Arizona republican., 1912-06-21
WHY NO BOLT
Roosevelt Could Not Command More
 Than 150 Delegates.

CHICAGO, June 21, Friday. q. m. The republican situation is much clearer at this hour than at any time since the republican convention assembled President Taft and the "Old guard are absolutely in control. If the leaders insist upon it. Taft can be renOminated on the first ballot The president has an ample majority on every roll call that can come be- fore the convention. But in the in terest of party harmony Taft will be asked to withdraw his name and some compromise candidate on which ! the entire party can unite may be nominated instead.
 This action was brought about by the Roosevelt forces receding from the position held from the beginning i that Roosevelt would bolt the con- Vention. The Roosevelt forces will not bolt-in the sense that they will
 walk out of today's convention or
 walk out of sessions that may be held | later on.
 1 At a conference of the Roosevelt | forces yesterday it was decided that l if the report of the credentials com l mittee involving the disputed seventy l CISIll htItSClCS lS d6dlllSl INDOStN tll and in favor of Taft. the Roosevelt l men will fight it hard in the con- vention but will make no further pro | tests nor vote on any other pro i position until a vote for nominee for president is called for
 Then the Roosevelt delegates in- structed in the presidential primaries 1 to vote for Roosevelt will cast their votes for the former president to keep 1 their party record clear and to carry out the preferential instructions of
 the various states. Roosevelt's name
 will not be formally presented to the ! convention as q presidential candi- 1 date.
 In the event that Taft is renOm- 1 mated which the Roosevelt forces now i consider inevitable, the Roosevelt del egates will maintain their places in
 the convention until after adjourn
 ment The seventy eight delegates
 claimed by Roosevelt as his, will be in the hall thus making up what the
 Roosevelt men will claim to be the
 real convention. There will be nc Roosevelt bolt until after the conven-
 tion adjourned.
 Whether the Roosevelt forces will hold a trump convention in the Coli | scum at the close of the convention | now in session or will hold it later at Orchestra hall, or will wait unti later in the summer. depends on de
 velopments. There is no plan yet made to cover this contingency.
 Roosevelt himself threw the only light on this phase of the matter yes | terday when he said: Tt may be ] there will be a conference of pro- l gressives after we have all gone back from Chicago to see if real demand of my running exists. If the pro 1 gressives ask me to continue the fight 1 I cannot refuse to do it."
 Roosevelt will consent to no com promise unless the Taft leaders agree
 to unseat seventy eight contested Taf1 delegates and replace them with Roose-
 welt men. This of course, the Taft men
 will not do To do so would give
 Roosevelt control of the convention.
 And, working on the theory that Roosevelt is dead candidate for the
 regular nomination the Taft members of the credentials committee insisted upon running the steam roller over the corpSes. The Roosevelt members who |, remained in the committee and the
 bolters who came back, were ready tC Secede again because of the full, free
 and open hearings forced upon them
 The Rooseveltians offered to abandon all the remaining contests except those , for California, Texas and Washington , total of forty seats. The Taft mem bers refused emphatically to consider the proposition. They held that all thu cases must be heard at length and pro r ceed with the hearings.
 At midnight the following cases wer' 5 disposed of: Taft delegates seated il the ninth Alabama district ?; Arizona s 6; Arkansas. IA; Florida, 12. Georgia
 no doubt will be again put into th'