The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-06-27
STORM COLISEUM TO
GAIN ABMlTTANCE

COLISEUM, CHICAGO Spe-
cial. Attracted by the prospects
of the fireworks predicted i'm the
morning papers, thousands We'd
nesday stOrmeI the Coliseum In an
effort TO gain admittance for the
3rd days session OF the Republican
national convention. The jam
about the doors was terrific, many
persons standing in line for more
than two hours.
As the rumOr gradually spread
through the crowd that the con-
VentiOn would adjourn soon after
IL convened until 4 o'clock, there
were disappointed mutmurS.
Many of those who had been
standing in the glare OF the bIaz-
ing sun for more than an hour
turned and went away.
Chairman Root called the CEN
VentiOn to order at 12:O2 O'Clock.
Rev. Dean Walter Il. Sumner
asked the invocation.
Immediately after the inVoca-
ton was asked Observation-Disclosures
Watson, of Indiana, floor leader
for Taft, was recognized and
moved Il recess until o'clock
this afternoon. The motion was
viva WIZ NOACs anu
within four minutes after the
delegates and spectators had
complete their fight to get in the
hall they were filing out again.
WatSOn'S motion was:
"Since the credentials commit
tee is not yet ready TO report,
and we cannot proceed with our
business until the report is re-
ceived, 1 move that the conven-
f-aI- l.
The motion was put and car
ried without dissent.
1t was part of n program
agreed To- before the session was
called TO order. just as the con-
VentiOn was called to order ru-
mOrS of various sorts regarding
Withdrawals OF the principal can
didateS, efforts to- unite on COM
promise candidate were rife. De-
malls from Roosevelt leaders
that he had released his dele
gates, signed statement from
the former President that his hat
was still in the ring, announce
ment of a war council Of ROOSe-
welt leaders added TO the general
uncertainty.
Instead of rushing from the
convention hall the delegates
stood in little groups talking in
lCICSlctllN Oh the SiluaIlOn.
On the platform the party lead
crs gathered and discussed the
same questions. That the cruX
of the fight had approached was
evident. Delegates and specta-
tors alike were evidently prepared
FOR some unexpected and unusual
events when the session recon-
Vened at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
In the galleries, many of the
visitors having brought their
lunches with them, camped pa
ticntly, evidently determined to
wait until the session started
again.
Hardly any of the ladies i'm
the special boxes left their places.
The band in its high gallery at
the north end of the hall furnish
ed a special program, while the
mum Of conversation flOated up
TO them from the floor below.
The visitors were evidently as
much interested in the show with
the delegates comforting among
themselves as they have been
when the convention itself was
under way.
Fifteen minutes after the con-
VentiOn adjourned less than n
tenth of the delegates had left
the floor.
CHICAGO, i LIZ Special
After debating for three hours
the contest of the Ninth Alabama
District the credentials commit
tee of the Republican national
convention today voted down n
proposition TO seat the contestino
Roosevelt delegates.
Then the committee seated the
Taft delegates and adjourned UNI
til ? o'clock.
The Ninth Alabama District
was one of the contests settled
by the Republican National
Committee i'm favor of Taft that
called forth a singing statement
from Theodore Roosevelt, who