The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-07

Taft four years ago. but this year Taft's friends are among the dele | gates chosen, and there is Roose- welt sentiment perceptible among them. When questioned as to the i possi biHty of their switching to | rowed down to Hughes and Roose- | welt, the delegates lodged the issue and insisted they were pledged to vote for Burton. w. M. Hahn of l Mansfield, while refusing to discuss | the attitude of the delegation on this point, suggested that the ques- | ton be put to Frank R. Stewart, one | of the Arizona delegates and a pro nOunced anti-Rooseveit man, who had been busily sounding the senti- l ment at the Ohio delegation.
 The Oklahoma delegation, consisting of twenty delegates, all uninstructed. is still on the fence as to how it will cast it's votes. Two of it's contests are undecided and up for a rehearing, and it was intimated\that the decision reached in these cases would largely influence the way the delegates would vote. Eight of the delegates are un- der the control of J A. Harris, na- tiona1 committeeman, and committed to Roosevelt, and three classed as ''wild-eyed Roosevelt men," will stay with the colonel to the end The twelve others, in the words of John
 
 looking for friends and don't know how they will vote until the contests are decided.
 Under no conceivable circumstances however, said MT. Fields, "can Roose- welt get more than three votes by per sonal preference, and five more upon orders; the remaining twelve will vote solidly against him to the 1ast.''
 Asked about the Hughes sentiment in the Oklahoma, delegation, Mr. Fields Nsaid: .'The sentiment on the l whole is not unfriend1y to him, except l in the cases of. the wi1d-eyed three. Weeks may get one two of our votes. As for Roosevelt sentiment among the delegates at this conven- ton, however, have been able to find l almost none."
 l The Pennsylvania delegation is still undecided as to how it will dispose of i it's seventy-six votes, and is looking | forward to it's caucus to clear up mat ters. It was said at the delegation 1 headquarters that from twenty o twenty-five delegates instructed for | Governor Brum baugh would cast their l votes for him the first ballot, seven | for Roosevelt and forty-four for Phi1ander c. Knox It was assert ed at the delegation headquarters, however, that ffty-one of the dele l gates would vote anyway that Senator l ing some delegates who were instruct | ed for Brum baugh | Await Penrose's Orders.
 What were Penrose's preferences no one would undertake to conjecture and it was declared that he himself had maintained an open mind on this points intending only to preserve his votes for a man who looked line a | winner. Several of the Pennsylvania d01n yI1i1 7nf SSi7 fn know Penrose's/ own intentions, said l they regarded it as quite likely that the forty-four votes cast for Knox on l the first ballot would be switched to l Hughes if he should develop any
 strength at that stage of the voting.
 After the first ballot it was said, sixty delegates would do anything Penrose told them to do, despite the fact that
 the Brumbaugh faction had been re-
 garded as Roosevelt men and the Pen-
 rose delegates had been unpledged.
 As soon as the twenty-one Tennes- see delegates arrived at their head quarters, they began mingling with
 the hotel lobby throngs to ''1isten in They admitted that they wanted to learn what oth CTS thought of the var T ious candidates before arriving at any definite conclusions. Governor Hoop Il CT of Tennessee was with them. Ii called on to vote at once, without hav- ing a. chance to discuss the situation Il with fellow Republicans, several o1 P them said the delegation would be
 divided as follows: Hughes II; Weeks 3; Burton 2; Roosevelt 3; , | doubtful 2.
 Three-fourths of the Tennessee del
 egates would be ready to jump tc Root if there appeared opportunity } for him to win, according to the ggrouI
 of them who figured out their presen : preferences from what they had heard s the rest of the delegates say on tn 3 way to Chicago.