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POLITICAL WAR IS ON IN CHICAGO
TAFT INS FIRST
GLJSIIiBIG FIGHT
IS NOW ON
Roosevelt Men Will Not Try to
Unseat Opposing Commit
tee Members.
CHICAGO, June 6.—The national
committee of the Republican par
ty held Its first pre-convention
meeting at 2 o’clock this after
noon. With the rap of the gavel that
called its members to order one of the
bitterest fights that the Republican
party has ever known was ushered in.
The first fight will go to Taft. That
was conceded on all sides today.
There will be no contest over the seat
of Victor Rosewater, acting chairman
of’the national committee and commit
teeman from Nebraska. This was inti
mated strongly from the Roosevelt
headquarters. It was announced boldly
from the Taft seat of war.
The committee has heretofore oner
( ated only under temporary rules. It
has decided to frame permanent laws
for its own government, and today a
report of the permanent rules commit
tee. headed by Committeeman Brooker,
of Connecticut, will be considered. The
rules will make two things explicit—
the manner of hearing contests and the
limits of the term of a committeeman.
They will Include a provision that the
contests shall be heard by territories
and states tn alphabetical order; that
each side shall be allowed not to exceed
30 minutes for the presentation of each
contest over delegates at large and fif
teen minutes for district delegates; that
where cases are similar district con
tests may be bunched and heard all at
the same time; that the same evidence
may be used in various cases from the
same state; that no delegate whose
election was not In accordance with the
call and whose name was not filed at
the time fixed by the call ehall be seat
ed. except that where there Is no con
test the delegate may be seated on a
majority vote of the committee.
Hearings Open to Newspaper Men.
, The one innovation will be a deci
sion to hold open session of the com
mittee while hearings are under way.
The hearings will not be "too open,”
, however. A limited number of news
paper men will be allowed to listen to
the stories Then they will be shooed
out before the committee votes.
This does not meet with the full ap
proval of the Roosevelt men. Senator
Dixon today voiced the complaint of his
faction.
"We court full publicity,” said Mr.
Dixon. “This proposal Is the height of
foolishness. It is when the roll is called
that the contests are decided. When
the vote is taken the public should be
present. If the newspaper men are ex
cluded during the voting It would be
the height of underhand methods.”
Another move planned by* the com
mittee Is disapproved by the Roosevelt
men. Victor Rosewater will be elected
permanent chairman of the committee
—assuring that he will serve until the
convention Is over. Rosewater was ap
pointed acting chairman after former
Governor Hill, of Maine, elected at the
December meeting of the committee,
' died. He is a staunch Taftlte. It was
admitted by various members of the
committee that Rosewater would be
elected after the roll call today.
Defeat Roosevelt Single Object.
In fact, the entire Taft program,
hinted before the arrival of Congress
man McKinley, has crystallised today.
Rosewater will be elected chairman He
will be official chauffeur of the steam
roller. The committee will seat all The
Taft delegates. At least, they will seat
them until Taft Is certain that he has
enough delegates to nominate, and un
til the "moral effect" on the supposed
ly wavering Southern delegations is
sufficiently impressed. Root will be
made temporary chairman. Root will
also be advanced for permanent chair
man.
The Taft program has one object
only: Defeat Roosevelt.
It is an open secret about headquar
ters of the Taft faction that Senator
Root’s keynote address -will be in a sad
minor, so far as the Roosevelt faction
is concerned. He has been selected for
the permanent seat, Roosevelt support
ers affirm, because Roosevelt has let it
be known that he will fight him.
About the time that Root receives the
second election at the hands of the
convention—according to the prophecy
of the Taft men—Colonel Roosevelt,
with his followers, will file from the
hall and the "rump convention" of the
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Account Democratic National
Convention—tickets will be sold
June 20 to 24. $21.35 from At
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BOARD.
Hanover Inn, the new
hotel at Wrightsville Beach,
already open. Warren H.
Williams, manager.
Oyster Bay candidate’s followers will
begin.
On the prophecy of a bolt. Senator
Dixon and those closely associated with
him are assiduously putting the soft
pedal.
The talk affects Senator Dixon deep
ly. It is preposterous, as he views the
situation, to conceive that a candidate
with enough votes to nominate him on
the first ballot should bolt.
Both McKinley and Dixon gave out
statements of delegate strength. Dixon
claims 527 for the colonel, gives Taft
171, figures 130 uninstructed and
shows that 204 have been contested.
South Worries Taft Men.
The one thing that Taft men are
anxious about is the Southern delega
tion. The Southern delegates are the
real key to the situation. Fear that
the Southerners may Join a band wag
on movement to Roosevelt keeps the
Taft men out of bed at night and busy
during the day. It Is for this reason,
partly, that the committee has decided
to adhere to the "alphabetical order" of
hearing contests. It is not as the Taft
men figure it, until Indiana is reached
on the list of states, that the Roosevelt
men have a contest with any merit.
Before that time the steam roller will
thoroughly impress wavering South
erners with the futility of switching to
a “lost cause."
The first day’s grist of the contests,
scheduled to begin tomorrow morning,
includes Alabama, Alaska and Arkan
sas.
The voting in the national commit
tee on the contests "to, save time” is
viva voce. According to the present
rules, it will require a demand on the
part of twenty members of the com
mittee to secure a roll call. The Roose
velt men assert that they’ have that
many members, but they have never
theless started a movement to secure a
roll call op demand of five committee
men. The steam roller will flatten
out this demand, according to the com
mitteemen today’ who will talk.
"Arsenic Bottle Program," Says Dixon.
In an interview at noon today Sena
tor Dixon expressed an assurance that
the "arsenic bottle program” could not
be put through, because of the high
character of the men on the national
committee.
"What is your view of the prospects
of this steam roller program?” Senator
Dixon was asked.
"It takes 37 men. a majority of the
53 on the national committee, to put
through this arsenic bottle program the
Taft people seem to want,” he replied.
“There are not 27 men on the commit
tee who wilt take the Republican party'
out in the alley and cut its throat.
Senator Dixon admitted that he held
the proxy’ of a committeeman whom he
did not name.
"But I will not sit in committee on
my contests,” he added. "I have given
my’ proxy to another man and a fair
minded man.”
"Have you given it to Colonel Roose
velt?" was an interrogation.
"Colonel Roosevelt has the same
view of the matter that I have.” replied
Senator Dixon.
HOLDS’rECORD OF 3 _ YEARS
FOR FIRST COTTON BLOOM
, AUGUSTA, GA., June J. W. Mc-
Nair, of Blythe, Ga.. has brought the
first cotton bloom of the season In this
section to local cotton factors, Ramsey
Degwen. Last year and the year
before he had the first bloom exhibited
at the Augusta Cotten exchange, a»d
he also had the first bales of cotton of
the season in 1910 and 1911. He ex
pects to have the first bale this year
.also.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS. THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1912.
Quits Federal Job
To Work for Taft
RICHMOND, VA„ June 6—ln order
that he may be free and unhampered.
Louts P. Summers, internal revenue col
lector for the Western district of Vir
ginia, has resigned to manage the Vir
ginia forces for Taft at Chicago inci
dent to the meeting of the national Re.
publican convention. He will be suc
ceeded- temporarily by David F. Bailey,
of Bristol, it is stated.
The ; Taft people are confident that
Summers, who is reckoned as a magic
organizer and political director, will be
able to successfully stem the tide of
Roosevelt defection in this state.
J. R. Pollard, the negro lawyer of
this city who maneuvered the recent
black and tan convention held in Rich
mond last month, has left for Chicago,
to appear as counsel for the Virginia
contestants before the national com
mittee This wing of the state Repub
lican party will put up a fight for rec
ognition of delegates from all ten dis
tricts but the Seventh and Ninth. In
these two the negro population is so in
considerable that the black and tans did
not feel-that they had any ground for a
contest. They will also make a con
test for the four delegates-at-large.
JOHN W. GRANT REMAINS
FIRE INSURANCE DIRECTOR
ATHENS. GA.. June 6.—At the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of the
Southern Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
held at the home offices here, the
old officers, President and Treasurer
Billups Phinlzy and Secretary’ Afthur
Griffith, were re-elected again. The
directors, consisting of ten from Ath
ens and one each from Atlanta, Macon,
Columbus and Augusta, were all re
elected. M. 'A. Obyne, of Savannah,
was elected to fill the place made va
cant by the death of Henry Blun, of
Savannah. The Atlanta man on the
board is John W. Grant.
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200 Delegates Hold
Balance in N. C.
RALEIGH, N. June 6.—With both
sides predicting victory, the North Car
olina state Democratic convention con
vened at noon.
The convention today was preceded I
by Underwood and Wilson rallies when
, lines of action were laid. Os the 1,000
delegates, neither Underwood nor Wil
son has a majority, and the 200 dele
. gates favoring neither will decide the
. contest. It was confidently expected by
those opposing instructions that they
. would defeat any motion to pledge the
delegates to Baltimore.
Nearly 5,000 delegates and visitors
I had arrived by noon, making this the
. largest state convention in point of at
. tendance ever held in North Carolina,
p Former Governor Glenn delivered the
keynote speech. Locke Craig, of Ashe
s ville, will be nominated for governor by
t acclamation. The chief state contests
. will be for positions of lieutenant gov
ernor and corporation commissioner.
t Former Governor Glenn, in his key
note speech, arraigned the Republicans
. for failing to carry out their pledges.
He was interrupted by applause when
. he mentioned Underwood, Wilson and
i Bryan.
Former Lieutenant Governors Daugh-
I ton and Winston took charge of the
t LTnderwood forces on the convention
. floor. From the applause it was im
possible to tell the relative strength of
Underwood and Wilson during the ear
ly session.
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I AMERICUS. GA., June 6.—Game
Warden McMath has received from the
United States aquarium at Warm
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fish to be distributed in Muckabee creek
and other water courses of Sumter
. county.
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Arkansas Names n
Clark Delegates
LITTLE ROCK. ARK., June 6.—Del
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tional convention were scheduled to be
named today by the state convention
here. The delegates will favor Champ
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name is before the convention. Sena- |
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convention for re-election. Joe T. Rob- I
inson was nominated for governor.
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