PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 24 June 1912, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

PRESIDENT TAFT SECURES

NOMINATION

MR ROOSEVELT WILL SUMMON

ANOTHER CONVENTION

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. CHICAGO, June 23.

The Convention is quieter

The regular Republicans, it is asserted, control the voting on the Reports and Credentials Committee by increased ma'orities.

Owing to Senator La Follette's Wis■consin followers opposing Rooseveltites, the people in the galleries are greeting •every fresh Taft victory with a noise like a steam roller. Rooseveltites derided the Taftites, who jestingly stated that "the hull moose has been capped." Many urge the selection of a safe compromise candidate, whose progressive record could not be questioned.

The Rooseveltites show a tendency to prefer President Taft's nomination to another, helieving that this would vbe in favor of an independent proigressive movement. It is suggested « that should the Rooseveltites regain the Convention they would not vote, but would subsequently hold a fresh "Convention in August for the nomination of Mr Roosevelt on the independent ticket.

Mr Bryan states that there is a tendency on the part of both parties to split the progressive and conservative wings, and this may ultimately involve the rearrangement of party distribution.

Mr Bryan telegraphed to prominent •Democrats, appealing to them to prevent Mr Parker's election to the chairmanship of the Baltimore Convention, describing Mr Parker as a reactionary.

President Taft was nominated at the first hallot.

Mr Sherman was nominated for the Vice-Presidency.

Mr Roosevelt has definitely decided not to take any further part in the Convention, hut to confine his efforts to the formation of a third narty.

The announcement was made that Mr Roosevelt's name will not be submitted to the Convention.

Governor Hadley and Mr Deneen refused nomination for the Vice-Presi-dency.

Terrific enthusiasm was shown when the voting indicated that President Taft was winning. At the outset the Ttooseveltites stood on chairs, shook +heir fists at the chairman, and called him abusive names. "Thieves and rob~bers" were heard in all directions, and the police were obliged to intervene several times. The sergeant-at-arms was active every minute, calming overexcited delegates.

Mr Roosevelt, replying to his nomination as an independent candidate, declared that the Taftites did not represent the Repuhlican party, hut showed cynical defiance of the people's wishes. The Taftites used the Repuhlican party merely to advance crooked financial interests.

Three hundred Roosevelt delegates Tefused to vote. President Taft received 561 of 1078 Totes.

Mr Roosevelt intends to call a national convention in August.