Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-21

COMPROMISE
A CONVENTIOh
Hughes, Hadley and Cum
Minis Are Suggested But
Barnes Says Taft.
DISCOURAGE BOLT IDEA

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of a compromise candidate, with Mr..
Roosevelt continuing his threat to bolt
and with william Barnes, Jr., insisting
that President Taft will be renominat-
ed, the Republican national convention
assembled at II O'Clock today to hear
the report of the committee on creden-
tials, which had been in session all
night.
There is every indication that the
committees report will a up the
time of the convention all day today
and perhaps far into the night. A roll
call Of each individual delegate, LOIS
in all, is to be given on all congress
district contests, while the verdict in
contests for delegates at large Is to
be rendered by the states voting en-
bloc.
The hearing on the Alabama contests
before the credentials committee was
so protracted that the Roosevelt rep
resentatiYes on the committee decided
to hear only the contests In Arizona,
California, Washington and Texas,
thus practically withdrawing all other
contests. With the contests in Ala
bama out of the way the delegates
affected by the contests to be heard
before the convention assemblies at II
o'clock today were by this action limit
ed to Arizona, six; California, two;
Washington, fourteen, and Texas,
twenty-six; a total Of forty-eight.
Rush to Finish Tomorrow.
Under the rule of an individual roll
call for congress district contests and
en- bloc roll for delegates at large the
convention will be compelled to take
sixteen roll calls Of all those 1,078
delegates in forty-eight states, four
territories and the District of Column
bia. The work of the convention, in
Guiding the nomination of a candidate
for president and vice president, may
be completed by Saturday night, The
leaders Of the opposing forces and
most of their adherents hope with all
their hearts that this will come to
pass. Unless it does, the chieftains in
these warning camps and their more
intimate adherents feel that a com
mander in chief hitherto unmentioned
will determine this controversy. His
nam is fatigue. The leaders declare
that they cannot keep this convention
over Sunday. If they attempted to do
so they believe hundreds of delegates
would depart for their homes.
Barnes Says II Nil Be Taft.
1t has been decided by the Repub-
lean leaders In control of the national
convention to stand solldly for the
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ing all offers Of compromise.
William Barnes, Jr., issued the fol
lowing statement after a conference
with the heads Of all the Taft dele
gates to the convention:
There was a meeting of the chair
men of all of the Taft delegations from
the various states In Mr.. Barnes room
and of the representatives of those
states where the Taft delegates are In
that the lines shall remain intact for
the nomination Of President Taft and
that no suggestion Of compromises
would be entertained.
at was made clear that the dele
gates represented by these chairmen
of delegations are thoroughly alive to
the meaning of the battle which has
been fought out and won In this con
v~ention, that this government Is q self
controlled democracy, that progress
can only be made through orderly pro-
csdure and that the constitutional
rights of each citizen shall be pre-
served"
The uninstructed delegates to this
convention. or a vast majority of them,
feel hat their constituencies. the rank
and file of the voters, believe that both
President Taft and ex-President Roose-
welt should be set aside and a new
candidate selected. The foremost ma me
among those mentioned as the compro-
mise or harmony candidate is Asso
ciate Justice Charles e. Hughes OF
New York.
Among the Roosevelt men Governor
Fl. S. Hhdley is a prime fayorite, and
for that matter Hadley is mighty well
spoken of in the Taft camp. Senator
Kenyon of Iowa is still firmly con
WINGED that Senate Cummins should
lie The compromise candidate for presl
dent, but 1t is difficult to note any sub
stantiality to the Cummins boom. OF
course Senator La Follette's friends
continue to hope that he may run of
with the prize, and La Toilette has
very many strong friends in the pro
gressive wing Of the Republican party
5orah Will Not Bolt.
1t IS positively known, notwithstand.
ing any claims made to the contrary,
that all that Roosevelt may now claim
us his own for boiling purposes are the
states of California and Pennsylvania
Senator Borah admitted that Colone
Roosevelt and Mr.. Finn no longer con
suited him, and he added, III they
want to bolt, let them do 1t and be
through with it, | don't know wha'
they are doing. Some people say tina
they do not know themselves whai
they are doing. If they will call me ii
/ will try to give them some SOUND
advice which l know they won't fol
low. l believe, though, that Mr.. Roose
welt and certain of his friends con
template a bolt of some kind"
The best opinion is that after fight
ing over the report OF the committe,
on credentials the Roosevelt adherents
after the verdict of the convention Il
rendered, will sit mum In their seat,
lust as the New York delegation did ii