Americus Times Recorder

He Seems to Be Acceptable to Both the Taft and Roosevelt Forces in the Convention—Had Not Been Considered Before as a Dark Horse

(Special to Times-Recorder.)
Chicago, June 19.—Taft forces gained another decisive victory tonight when after six hours' of heated discussion and balloting the motion to prevent the ninety-two contested delegates from voting on the convention proceedings was tabled by a vote of 563 to 510. The Taft forces are jubilant at this evidence that they are holding together without a break.

(Special to Times-Recorder.)
Chicago, Ills., June 19.—The talk of the hotel lobbies, of the streets of the town, as it will be of the country at large in the morning, is the tremendous ovation that was given to Governor Hadley, of Missouri, on the floor of the convention late today, of the attentions showered upon him from the Roosevelt men, whom he represented, and the Taft men, whose sister it was attacking.
Hadley looms large on the horizon at this moment as the possible and probable compromise candidate. He has made the hit of the convention, and his name is on all tongues as the solution of the nasty situation in which his party is enmeshed.
Governor Hadley leads the Roosevelt fight against the seating in the permanent organization of the eighty or more delegates whose recognition by the national committee has been made the basis for the ugly charges of thievery by Theodore Roosevelt and his friends. The credentials committee must pass upon the credentials of all delegates. The position of the Roosevelt men is that no delegates whose seat is in contest should be permitted to be upon the credentials committee. That to give them membership on that committee would be, as Roosevelt expressed it, "putting the thief in the judge's chair to pass upon his own case."
Hadley made a clean-cut fight along this line without bitterness, following parliamentary customs and usages, and urging that personalities be laid aside and left out of the discussion. The existence of the republican party, he declared, was at stake. Hadley insisted that the Roosevelt forces could have forcibly taken control of the convention and compelled action on the motion made Tuesday to purge the temporary roll. Instead of that, he said, they had waited patiently until today for justice.
He was roundly cheered at times and it was evident that he had become a favorite with many of the Taft delegates, as well as with the Roosevelt forces.
Speaking of Roosevelt, Hadley declared that "it may be true that there are many many persons who do not agree with us that Theodore Roosevelt should be our candidate for president, but there can be no difference of opinion that his voice today is the greatest of the western world."
Governor Hadley acted as floor manager for the Roosevelt forces and ex-Congressman Watson, of Indiana for the Taft forces.
At one point in the long and excited debate, Watson stood by the side of Hadley and said that he believed that when the committee on credentials was named Governor Hadley would consent to refer matters to it, an intimation that the committee would not be packed against the forces led by Hadley.
Tumultuous applause greeted this, and there were wild cheers for Hadley.