Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-06-20

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| Davis Denies Post Statement.
| About half an hour after the state
ment by Post that Roosevelt had re-
leased his delegates, O. X. Davis,
connected with the Roosevelt head
quarters, emerged from the confer
ence room and said, Colonel Roose-
welt authorizes me to say that any
statement that he has released his
1eiegates is absolutely untrue.
/ Some of the Roosevelt leaders, pro-
! ceeded on the theory that Mr. Posts
/ announcement was correct.
Root for Permanent Chairman.
The committee on permanent or
! 9anization this morning voted % to
! to make the temporary organization
/ permanent.
! This would continue Root as pre-
siding officer and continue all the
temporary officials. throughout the
convention.
The motion to make the temporary
/ organization permanent was made b.
Governor PenneWill of Delaware,
! Whereupon Ira c. Copely of Illinois
! moved a substitute asking that the
! committee defer action until the re-
port of the committee on credentials
had been received and acted upon by
the convention. The delegates went
wild but the Copeley motion was lost
I to 90.
/ The crowded hall became quiet al
most instantly upon the fall OF the
gavel. Yesterday il took fifteen min
utes to secure order.
Dean Summers prayer regarded as
peculiarly appropriate to the selsa-
t'onal occasion was app,auded.
Five door keepers alleged to have
admitted nearly 1000 people without
tickets yesterday, were discharged by
! Sergeant-at-Arms Stone today.
/ An effort TO induce the Illinois dele
gates to join in a bolt continued till
) O'Clock this morning but failed.
The California delegation met this
morning and prepared a resolution an
nouncing its withdrawal from the con-
vention. The delegates said they
would not be bound by the action OF
a lot of thieves"
Chairman Root came on the platform
at 11:50. His arrival was unnoticed by
the crowd.
AS a result of the position in which
the convention found itself at the op-
ening of the convention, the rules
committee today decided to draw up
d set of rules to govern the proceed
ure of that committee in the future.
:, The committee adjourned until later
in the day to permit Professor Nicho-
las Murray Butler of Columbia Univer-
sity to put the new rules into proper
parliamentary language.
The police force at the Coliseum was
nearly doubled today. Beside the
usual number on the floor, two hun
dred additional police were drawn up
, in the runways under the platform.
When the convention took its re-
cess, the report was everywhere cur.
rent about the Coliseum that Colonel
Roosevelt would come to the conven,
tion at o'clock and make, or try to
make ca speech. Nobody really knew
whether it was true or not, but it add
ed to the excitement.
Hundreds of people sat down in the
hall to wait until p. m.
TENSE STRAIN is AP-
PARENT IN WHITE HOUSE
Washington, D. c., June 2O.-A re-
port from Chicago reached the White
House today saying that President
1, Taft had authorized Senator Crane to
release the Taft delegates to the ma
tional Republican convention follow
. ing Colonel Roosevelt's reported ac-
tion in releasing his.
President Taft Immediately denied
+, the report and after he had talked
y with Senator Crane over the long dis
}. tance teleghone, White House officials
announced that Senator Crane had de,
q MED having made any such statement
New Move Any Moment.
Y 1t was said that the presidents con
versation with Crane had strengthened
his determination not to agree to any
- compromise.
The tenseness of the situation in
; Chicago was reflected today at the
!. White House although President Taf
himself was apparently little disturb
T ed. He declined, however, to see
). newspapermen and officials an
nounced that there would be no state
S ment from him until the situation wa:
d clarified. This was taken to indicat,
4 that new moves in the game in which
l. the president is the central figure
o may be expected at any time.
n No Compromise.
oI Members of the cabinet discussed
politics with the president as long al
he was willing to talk on the subject
l. One of them flatly asserted ther.
s would be no compromise. He contra
4. dicted the report that third maj
t. might receive Mr.. Taft's support.
v cummins Wants No Bolt.
D, Washington, D. c., June 2O.-Sene
tor Cumnins declared today he hope
e there would be no bolt at the Chicag
e convention. He was in constant com
n munication by telephone with hi
c. friends there who are urging his car
is didacy as compromise candidate.
Is 81 do not think the Iowa delegation
lie will bolt" he said.