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2 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY MORNINOJUNE 19M912
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NiilN OF TAFT IS INPiCATED BY FIRST DAY 0MTI0iKli
TAFT'SVICTDRY
SEEMS CERTAIN,
SAYSMDNTAGUE
Figures Give President Ad
vantage Which Roosevelt's
Tactics Cannot Over
come, Says Expert.
(Continued from Pate One.)
the claims put fortli by the Tnft manag
ers and Indicating wherein the Taft men
had made claims In voles to which they
were not entitled were Georgia bIx, North
Carolina five and Virginia two. New
York voted as Barnes said it would. In
fact. 1 110 result seemingly substantiates
rhe perioral aeruraev of the Taft figuref-
Roosevelt Claims Weaken
The Roosevelt people tonight assert
most positively that the vote for tem
porary chairman hows that Taft cannot
he nominated, but are not claiming a
lotorj f' r the colonel ulth any alarming
confidence.
Tin- trlende of the prealdenf are plain
i disturbed and obtain their aatlsfactlon
from the cnresae belief that Roosevelt
haa been eliminated.
One thing i? certain. The dramatic
niumot of "'.- IluoseveU bv a sud
den descent on Chicago to starripede the
convention has ended. If not In disaster,
at least in utter failure. On the returns
his nimlnc has not change a vote; in
deed, ii la the current belief that had
he remained ,n Oyster Ray his managers
DlxOn and Borah, might have done still
better in th.e STollnunary skirmish to
day. The situation a-; It Stands at Ibis hour
i especially gratifying t n many of the
elder statesmen, who d0 not conceal their
belief that the way is now open for a
( third candidate who can heal the breach
made bj the bitter fight between the
precldni and the colonel.
Big Change in Betting.
The betting tonight Is three to one
against Roopevelt and two to one against
Taft. The leaders of all factions are
holding conferences for the purpose of
holding (heir lines. Crane, Penrose,
Barnes, McKlnley Charles P. Taft.
Nicholas Murray Butler. Charles W.
Fairbanks. Joseph R. Keating and .lames
B. Watson of Indiana went Into session
immediately on leaving the convention
hall and remained in conference until
midnight.
In tile Roosevelt camp the colonel h! m
xelf was closeted with Dixon Borah.
"Bill Fllnn. George V Perkins. Me, mi
McCormick, Governors Btubbs, Johnson;
QlasBcoch and Senator Bristow AdrolB
i sion whs only by Invitation, and to the
- i CTOWd that clamored for the colonel.
word was sent out that he would not be
; visible till morning.
' The Taft forces hope to hold abso
lutely th narrow majority shown by the
rote today and with It. to nominate the
president This at least is the pro
gramme of th'ic-e of them who still bell.-,.
that Ta.fi is their only hope.
The It' : ,,-lt lcuil' vs profess to hope
for a break to third candidate, assert
ing thai in Cue shift Roosevelt will pick
up mans delegates.
The Roosevell generals point out thai
the Taft ote i H triumph for the steam
rollerthat the votes of the southern
delegates and the territories all White
house controlled gave the president his
start, and the national committee In
I -anyferrlng Blxty votes from the Roose
velt to the Taft column the rest.
Such a majority they asserl eannol he
heid for any candidate save the presi
dent of the United States, with his
patronage power behind him.
Stampede Bugaboo Ends.
On the Taft side it is said that Mr
Roosevelt's full strength Is now known.
There can be no more fears that the.
worst Is yet to come. Thev have all the
Roosevell cards on the table, and they
can play the game In the ope,n: Un
stamped,, bugaboo having gone glimmer
ing this afternoon.
If they go to R Second ballot they ex
pect at least twenty-two votes In Illi
nois and others of Roosevelt Instructed
men who have come to Chicago reluct
antly bringing Taft pledges with them.
Tonight the town Is full of the yells of
iV'egate. the blare of bands Hnd mov
ing crowds that hlo,- every street.
Mass achusetts meeting": for one or the
other candidate are held on nearly every
corner.
Roosevelt People Amazed.
Four hour after the adjournment of
the convention the Roosevelt people, af
ter analyzing the vote on temporary
chairman confidently acknowledge that
thCr hopes were dashed bv the southern
delegates falling to stav put ft seems
fV .t the Taft machine had undone much
of the fin work the Roosevelt con
tingent thought It bad done in the south.
The Roosevelt people acknowledged that
they "were astonished at the result of the
vote fur temporary chairman, an'!, while
admitting thai 11 sras a biaek eye for
the colonel, do not agree with the asser
tions of the Taft people that it was
fatal
The managers of the colonel are stlck
Ing to the old fraud cry and are de
termined to make the light of their lives
tomorrow to throw out t he d e !";;' I es
credited by the steamroller. While they
will not admit that their failure to ac
complish this will lead to a vote, yet It
I confidently expected that such will be
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SALT LAKE SECURITY
& TRUST COMPANY.
S2 MAIN 8T
'We Have Them Whipped
Says Roosevelt Manager
And Gives Some Figures
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them whipped, XSjSmmjj&Ma I f JMU M
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after tho conven- H 0V ' aH
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impossi bilit.v (,t HBH WkmmWSi o&i i Sa
Taft "s tiomina- wBSuHBmd aSk''v'f B BHBml
tion,"
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that the ' iHaggl
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tion would throw
out some of the contested delegates
seated bv the national committee.
"Ju Maryland where the entire del
egation of sixteen were instructed for
Roosevelt in the primary, eipht
delegates today voted for Mt Root for
temporary chairman," the senator IB"
sited.
'In Oregon where Ihe entire ten
votes are. instructed for Roosevelt for
president, three delegates today vote-d
for Hoot. In Pennsylvania lour dele
gates instructed in the primaries tor
Mr Roosevelt voted for Mr. Root for
temporary chairman, feeling that the
primary instructions did not bind
them in the matter of temporary chair
man. This makes a total of twenty
two delegates from the primary states
who have openly announced that they
will vote for Mr. Roosevelt.
''These 22 votes, deducted from the
r,r,s otes- cast for Mr. Root for tem
porary chairman, leave? ouly 53i votes
for Mr. Taft, being four short of a
majority.
the case. The moral effect of the vote
is noticeable In the streets and looble.3
tonight, where there Is much enthusiasm
for Taft.
The Only thiiur which will prevent a
bo 1 Of the Roosevelt faction from the
convention tomorrow Is the fact that
Colonel Roosevelt is unable to Induce
delegates to follow his orders In this re
JM i 1
According to those In close touch with
the situation! ma try of the delegates from
Oiiio, Illinois. Now Jersey. Pennsylvania,
llalne, Minnesota and other western
States refuse absolutely to consider the.
question of bolting, and In this stand
thev have the support of Senators Borah
and Dixon, two of the colonel's leaders.
At midnight tho conference of tho
Roosevelt, delegates was still In session In
the Florentine room of the Congress
hotel.
The consensus of opinion among the
Taft men tonight la that thev have
Roosevelt beaten absolutely. Their only
...ncern now is whether they can nomi
nate Taft They have a fair degree of
confidence that they can.
Whether or not the can nominate
Taft they have made up their minds to
stick to him. If there Is to be any dU
LntegTStlOB of the Taft forces It will
have to be accomplished by Roosevelt.
The Ta't men do not believe that Roose
velt can deliver his vote to a third can
didate if he could tev admit that the
situation would be extremely dajigerous
to their candidate.
One of the first things to be consldored
by the convention tomorrow will be the
motion of Governor Had ley to substitute
for the present roll of the convention the
roll which Includes the Roosevelt (n
textants. numbering eighty of the. un-Fr-atd
Roosevelt delegates.
See a Hadley Error.
Governor Iladley's motion provides for
the substitution of the entire eighty dele
gales Th parliamentarians among the
Taft people assorted tonight that Hadley
made a grievous parliamentary mistake
In not dividing his motion. They thought
that he would have stood a much better
chance of gaining IiIh object to change
the control of the convention If he had
asked the convention to vote, on each
contact separately. Their expectation Is
that he will reallrtt this before the con
vention assemble." tomorrow.
The Taft men say that It would be Im
possible for the Roosevelt forces to get
enough votes to carry the substitute mo
tion u It now stands. But if the motion
weie divided, and each contest arara
voted upon separately and the delegates
affected In eaeh state were not permit
red to vote upon the contests of that
Stats, the Roosevelt men would be In 1
better situation.
For instance, there are thirty delegates
irr.ni T as. If the Texan delegates now
hip-tng heats in the convention were not
Itted to vote upon the Texas COn
, ....
"Besides these instructed Roosevelt
delegates from the primary statea
there are delegates from at least six
other states who voted for Mr. Root
today who are openly avowed Roose
velt delegates and who will vote for
his nomination,
"The above figures take no account
of the fact that commencing tomorrow
morning wo will present the eases of
the delegate? fraudulently seated bv
the national committee from Califor
nia, Washington, Texas, Alabama, Ken
tucky, Indiana and other 6tate?, aggre
gating upwards of seventy-five dele
gates, to a new court in the shape of a
credentials committee that must be
passed on by the convention itself."
The action of the Wisconsin delega
tion in srJjtting on the temporary
chairmanship was regarded as. ominous
bv some of the Roosevlet leaders. Some
of the delegates are said to be consid
erably aroused because Senator La Fol
lette urged the delegation to take no
action on the temporary organisation.
dozen votes at most between 'he Taft
total and the oppositions This would bo
too close for comfort
The surprise, of the Taft men today
came In tho vote of Hawaii Last night
tho Taft. forces had the Hawaiian vote
sewed up. Hawaii made a complete flop
todav, Its entire vote being cast for Mc
Govern Tonight Taft scouts aro out
using their best efforts to bring the
Hawaiian! back Into the fold.
N'ev Tork'fl vote will show further de
fections from Taft on the rollcall for
president. Frederick C. Stevens, of the
Thirty-ninth, Frank O. Anderson of the
Forty-third, and Francis M. Hugo of the
Thirty-second will vote for Charles E,
Hughes on tho first hallot.
FIRST SESSION
BATTLE ROYAL
FOR SUPREMACY
By International Xcwa Service
CHICAGO, June 18. The dove of
peace, put into commission by no less
a peace expert than Theodore Roose
velt, the winner of the Nobel peace
prize, left the t.ougresrf hotel at 10
o'clock this morning along with eleven
thousand delegates, alternates and the
wealth and t'ashion of Chicago, and
took up his abode in the Coliseum
After that, everybody stopped being
afraid.
There was a general paling ot clii el.s
when a flashlight explo-ion shook the
hall, but from the tune the feeble gavel
of Chairman Rosewater fell, the war
drums throbbed no longer and the h;it
tle ilag.s were furled. The word had
gone out that the colonel had ceased
firing, and that the expected and hoped
for scrimmage was not coming off.
Tho Roosevelt crowd got into the
game early with their scheme to sub
stitute the temporary roll containing
their steam roller delegates for those
given tickets of admission by the na
tional committee. They did not get
awav with it, and they didn't expect
to.
What wag more depressing still, from
the point of view of the sport fans
in the audience, was that they didn't
make anv row about it. but got be
hind McGovern of Wisconsin and be
gan boosting him against Root, to the
intense disgust of Walter HoUSOT, La
Pollette's campaign manager, and John
Ilannan. his secretary.
Iet us. however, not get ahead of
our storv.
Sergeaut-at-Arms btoue was tho first
person to address the delegates. He
made a brief speech through a mega
phone to the effect that it' the persona
blocking the aisles didn 't retire vol
untnrily he would have them thrown
out,
The persons in tho aisles looked t.
the serried ranks of bluecoatfl who
lined every wall like a frie.e, and got
out of tho aisles.
Rosewater Drops Gavel.
Then it was that Victor Rosewater,
who looked like a nice little arts and
crafts doll from the back of the hall,
let. fall his gavel.
"The convention will come to or
der," if what the lip readers say Rose
water said. Nobody got the message
bv ear.
At this stage of the proceedings
arose Governor Hadley ol Missouri,
lean, gaunt and tenor voiced, and asked
if he might address the chair. rhen
Hadley suddenly remembered that the
invocation had not been offered, and
he sat down.
The invocation was delivered by Rev.
James F. fJall of St Malachi's church.
Secretary H.-ivward then read the tern
porary roll.
Meanwhile alignments, offensive and
defensive, were being made. The Taft
people were massed in the. center ot
the Stage, with Penrose looming up
above them all in the exact, middle,
with McKinley on one side, Crane on
the other, and Barne-, with hi hail
niceh slicked down over his forehead
standing close bv. To the right was
William L. Ward of the Roosevelt
forces reading a newspaper; Borah,
looking calm and serene, and Cecil
Lyon, clad in a large square yellow
badge labeled M Texas ' '
There appeared to be no belligerence
I in the crowd, although Bill Flinn arose
now and then and passed up and down,
I cowling darkly at Barnes's back hair.
1 Hadley Gets Hearing.
(Governor Hadley rose again when
the formalities were over, and re
; pe.-'.ted his request for an audience. It
was granted, and at the vociferous fle
inand of "Platform" bv a multitude
I of delegates, the governor climbed the
stairs and faced the delegates.
Meanwhile the galleries were hoot
ing for Root part of the time and
warbling that thev wanted Teddy the
rest of It. The same voices .loined 111
both songs.
Mr. Hadley, in a brief and Impas
sioned Bpeech, told the delegates that
the roll made up bv the national com
mittee was a very bad roll. that, it con
tained the name? of sixtv delegates
who had absolutely no right to be in
j the convention, and that if the tm
; porarv chairman was elected by any
; such a roll, he could not. answer for the
I consequences. He moved the adoption
! of a roll which, he said, was an honest
roll, and which he offered.
Thereupon James E. Watson, the
' ardent Taft man of Indiana, mounted
J the Btairs with a point of order. His
! point, of order was that any motion
about anything before the convention
hnd convened was out of order, too far
but to be worth considering.
Mr Rosewater thought differently,
and through the verbal proxy said that
he would stand for forty minutes' de
: bate on the Ruhjer.t before he came to
a decision, twenty minutes being al
lowed to a side.
This decision appeared to cheer the
Roosevelt people mightily. When Had
ley crime forward to start the argu
ment they cheered for one minute and
forty seconds, which up to that hour,
was the record.
Missourian Presents Points.
Governor Hadlev briefly announced
again his motion and the fact thai Rose
water had ruled thai a point of order
against the motion seemed to be well
taken
"Instead of following the Illustrious
example of our distinguished leader, Wil
liam McKinlev, when he presided In a
convention and invited full debato and
consideration of a point of order, the
present chairman has asked only for a
brief statement from each side," said
Governor Hadley.
The mention of McKinley S name
evoked no applause
"I assert, ': he went on, "that the
question is whether the national commit
tee 01 the Republican party has the ab
solute power to form a temporary roll
for this convention which can only be
ciianged by a report from a committee
of this convention, or whether this con
vention Itself shall say who shall sll
In It.
"If It Is in the power of twenty-seven
men to say who shall sit In this conven
tion arbitrarily and without appeal, fhen
we have reached the end of representa
tive government in this country."
A round of cheors greeted this attack
on the national committee. The dele
gates listened to Hadley with quiet at
tention. "We. know but one government in this
country." he said; "government by po
litical party.
"If a political convention can be con
trolled by a group of men within the
party, then have we established political
oligarchy' Then have we given a few
men control over party and conven
tion?' Hadley Offers Precedents.
Governor Hadley taid he had ample
precedent for the action he demanded.
In 1?61 he said, the convention, "in Its
own right to conduct its own business In
Its own way," overthrew the national
committee s selection of a temporary
chairman
"That convention declared that the na
tional committee was the servant and not
the master of the people in the partv."
he said. Hadley also quoted as a prece
dent a decision of George K. Hoar of
Massachusetts, presiding in the conven
tion in 1880. who recognized a motion to
amend the temporary roll by substituting
delegates.
"I offer you, Mr Chairman," continued
Hadley, "'the precedent of the convention
of xii'', whic h for the second time nomi
nated Abraham Lincoln. I call to your
attention the statement of Senator Hoar
at that time that a motion to amend
the temporary roll was In order for con
sideration and to be passed upon.
"But, conceding for the sake of argu
ment the contention of the other side that
this Is entirely a new question and that
there Is no precedent, every 'precedent'
I must have a beginning.
"in order to live that precedent must
be decided in accord with the eternal
principle of right and wrung This, my
friends, I repeat. Is a question Of prin
ciple rather than of precedent.
"'We cannot sit and close our ears to
what the American people are saying to
day," continued Governor Hadley. Wild
cheers broke In upon his speech
"The Integrity of this temporary roll
I has been challenged bv fifteen men on
Ithe national committee, whose signature
I have In inv pocket saying that eighty
1 names on that ro'l are of delegate not
I honestly elected by the Republican voters
1 of the respective states and territories.
Refers to Charges.
"So long as we do not fairly discus-.'
this matter, any man who goes out of
this convention with the nomination vvi!:
bear a tainted nomination, and will neith
er deserve nor receive the support of the
American people."
"I do not fav that these charges are
true," said Hadley. "I sat in that com
mittee and know some of them are true
But, true or false, let us meet them
here l et us see why fifteen members of
(Continued on Page Fifteen.)
FORESEES TRIO
Of REPUBLICANS
AS NOMHES
Taft Will Re Nominated and
Roosevelt and La Follette I
Will Bolt, Says Edward
Hamilton.
(Continued From Pago One.)
board at their headquarters a Mg red
question mark between the figures D.'jS and
502, and then called a meeting to ar
range for bolting and independence.
The , harge that, the convention hal'.
was packed for Taft did not contain a
particle Of truth. The noise, and inter
1 notions of speakers that continued most
of ihe flav wns largely due to the Roose
velt men In the. galleries and main floor
seatk They made far more trouble than
the Taft noise venders.
Poor little Rosewater, the national
committee chairman, made a pitiful figure
In the chair. lie la a vvlsp of a man.
with a squeak of a voice and about as
much force r,s an anaemic high BOhOOl
girl. He had to have his announcements
prepared for him in advance and then
announced by a stentor through a mega
phone. But he took and carried out his
orders and is a living exemplary of the
fact that sneers and laughter do not
slay. Had he been called to nile over
su'-h a whirl of battle as had been ad
vertised he must have succumbed and
given place. But as It was there was
no more rage or menace or excitement
than there Is in the ordinary convention
When a food hearty contest Is on. I ve
Been more moh play In a Populist con
vention In five minutes than there would
be In as many of this sort of conven
tions as voti coud hold from here to the
Seal Rocks.
First Cheer for Fairbanks.
The first cheer of the gathering In the
hour orecedlng noon was for former Vice
President Fairbanks when he came In
with th Indiana delegation. The man
who put the cherry in his cocktail likes
thai BOrl of thing and eats if with better
heart than a whole boughfnl of cherries
or a platter of cocktails. And so he made
the most of a wee cheer, shaking hands
as be made his progress along the aisles.
Then the next cheer came for th.e Pall
fornla delegation as It marched in with
ta two banners of blue and gold, the
slate's typical colors. Xo other states
brought banners. They seem to have
gone out of political fashion with the
marching club and the torchlight proces
sion The Californlans had a college yell to
stir Roosevelt enthusiasm hut they let
li off when the band was playing and It
was drowned i" the general din Later
Assemblyman Voting Id the yell and
managed to get l( over with some zip
There realty was little more of note in
ihe assembling of the throng and far
less scandal than usual in the selling of
tickets. Then too, the call to order was
on lime, which IS unusual, and real order
had been secured, even by Wee wniie
Winkle Rosewater in nhout fifteen min
utes. Fireworks a Fizzle.
Then we expected fireworks and per
haps homb throwing Eut the fireworks
were merely wet squlbohs and the bombs
turned out to he paper bags blown up
with oratorical wind and popped on seml
vehement palms.
Governor Hadley of Missouri, backed
' by former Governor Fort of New Jersey,
made his motion tending to a purging of
the roll, and Sereno F,. Payne of New
York and James F. Watson of Indiana
opposed. Hadley showed to far the beet
advantage In the debate, with Fort bo'Ji
I beetle, Payne wheezing like Falstaff, and
Watson turning a few spangled BOifier
L Baulta of rhetoric after a fair beginning.
' But after Rosewater had ruled Hadley
down poof! Here was where something
was to Ftart. But nothing started. There
was to be violence but a Methodist so
1 olable could hardly be more peaceful.
There had been soma Interrupting
Insulting of the speakers, partloulary
' Fort and Payne, who are tumblers at
oratory But when the critical lime
' came. Rosewater Just put In the noml
' nation of Ellhu Root for temporary chair
c man. and there was not a wink of protest.
Dreary Speechmaking.
Governor Francis P. McGovern of Wis
consin was placed in nominal jr.ii m oppo
sition to Root by Henry F. f'ochems,
peech making went on and on and
on Just as snipldlv as It does at all
oilier conventions. Once in a while there
was a iltt'e heat, but for the most part
It was drear, very drear.
It was Governor Johnson who showed
the first light He was given a generous
cheer when he took the platform and be
gan with the gesture or careless saluta
tion with which ol! Californlans are so
famous. He had his war note wild with
him and lie started trouble almost In
stantly "From the free state of California I
second the nomination of Governor Mc
Govern of Wisconsin," he said, almost
fiercely, "and I want to say that Cali
fornia, on rollcall, vvili Cast her twenty
slx votes for him. Mere and now I
serve notice that "
Whoop! Wow! Wheel Whatever that
notjen 'Arts it Is doubtful If anybody but
the stenographer standing at. the gov
ernor's elbow heard what that notice wa?
about The moll and tumble of Jeers and
cheers and catcalls was Instant.
"He may have served notice, but he
didn't deliver it thus far." said the man
from Alabama who sat next to me
Negro Stirs Laughter.
But the governor WSnl on hotlv to de
clare no moribund national committee
could Mexlcanlze :,'o Republican party,
and he left behind him an atmosphere so
surcharged with "fight lightning that It
took a negro Orator and his talk of "popu
lism" to get the laughter going around
again.
Evidently Johnson had served notice of
a bolt If California's integrity was tam
pered with, and Bill Flinn of Pennsyl
vania also nerved notice, stumbllngly, that
Pennsylvania WOUd not go Republican for
the nominee of the convention unless that
nominee bad "-IO untainted votes
And soon 1 ame Francis J lleney and
everybodj knew the sparks would By.
He was at his rasplest l;i voice and mari
ner and matter. He declared thai at
When health suggests
that something is wrong
P0STUM
in place of Coffee
"There's a Reason"
Only Fighting
Man in Action
At Convention
FRANCIS J. HENEY.
least sixty of th0 delegates seated by the
national committee had no right to scats
and that a Republican president WOUld
have to be elected by the twenty-two
northern stateB that vote for Roosevelt,
not by southern states or by territories
that have no electoral votes.
"Root! Root! Root!" began to shout
the Taft gangsters and there was great
turmoil. . .
"This reminds m! somewhat of a meet
ing of the national committee." sneered
Heney In a lull
"Root! Root! Root!"
Heney Lands a Jolt.
"You may as well hear me now. be
cause vou are going to hear me U it
takes all summer," asserted Ploney, igUI
ing hlS arms and grinning down at the
noise makers.
"This national committee w-as led by
Big Steve of Colorado "
"A point of order," catno a yell from
the state of A. M. Stevenson "Big
steve " ,
"Root! Root' Root!" yelled the gang.
"Led by Big Steve of Colorado," re
peated Heney, ' who differs from Abe
Ruef of California only in that Abe Ruef
is in the penitentiary, whereas Big Stove
helped to make this temporary roll."
"Root! Root! Root!"
Finally, to save time, the chairman,
through his stentor, had to insist, on a
hearing for Heney. who was stubbornly
Insisting on being heard, and the Callfor
nian finally completed his talk and man
aged to pay his peculiar respects to Sen
ator Boles Penrose of Pennsylvania and
Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts.
After a time Senator Bradley, of Ken
tucky, came on and got to talking fight
on the Root sffle. He said he proposed
to return threat for threat and In a rau
cous voice raFnoi
"Kentucky will never be so low as to
accept moral advice from Francis J.
Heney." ... . ,' .
'Three cheers for Heney! snouted
California.
Hits Back at Bradley.
"Ton voted for Lortmer!" cam an ac
cusing voice directed at Bradley, wno
completely lost his temper.
fter this his address was punctureo
"With "Lorimer! Lorlmer! Lo rimer! as
Heney 's bad been with "Root! Root.
Root!" Soon Bradley, completely beside
himself with rage, roared back at his tor
menters, ' Lorimer! Lorimer' Lorimer!'
"Liars! Liars' Liars!" All of which was
vastly argumentative and softly consoling.
And soon Governor Vessey of South Dako
ta came up to take Heney's part and to
say that be preferred a man who had
sent Abe Reuf to Jail to ono who had
no other certificate of morality than a
vote for tho seating of Senator Lorimer
But nobody was shot or even punched,
and things went drowsily until Colonel
Hauser, the political manager of La Fol
lette. was brought on by the Taft men
as their last gun. He declared that Wis
consin agreed not to put McGovern into
the fight and not to enter Into any com
bination with anv other candidate.
Cocheme, who had nominated McGov
ern, had to get up and say that though
Wisconsin had voted 15 to 11 not to
present McGovern as a delegation can
didate, he would defy any delegate from
that state to dare vote for F.llhu Root
and then go back home.
Senator Lee C. Gates of "'allfomia
shouted "Mr Chairman"' at leost forty
times. He got on a chair shouting, and
some one passed him a megaphone to
help him out. But the chairman paid no
attention to him and the world may nev
er know but that Gates could have over
turned the whole, convention plan by an
Inspired point of order.
And so the rol! was ordered called hv
individual delegates and Root won by
his to ."Ji.. As 5-in will nominate Taft,
and as the programme Is all prepared
that convention might have gone right on
and completed its work In an hour or
two.
But it will go through the motions and
then adopt a reactionary platform
aeainst the Initiative, referendum and
recall, showing that whom the gods
would destroy they first made mad.
Free b&nd concert, Bait Palace, after
noons and evenings.
STRIKING WAITERS
BOMBARD ST. REGIS
By Interna tion;!1 N'ews Service.
X13W YORK, June IS. -While the fash
ionable guests were assembled al a wed
ding breakfaai In the Hotels St. aegis
today, 200 striking waiters marched upon
the building from the Flnh avenue Sld
and bombarded the windows with old
Iron bricks and vegetables.
The besiegers failed to locate the wed
ding party, which was the cause of the
attack, but noonday patrons of the
ground floor dining room were startled
when a horseshoe crashed through a win
dow In the dining room. Fortunately th
lace curtains caught the missile, and it
did no damage exoepl to smash the win
dow i'nrl frighten the guests.
ACCUSED OF ROBBING
BROKER OF $85,000
sax FBAN1 SCO, June la 'h ester
Yates was arrested here today on in
formation from the Ww York police,
in which he is charged with having
robbed an acreo1 broker of $85,000 wortn
of bonds in that, city a vear ago. Tho
clue came from S?id Piepo, where be
is wanted for a series of hotel burglaries.
Want Horscshoers' Meeting.
OP. AND RAPIDS, Mich. June 1. Los
Angeles and Memphis are making a Vig
orous tight to obtain the next meeting
of the international convention Ol the
Journeymen EXorSeshoers union, now in
annual convention here. Routine busi
ness thus far has occupied the tlmo of
the 200 delegates present.
COLONEL El:
LOSElTSK
FIRSIll
Taft Forces
n- 1 emPorary rJ
1v Ample Majority-
01 Stl'ngtti TrK
onWnu'pJ'
the se.-iion. hi the JJ
ton! l.t again
California under tha
ernor Hiram Johnslr JfjgM
erent attliud., almo.t
.' rollcall whr:
tho Fourth aHmmwt
r-.ur -?mP
, , ' ''jew
that f.",'...''2Bk
rn. La-ep Penr-i 'i-cHls
Expect Battle Today,t!
,LK '
ventlon wl:i take up u uH
'Li .',aV 1
1 roll r.f the ,, trTi j, riB '
i nati-.i '-'-.Yawn
and MitMit'itr " Cf iSaBW :
I contestants. ' 'K
i , gfl p
part of i,.-- TV.. --, v-!t rat3Wn
d.M- .--pc in truid' Hft
Invocation of t'.t divine UgEt,
on his fet reM ":brtoB:
of the convention lr- ' 7K
long and intrkul KikXj
Chairman Victor HoivnaB
Upon "ibmW
fallen i--.rily)fR
if calling . -or.-.-mtlca Bj
presenting r e CO m n , . p. i a ,
mlttee for temporary oMcaBl
ventlon, found Mrr.felf !I9HE
led joh, of presl-i'r.g ovv tHT
be turbulent nri rairUH
factions. 1 1" was not !njB
what he akl was barely aHI
front of the platform, butffH
clerk? with megaphone!
n -: -.-" v ' '";"-..r-, .;-)
chairman's Initial nil'.ng upeH
Rosewater 's Ruling. HP
This rulinc was to th eHc
til the national commttte ISK
the temperas y roll m.ileHjQ
credentials from trie MHT
aiu: districts Rnd lt JtrfraHi
tests, there wan no convoQB!
I ering was n rr.ere maw rceK.
I could be den., until i prtllaB
zatlon had 'en -ffeetel trfB
i ,-,f n presiding officer HtlsS
Bolutely no bmunMS nifl
I he . holer, of r.r'?. in offlCtfW
had no desire to be vbltraH
I Ing and would i!!r'' tH
each side to present arsuWfjS
These arcrw.er.ts we ML
ernor Hadley :rA nt-QMf
' of New Jersey en the I?':oBW I
by Representative Sorem I
York and cx-Rr;r.bn;tt
ments were fipisheJ CHtl
i water renewed h!s rlR)
wh under consideretl'in W
tlons for tempomrv -'b
He pointed to tne :"?mmVU
' Senator Root an.l asked
inn tie'?. The Rooseve.l "-WaX
PP .sltlon to
roll call was- he?un 'JHU
of every Individual M'&mu
and It consumed three "BjJ;
step of the procee'llnl! "J"
the keenest interest.
! Rollcall in Confusion.
The Roosevelt men dHM
could, demanding; tha K
name of every or.o -W
lectcd to on the CoM,
mlttee bud temporarily
eates nr.d M'!e ,r'lC ,v.fci
Governor- Hadley, b"- .JJaW
on mercilessly. neHSSM
Ing confusion The 'jTf-Bh
made a dramatic s'-
plause and cheers pflWiJ
another ,r-aa
With Oregon a :!'"eTi?M
: the balance the Jthrth"M
. antage remalne-l ,m
a dva n tago reappr 'J V-
:. from th;inSMP
r,vU csB
for p. . " .:
followers. ;'VLe -SMI
assured at least In Ln,$
' temporary -balrnw' Mg
' U,ntB
tsMfL
t "' i '" i ' ,! n.'a'h
. . . -'ir
HLBiik
-8 Kirn nHn
Listen to Root's SWj'
ing co:n.nl-Ves , Jlfc
mt
k
,rnr,r Hndl' : Pr , ai!i9B
from the R" ; ,
mat wnl Wgl
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Juno 21 -V;nV' 'S
con Short 1.:.
and furthci ,(, Jtm i
; office, l!ljuW
noons and eyiu L