Bisbee daily review., 1912-06-11
TAFT GIVEN
ALL CONTESTS
HEARD MONDAY
Work of Committee to Date
Has Added Eighty
Four Votes TO His
Column
STAGE SETTING
NOW COMPLETE
La Toilette and Cummins
Open Headquarters
Many Delegates Ey-
pected TODAY

CHICAGO m. June Iu.-Tho
stage setting for the national
convention was completed today
with the opening OF IzFolIetto ana
Cummings headquarters. The loHa
senator's heaquarters were esta5-
lished in the same hotel that houses
the Taft and Roosevelt headquarters
LaFollette's are six blocks away.
The managers OF the several
Headquarters tonight completed
plans for the reception OF delegations
expected 70 arrive tomorrow. A di,
rect appeal will be made TO each ia
divIdual delegate by the campaign
manager OF each candidate. despite
instructions or pledges. No posi-
Die vote in the convention will b.
overlooked. and any indication among
the delegates OF shifting Of sent:
ment will precipitate lively scracE
bic among the managers.
Bolt not Likely
4 number OF prominent Roosevelt
leaders took occasion 10 say today
that reports OF possible holt by
the Roosevelt delegates in case Tad
is renominated. are without reason
q BILE foundation Senator BoraI, whS
has been active Tor Roosevelt in ;he
session Of the committee. vas one
0f those VINO declared there Worl2
be no holt The Roosevelt hea1
quarters have been alive with meet
ings and conferences this afternoon
and tonight. A number o! RoOse-
welt adherents. including Judge Lind
sey, Colonel james Garfield o. Ohio
CONGRESSMAN Kent OF California an.
clifford Pinchot participated IA ID.
various councils Garfield said b.
believed they had them skinned. dc.
spite the work OF the national coM
nittee. and that the committee can
not stop the nomination 0! Roosevelt
lur the cOnNe utiOu viii undo the
raw 'hugs the committee may pu
Owe"
Indiana Contests to Taft
TOdays work Of rue republican M
tlonal committee added twelve more
delegates 10 the q catalogue OF Tat
strength on the temporary roll cali
OF the national convention. The In
diana contests came before the com
mittee and were decided al in Ia
vOr OF Taft
With the seyenty-two delegates
comprised in the southern contests
decided last week todays gain
makes q total Of cighty-lOur delegates
added to the Tat forces by the work
OF the national committee. With 202
instructed and unContesjef delegates
credited to him, they bring the total
on the temporary roll 10 2S6, not
counting other contests that may ne
decided for him.
A large proportion Of the contested
seats among the la cases SUN 20
be PASSED on represent DELEGATES n
Rtructed for Taft
The real night OF the day IN the
committee came, not in the cOnte9.
over delegates 1T large, bur over seat
ing the two TAFT delegates from the
thirteenth district Of Indiana. At
teInDts OF Roosevelt attorneys 10 in
ltroduce certain affidavits declared
bv them 10 bear the signature OF q
majority OF the delegates 20 the dis
trict conventions at which the Ia
delegates were chosen precipitatej
the only sensational interchange o.
the day, and occasioned a sudden re
versal OF the committees vote which
was not explained to the satisfaction
OF the Roosevelt men. Tine reversal
OF the vote was coupled with spe-
cifc declaration that IL was not q
be regarded as a precedent.
Before the indiana cases were TAX
en- up. the committee came nsa. =
turbulent scene OF iacuonai bitter
ness. The Roosevelt forces fought
the proposition 70 postpone until
Wednesday the case OF the fourth dis
trfct o. California. on ron call ovcI
the California postpOnement. the
vote was 80 10 IS, the personnel o
each side being substs ntially the same
as in other divisions on fractional
lines. In connection with putting
over the contest from the Fourth Cali
fornia district the committee ordered
an uncontested delegates placed on
the temporary roll call. This action
puts the matter In such form tina
any name entered can be stricken
on by order OF the committee.