Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
COLONEL ANGRY,
LEADS HIS HOSTS
TOCOM|NC FRAY

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convention will be organized to proceed
to business tomorrow morning. 1t is ex-
pected by them that the credentials COM
mittee and platform committee will re-
port Thursday night. At this time the
Roosevelt followers can renew their de-
convention and have another individual
roll call on the question.
Dual Convention Possibility.
Then. if the Roosevelt partisans are
beaten, may come the much-talked- of
double convention In this connection it
was frequently rumored that Col Roose-
volt had urged his managers to take steps
today to force the issue regarding the
demanded revocation of the action of the
national committee in the contest cases.
Also 1t was said that the Roosevelt
forces would refuse to recognize Senator
Root as the legally elected temporary
chairman of the convention.
The Roosevelt managers claimed to he
extremely confident of their ability TO
swing the situation to their candidate.
They declared that they would have
many additional votes in future roll calls.
To support this claim they said they
would have eight votes from Maryland
which went to Senator Root on the tenn
porary Craftsmanship decision and addi-
tional votes from North Carolina, Penn
sylvania, Illinois and Oregon.
I'VE will win out beyond question:.
said United States Senator Dixon, Roose-
yelts campaign manager today.
United States Senator Miles Poindexter
of Washington was among the Roosevelt
leaders who intimated that the posi-
bility OF a bolt by their forces was I'M
minent
I'm case these contested delegates are
allowed to pass on their own claims.
said Senator Poindexter, Col. Roosevelt
This assertion was construed as mean
ing but one thing, bolt If Col. Roosevelt
finds himself in the minority.
Excluded From Deliberations
Although Col Roosevelt may visit the
convention as spectator. Taft leaders
today insisted that he could not under the
| regulations imposed by the national COM
mittee take part in the deliberations from
the floor.
There is but one way that Col. Roose-
welt could get on the floor and actively
participate in the convention SAID one
of the Taft managers. THAT would be
by resolution of the convention itself.
And if he could get to the vote on such a
resolution he could, l think, control the
convention. And / don't think there is a
ghost Of a show of that
The Taft leaders. particularly the Pres
William B. Mckinley were just as con-
fident of final success in the convention
as were the Roosevelt men.
Mr.. Mckinley declared that President
Taft had won over number of Roose-
welt delegates through the medium of the
roll call on the temporary craftsmanship.
He said that nearly all of the Roosevelt
delegates who voted for Senator Root
would remain with the Taft organization
through the remainder of the convention
1t was evident that the Taft forces
We're placing great dependence on Sena-
tor Roots personality in their efforts
finally to control the convention for the
President.
No Serious Talk of Compromise.
Another fact which became evident as
the day wore on was that most of the
compromise or third candidate talk was
being done by the delegates themselves
and not by the leaders. No great weight
was attached TO the compromise talk by
the leaders on either side of the Roose-
yelt-Taft fight.
talk, and will not he until we settle this
question of organization said Senator
Penrose. when he arrived at the Coli
scum. We will have more votes to re-
legal roll than we had yesterday.
The Roosevelt managers made oft-re-
peated assertions that yesterdays de-
volopments had placed President TAFT
out of the race for the nomination. In
return the Taft managers said that Col.
Roosevelt was absolutely out of the nomi-
nation contest.
Gov. Hadley. after mass meeting or
Roosevelt delegates, declared that the
situation today was just the same as
txl, <r~ r.at he doll
they first entered the Coliseum yesterday
noon. He insisted that the election OF
Senator Root as temporary chairman
had not altered the situation in single
detail.
The convention, in all essential facts. is
what it was yesterday. only that today
the convention is legally constituted
body.
Predictions Based on Experience.
Men of shrewd observation and expe-
rience in many national political conven-
tons declared that two points in today s
deliberations could be depended upon:
/. That no contests will be decided. as
Gov. Hadley desires, until the matter OF
contests has gone into and returned from
the committee on credentials.
. That there will be no compromise
candidate until the Taft and Roosevelt
on roll calls.
Interest in the proceedings at the
Coliseum increased rather than dinin-
ished today, and the scramble for tickets
was renewed by hundreds who were UNI
able to get into the convention hall yes
terday.
Gov. McGovern of Wisconsin ex-
pressed his approval today of the
action taken by Henry f. Cochems in
resigning from the chairmanship OF the
Wisconsin delegation and turning his
proxy over to his alternate
Question Of Principles.
THE question before the convention
yesterday was purely one of princi-
PIES" said Gov. McGovern. 1T was
q clear-cut fight between the reac-
tionaries and the progressives. In this
fight, Wisconsin. as a progressive state.
should have taken the lead against
the bosses and the representatives of
special privileges. If it were ques-
ton of candidate, I should throw my
support entirely for La Toilette, but
this was a different matter
Gov. McGovern branded the state