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Show 00 BOLT 10 01 ON JHURSDAV Chicago, June 19. In a four-hour conference with all of tho loadors of his forceB and his political advisers early last night at the Congress hotel, Theodore Roosevelt outlined clearly the plan of his battle for 'today and for tho remaining days of the convention. con-vention. T' '! - ('. f --.'"-l 1- . Thursday If he has not won his fight by the time tho first ballot is taken on the presidential nomination. This Is the program: Today the credentials committee wilL make Its report, and the big guns of tho Roosevelt artillery will be trained against that report. It is assumed at the outsot that the report of the credentials committee commit-tee will be wholly against the Roosevelt Roose-velt f ctlon. It is assumed that the report will uphold in eery particular, particu-lar, the action of the national steamroller. steam-roller. It is assumed that the credentials cre-dentials committeo will seat overy delegate that the national committee commit-tee seated last week. Roosevelt will demand a vote immediately im-mediately on that report and ho will demand that the contested delegates be prevented from voting on the credentials cre-dentials committee report, holding that to permit contested delegates to vote would be to let them act as Jury in the cases In which they are defendants. de-fendants. Seventy-fie of tho contests have been picked out as being especially meritorious. They are cases In which the seating of the Taft delegates was, In the opinion of the Roosevelt men. particularly outrageous. The center of fire will be directed against those seventy-five. Roosevelt and his managers have anticipated every step in the fight. They know what they will do at every ev-ery stago of the battle, no matter which way the wind blows. They hope that thev will be able to prevent the contested delegates from votlug on their own cases. Failing to do that, this will be the next step in the battle: The Roosevelt forces will undertake, under-take, aided by the constant weakening weaken-ing of the Taft lines, to unseat tho steami oiler delegates In spite of the votp of those same delegates. They will carry their fight to tho floor of the comention, resisting every move of tho enemy, struggling for every posslblo inch of advantage, seeking to win one delegate here, another thero, until they force themselves In-, to control of the situation. "Suppose you are beaten at every angle of the game in the fight on the credentials committee report, what will you do then?" The question was fired at a dozen Roosevelt leaders by a hundred interested inter-ested persons last night. And tho answer war Invariably the same: "We'll keep on fighting. This battle bat-tle Is not going to be finished until It is finished right. Wo have the right on our side, and we bellevo that we shall have the votes on our side before be-fore the end comes.' Many even of the most sanguine of the Roosevelt supporters do not profess pro-fess to be com inced that they can win the battle today It Is generally conceded that It will be an Inch-by-lnch fight possibly with many defeats In the preliminaries, up to the very moment of the nomination. But one thing is certain, and no Roosevelt man denies It The Roosevelt Roose-velt forces do not propose to take part In any actual voting that shall result In the nomination of Taft If the Roosevelt forces are beaten twice today on the credentials committee com-mittee report, thoy will carry their fight to tho nominating session on Thursday. on |