The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-19
Roosevelt Announces That He Will Not Accept Nom ination Given By Dele gates on Tainted Temper ary Roll.
Sensational Quarrel Exists in the Wisconsin Delega- tion Because McGovern Ran for Chairman of Con ventiorl.

Coliseum, Chicago, June 18.-The
 proceedings today were given over t0
 debate, three hours of discussion up-
 on Hadley's motion to purge tho roll. Pro and con were urged the fraudulent delegates. Roosevelt con- firmed his earlier statements in favor of g vote by declaring that he would not accept 8 nomination from 8 dele gation vitiated by fraud.
 The sensational event of the day was the quarrel ;. in the Wisconsin delegation. marked by the resignatton of Gochems of Milwaukee, who de- noumces Senator LaF'ollette,s declarlnr that he has abandoned the progres- Hve cause rom hatred to Roosevelt.
 Upon the other hand DaFonette's friends on the delegation declare that Governor McGoyern became Roose- velt's candidate for the chairmansllfp expecting a nomination to the vice presidency.
 The suppressed excitement of tho leaders frequently appeared in the de- bate, notably when Root several times ordered Finn of Pennsylvania to be seated.
 Hadley's motion will go to the com- mittee on credentials, which is ex- pected to report the delegates named on the temporary roll..
 It is unlikely that a vote upon any question and least of all upon nomi- nations will be had today.
 Roosevelt's delegates continue to threaten bolt, but Roosevelt cannot take all of them. out of the regular convention it is believed.
 When the Republican national con- vention resumed it's session at Il o'clock today the Roosevelt forces were fighting in the last ditch. Out generated all along the line in tho opening session, their leaders falter-5 ing when revolutionary program was actually faced. the progressives failed counted. on. The ninth hour switch from Borah to McGovern proved an error in judgment and instead of whipping the lIaF'ollette men into line with McGOvern they brought home to the convention the bitter feud between the Wisconsin Senator and the Oyster Bay candidate.
 But before Temporary Chairman Roots gavel fell calling today's ses- sion to order a final attempt was made to get the Roosevelt men soIidly together again.
 Because some of the door tenders passed friends without tickets into the coliseum, yesterday. by means of the entrances leading into the basement, new rules were enforced today. Door keepers were put in charge of the gates with instructions that every ticket offered should be closely scru- tinized. The result was congestion everywhere and much swearing at the officials. But Sergeant at-arms Stone was adamant. He declared that the congestion in the aisles yesterday, which forced the suspension of the l proceedings several times, would not be repeated.
 The police guard both inside and outside of the coliseum today was in- There were 800 uniformed men on hand and at least that num- Der of plainclothes men. They had little to do, however, in the early l hours. The first delegate to enter l the hall was negro from Mississippi. He dropped into a chair directly on the aisle and promptly proceeded to l go to sleep.
 At 1O:1O o'clock, less than one hour before the time set for the convention l to meet, there were only 100 people in ! the galleries. None of the big lead | ers had put in an appearance up to | that time and the band in the top gal cry was discoursing lazy mournful l music that seemed to have a depress- | Ing effect on the people who were on | the scene.
 At 10:3o, less than 100 delegates 1 were in their seats. At that hour | conferences were in progress between l the leaders of both the Roosevelt and i the Taft factions in their headquart- CTS. No chances were being taken. Every possible motion or point of | order that might aid their fight was being looked up by the Roosevelt | parliamentarians.
 Their opponents, headed by Former Congressman James Watson, of Indi- ana, were coaching up on decisions and precedents to combat them. Wat | son was relied on to do the heavy | work by the Taft men to offset that of Governor Hadley and Congress man Sereno Payne was in the New fork delegation ready to come to | Watson's aid when the fighting be- 1