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REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DEAD AND FUNERAL That Is the Really Great News Which Stands Out in Chicago Convention. THIS GATHERING LAST OF ITS KIND COUNTRY WILLSEE Wame "Republican" May CLive, but Party It Has Typed Since 1856 Is Gone?-To-Day It Stands Divided, and Had Pri? maries Been Held in All States Power of Old-Order Politicians Would Have Been Pitifully Small?Old Politics Gone, and Old Politicians Displaced by New Ideas and New Systems. WS BY SAMUEL, (i. BLITHE, (Copyright. 1912.) rhlcago. 111., Juii- 19,?Tho groat ncwi r,f thin convention is not whether Roosevelt or Taft shall bo nominale?!. not whether iRooeeve'lt will holt ru be defeated, not the Identity of a possible ihlrd or 1 ompromlse can* dldate, not the character of tho plattorm These ore inter? esting and Impor? tant details of a notable Katherins, but they are not the vital details. _ The great news of Samuel 11. Illy the. this convention is this: This conven? ts :i now In progress in Chicago marks the passing of Republican national con? ventions of a similar character Thor* never will be anotlu-r convention like this it is quite poatlble there never wi;i be anothor Republican national convention of any kind; that this is ihe last, but whether or not, there will never be another like this one or re? sembling lu any regard the conven? tions of previous years, running away back to 1560 (Sires Dale to It* Dentti. Moreover ? and this i* even more im? portant?this convention gives a date to tli- death of the Republican partv '?*>? It Is at present constituted and as it has been constituted for many years. The name "Republican'- may live, but th" Republican party that name ha? typed since 1866 is dead. The funeral services are being conducted in Chicago at the present. Take these two propositions in or ilei. b-einnlng with the passing of Ihe present style of convention. There never win be another Republican na? tional convention Ilk- this one or like the ones of fo'ir or eight years ago or those of .-i.Moen or twenty years ago, for the reason that the political system that made conventions easily possible in Ihe past and barely possible now has ' hanged. The old pAlllies is gone. The, old politicians have been shifted out ol power. A new generation is almost In ? ommand, a new idea prevails, a new system is in process of development. The Republican party is no ionger a cohesive, lighting, definite organization, Instead, it Is really two parties?a stand-pat or ronservatove party and a radical or progressive part:-. Th.. re Isn't the slightest doubt If there had been primaries In all the States instead of in a few rif them, tlie old crowd would have a pitifully small represen? tation iiere. no matter whet: er .Mr. Roosevelt was a candidate Cr not. 'So far as that eminent candidate is concerned. he grabbed progresMvc Ism; progressivelsm didn't grab him. The Republican party has outgrown Its old system and Its old leaders, and \h" people demand a lieu method of S< letting their candidates. They demand the right to have a hand in the selection .nstcad of be? ing told of those selections after they are made. Old Method* llincrona. If a census could be made It would l>( found that th? radical element in the Republican party i& not so much greater than the conse.-. ative element as has been claimed, 'liiere are many conservative Republic) .is. but even the conservatives are fully alive to the deficiencies of tho present system, and many of them are as anxious for re? adjustment as the progressives. The fact of It all is that the Republicans, conservatives and progressives, have 1 ilvanced beyond th-1 method of twenty years ago and neither wing is Wholly In sympathy with the pres i nt methods. It is riuUe probable that before It tomes time to nominate another can dldate for the presidency enough more States will have adopted the prefer? ential primary system to make what lever convention shall he held merely a ratification meeting, ai'-out the same sort of a gathering as a meeting of the electoral college, but even If that does not come for eight years say, there never will be another Republi? can National Committee that can make up a temporary roll and where, a prearranged credent :als committee can have the fast word on the con (Continued on Ninth Page.) LOW KARES TO IIA J.TIM ORB, via York River I.lnr, account Democratic NationsU Conven? tion. A delightful water trip to and from tho convention city. Tlckeits and fHa.tiaro.oms at'CKy Office, 907 Bast Main , - Street, l\ FACING CERTAIN DEFEAT, ROOSEVELT PLANS BOLT, AND WHEN FINAL BREAK COMES HE WILL BE RUSHED TO COLISEUM TO TAKE CHARGE OF HIS CONVENTION ? ! - ALBERT n. CUMMINS. NAWTHIN AT ALL PR POUnO 00 An' Hennessy Niver See a Foiner Turnout iv th' Constablry. COPPERS GROW DISCONTINUED May Fight Amoong Thimselves | to Pass th' Time Away?Papers Said th' Air Was Full iv Fight, but Ought to've Said th" Fight Was Full iv Air. BY FI.M.KY PETBB Dl'NNE. (Copyright. > [Special to The Times-Dispatch.] Chicago, III., June 10.?'"Did ye have: a good teal in the convention?' ask ed Mr. Hennessy. I had wan of the beet." said Mr. I . Dooley. "l cudden't hear a wurrud.I They were fine I speeches Aven where I set with me head agin th'j girder in a cell? ing at th' cor In Foorteenth I Street I cudd' see that they wolre magnlflcln', th' .ujudlencc was| 1 n .1 y I n' tht:n. .ail'.ln' arund th'j tall, talkin' an'i Flnley P. Dunne, rhattln". an' th*| oraters were ha v In' th' time Iv their lives. No man In Jyes h mrnet performance as much as th" fellow tha'ts blowln' th' bugle, ex ! clpt somo whs lik mesllf tha" can't hear him. Ivery orator was given thirty mlnylts to state his case. Aftr lb.'Id been talkin' fifty-five mlnylts another orator slnt a feller to tap him on th" ar-rm an' say: 'It's BUI' turn nOW, an' th" Demnfttheens who was sayln'. 'From ninety mlllyon people ; comes th' cry to us' ends his solo be say In': "Pin sorry Mlsthor Chairman. 1 i i-idn't know me time was up." an' goes. '. Lack to where his wlfa is sittln". an , a?-ts her how It wint. She says magnl Hi met. She cudden't hear It. "There's wan grand thing abot th' convlntion. I'm proud iv th' polls) foorce Iv Chicago. An' I'll say this, tliat [ niver tee a finer turnout Iv th' constablry In me life. 1 didn't think | tney was so many coppers in th'j WU rruld. "Twas a pleasure to see thim lined, 'up in th' hallways w'lh their coats: opened, tin ir gatlin' c,uns In th' out-! slue pockets an' their clubs In thcir| hands n ady to spring Into th' debate | : on th' foonlymlntal principal iv th': Republican party at a wurrud fr'um lh" presldln' officer?th' assistant chief Iv polis. I've been to many naytional convlntlons, d-ye mind, but I've niver ? see a more compltit chairman Iv n Re publican convlntion ihfii Herman Schuottlor. I don't know how h'd get on in a Dlmtftycrat conventin when some dil ? lygate who'd been a .-ollsman him silf before he was brone, wld demand : th' preevyous question, but this Ke . publican convention wasn't enuff to get him excited. It wr.a foine to see : him an' his spllndld mon gon' arund among ths furyous mob Iv almost un ?onthrollamle pathrltes an' pushln' thlm back In their ? seats Ivry tlmo theyj 'Started finnytihng. Some wan intinmed with pnsson wud get up an', wildly wavln' his watch chain arund his finger, wud cry out: "It occurs to me tht th' convlntion shud remlm ber th' decision Iv Slnltor" Ocorge (Continued on Ninth Pago.); W. B. TAFT. BOLT COMMITTEE MEETING ON ORDER OF COL. ROOSEVELT Followers of Third-Termer Dash From Room After Attempting to Break Down Doors and Bring All Newspaper Men In to Hear What Committee on Credentials Is "Trying to Do to Us." Chlcagro, III., June -O.?"So far an T am concerned." declared Colonel Ronse \rh to hi* and advisers In an addres? ttala morning, "I am through. If ynu arc vntrd down. I hnpc ?ou, the reol und lanful majority of the conven? tion. "HI nriAintxc a? auch, nnd }'OU will dn It If ;ou have the couraee and loy? alty of your convictions." Chicago, 111., .Tune 19.?After bolting once from the credentials com olttce, under the orders of <""o!one! Roosevelt, and being cailed back by Roosevelt man? agers to the committee room, .ill of the Roosevelt members of the credentials committee except R. B. McCcrmlck, of Chicago, left again at 11:4.'> o'clock to Light, declaring they were "out for good." The sause of the bolt was the refusal of the committee to give a full hear? ing on sll :ontest ruses. After the Roosevelt men had left, the committee took up the cases, but had not prcceeded far when a motion to adjourn until 9 o'clork to-morrow morning was proposed and carried. Senator Dlxon. the Roosevelt campaign manager, who had been hurriedly summoned after the first ballot, left with the Roosevel*. men. "These men are tired and will go home and go to bed." he said. "I think the other fellow? are wasting time to stay here to-night." Heuey und Hnlbcrt Lead Bolter*. Francis J. Heney and Hugh T. Halben, of Minnesota, w'-.o had led tiie bolt, were the only ones who would talk at length on the situation. "Is this a bolt?" Mr. Heney was asked. "You can cail It what you want to." he said "These are the facts: Every Roosebelt man with the exception of McCormlck has walked out because he was convinced from the rules which were proposed that there was no intention of giving a valid hearing. The cases that were heard before the national com? mittee were a farce, and this it a worse one. The line-up was perfectly plain? 32 to 19." Mr. Halben declared the break came because the ? ommittee limited time and excluded evidence. "We claimed and Insisted that the credentials committee should hear all veidence as a court of original Jurisdiction, and that the national convention, not the credentials committee, should be the court of last resort." Before adjourning the committee adopted the amended rules by a vote of 36 to 4. Chairman Divine said the adjournment was taken because most of the -ontestlng delegates had left the Coliseum. Mr. Roosevelt addressed the bolting delegates in a room at the Congress Hotel, where they had assembled after U-avlng the commute room. "I am going to ask you to take a recess until I van get certain facts and lay them before you," Colonel Roosevelt said. "I earnestly counsel you not to discuss what you intend to do until you have the facts before you. Colonel Jells What He Will Do. "I can tell you the genera', outline of what I shall do. ?o far as 1 am con earned. I shall never recognlre a Republican convention a majority of whi:h In large part Is composed of fraudulently seated delegates from the States of which Governor Hadley spoke to-day. This Is not a convention of the Republican party. A convention of the Republican party is a convention that the major'ty of which is elected by the people and not appointed by a moribund national committee. "I am for a convention In which sit the men elected by the States of Wash? ington and Arizona, and not the men appointed from Washington and Arizona by the defunct bosses of other States. 1 hold that this Is no case of a factional fight. The time has come now when we must assert absolutely the right of the people to run the national convention, to have their own representatives put In the convention. 1 see that it was held to-day that of these contested delegates all were to vote on one another's cases on the ground of precedent. The argument In favor of that precedent Is of the type of the argument made by a clever corporation lawyer when advising a corporation how to keep within a law and yet do what the law Intended to forbid. This kind of bud faith vitiates any proposition. Fraud destroys any contract." Edward C. Carrlngton, of Maryland, a member of the credentials commit? tee, described the proceedings preceding the walk-out. Would Not Disgrace His State. "The Taft manager of the committee sought at the outset to apply the gag rule." he said, "and I refused to disgrace the State of1 Maryland by sitting longer with the committee." The proposed adoption of a rule limiting argument of contested election cases before the credentials committee to five minutes for district rases and ten minutes for State cases precipitated the bolt. After the return of the Roosevelt members an amendment was Introduced making the limit of tlrr.o on State cases thirty minutes for each side and for district cases fifteen minutes. After adjournment Chairman Divine declared the committee would take up the. contests to-morrow morning and finish them as rapidly as possible In their regular order. The Roosevelt members of the credentials committee, acting under the spe (Continued on Ninth Page.* THEODORE ROOSEVELT. LONG EXPECTED CRASH HAS COME Roosevelt Will Go No Further in His Futile Fight. CERTAIN TO LEAD INDEPENDENTS I All Contests Withdrawn From Committee on Credentials, as Forerunner of. More Drastic Action to Come in Conven? tion To-Day or Friday. Taft People Exultant. f'hirncn. >'?di> IP.?Thr long-expected crash !o thr Repuhllrnii ranks came to-rtsrht. The Roosevelt forces, acting, they ?old, uniler the peraonnl direction of the Colonel himself, began to lay their plann for Independent action in the Vntlon.il Republican Convention. Am a forerunner of the more drastic action expected In Ihr convention to? morrow or Friday, the rtooae.velt inem bera of the committee on credentials! ?Itbdrew from thnt body to-night withdrew in person and, in effect, wlth drew nil of tbc Kooarvelt contests, which bad been scaled down from l> to TS. Colonel Roosevelt to-nlgbt was in the midst of a scrle? of exciting can. fercnees, and nan busy figuring on the loyal delegates whom he could expect to carry Trltb hlrn out of the conven? tion, or rather Into a separate conven? tion on the Coliseum floor. In rnac the decision ia reached. People who talked with the Colonel to-night declared there win no longer any doubt an to hin nttltude. Con? vinced that the credentials committee waa agulpst him and would retain the contested Taft delegate* |n their aeats, Colonel Roosevelt decided to go no further with bin futile fight In the regular convention. ills Position Clear. The Colonel would not Issue a for? mal statement as to Ills warlike inten? tions early In the evening, but was said to have, made his position clear to his followers. Some of the conferences at his head Quarters were exciting. Senator Borah, of Idaho, it was re? ported, declared as he left the Roose? velt rooms that he would not bolt. Tho Missouri delegation in the con? vention held a caucus to-night for the purpose, It was reported, of formnlly launching a boom for Governor Had lty for President. "Phe remarkabl demonstration given the Missouri exe .(Continued, pn Tenth Pago.i_ Declares Intention of Placing Double Set of Candidates in Every State of Union. NO LONGER ANY DOUBT AS TO HIS ULTIMATE ACTION Word "Bolt" Is Avoided, but When Contested Delegates Are Seated, Colonel's Follow? ers Propose to Withdraw From Convention and Hold One of Their Own in Same Room. Authorities Prepare for Trou? ble, and Declare No Such Pro? ceedings Will Be Permitted, Even if Police Are Needed tc Stop Disturbers. ROBERT LA FOMXTTE, I Chicago, June 19.?Talk of a definite rupture in the Republican National Convention was insistent to-night in tlie Roosevelt camp. Reports of this nature were repeated with such frequency as to lend color to the belief of many that they were well grounded. The use of the term "bolt," however, was avoided carefully by supporters of the ex-President, whose contention is that, should there be a final break, they, and not their opponents, will constitute the genuine Republican convention. According to these unofficial statements the Roosevelt program will be this: Should the credentials committee uphold the temporary roll adopted by the national committee, and the convention in turn accept the report of the crdentials committee, thereby finally seat? ing the delegates whom Colonel Roosevelt asserts to have been fraud? ulently placed on the temporary roll, those of the ex-President's ad? herents who arc willing to stand with him through thick and thin, will withdraw from the convention on the instant. The plan as talked of does not contemplate withdrawal of the Roosevelt dele? gates from the Coliseum, but the holding of a double-headed con? vention in the same hall. As soon as word of the final break is flashed to Colonel'Roosevelt over his private wire, it is said, he will he whirled by automobile to the convention hall to lead the fight in person. It was regarded as prohable that the Colonel would not: go to the convention except under such circumstances. Colonel Roosevelt was said to-day to have procured enough tickets to the Coliseum to admit him and the members of his immediate party. These tickets, however, would admit him merely as a spectator Authorities Prepared to Checkmate Plan. Reports of this plan reached the cars of the authorities in charge of the convention, who said to-night that under no circum? stances would they permit the holding of two conventions simul? taneously in tlie Coliseum. The building, they said, was in control of the organization selected by the convention, which would pre? serve order, even to the point of calling upon the police to eject delegates, alternates or spectator^ who declined to recognize the authority of the chair. It was explained that the rupture would colne, if at all. after the vote on seating the contested delegates rather than on the vote for presidential nominees, because the Roosevelt faction, by awaiting the final vote, would be placed in the position of having acted in conjunction with delegates who. they contend, were chosen fraudu? lently, and of having broken away because they were beaten. Col? onel Roosevelt has said all along, it was pointed out, that he was making his fight for a principle, and not for any man, even himself, and that he had stated in his speech of Monday night that he would not accept under any circumstances a vote to scat delegates whose scats are disputed, even in his own favor. In an interview with Governor Dencen, Colonel Roosevelt told the Governor in the presence of William Allen White, of Kansas, that should the convention seat these delegates in question he would withdraw from any connection with the convention, and that two Republican candidates for President would be nominated, with two Republican candidate- i"r Governor in every Slate in the Union, with two Republican candidates for Congress in each district and two Republican candidates for every other office. Certain to Walk Out of Convention. "Make no mistake." he told the Governor. "If these fraud? ulent delegates are seated we shall walk out 'of the convention, but not out of the hall." Will Go Down With Colors Flying. Colonel Roosevelt's view of his position i- known to be that, should he head an independent ticket, he might have a fighting chance to win. at the same time realizing that he is inviting per? sonal disaster. He believes, however, that it would be a fight worth majcing, and that it would be better for him to go down to defeat with colors flying than to submit to being overruled by the aid of votes which he said would be fraudulent. The former President is said to be of the opinion that he could take with him the support of a majority of Republicans outside of the extreme Eastern States and increase his strength by substantial accessions from the Democratic party. Some of the Roosevelt delegates were said to be already tug? ging at the leash. The California and Pennsylvania delegates, ac? cording to the reports, in the Roosevelt camp, were in favor of a break yesterday when Colonel Roosevelt met with his first reverse. It was deemed wiser, however, to await the convention's final rilling up on contested delegates before taking i ncisive action. While it was said that Roosevelt supporters might not break away in case some of the less conspicuous groups of contested delegates were seated; la final vote in favor of the contested delegates against which Colonel (Continued on, Ninth Page..),