Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-17
figure at a large mass meeting of the

figure at a large mass meeting of the
Roosevelt followers.
Col. Roosevelt this morning received
the delegations from Illinois, New Jersey,
Oklahoma and Massachusetts,. The col
onel shook hands and chatted with eacn
individual delegate.
After the Massachusetts, delegation mad
visited the colonel Matthew Hale or bos-
ton announced that the eight delegates
at large from that state who mad peell
renowned by Col. Roosevelt in favor or
President Taft would vote for Roosevelt.
'In view Of the tactics of the national
committee in deciding the contests IN
other states" said Mr.. Hale, Il believe
the eight delegates-at-large from Massa-
chusetts will vote for Col. Roosevelt.
Early today Senator Borah of Idaho
finally and definitely was selected as the
choice of the Roosevelt forces for tempo
rary chairman. in place or Gov herbert
s Hadley Of Missouri
Gov. Hadley. because of his successful
and clever fight in the Missouri repuo-
lican state convention and before the ma
tional committee. was CHOSEN as moor
leader for the Roosevelt organization.
1t was said that Senator Borah was
not consulted in regard to making the
race against Senator Root for the tenn
porary Craftsmanship and that the 1daho
man is unprepared with speech. For
this reason he asked TO be relieved from
officiating at tonights Roosevelt mass
meeting bur the Roosevelt leaders insist
ed that he appear at the theater
Two Distinct Platforms.
In addition to two candidates for the
temporary craftsmanship. the Taft and
Roosevelt forces prepared two distinct
platforms for submission to the conven-
ton The work of preparation of the
platforms was continued through the day.
James r. Garfield in discus-cg the plat
form to be submitted by the Roosevelt
organization declared that it would be
progressive throughout but that the sub
ject of the recall would be left to the IN
dividual states.
A. Piatt Andrew, assistant Secretary
of the Treasury. arrived YESTERDAY
with the financial plank for the Taft
PLATFORM Personally he said that he
was satisfied with the Rochester plank.
but that others seemed to think that
this should be amplified in the national
platform.
The Taft forces announced that Sena-
tor Clarence Clark of Wyoming had
been agreed on for chairman of the
committee on rules. and that Repre-
sentative Marine Olmsted of Pennsyl-
vania had been selected as parliament
tartan of the convention. There were
no changes announced in regard to
the other committee places previously
announced.
Third CanQldate 1alK.
Third candidate talk continued in many
quarters today. The name of Justice
Hughes was prominent in this discussion
Champions of Senator La Toilette and
Senator Cummins said they saw much to
favor their candidate in the extremely
tense Taft-Roosevelt fight
Senator w. S. Kenyon of Iowa was so
enthusiastic with regard to the Cummins
cause that he said the Iowa man would
be the choice for the nomination on the
first ballot were there no instructions.
John j. Hannah of Senator La Follette's
headquarters declared that the Wiscon-
sin senator's chances never appeared
better to him.
Only this. said Henry w. Taft, broth
err of the President. whe masked imme-
diately after his arrival today from New
York, whether he had any comment to
make on the situation. "only this, that
think somebody is liable to be nominated
on the firht ballot II somebody does not
steal something from somebody
Mr.. Taft was in excellent spirits and de-
clared that he was not in the least wor-
ried over the prospects Of the Taft fam
lily.