The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
HOW 1T WAS DONE
Manner in Which ROOsevelt's
Elimination Was Accomplished
spOndent at Chicago.
CRANE And PENROSE DID 1T
By Starting Talk of Dark Horse
Possibilities.
Could Now Nominate Rookie
Teller if They Choose.
CRANE and PENROSE DID IT
CBy James ]. Montague.)

Chicago, June .21.-The master politi-
cal craft of the elder statesmen who
came to Chicago to annihilate Theodore
Roosevelt, have placed themselves in
such absolute control of the situation
that they could if they chose make
John D. Rockefeller the nominee of the
Republican convention.
The result is that everJ man-jack of
the Roosevelt leaders save ''Bill' Finn,
OF Pennsylvania, and Governor john
son, of California, has within the last
few hours irrevocably and irretrievably
committed himself against a bolt. Sc
cure in the hold they have thus gained,
the two shrewd leaders of the. Taft
forces will proceed at leisure to do as
they please with the handcuffed,
shackled bound and gagged former
supporters of the colonel.
Furthermore they have Mr.. Barnes,
of New York, so firmly under their
thumbs that he will go whittier they
go, with a long farewell the while to
his hope of putting Hughes over as a
compromise.
This is now this all has been done.
Third Candidacy Talk.
Word has been sent out from the
secret inner chambers where the real
party thinking is done that a third
candidacy would not be altogether I'M
acceptable in the sight of the big
bosses. Hadley, who got an ovation
Wednesday YVES the first to fall for it,
After that cheer you couldn't have
driven him out of the convention with
q meat cleaver. Then Deneen, of IIli-
ncis, who showed signs of going out,
began to hear third candidate talk De-
neen stopped and listened to it Just a
little too long. Before he knew what
was going on his name was signed in
John Hancock characters to a pledge
not to bolt himself or to permit his
delegation of Sc pledged Roosevelt men
to bolt While Hadley was stin think
ing with shining eyes about the yell for
him, the delegation asked him if thew
should bolt.
Not yet said Hadley, and they
took vote to do what he told them. |
Then Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota,
another man who was in doubt. was
asked if he didn't think a third candf-
date would be a fine thing. He said |
he did and was told that Crane and |
Penrose thought so too
Meanwhile Barnes had been boomine |
Hughes. He was permitted to boom
him till the big bosses were sure that |
he few Roosevelt men in the conVen-
ion would behave if trouble came |
Barnes still thinks that Hughes is go
ng to be the nominee.
When every possible delegation hac |
been led into line by the gIittering will |
, the wisp labelled third candidate |
and dangled before their eyes by the |
eaderS, Mr.. Roosevelt awoke to find |
MS former forces scattered all over |
Chicago and utterly beyond his reach. |
The Colonel Asks Why.
Frantically he sent for first one man |
md then another only to find that he |
had signed a solemn VOW not to boil. |
Then he asked why. Every leader re-
Piled
Why, colonel, we thought in the in |
-erests of harmony you wouldn't object |
10 a compromise
Roosevelt having considerable craft |
IF his own knows what it all means
now. He knows that the strength he |
night have held for a second ballo.
has been dissipated and by the kind |
If political workmanship in which he
vas once profoundly skilled.
Late last night Crane and Penrose,
heir work done to their entire salts.
action, sat back and smiled
They have driven the final nail into a
erta1n political coffin and they now only
Wait to see the daisies come sprouting |
through the sod that they will carefully
ay above it.
This is an instance of how perfect their
york has been and how gullible have
cen their victims 1t may be noted that
mother demonstration was started in the
invention on the adjournment Thursday
fternoon.
The Roosevelt people cried: I'VE want
eddy" The Taft people came back with
n equally emphatic assertion that they
7anted Taft and the LaFollette people
flowed rhythmically that they wanted
lob.
But although Mr.. Hadley, the recipient
Wednesdays cheering was in sight
n the stage, no one of the former Had |
~ shouters. not even the people from
Iissouri, had a word to say about want
lg HadIey.
Hadley is in camp and what is of more |
Importance his delegation is pledged not
, bolt There will be no open third can
idate talk until Taft has had one ballot |
NAEAR HhRRA RRAAE