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2 Great Crowd of Delegates Surges Through Chicago Hotel to Tell Colonel They Are For Him "WE'VE GOT ’EM GOING AND NO MISTAKE," CRIES TEDDY TO ADMIRERS AU.DELEGATES ADOPT UNIT RULE Two Roosevelt Votes Are Thus Nullified and Put in the Taft Column. Continued From Pzqe One. his brow streaming under the hard strain The next delegate cried: "Coionel. they got me in that steam roller and put me down for good." "We will not stand for any of this rough work.” Roosevelt replied. "U ell Seat you—we’ll do it. by George" A crowd of the strongest lunged • ifornians. cried: "Teddy. Teddy, we are ready, ready, cat ’em alive." "Teddy, we are ready, ever ready, to go to ’em, California." The noise was deafening, but the colonel seemed in his element “.fust hear that California," he cried. "Isn’t It just fine. That’s the way. I know they will knock these other gen tlemen through the ropes." When the last, man had shaken his hand, three policemen, Frank Repette. the Congress hotel private detective, and Knox surrounded the colonel and escorted him back to his suite, fol lowed by a throng. The crush was so great that tables were crushed down and chairs demolished. The screens were knocked to pieces and the room resembled a third down on the goal line in a big football ga ne. Within a few minutes the colonel was back in his room. So fast did he move that the crowd was unabie to follow far. Fight to Start on First Roll Call CHICAGO, June 17.—With Rosewater chairman of the Republican national committee, sitting as umpire, the first battle between the Roosevelt and Taft forces In the Republican national con vention will come tomorrow within fif teen minutes after the national con vention is called to order at noon. The fight will come when the first state In the. first roll call over the first action of the convention is under way. It will be inaugurated by the Roosevelt men. Chairman Rosewater will call the gathering to order. There will be a two-minute prayer by the chaplain of the day. Then, as representative of the national committee. Chairman Rosewater will recommend on behalf of the committee that Senator Elihn Root, of New York, be made temporary chairman. A Roosevelt delegate will move that the name of Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, be substituted for that of Elihu Root. Then Chairman Rose water will direct Secretary William Hayward, of the committee, to call the roll. Alabama is the first state on the list The Ninth district delegates were seated for Taft by the national com mittee. Roosevelt supporters will chal lenge the vote of the Ninth district men and the fight over the seating of the delegates by the committee steam roller will be under way Taft Men Informed of Plan of aßttle. This move has been definitely de cided on by the Roosevelt leaders after a conference in which the colonel him self took part. It has been discussed with Mr. Rosewater by the Rough Rider candidate Rosewater informed the colonel that under parliamentary procedure there was no way in which be could recognise any of the delegates not sealed by the committee and that as chairman he would be bound by the temporary roll as made up by the com mittee Rosewater himself voted against seating the Taft men from the Ninth Alabama district As chairman, and therefore official spokesman of the national committee, be was bound by their decisions There will be no d< -ision before to morrow from Chairman Rosewater as to whether a motion can be put before the convention from the Roosevelt forces to adopt a substitute toll pre pared by them rather than the tem porary rail prepared by the committee. Mr. Rosewater said lie would not be able to hear arguments on the point befote this afternoon or tomorrow morning He said the point turns upon whether or not a motion to appeal from the decision of the chair is debatable The Taft men were informed of the colonels fighting plan Todey repre sentatives of the Taft and Roosevelt forces are preparing briefs on the [>oints of parliamentary law involved, and armed with these and acting as umpire in the case. Chairman Rose water will decide for or against the challenge when the quition is present ed. Whatever his decision, an imme diate appeal to the vonbentlon itself will be made Congressman Martin Edga> <‘:m stead of Pennsylvania, is pieparing the brief on the Taft forces E H Ramson, of Ohio, is preparing the b icf for Roosevelt, it is worthy of notice ibat the man who is preparing the first formal fight against President Taft ernes from the president s own state. To Block Vote of Contested Delegates. The plan of the Roosevelt men to force t'n< fight at the very beginning ■ar two purposes The first is io la te ■ us :r Jon of the entire contest Met by the convention at the same - which contested delegatee «en seated will not bi al- WS Jr ' jwas Grows , ' Wort, J orator lotted to vote, and as the Roosevelt men figure, they would hate delegates enough to control the convention and seat their own men Under ordinary procedure contests are taken up state by state on the *eport of the creden tials committee which Is not received until the second day of the convention On a vote state by state the delegates seated on the temporary roll in all th” states except that which is being voted on are allowed to cast their ballots This gives a decided advantage to the side whose contested delegates havi been seated. The Roosevelt forces objected to this very procedure in certain state con ventions. notably that in Indiana, as serting that it virtually gave the con tested men who v*ere seated the tight to vote on their own contests. It has formed the basis for one of their charges of thievery. The second advantage this move will I give the Roosevelt men will be the ear | iy line on the exact strength of the op posing forces. According to the Taft men, the Roosevelt faction plans a bolt. If the first tight goes against them, they will start the fight at once to nominate Roosevelt for president. Some Roose velt delegate, probably Herbert S. Had ley, governor of Missouri, and the only Roosevelt chief who won a real victory in the fight before the national commit, tee, will move that the convention pro ceed at once with nomination. This, as the Taft men view the case, will be equivalent to an attempt to organize a Roosevelt convention In the Coliseum at the same time that the regular con vention Is under way. Should It be done, and the Taft men say fiatly that it will, while the Roosevelt men utter no denial, confusion that will reach the proportion of a riot will pret ail. The chair will rap fijr order. The nomination motion will he declared out of order. If the Roosevelt men try to force a vote and go ahead with the nomination—and they will, if the mo tion is made at all —the sergeant-at arms will be ordered to put out of the hall the delegates who join in the at tempt to bring the motion before the house. It will be. a strenuous time for the 1,200 assistant sergeants-at-arms who are acting under the orders of Colonel William F Stone. Incidentally, the Roosevelt people will be in a stronger position if forced from the hall than they would be if, led by the colonel or any of jris supporters, they carried out the first plans laid out by the leaders here of marching quietly from the hall and trudging to the nearby First regi ment armory. Hadley To Be T. R. s Floor Leader. It will also bring the bolt, if there is « bolt, at the very beginning of the contest, instead of at the close, as the Taft mjn had expected, after the Roosevelt men had submitted to the reading of the temporary roll and the participation of the Roosevelt delegates In the preliminary work of the conven tion. Herbert S. Hadley has been chosen as the Roosevqlt floor leader. His win ning fight before the Republican na tional committee greatly pleased Colonel Roosevelt He Is said to have heartily sanctioned the selection of the fighting Missourian as his field mar shal. Hadley, besides his other qualifica tions for tackling tire job, has a voice of great volume and carrying power, an asset in a floor leadtfr heading a fight while 2,000 delegates and alter nates are creating wild confusion and 1,200 sergeants-at-arms are trying to quiet them, that is not to be overlooked. Hadley, according to present plans, will move the substitution of Senator Borah's name for that of Root when the light is started, so that the Roosevelt delegates will know' the man they are expected to follow during the confusion that may result. As a counter mole. should be confu sion become a riot and the situation get out of hand of the Taft forces, a hasty adjournment of the convention has been planned by the Taft people Some leaders today are predicting that the first day of the national convention may be as brief .is It is stormy, and that over night thy opposing forces may become warring camps, engender ing political bltte'ness never before known In a convention fight NEW DEPOT FOR COLUMBUS. COLI MRUS. GA.. June 17 The South ern railway has announced that It will build a new freight depot here, to feet wide and 409 feet long. The Southern track facilities in title'city. TO DECIDE ON HOTEL PROJECT. t'OLUMBI'S, GA . June 17 M a meet Ing. to be held tonight. It will be definite ly decided as to whether Columbus will have a new $260,990 hotel. The greater part of thr capital stock Is in sight, and It is expected that the rerr.elmur of tin, stock will be subscribed tonight I tit. AI I. ,\.\ l.\ GEORG LUX’ AMI .NEWS. ,WM>AI. .11 AX h 17. ,1912. No Compromise With LaFollette’s Aid CHICAGO.. June 17.—Robert M la- Follette. Wisconsin’s car iii.it- f ■ Republican nomination for president, and hl- 36 delegates in the -wnt’-'B will make no compromise with either the Roosevelt of 'he Taf: fcr.es • t stage in the convention. avcc-.’ir.R , • an announcement made tod.’.y by ' o nel John Hanan, of Milwauk-'- l.a; lette’s private s' -cret iry am: p r-’on i political manager f.x twelve y ■ .<. s The laiFollette men told • f overt ur -■ from j the Roosevelt can; for the Meets >n of I temporary chairmat Hoping to hold rhe balam e f p 'wer i n toe eonvepjion. tc.ey held a series of j (inferences today and decided to stick : ’o the last against any compromise : with either Taft ur Eooseielt LaFoilette :s keeping In dost touch v. ith his fori es here, and believes that the strategic position which he w ill hold ’.n the convention by avoiding any tom. i promise or ttade may result in his final selection as the presidential nominee If not. he is confident it will bring about the incorporation in the Republican platform of many of the LaFoilette ideas. Such a victory, LaFoilette be lieves. will make certain his nomina tion for president in 1916. "We will stick to the vety limit against any com promise or trade with either Taft or Roosevelt." said Colonel Hanan. "If the Roosevelt people nominate Wisconsin’s own governor, Francis Mc- Govern. for temporary chairman, the LaFoilette delegates will vote against him That Is going the full limit, isn’t it’.’ We are determined on LaFoilette. We are not going to commit hari kart before any of the decisive ballots are cast by helping out Roosevelt or Taft in their squabble." <>ov i wSaOr* HAPiey I , W MISSOURI Taft Home Guard in Spectacular Array CHICAGO. June 17.—Three hundred members of the Blaine club of Cincin nati. a Taft organization, wearing white ties and Prince Alberts and car rying red, white and blue umbrellas, arrived today. Behind a band of 50 pieces marched the president's 300 sup porters from his home city under the leadership of Hugh L. Conway. That something spectacular will be attempted by these Tactites is assured, but what form It will take was not dis closed by Mr. Conway. Flynn Succeeds Penrose. The Pennsylvania delegation today elected William Flynn to succeed Sena tor Penrose as national committeeman from their state. .A resolution was adopted declaring the attacks made upon Flynn and indi rectly upon Roosevelt have been un true, malicious and unjustifiable. ENTERS GOVERNMENT SERVICE. GADSDEN, ALA . June 17.—Isaac W. Hill, former state superintendent of ed ucation. will leave this week for Wash ington. where he will become connected with the United Slates department of ag riculture. He has accepted a position as assistant in the bureau of plant industry and will have charge of the boys’ depart ment. He will have territory extending from Maryland to Texas - 1' z X « ,%\| A .2 Drink Hires and Let the Sun do its Worst So good to know there is one drink that will , cool and invigorate you without ill effects. ‘ So good to know a drink that is made from Nature s recipe—that combines the tonic S ® virtues of herbs and roots and forest saps, to , giv you the most delectable of all summer drinks. Try it right now. See the nearest F'ountain Man. and just say " Hires." aX ' ’- More cooling than other drinks and more U 9 healthful. Not a trace of drugs. Just helps never harms. No need to say “ rootbeer." Just say "Hires." 5c —sparkling, delicious. At your home, carbonated, in bottles. I ' 1 J * '/ I ' .■**••••*•. **’ s •••••••••••••••••••••«••«• • s2so,oooWageredon • • Result of Convention • • CHICAGO. June 17. More I han • • >250.000 has been wagered in this • • ity on the result of the Republi- • • can convention. A well-known • • gambler said today he had handled • • *50.000 in bets fro Easterners. • • An Arizona ranch owner bet • $20,000 today that Taft would be • • nominated. A coterie of Penn- • • sylvanians took the Roosevelt ■ • end. • • The betting on the two leading • • candidates remains at about even • • money, though at times Roosevelt • • is a slight favorite. • • LaFoilette and Cummins are • • rated at from 10 to 1 to 20 to 1 • • shots. • • iiHiisiii CHIGHGJ INK CHICAGO June 17. —More than 100 Taft delegates and boomers from Geor. gia were bruised in a wreck within the city limits today when their train ran into a string of empty coaches near the Union station on the Pennsylvania. Several cut by flying glass. A number of Indiana delegates on the incoming train were also hurt. None had to, be taken to the hospital. Among the Georgians injured were A. W. Bryant. Valdosta; W. B. Morton, Athens: W. James, A. M. Flunker, Ar gyle; A. S. Simmons, Macon, and M. M. McClellan, Atlanta. Alabama Votes for Unit Rule CHICAGO. June 17. fl—By agreeing to vote as a unit in the convention the Taft majority of the A'abama delega tion nullified the votes of the two Roosevelt members of their contingent at a meeting at the Sherman house 1 to lay. They elected as chairman. Pope M, Long: George B. Newstoll, secretary: P. D. Barker, national committee; S. S. Pleasant, rules; J. J. Curtis, cre dentials; Alexander C. Birch-, creden tials. J. J. Abercrombie, permanent or ganization. Florida Wen Organize. At a caucus of the twelve Florida delegates the following committeemen were elected: , Credentials. M. B. MacFarlane; per manent organization, M. Paige; rules and order, W. H. Lucas; resolutions, Joseph E. Lee: members of the national committee. Henry S. Chubb, also re elected chairman. The entire delega tion was pledged for Taft. Texas Roosevelt Slate Named. Twenty-nine supporters of the Texas delegation held a meeting at the Sher man house today and formed a slate which they will ask the eleven pro- Roosevelt delegates to ratify at a sec ond meeting tonight: Mostly Postmasters On Taft Delegation t' tb# Gvocgla [v-ima-ivi s sliould . # a ■■.•tv a ouveution WT social * <.. . ,v - ■ ».■ -.’.•:’. I>,\l w eek tv be xbvut the most eon »,.i>i v ~. bvi J i 1 - and i'hleagv ahvu 1 . th# i*cd puv# lOyiv 4'e p.y. lew •(' i!te ulo’e ;■ .vr'.AP mes who arv not dolegtites tv > ■? nativnal Republi . AU '.usftxeiaH.vtt, aftd wt»v not at tills . ■• • ,->iber :> I't'wagv or vn the «»j s '■? <vfty.lu.led to stay the:- the givat #i. .-a-,’. vJt f*. w ek IK'S ;•/*»•.< M.Kee. Atlanta, who s a« alternate, has gone to the Windy City and Postmaster Pie v e of ColUm bus est on his heels Besides these t" b g guns tn the outfit of Ge,us:a postmasters, die dele gallon is well stocked with guns of smaller caliber and they were all for Taft 'first, last and alt the time " when they left. Strange to relate, on the Georgia ”in surgent” Roosevelt delegation, recently steam-rollered by the national com mittee. there was not one Georgia post master—not even the postmaster of Wayback or Squashhollow. There are 56 in the Georgia Taft del egation to Chicago—mostly postmast ers. Attempts to Bribe Negroes Charged CHICAGO. June 17. —Charges of at tempted bribing of Southern negro del egates were made by A. W. Adams, of Jackson, Tenn., a Taft negro delegate of the Eighth Tennessee district, today. He said lie had been approached three times by a Pennsylvania negro and had been offered SSOO in addition to his railroad and hotel expenses. Adams also declared that he believes probably every delegate from Mississippi. Louis iana and Georgia and other Southern states “can and will be bribed to sup port Colonel Roosevelt." “I was told first that I could Have anything I wanted," said Adams, “and 1 was offered SSOO over my railroad fare of $lB and piy hotel bills.” Charges Attempt to Bribe, An affidavit charging an attempt to bribe F. H. Cook, a negro delegate to the Republican national convention from Louisiana, for SI,OOO, to desert the Taft forces and vote for Roosevelt, executed by Cook himself, was made public by Director McKinley, of the Taft headquarters. The Taft headquarters asserted that Cook, who is a Baptist minister and a bank cashier in Vidalia. Concordia parish. Louisiana, made his affidavit before a notary of his own volition. DALLAS CHANGES SCHOOL HEAD. DALLAS. GA.. June 17. —Professor Charles G. Payne has been elected {super intendent of the Dallas public school’s for the ensuing year. The former superin tendent, J. T. Ixiwe, goes to Social Circle next year. Professor Payne has been su perintendent at Summerville. .FORMER JUDGE TO BE PASTOR. CORNELIA, GA., June 17.—Judge J. J. Kimsey. former judge of the North eastern circuit, has been elected acting pastor of the First Baptist church at Cornelia, succeeding Rev. B. C. Por ter,’who is now at the orphanage at Hapeville, in charge of that institution. FIVE GEORGIA MEN QUIT TAFT BANNER CHICAGO. June 17. Five Taft dele gates from Georgia and five from Mis sissippi have issued signed statements Indicating their intention to vote for Roosevelt. Statements announcing that other Southern delegates have swung from Taft to Roosevelt are promised for today It was intimated at Roose velt headquarters that at least three other delegates from Mississippi and a few from other states would an nounce their change of allegiance. The five Georgia delegates, were Clark Grier, J. H. Boone, J. C. Styles; J Eugene Peterson and S. S. Mincey. Those from Mississippi were Charles Banks. W. P. Locker, Perry W. How ard. Daniel W. Gary and Wesley Cray ton. Banks is the negro delegate who deserted Taft a tew days ago and re turned money advanced by the Taft manager for traveling expenses. Most of the others also are negroes. T. R. Not in Field Then. The statement signed by tho five Georgia delegates was addressed to Colonel Roosevelt and was in part as follows: “When we were elected there was but one candidate in the field and there seemed to be nothing to do but to ac cept Mr. Taft and inevitable defeat in November. At that time it seemed to make little difference whether there were instructions or no instructions, delegates or no delegates, for It seemed then a foregone conclusion that Mr. Taft was to be the Republican nominee and a Democrat the next president. "With the announcement of your candidacy, the party was given a new lease of life; country-wide sprung the sentiment that the future contained some promise of business stability, and aggressive and righteous leadership; the man whose name was synonymous with the square deal -was In the field, and the party as well as the country bucked up. “On all sides we heard from dele gates to the congressional conventions and from our constituents that the ac tions of the convention were hasty and not representative of the sentiment of the community. Georgia "Unanimous” For Roosevelt. “From them came the suggestion that inasmuch as a second convention could not be held, a canvass should be made by each county chairman of the dele gates who attended the convention, in order to find out If they wished us to abide by the previous instructions; wished us to go uninstructed, or wished to instruct us for another candidate. Such canvass has been made in our dis tricts and in every cage the vote was practically unanimous that we go to Chicago to do all in our power to bring about the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. “Let us assure you also that if a preferential presidential primary were held now in Georgia, there is not the slightest doubt that you would carry this state in the same commanding manner that you carried Ohio, Illinois. Pennsylvania. California. Nebraska, Maine. Oregon. Maryland and New- Jersey.” J. C. Styles, of Dawson. Ga.. one of the delegates whose name was signed to Grier’s letter to Colonel Roosevelt announcing that five Georgia delegates would violate their Taft pledges and vote for the Oyster Bay man. today re pudiated she letter. He declared his signature was attached without au thority end that he would vote to re nominate President Taft. Clark Grier, one of the Georgia dele gates, said: “I am going to vote for Colonel FIRE SALE Balance of our stock at rediculously low prices. Everything is going regardless of cost value. Tuesday Specials Balance of* stock of fine Whipcord Skirts, values Q OiC to $7.50 - - - - ipO.ZfO $1.50 and $2.00 Wash 7 Q Skirts of fine Pique - Silk Petticoats, values to $3.95, on sale Tuesday, 7 choice - - - - - gi 1•/ if Stylish Dresses of pure white Lin en, worth $5.00, at ----- - 49 Whitehall Street Roosevelt, despite the fact that Henry S. Jackson, who has been the repre sentative of Private Secretary Hilles in Georgia, has declared to Harry Still well Edwards, of Macon, and other peo ple in Georgia that he has in his pos session an order for the removal of my wife. Mrs. Grier, as postmistress of my borne town. Dublin, and also despite the fact that we have just received no tice that the long delayed appointment of Mr. McCrea as postmaster at Mount Vernon, in Mincey’s county. ha» been made. This is done to satisfy Mincey and get his vote for Mr. Taft. "They have been delaying this ap pointment on the ground that Collier’s Weekly has been making such expose of the use of the patronage In tho South that it would be unw’lse to ap point Mr. McCrea until after the na tional convention. Since they have learned that the Roosevelt sentirtient In Georgia can not be suppressed, how ever, they are not so fearful about the effect of Mr. McCrea’s appointment. Hence they make It now’ at the elev enth hour. For T. R. at Cost of Appointment. ‘T am going to vote for Roosevelt, even though Mrs. Grier may be deposed as postmistress, and Mincey proposes to vote for Mr. Roosevelt, even though Mr. McCrea's appointment be with drawn.” The Mississippi letter, as given out. bore the names of Charles Bank, W. P. Locker, Percy W. Howard’ Daniel W Gary and Wesley Crayton. This letter said, in part: “We, the undersigned delegates to the Republican national convention from the state of Mississippi, having after full conference and discussion among ourselves and having only in view the welfare of the Republican party and of the nation, and fully ap preciative oT your known stand for a square deal to all men, irrespective of race or creed, and believing that in the crisis which now confronts the Repub lican party you are the only man that can lead it to victory in November, have this day decided to tender you our support in the national convention as the nominee of the Republican party for president of the United 1 States." Taft’s Chief Says Only Two Deserted CHICAGO, June 17.—Congressman Mc- Kinley, Taft’s manager, issued a state ment .this afternoon declaring that the Roosevelt people had succeeded in making only two Taft delegates desert, but close friends of the congressman admitted that five Taft delegates had joined the Roose velt ranks. Three of them, are negroes and two white men. McKinley asserted that in the attempts of Colonel Roosevelt and his chiefs to in fluence the Southern delegates, many of these men felt a personal insult and as a result the Southern delegates are holding solidly in line for President Taft. WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH AND RETURN $lO, good ten days. On sale Thurs days. Through sleepers. SEABOARD Automatic Refrigerators are superior to all others. Pay for themselves in ice savings. C. H. Mason. 6 and 8 W. Mitchell street.