri! state committee and
urned the delegation at-large over To
Roosevelt. Penrose does not want any
hing like that TO happen here.
Pinchot had no information 10 give af-
er his arrival beyond the fact that he
ogarded Roosevelt's nomination as GER
ain. He says he viii stay Till the late
'ote is cast. but will not try 10 Jimmy
himself into the convention with
proxy, II shall have plenty 10 do here
It headquarters. he said
Pinchot Is Plotting
Pinchot Borah Dixon. Stubos Of Kan
AS and Bainbrdge Colby. who furnishes
he legal knowledge necessary 10 the
Roosevelt strategy. all met in Dixona
oons In the afternoon and announced
hat they had just begun TO tight
1--WE have more delegates Than they
now anything about" said Dixon after
he meeting. -'We are afraid 10 show
hem our full strength tonight for feor
will scare iher so they VIII DC Too
asy TO HEX But just walt I'LL We get
ding and see what happens to thein.
IL have heard that they have vigil
lnce committee of their own. but VIC
re not in the least afraid OF II. You
iust remember tina, they have already
airned all the contests that there arc.
D they viii have gained nothing by the
Iracies that they arc now committing"
Dixon appears 10 be rosi'y confident
,at the colonel Will be nominated on The
rst ballot, and his confidence proved
,nta gious a bout the Roosevelt headquar-
,rs.
In the Taft camp Penrose remained
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