Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-21
fBy a stan Correspondents

Cbicago, June 21-Urless there IL q
hitch In their plans. the old guard
leaders will ram the nomination oi
William Howard Taft down the throats
Of an unwilling republican party. Al
the same time Theodore Roosevelt Will
be nominated for president by repub-
lican delegates who can hot stomach
the Taft nomination and who refuse to
stand for the steam roller methods tile
old machine leaders have used.
Al Parting Of Waus.
All the signs this morning were that
the republican party had reached the
parting OF the ways. In conference
that lasted until far into the morn
Ing. tho Taft leaders decided to go
forward In the plan OF nominating
Taft and to givo up tho third man
idea.
TAFT Stops Third Man Talk.
Director Mckinley this morning pre-
dicted the nomination OF Taft on the
first ballot. President Taft talked to
his managers over the long distance
line ard ansrily demanded that hs be
nominated and that plans to betray
him by giving the place to = third
man be halted.
Barnes, Crane. Penrose and other
TAFT leaders have been quietly dicker-
Ing for . compromise. President TAFT
will not hear Of It. He wants to rur
for president with some man liko Had
ley for vice president.
Third Party Ttrsstsnsd.
The Roosevelt leaders say fatty that
he NJ ts
purged OF the stolen delegates. not
merely some Of them but all OF them,
then they will not recognize the con-
vention as binding and will take no
part in Its deliberations.
Third Man Talk Wsnss.
Senator La Toilette has come on
from Washington and is slowed away
quietly In a leading hotel. He will
be launched into the convention n the
proper moment arrives. The third
man talk kept up khis morning. but 1t
was clearly on the wanc. However.
there may be a strong manifestation
of the third man sentiment in the
convention.
The Roosevelt Program.
The situation confronting the repub-
llcan national convention this morning
from the Roosevelt point Sf view Is as
follows:
II the convention purges It's roll OF
the fifty or more tainted delegates then
there will be no "bolt," no matter who
the nominee may be.
II the convention indorses the larceny
committed by the republican national
committee the Roosevelt leaders will
notify the convention that they refuse
to recognize its legality and will de-
cline to be bound by any action the
convention may take.
There will he no organized bolt. altho
there is possibility that some far
western states may leave the hall.
A plan OF passive resistance will
be followed by the Roosevelt delegates.
They will not vote on motions con-
of the convention.
Unless change In plans is made
Colonel Roosevelt's name will be placed
In nomination.
II candidate should be nominated
with fraudulen. delegates participating
the Roosevelt deieEa tcs viii take steps
to call convention in Chicago during
the first week in August, to which all
pro gressives will be invited. and 1t Is
expected Colonel Roosevelt will be nom
ina ted for the presidency.
Woodrow Wilson is mentioned as the
running :late.
Adhere to Fixed Program.
Colonel Roosevelt appeared at his
an hour before the time
set for todays session OF the conven-
ton and went over the plans for the
day with his lieutenants. Senator Bor
ain and others OF the Idaho delegation
" ere closeted for some time with the
former president. Governor Stubbs. Of
Governor Johnson. OF Califor-
MIA: James r. Garfleld. OF Ohio. and a
score OF others saw Colonel Roosevelt
before leaving for the hall.
II was said no change had been
made in the program Of the Roosevelt
delegates. adopted yesterday. The lead
ers asserted that virtually every
Roosevelt delegate in Chicago had ap-
proved the program.