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Show STANDPATTERS GET A SCARE (By Edward H. Hamilton.) Chicago. June 20. This is the day on which a nominee for president should have been selected the third day of the convention. And a nomination nom-ination seems as far away as ever. "One's afraid; the other dassen'L" That's the situation as I write this. It may change before I can close. If tho steam roller had emotion, you would say It was frightened, that Its heart had weakened, that its nerve was gone. The men or the steam roller rol-ler have halted. Will they back up? Will they get their nerve again and go ahead. Who can say? The bolt of tho men from the committee com-mittee on credentials last night the bolt led by the pugnacious Francis J. Heuey caused that committee to pause in Its mad career even Chairman Chair-man Devlne, the rough roller of Colo rado, with tho blood all up In his neck, paused long enough to bite his lip. Chill for Fairbanks. "You must excuse us'" said Chester H. Rowell of California, one of the Roosoelt members of the sub-committee on platform. '"You must excuse ex-cuse us. We are going over to see whether or not a now party Is to be formed." Rowell went to the Roosevelt bolters' bolt-ers' meeting in the Florentine room of the congress. When he came hack to the sub-committee he said, addressing ad-dressing former Vice President Fairbanks, Fair-banks, chairman: "Well, Mr. Chairman, I have the honor to inform you that a now Republican Re-publican party has been born here." "Is that true?" asked Fairbanks getting a little gray. "Yes. sir." replied Rowell, emphatically. emphat-ically. "Then in the future a man who desires de-sires success must be a Democrat," said the former vice presidenL '"In the immediate future, yes," assented as-sented Rowell. That sub-committee had arranged to sit all night. It was to go through the motions Just as the credentials committee had arranged to do., Then today, the deep and dark duii steam roller was to have snorted its way, hiccoughing in the lace of the dawn. But suddenly there was a hand on the loer. The roller stopped. It has been stopped all day. Thero has been talk of compromise That now party was too much Tor them all at once. They had seen' their own gulleries go wild for the Roosevelt cause. A little new party movement would mean the loss of congressmen and senators In all directions. It would mean the certainty of Democratic success. It would mean that every federal office-holder In the country would lose his Job. Governor Dencen of Illinois has to come up for election. He didn't come out for Rooscelt until Roosevelt had won Illinois Now what is he to do? If ho bolts, the steam roller may run him down If he docs not the Roose-vcltians Roose-vcltians will turn on him. And Ifho de-sorts de-sorts the Progressives and their new party, where Is he going to land? And Borah Is a good deal In the same fix. He Is thoioughly converted to the doctrine of presidential preference prefer-ence primaries but where will he bo in Washington if he leaves his party? And where will he be If he doesn't? So there is trouble all along the line. The Tuft men havo been going about saving Rooseelt cannot carry his delegates with him. Ho cannot carry them not all of them. He probably prob-ably cannot carry half of them. The re3t has mostly bocn floundering flounder-ing and a hope that time and tho cooling of passions would point the way. Theio hae been rumors of this and rumors of that Hadley. Cummins, Cum-mins, Borah. Odell have been touted as compromise candidates Tho meetings of tho conventions hac been forclcal. Many people pay largo sums of money for admission tickets. This noon they got In pushing push-ing with difficulty through eager crowds. They sat in heated atmosphere. atmos-phere. Then they stood for a prayer and applauded because It was short. They heard Jim Watson, tho Indiana man, Taft floor lender, say to tho waiting Chairman Roof "The credentials committee has not yet reported and as ,untll that report re-port is presented no other business can be transacted, I move you, sir, that this convention tako a recess until un-til ! o'clock this artcrnoon." That motion carried, and that was all many people got Tor the money they had puld for tlckcLs ror that session. Surely It was not much to get for say ? 10.00. Tlckols were also sold ror tho afternoon af-ternoon session. The people jammed in ahead of the thunderstorm. Just as thoy got their placcB and rain began be-gan falling, as If the waters were coming down at Lodorc, tho people for their moncj and-their palms heard. 1 Jim Watson say to the again waiting Root: 'The credentials commltteo has not yet reported and ns. until that report is prcBontcd no other business can 'be transacted, I move you, Mr. President, Presi-dent, that this convention tako a recess re-cess until noon tomorrow." That motion carried and then Root tried to turn those poor people out lnt tho storm. He sent up tho bold but stentorlous Jim Harlan to about megaphonically, "The light in this hall will be put out in five mlnutos. All must leave tho place" The storm had made the hall dark as night To have put thoBe lights out would have meant murder perhaps per-haps by wholesale, A riag had boea unfurled and Roosevelt's picture had been attached to it. A wild man In the gallery had started to lead the "We Want Toddy" chorus, and it was going at full swings After a time policemen suppressed sup-pressed that wild man and the Root-Harlan Root-Harlan threat of turning tho people out into tho storm was not carried out So tho "We Want Teddy" whooping went on for, say half an hour with more or less vim. The situation. Is that Taft can be nominated If they dare to force his nomination and that Roosevelt can form a new part', hacked by, say 200 Republican delegates any time he sayo the word. |