The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
GOVERNOR JOHNSON WRITES
 DEFI TO NATIONAL COMMITTEE

as have been the mildest of Roose- velts strictures."
 When the committee met, today, Former Senator Dick, for the Taft men, addressed the committee as fol- lows:
 .I would like to be informed how l can appeal from the action of this committee. I consider it's action In splitting this district representation entirely irregular
 And I also want to protest, ' chimed in Ormsby McHarg, for the Roosevelt forces. 'I can't see how this committee could have seated one delegate from each side. It looks irregular to me-
 You gentlemen are both out of order" declared Rosewater 'It is just as we'll that you should know right now that the action Of this committee, so far as the temporary roll is concerned, is final
 Both lawyers subsided.
 = Control of the temporary organize ton of the Republican national com mittee will mean control of the per that body will do.
 Oi Nhc TIT St tAAuS S1AC0 eIlS SIIcuu- ous battle between the Taft and Roosevelt forces began, this was brought home to the Roosevelt lead CTS. today. Where many of them had been advocating dropping the fight on United States Senator EIihu Root, the choice of the Taft people for tenn porary chairman they now realize that if Root is seated the report of kS :-Y~ y.~ the report of the national committee and this would mean the end of the hope of RooseveIt's nomination. So. today, the Taft and Roosevelt forces temporarily abandoned the attempt to make votes for their candidates in the effort to round up individual ad- vocates for the temporary organisa- tion plan. The outcome is in the balance. A careful canvass seems to indicate a scant majority on the Taft side but 1t is so small as to be prac- tically negligible.
 and the final outcome will depend on who has the better generals.
 The present plan is for the Roose- Borah, to move that only the uncon- LCSICO aCAS6atCo WhO6C AdIuC6 d1S MI the roll shall be permitted to vote on questions pending the confirmation of the right to seats in the conven- ton by the convention itself of the men who are given seats after con- test hearings f. This will be opposed and finally de. fested by the Taft men but they will Joe forced to go on record on the ffo,- d. AN Ia <5ov [, to impress on the people at large that there has actually been "smothering'' of regularly elected delegates to the convention. 2 * This last stand will, If nothing un- foreseen comes up to prevent it, be the most bitter to date, presaging something of what may be expected when the real conflict commences on the floor of the convention. The Roosevelt men admit that they. prob ably cannot win it but they say that in making this final fight they will have prepared record that the con- vention itself must investigate.
 The Roosevelt steering committee, under Chairman Finn, declares it already has promises of. enough votes to organize the convention In proof of this fact, the committee claims that on the question of organization the progressives will receive the com plete vote of Iowa, despite the fact that a majority of the delegates from that state are instructed for Taft's renomination.
 We will absolutely control this convention" said Senator Dixon, to- day. "If there is a bolt 1t will be the Nnff f 1, YH T,~ the convention
 2 Archie Stevenson, of Colorado. pre- sent by virtue of a proxy, who has been very active in handling the Taft program on the floor. insisted, today, the Roosevelt men that they would overturn the committee were without 
 Friends of MT. Taft will organize this convention. If there is to be 8 bolt then Roosevelt and his friends down comes the friends of the strenuous one will find that he is not as strong with the individual delegates as they have been led to believe"
 
 by the entire Taft steering committee which is headed by Joseph Healing of Indiana, got busy on the roundup of delegates. Every man who could be reached was urged to pledge him. self for Root for temporary chair man. Roots long friendship for Theodore Roosevelt was urged as a reason why he could be depended upon to work no injustice to the progressive cause. In addition Barnes urged Roots claims because of his good work for the party and insisted that if he is turned down 1t will make the task of regaining control in New York, lost following the nomination of MT. Roosevelt's candidate, Henry
 Stimson, for governor, doubly hard. BOSTON TROLLEY