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Show Had No Intention of Allowing Possible Pos-sible Defection of Strength. i Chicago. The Tnft malingers, In op e'er to fully conserve tho Interests of their candidate, early in tho day of the third session of the national con- entlon, placed on tho Iloor of tho I (invention, hut nut In the capacity of I ither delegates or alternates, a num- I ler of tho most prominent men In tho 1 party who are attached to tho Taft I candidacy. The duty of theso men ff was (o wntch tho work of tho opposition opposi-tion candidates and to promptly head oft any possible defection of strength nnd to hasten nil decisions. Theso men wero Senator Fulton of Oregon, Warren of Wyoming, Hurkett of Nebraska, Ne-braska, Long of Kansas, Uorah of daho, National Committeeman Clias. 1'. Hrookcr of Connecticut, Powell Clayton of Arkansas and B. C. Duncan Dun-can of North Carolina. Frank II. Hitchcock, the Tnft man-rgcr, man-rgcr, was also roaming around tho convention during the entiro day, seeking occasion to aid tho cnuso of f tho secretnry In nil posslblo ways. ' |