"TEDDY" ROOSEVELT AND THE CONVENTION.

West Coast Times, 19 June 1912, Page 3

"TEDDY" ROOSEVELT AND THE CONVENTION.

BREAKS OUT IN A NEW PLACE. (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] NEW; YORK, Juno 17. Mr. Roosevelt has decided not to accept the decision of tho National Committee and plans to secure tho vote of the nncontested delegates immediately tho Republican Convention meets. He hopes thus to clear the situation.

ROOSEVELT IN GREAT EVIDENCE NOT POLITICAL BUT MORAL CHICAGO, June 18. Mi. Roosevelt had a good reception at his hotel. Ho shook hands with a crowd of admirers until he was forced to retire exhausted. He addressed a vast audience in the evening and ds dared: Wo are standing for elementary decency, not for a political, hut great moral issue.

Mr. Roosevelt added that Mr. Taft had surrendered himself wholly to the bidding of professional bosses and the countenancing of sharp trickery which was just within the law. He declared he defeated Mr. Taft by two to one in the primaries, and had the people behind him. Their democracy was being

puo to a vital test. The conflict was between human right and a special privilege asserted as a property light “BATTLE FOR THE LORD.”

Mr. Roosevelt concluded: “With unflinching hearts and nndimmed eyes we stand at the Armageddon. We battle for the Lord/”

Mr. Roosevelt proposes that die ur.’Contested delegates should decide the* matter of the contested delegat :s As Mr. Roocovelt’s nncontested votes greatly outnumber Mr. Tab’s the proposal is likely to precipitate a crisis.

The first roll call will be held to-day when an uproar is feared. In all 1200 assistant sergeant-at-arms have been enrolled and large forces of police are kept within the Chairman’s call, Mr. J. Bryan states that the size of the Negro honorarium apparently is the determining factor in the struggle