The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-20
ROOSEVELT ORGANIZES NEW PARTY AND
 <. ANNOUNCES PURPOSE TO BOLT CONVENTION
vention. was the result.
 Hadley Disciplined.

vention was the result.
 Hadley Disciplined. Governor Hadley stated to con- ference of. Roosevelt leaders called today, in the Coloners rooms, that ne had been misrepresented in the press reports. The Missouri executive was ] asked what would be his course o1 action if the convention refused to unseat. the so called fraudulent dele- gates. He replied:
 TT will rise ih my place and an- nounce to the. convention that will have no part in the convention which does business with a roll tainted with this kind of fraud"
 Will YOU leave the hall?" he was asked. T will not say that he an- swered.
 Governor Hadley argued against boiling the convention until the cred- entials committees report had been acted upon. He concluded that the spoHition of those who were fighting the tainted roll" would be stronger if every opportunity was given the convention to remove the questioned deIege tes.
 @ Replying to this point. Roosevelt.s friends stated that overtures had been made by the opposition seeking conn promise, on the basfs of seating the Roosevelt delegations from Washing ton, California and part of Texas. Colonel Roosevelt would not listen to such a proposition, it was stated, and the very fact that the opposition was inclined to dicker was an indication of weakening. .e - t ' '
 The Colonel decided that there would be a meeting of two represen- tatives from each state Roosevelt delegation. this afternoon, to map out q plan of future action to be fol- lowed in the convention. AS. the Roosevelt forces expressed it, this conference will also consider the re- port from the Taft camp that they will return the stolen goods 0
 Oscar K. Davis, chief of the Roose-- welt publicity bureau then came out flatly~denying Posts statement but he 10 explanation. William: Finn. Roosevelt's floor leader, fol-, lowed him out but would give no in- formation. ss
 More people gathered around the room Two score newspaper men fought for front rank places, swayed and were pushed back by a file of po- 1icemen. .sl suddenly the door sopeneds DsNt6 emerged, 6nili s.. s.r x DO any cf you know Cqlonef spose- velt,s aAgnafnre?'' he demanded of the; men. When answered af- firmatively he held aloft a. single piece of paper. s. 7. sochies is tho Cofonore, si-r,.AA s+~+n ment- and he read the brief an-1 nouncement signed by the Colonel, an- nouncing the bipth of the new party. Newspaper men copied it word for word. holding their copy paper on each others back. Then there was wild rush to announce to the world the entry of the new infant into the family of politics.
 Indiana politicians were busy scat tering Hadley and Watson seeds among the other State delegations all day. They argued that Hadley and Watson, as the floor leaders, repre- senting Roosevelt and Taft, would make an ideal compromise ticket for President and Vice President
 Joseph Healing, of Indiana, did not subscribe to, the compromise. After D. aoconference with William Barnes, IT,, In the New York headquarters. Keal- lng declared that the Taft forces would be held intact and that Taft would be nominated.
 Colonel Roosevelt immediately began preparation of a long. formal state- ment to be distributed in printed form to every one of his delegates. outlin- Ing his reasons for the momentous step.
 While this statement was in process of framing, Governor Hadley quietly slipped out of the conference. To a crowd of reporters waiting without, he declared emphatically:
 : There is absolutely no truth in thel zhe Colonel and myself
 While the Roosevelt leaders gather sd about in cabinet session in t1eI Colonel's room, the widest rumors swept the Congress Hotel and the delegates just beginning to assemble to the convention
 Governor Post was one of the con- Eerees to emerge and he hurried off, away from the newspaper men with the announcement that Col. Roosevelt had determined .to releasei his delegates from all pledges to vote for him."
 The fact that an important an- of some sort was expect ed from the Roosevelt rooms and thatl Posts brief statement only served to increase the crowd that gathered the conference room.