The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-17
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in announcing that he had burned his
bridges behind him and was now in
the Roosevelt camp, insisted that 16l
other delegates, would go over with
him. To offset this Taft men display
ed signatures of all but three of this
county delegation insisting that Wood
ruff meant only single vote and that
all of the others were for Taft.
Insisting that they had their dele
gates SO firmly fixed that only scat
tering few would desert. the Taft lead
ers were admittedly worried. They
feared the effect of Colonel Roose
velt's personality on wavering dele
gates who wanted to be with the WIN
ner no matter who he might be- When
ever the Taft leaders heard of one o
their men passing under the Roosevelt
influence they maintained Sc
eret service that would have. done Scot
! land yard prouda Taft man close
! to the prospective delegate was sent
| to get in touch with him and find If
he was still "all right"
The Taft margin so far as the con-
troll of the convention and the votes
I for the denomination are concerned,
/ is uncomfortably close. The detection
of score of delegates would un-
douhtedly deadlock the convention.
Even the presidents warmest admir-
ers admit that he must be nominated
on the first ballet or not at all. The
/ Roosevelt, Cummins and LaFollette
camps will vote as unit against the
/ Taft forces on many of the things
that will come up in connection with
the temporary organization. And in
order to retain control throughout the
Taft men must hold the reins from
the very start
The private figures of the Taft lead
ers, in which allowances were made
for both the known assertions an
sInounced by the Roosevelt forces, and
the ones believed to he sure, but
4 which have not yet been publicly adj
mitted, showed the president with SIS
delegates Is more than majority
4 today. Manager McKinley's public
. claim is 500 This included every
single delegate placed on the temper
ary roll by the national committee
and nearly all of the uninstructed
I delegates.
Every Taft leader of consequence
: was directed to try to round UP at
least one vote for Elihu Root for
temporary chairman. If they can get
Root in the chair, the Taft men feel
safe as they claim absolute control of
the credentials committee which will
make up the permanent roll The Taft
Headers plan to make the temporary
roll permanent and have the commit
tee on permanent organization con-
tinue the temporary organization, in.
Guiding Root as chairman, as the
permanent organization
The committee on credentials will
be made UP of SO Taft men to 20
Roosevelt men, the Taft leaders say
The Roosevelt men admit these figures
will be approximately correct should
the contested delegations from the
various states be seated by their own
votes. On this lineup the committee,
made up from one member from each
state. would be as follows: Taft
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas. Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Geor-
J Egia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louis
} lana, Michigan, Mississippi Montana,
Nevada. New Hampshire New Mexico,
New York, Rhode Island, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee. Texas. Utah, Ver-
mont, Virginia, washington, Wyoming,
Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii,
Philippines and Porto Rico-S3
Roosevelt California, Idaho, Hi
nois. Kansas, Maine. MARYLAND, Mass
achusetts, Minnesota. Missouri, Ne
braska, New Jersey, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsyl-
vania, South Dakota, West Virginia,
and wisconsin,
1t is knowledge of this state of af-
fairs that has neryed the Roosevelt
men to the point where they say the
national committees work shall not
be approved. II they permit the read
ing of the temporary roll, they are
bound by the action of the convention
unless they bolt and admit they are
; boilers Sc today at Roosevelt head
quarters it is boldly announced that
the temporary roll will never be read.
The moment Chairman Rosewater
calls for it the trouble will begin.
Governor Johnson whose voice is most
powerful, will challenge it. Others
: will join. A sub-roll, made UP OF the
, delegates unseated by the committee,
will be offered. The Taft men say
they will reject it. The Roosevelt
men declare that not convention
wheel will turn if they do To which
the Taft men retort that there will be
enough police on hand ito suppress
all rowdies-even those wearing
Roosevelt badges. y
In consequence the only apparent
possibility of avoiding an actual phys
ical battle in the coliseum tomorrow
lies in the ability of the Roosevelt
men to get enough votes between