The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-20
GETTING ORDERS
FROM THE BOSS
Roosevelt Men who Walked Out CT
Committee Room Last Night
Are Told to Walk Back
.
COLONIES MANIFESTO
Asks His Followers to Organize .
New Convention in Case They
Cannot Have Their
Way.
CoLoNEL's MANIFESTO

changes and shifts OF tactics by the
roosevelt managers yesterday and
last night resulted In dissention
among the rank and file OF the dele
gates today and in consequence there
was a wide difference of opinion re-
garding what would be the outcome of
the maneuyering- The militant ele-
ment was admittedly restless under
the delay. Governor johnson, of Cal
ifornia. who has been insisting from
the start that he saw no use of fight
ing with feathers emphaticaIly de-
clared that so far as the California
forces are concerned he intended now
to take a club
Many OF the Roosevelt followers ex-
Ipected last night that a new conven-
ton was to be organized in Orchestra
hall today. They had been told that
the colonel's managers had engaged
the structure and that all arrange
ments had been completed for a mass
meeting there. after which the Col
iseum was to be stormed and Roose-
yelt nominated. But after Francis ].
Heney of California: Maurice l..
Calvin. Kansas: Lex N. Mitchell.
PENNSYLVANIA; Jesse n. Libby, Maine;
Edward c. Darlington, Jr., MARYLAND:
H. T. Halbert, Minnesota: H. E. Sack
EFT, Nebraska; C. H. Cowles, North
Carolina: John ]. Sullivan, Ohio: A.
y. Swift, Oregon: Daniel Norton,
Oklahoma. and S. x. Ray, South Ia
kota, had Withdrawn from the com
mittee on credentials because tnev de-
ciared that an attempt had been made
to gag them, they were directed to re-
turn today by Colonel Roosevelt. The
rules at first suggested would have
limited the presentatio ton of each con-
test to FIVE minutes, would have pre-
vented discussion, and would have
compelled vote Immediately after a
i contest was ordered closed
After the Roosevelt men had walk.
led out, however. the majority mem
hers of the committee backed down
They modified their rules to provide
that the representatives of the press
associations who were admitted By the
u
ling contests, should be present at tbs
Ecnmmittee sessions. Then they pro
yided that 30 minutes would be giver
to each side in presenting state
il contest and twenty minutes in eacf
district contest IT was also agreed
that in cases where this would no
give time enough for the proper pre-
sentstion of the points at issue. ths
time limit would not be enforced.
When Colonel Roosevelt learned o
this modification. he ordered his me,
in the committee to get back into tn,
meeting and continue their fight. Thi
decision caused jubiliation among tn,
Taft forces They accepted it as al
indication that the opposition wa.
: weakening and jubiIiantIy declared
that when the Roosevelt forces triet
TO organize their own little conven
tion on the floor, they will be unable
10 hold more than half of their mem
t,ership.
The Taft men we're today character
izing their opponents as .'F1nnigan
ties.
| They were asserting that the con
again. off,again, on-again" policy
coupled with the threats of boiling
had shifted the sentiment and insist
ing that when the final count of noses
comes, II 1t ever does. the strength o
the regular organization will be !;
great surprise to the people of th'
country.
Today's session of the convention
was expected TO be routine. only, TN
less the Roosevelt forces should de
eide to force the issue. The very fac
that the committee on credentials ha,
thrown open the gates to the presenta
ton Of complete contests indicate,
that that body could hardly expect Il
finish It's labors before tomorrow a
the earliest Meanwhile the conven
ton must remain at a stsndstill. Tn
til its roll Of delegates is presented t,
lit by IFS committee. It cannot turn
wheel
There was. OF course, the possibil
ity that the Roosevelt forces woul
walk out again when the decision Il
the Ninth Alabama case was reached
This was the one in which the cry 0
fraud has been freely raised by tn
Roosevelt men, but it was absolutel
certain when the convention went In
to session today that the Taft me-
were in complete control and tina
their votes would be cast to retain o.
the roll the men placed there by tn
national committee.
Those who held TO this belief base
their opinion on the following fer
statement made by Colonel Roosevelt
Ito mis- followers early today, in order
ing them hack to the convention hall
As far ~ am concerned, ar
through hcpe that when you e