The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-06-19
SPEAKERS PASS THE LIE.
Outbreak Occurs in the Indiana Dele
CATION and Stcrny Scene Fol-
lows-Hurl Epiihets at
Each Other.
Associated Press Special.


Convention Hall, Chicago, June
19.-Many women are among the
spectators at the coliseum today.
among them Mrs. Charles P. Taft
and daughter, Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, Miss Ethel Roosevelt and
Mrs. Henry Taft.
Colonel Roosevelt asked that a
body guard be supplied Mrs. Roose-
welt and three detectives are at
A large delegation of anti-suf-
fragettes are on hand, apparently
in an effort to eounteract the eff
forts of the suffragettes, who want
a plank in the platform.
Senator Penrose said this morn
ing: Nothing to this compromise
talk. We will have more votes to
reject the proposition to upset
the legal roll than we had yester-
day."
The air of nervousness which
| hung like a pail over the early
hours of the convention yesterday
is absent today. One hour before
4 the convention opened today Their,
were less than two hundred apec
tators and only eight delegates il
the hall.
Governor Hadley, the floor Lead
er of the Roosevelt forces, sal
| that there will be no change II
| the program, so far as the Roose
| welt forces are concerned.
! Taft leaders declare that there
will be no compromise.
Governor Hadley, backed by
Governor Deneen, made the state
ment that he would not sanction
bolt under any circumstances.
Colonel Roosevelt is in absolute
charge of his forces.
Chairman Root, at the opening
of today's proceedings, announced
that an agreement had been reach
ed between the floor leaders of
the opposing forces, Watson and
Hadley, for a three hours debate
on the proposition to substitute
the roll of ninety-tWo Roosevelt
delegates in place of ninety-two
Taft followers seated by the nation
al committee.
Governor Hadley read state
ment from fourteen members of
the national committee protesting
against the action of the majority
in seating delegates, especially the
contestants from California and
Texas. He made an earnest plea
that personalities be left out of
the debate, declaring the question
before the convention to be clear
ly and purely matter of princi-
pies, which, he said, embraced even
the existence of the republican par
| ty.
Governor Hadley opened the de-
bate, referring to the chairman's
ruling yesterday. The governor
said: 1--WE could have met imme-
diately and forcibly this arbitrary
and very supplementary ruling.
CHEERS We could have forcibly
insisted on roll call and could
have forcibly taken control. In
stead we chose patiently to wait
until today"
w. T. Dovell, Of the Taft forces,
followed.
Governor McGovern today brand
ed as false the statement of Walter
l.. Houser of the LaFollette side
that he, McGovern, had made a
deal with Roosevelt whereby he
was TO receive the nomination for
vice president. McGoyern said hs
did not know whether the split In
the Wisconsin delegation was per
manent.
Senator Hemenway OF Indiana
speaking against the Hadley mo-
ton, attacked the men who signed
the protest against the action OF
the national committee in seating
the delegates, insisting that only
thirteen had signed 1t, although
Governor Hadley said fourteen had
signed it.
Taking up the matter OF the
Texas cases, Hemenway said that
Cecil Lyon controlled $50 federal
| o,,o;ntpoants IN 1taYap that his