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Show II Colonel's Arrival in Chicago Overshadows All 1 1 Other Preliminaries to Next Week's National 1 1 Convention and Big Battle H 9 I EXPECTS A LIVELY DEM0MSTRAT10M TONIGHT S Entire Struggle is Centered About the Former President, Who Will Match His Power of . m i ' Political Operation Against Taf t Forces iii 31 Chicago, Juno 15. The Imminent gi ; arrival in Chicago of Colonel Thco- jj dore Roosevelt today overshadowed IW all other preliminaries to next week's K Republican national convention. As the hour for the arrival of the yj Roosevelt train came near Interest ?r j and excitement in many quarters be- j jj : came intense. A number of hours before the train was scheduled to en- M . ter the La Salle street station, hun- Jfj dreds of people had gathered at that 51 ( point determined to hold tholr van- S ; tage ground until they had seen Col- onel Roosevelt. In the waiting throng M were many delegates to the conven-3 conven-3 tion. S But theso wore not the only ones rjl. i on hand to greet the former presi- JB dent Bat Masterson, oue time reai- ' : dent of the Black Hills, South Dako- : ta, now of New York, together with a B number of his friends and a crowd of U western admlrorB of Colonel Roose-s"7 Roose-s"7 : velt who reached Chicago last night. 5f ! Impatiently awaited the train from jjf the east m All indications pointed to a lively Jy demonstration by the Roosevelt ad- . herents tonight The entire Rcpubll- m can convention Blrugglo will center about Colonel Roosevelt from the mo-5t mo-5t ment he alights from his train here ,jyf Jate this afternoon. It will be his n power of political manipulation match-Jj7 match-Jj7 ed against the wltSj tho strategy and mm oiaymg powers ot the Taft forces. K To win the nomination Col. Roose- I velt either must break Into the Taft : ranks as they appear near the set- Ktlement of the last of the delegate contests by ho national committee, j , or else win the support of the La Fol- ' lette and Gummlns delegates, or both His followers are enthusiastic In their belief that ho and they together can sweep the convention. 1 Everything pertaining to the con vention, on the Roosevelt side, from the election of temporary chairman to the final strugglo for control will be directly under the supervision of I Colonel Roosevelt himself from this time on. Roosevelt leaders said that It was principally to have his personal j advico at first hand that they urged 1 him to come today Also It Is pianned t to have him get in personal touch a with delegates who have been counted ' nominally as. Taft supporters, but who are regarded as possibilities for the Roosevelt Bide A majority of theso come from the south. The leaders i have arranged no fixed program of activities for Colonel Roosevelt while i here. Ho will be permitted to take i personal charge of his campaign and 'do just as ho sees fit Mass Meeting Monday Night. There is only one exception to this rule of personal freedom and that is Monday night's mass meeting. Here the COlonel is schedtlloil in rfoHrnr n lengthy address. According to provisional plans announced an-nounced this morning he will remain '' In Chicago until the conclusion of the . convention. This in Itself is a depar- ' ture from the procedure of other can- didates and gives food for specula tion. It seems probable that he will attend at-tend tho convention during Its BeB-slong. BeB-slong. His followers insist that if he attends the convention, he will address ad-dress tho delegates in explanation of his attitude on tho issues that he has raised. Such an address would give opportunity oppor-tunity for a stampede of the variety that was feared even by Colonel Hoosevelt himself four years ago f Roosevelt followers are hoping that such an opportunity will arise. Coliseum Hall Ready. ; The task of physical preparation for the convention practically Is finished by the hundreds of carpenters, artisans arti-sans and executives iu whose hands tho Chicago coliseum ha3 been for more than a month. ' A. complete Inner structure has been roared within tho hall of tho Coliseum and its adjoining annex and anteroom. ante-room. Tonight every chair ot the ' 11,188 that are to accommodate the delegates, alternates, candidates, correspondents cor-respondents and tho few favored prl-Ivato prl-Ivato citizens will bo in its place. Back ' of tho hall, in the basement of the an- nox scores of telegraph Instruments are already In place. Two telephone exchanges have been installed on the main floor of tho annex, a temporary hospital with full surgical equipment has been constructed within easy reach of tho convention auditorium and police headquartcrB have boon I opened In tho rear of the hall. California's delegation, shouting for "Roosevelt," arrived today and headed head-ed by a band, marched to the Roosevelt Roose-velt headquarters where they wore given a rousing reception. The Republican Re-publican national committee was denounced de-nounced for unseating the two ! : -isfea-a-- Roosevolt delegates from San Francisco Fran-cisco by members of the delegation. Many banners were carried by the westerners, bearing Inscriptions of various kinds Among them were: l "California refuses to try titlo to property before the thief who stole It" "Let tho people rule." "California for Roosevelt by 7G.-000." 7G.-000." Accompanying the California delegation dele-gation are two women, Mrs. Francis Porter Collins of Los Angeles and Mrs. Charles D. Blaney of San Jose, the first women to attend a national convention as delegates. Chester II. Rowoll of Fresno, was indignant at the action of the committee com-mittee in declining to seat Charles H. Wheeler and Phillip Bancroft "Thore are twenty-six delegates here and every last one of them Is strong for Roosevelt," said Rowell. "The stite went for him by 77.000 and then the national committee goes ahead and throws out two of our strongest men. However wo are fighters, and we are going to fight; we are going to got those delegates back before the convention opens or know tho reason why." Governor Johnson made public a telegram from the Republican state committee of California to Chairman Rnsswntpr nf thA Mmmltlnn 1onniiTin ing tho "shameful attempt to unseat two Roosevelt delegates." The California delegation will caucus cau-cus today nnd decide on their case. The New York delegation, bringing with it its ninety votes in tho convention, con-vention, arried today . Both the Taft and Roosevelt headquarters made widely different claims as to tho proportion of delegates it would capture. The matter probably will bo settled tonight at a conference of tho state delegation. It was reported, however, that the Brooklyn delegation, with its eighteen eight-een votes, would lend its support to Roosevelt, if the national committee decided the Washington contest In favor of Taft |