The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-06

~OIIlI Ol Ol Llic COAFOIlllOA lS HI lAC hands of the uninstructed delegates and while both sides claim them and will continue to do so, it will not be until the roll is called on the make up Of the temporary convention that the discussion will be ended.
 The President will be in instant touch with the convention from now on. A private telephone wire was hooked up today from the headquar- ters of Secretary Hilles in the Black stone Hotel direct to the White House and the secretary will keep his chief in touch with everything that goes on.
 The Roosevelt headquarters will not get into immediate touch with Oyster Bay until next week. But Senator Dixon and Colonel Roosevelt have an understanding that the latter is to be. notified at once of the attitude assumed by. the committee. If the latest program goes through the ma jority of the men now on the ground believe that Roosevelt will come here in person early next week to direct his own fight If he. does, he will be given the proxy of one of his friends to sit with the committee and try by his own personality to "put his delegates over.''
 Congressman Mckinley, Senators Penrose and Crane and few of the inner circle of the Taft leaders con- ferred for several hours today follow ing a meeting that lasted two hours, last night. Various reasons were as- signed for the conference but it de- veloped that what was done was act uany to check up the roll of the con- vention delegates in an attempt to find out exactly who was who.
 A new factor developed in the sit- uatiOn today when some of the Paci- fic coast delegates arrived with drafts Of suggested plans for the platform. One of these is a sweeping endorse ment Of the recall of all officials, in- cluding the judges, and it seems cer- tain at the start that this plank alone will cause dissension in the Roosevelt privately assured the progressive leaders that. he would be willing to have the recall of judges endorsed, but in a number of States in which Roosevelt delegates have been elect ed, this suggestion is unpopular. The Taft leaders prepared to trade on this fact seemed hopeful that it might give them a decided advantage at least in the organization of the con-
 1t seemed certain today that the selection Of United States Senator Elihu Root for temporary chairman would be ratified by the convention. After talking with Washington and New York over the long distance tele- man of the committee On arrange ments, declared that Root was the choice of nearly two-thirds of the elected delegates, according to. expres- sions personally secured from them. He stated that he did not believe the Roosevelt forces would attempt a fight on Root aithouEh he said they ohoh Iofv e-r,- ing to make one up to the start.
 The revised list of contests. as an- nounced by William Hayward, secre- tary of the national. committee, was as follows: s
 Alabama 22, Arizonaks. Arkansas Is, California 2, Florida n, Georgia 2s 20. Michisan m 6. N MississppT is, Missouri 14, North CaroliIst IS, Oklahoma 2 Tennessee 8, Texas 2S, Virginia 20 Washingtona 14,- District of Columbia 2. It was the general belief today of both Roosevelt and Taft leaders that the only contests that Roosevelt and possibly in Texas.
 Congressman Mckinley, chief of the Taft supporters. issued lengthy statement in which he defended Sena- tor Root in connection with the at tacks that have been made upon him by the Roosevelt followers and by Roosevelt himself He reviewed Roots record as a cabinet member, tempor- ary chairman of the convention o1 1904 which nominated Roosevelt and as the personal friend of the Colonel at Saratoga in 19OS.o He said
 Every infant in arms in political matters knows that Senator Elihu thing, he was master of Theodore Roosevelt during his presidency and MT. Roosevelt, so valued his services that he begged him personally to re- linquish a private law practice worth $100. 900 a year to qre-enter his cabinet as secretary of state.''
 Mckinley bitterly attacked Roose- welt for his attitude toward William Barnes, Jr., of New York. He said Roosevelt was to blame for the de- feat by 65, 900 Of the Republican party in the state of New York in 1910.
 Barnes retrieved New York state for the Republican party, declared in 1s11 But it was too late to save the United States Senatorship which was lost in the landslide against Roosevelt the year before"
 In concluding his statement against Mckinley said:
 changed and with that change has come, on his part, disloyalty to friend ships and treason to his party
 Later, today. Senator Dixon gave out vitriolic statement in which he assailed the Taft people for their statements that they would be able to seat practically all of the contest delegates through the na- tional committee. He said that if the thigh court and trustees of the Re publican party would agree to put through an arsenic bottle program they might as we'll agree to take the party into the back alley and cut it's throat"
 He spoke of the ''insolent claims that Roosevelt delegates would not be seated and said:
 "The whole program of the Taft is to get the delegates, re- in the districts which they represent. They are now urging the national committee to revolutionary methods that would sound the death kne1l of the party.
 ..No sane man in his sober senses believes that Taft. if nominated, can carry three Republican states"
 Senator Dixon repeated his asser- ton that if Taft is the candidate of enough of the party in Congress to demand the ayes and nays" He de- ,lared that the nomination of Presi- dent Taft would mean the crushing defeat of the county and State Repub- ican tickets in nearly every state in the ccuntry.''~
 He concluded: .'The national conn are the trustees of a great trust. They will never permit the to become the ensign of the. party that marty of Abraham Lincoln which