The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21

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 chieago, June 1.-The worst has happened. Roosevelt will lead a third paEty. Thousands of Republican poll flc1asis here realized that this means the defeat of the Republican party 1ts hopeless defeat, and they are hop lng against hope that Roosevelt can be induced to accept a compromise candidate. The convention. was 26 minutes late in being called Go order by Chairman Root, the delay being bccasi0ned by the declination at first of Chairman Devine of the commft- tee on credentials to bring in a par tial report |.
 remporary Chairman Root called the eonvention to order at f2:26s
 Al soon as the invocation WAS pro- tounced, Root announced that the matter before the convention was the contest from the 9th Alabama dis trfct and ". ID. Dovall handed up the report of the committed on cred-
 In inc report. the majority mem. bers stated that they had fully heard both sides and found Chat the election 1f the Taft delegates was regular. Inc RepoFt reyieHed the evidence in tl1p ca1e safld declared that the call TT kQ9 convsntion was signed by 2 cozamttteA. This. it vas held, by the committee, showed the regularity of the convention which efeeted the TSe report in effect charged that tss feS aaS de that a resolution, under (which tho Roosevelt men acted in naming com mifteemen ito get the control WAS either never passed ct a regular cont m1ttee meeting or, if originally pass ed. vas fater changed to discredit the Roosevelt men.
 me minority report was submitte by Delegate Mccormick, of the H. lfnois delegation who said that he had asked for time to prepare a prop. er minority report but that the time furu1shed him and his associates shad q been inadequate. He stated that for the Roosevelt minority he merely presented a dissenting opinion and reserved the right to submit the facts in the case later. not strictly speaking be such 8 thing las . minority report, an exptAesion of tho vleW0 of the minority could alwayU be received"
 The Roosevelt delegates started to 4 'sB$o" Root in the middle of sem
 
 with bte gevel and finished his state mone first suggesting safcastfcaily that 1t might just as well be consfd- cred advieable to wait for the com- pl9t3on of a sentence before Jumping at c conclug1oa. fhis resuited in . wild burst of ap- p1Ause from the Taft men. Tho Roosevelt men objected to represen- tation on the committee of members from states where contests had been dled and also to the participation in the credent1als committee of the na- fional committee who had originally passed on the temporary roll.
 Governor Had1ey. of Missouri. moved the substitution of the minor ity report for the majority and ask ed the Mccormick be given unani- nous consent to read a brief dealing with the question.
 A Virginia delegate moved to lay the Hadley motion and the minority report on the table Hadley raised the point of order that this could not be because unanimous consent to Mc- C0rmick to address the convention Chairman Root held that the re- quest for unanimous consent had not been passed on.
 He then asked whether .unanino ous consent was granted. A delegate arose in the Illinois section but Root
 
 that the Mccormick statement could be read.
 McCormick's statement held that the Taft convention in the 9th Ala bama district was irregular and a bolting one and that the Roosevelt elected in that district
 As ne read the report, which was . repetition of the briefs presented to the national committee at it's hear iugs. the Taft men occasionally inter- rupted his remarks with laughter.
 As Mccormick concluded Dovell was granted permission to make a five minute reply. - The vote in the sth Alabama he said, was 34 to 13 and the Wisconsin members voted with the majority.
 Root stated that Delegate Walker of to table the minority in order to all low Governor Hadley to address the convention on the minority report Root invited Hadley to the platform and the latter was cheered and ap- p1euded both from the floor and from the gallery as he began to read a type. written document.
 1t was a resolution that contested delegates should not be permitted to vote on the report of the committee until after their cases had been voted and decided. The resolution included the. 7z delegates whose credentials have always been a matter of con- trovefsy ever since the convention irst met.
 James w wadsworth, IT,, of New York. raised the point of order that the chair had already ruled on this question and that the Hadley motion was ian attempt to reverse the chafr by an indirect method.'' This reso- Ltion would deprive these delegates