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OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1912. TAFT FORCES TAKE I GOMPLAGENT VIEW Roosevelt Bubble Burst, Says - McKinley Steady Losses . Are Predicted. " f. R.'S VOTE PUT AT 464 demonstration for Hadley Said to j&e Sign of "Abandoning Colonel. 'Attempt to Bolt Kxpected To JA' - " ' day but Failure Prophesied. s- -f ' A"- ' CHICAGO. June 10. At Taft head erUarters a general atmosphere of satis faction and relief tonight greete.l the swarms of delegates. Director M-rKin ley and his .staff presented an it-is-all .ver-but-the-sh'outlng attitude and con fidently assured that today's vote of 654 to 10 against the Roosevelt fprces showed conclusively that Taft would be renominated. .Taft men said Roosevelt would lose on "the nomination roll call 48 of the tit votes be had today. They said that Wisconsin's 2S votes. South Dakota's i and the Cummins votes from Iowa would desert the Roosevelt column on mnv decisive vote. From this they argue that the real Roosevelt strength in the convention at the most was 484 vtnes. Taft Galas Predicted. ,: "President. Taffs renominatlon Is a certainty." said Director McKinley. pach succeeding roll call from now on -. will snow sie&ay losses iram me ivuosir - ' velt column and gains for Taft. ,.A statement was issued by McKinley In which he said: - - ', 'President Taft will be renominated by the National convention. Theodore Roosevelt has been eliminated as a can Udate. Two test votes, one today and smother forced yesterday by his lead ers, has- demonstrated that he cannot be nominated. The delegates have re pudiated his third-term pretensions. His managers have resorted to every known method of political strategy but without success. They have attempted combinations with other candidates, they have presented unfair and revo lutionary plans of procedure under the pretense of honesty and they have en tfeavored by every means to make Taft delegates break their solemn; pledges and Instructions. Another Leader Sought. "In the face of these desperate ef forts the Taft column has steadily jrrown. Taffs ' majority today was larger than It was yesterday. i "The Roosevelt followers, knowing (heir candidate can never get enough -votes to give him a majority of the con tention, are now seeking In hopeless and discouraged fashion for another leader. Their search win - be In vain. Resident Taft's demonstrated major ity la the convention represents dele gates who have come to Chicago de termined to renominate him and they will not be swayed from that purpose. - rThey have shown their loyalty and (evption to the President upon two test votes and their- solidity was not in the least, . affected . by a deliberate but futile attempt to stampede .the con tention, .through a carefully-planned demonstration. They gave their answer to that demonstration by casting more jotes today than they. did. yesterday. Blaster Loses, Says McKinley. t "They have shown that they propose 5b remain with the President until his .nomination is an accomplished fact and they will receive accessions to their rinks from those who have been tem--pbrarlly carried away by a noisy, blustering, braggadocio campaign. The .balloon-like character -of that cam--tiign baa been twice punctured by de cisive majority votes. "The Southern colored delegates. In structed for Taft. are carrying out their instructions with courage and fidelity, -notwithstanding the temptations offered Ahem In the way of money, patronage d political preferment. They have hown a laudable regard for loyalty to -arty pledges. -'"Roosevelt not only lost in votes to-j&ay- but his delegates Indulged In 40 minutes of continuous cheering for dSovernor Hadley, of Missouri, one of j4s campaign leaders, thus showing a decided tendency to desert the Roose velt standard. Bolt Talk Discounted. "Roosevelt's repeated attempt to create a bolt has not materialized and -statements have been made by many of Jiis leaders that should a bolt be at tempted it will not be generally parti cipated in. J. "The solidarity of President . Taft's line and the wavering weakness of the Roosevelt forces tell their own story of victory for the President and the bursting of the Roosevelt bubble." The Taft leaders, while outwardly ridiculing talk of a Roosevelt bolt, privately admitted that the Colonel, when it becomes apparent tomorrow, as they say it will, that the credentials committee will not interfere materially wlth the Taft delegates selected by th Rational committee, undoubtedly will "order his followers out of the conven tion." But the Taft leaders say that the real leaders of the Roosevelt move ment will not hold a rump convention Jta give Roosevelt an Independent nomi nation. BANKRUPT FIRMS SETTLE -Vancouver Referee Soon to Make ' Disbursement in Two Cases. VANCOUVER. Wash, June Is. (Spe laL) A last dividend of 10 per cent -la to be paldsoon on the Indebtedness 'of the firm of Swank and Company, "bankrupts.-. About $6000 has been realised with which to make the pay ment through lieorge B. Simpson, ref eree In bankruptcy. The firm's total 'Indebtedness was about $60,000. A divi dend of 20 per . cent has been paid 'so that the creditors will get in all about 10, per cent. . The referee will soon sell 240 acres "Of, ' the . Daly property to satisfy the claims against Rector & Daly, con tractors, bankrupt. Bids have been ad vertised for. One tract of 80 acres, 'belonging tc Charles Daly, has been sold for $7000. The total Indebtedness er Rector A Daly was about $99,000. Defaulter Gets Long" Prison Term ' TACOMA. June 19. Harry Brlngolf. Ulefaulring- clerk in the City Treasurer's office, who pleaded guilty to embes lement of $15,000, was sentenced to six to 13 years In the penitentiary to day by Judge Chapman. . ". Railroad Employe Killed. ''TACOMA, June- 19. The body of Charles C. Kmerlck. a railroad em rploye. was found on the floor of a .Paclflc-a venue saloon today. He. had fallen seven stories through the sky light of the saloon froas bis room on the top floor of the Kentucky Hotel. i t "X: W I CHANGE IS FtllSSED Number Who Will Obey Orders Is Now Problematical. HADLE'S STAR IS RISING Man From Missouri, Lionized In Convention as oRosevelt Advo 1 cate. Can Be Nominated If . Colonel Says Word. (Continued From First Page.) terday. The Taft men have discovered for themselves that thay can be de pended on to stand together as against Colonel Roosevelt end they are im mensely encouraged. They have re duced the Colonel's chances almost to a negligible quantity, so far as the convention is concerned, but they are far from being sure of the nomination of Mr. Taft very far. His apparent margin is small. It Is known now to be almost exactly the danger mark 540 which he must have for a nomi nation. If Mr. Barnes of New York and other leaders felt that they could safnly deadlock the convention, without dan ger of transfer, of . votes to-Roosevelt after the first ballot, that is precisely what they would do. One or two more Ineffectual sortie by Mr. Roosevelt against the majority will bring about that precise . result. The Taft men will then be moulded Into a cohesive, working body and Roosevelt will have been so certainly beaten that chances (nay be taken. Hadley's Star Is Rising. Then look out for Hughes or Had ley. There is on tonight a lively Had ley boom. If the Roosevelt forces ever break to Hadley, and they may, he will surely be nominated. The Taft men, or many of them, are favorable to the rising man from Missouri. Th Roosevelt men sought to herolze him today by a great oration to him as a Roosevelt champion. He would un doubtedly be acceptable to them, or to so many of them as are not Roosevelt-or-nobody partisans. A little llgnt is breaking through the clouds and it comes from Missouri. There may be no shipwreck after alL E. B. P. BIG SPLIT IN COMMITTEE (Continued From First Page.) committee as virtually decisive in all tbo contests. Mr. Heney returned to the lobby and urged the Roosevelt contestants to go to the Florentine room of the Con gress, where the Rosevelt headquarters are, and be heard by the members of the credentials committee representing Roosevelt. Some Return to Committee. Believing they had acted too hastily, some of the Roosevelt men, including Mr. Halbert. returned to the commit tee room after a short conference In the street. While Mr. Record and Mr. Heney said they were acting under Mr. Roosevelt's direction, others believed they, should have remained until defi nite action was taken by the commit tee upon the argument and the char acter of the evidence to be submlted. R R. McCormick. of Chicago, also re mained in the committee room. Mr. Halbert said they would stay until they had secured a vote on his resolution for consideration of all evidence in the contest cases, and then would leave again. Garfield Is Tuned Back. James R. Garfield, of Ohio, ex-Secretary of the Interior, came to the door and attemptatf to enter tho room. It was understood he had some message from" Colonel Roosevolt. The police men and doorkeepers thrust him back, although- one of the committeemen at tempted tf pull blm In. With the aid, J 3 si' fir PHOTOGRAPHS OF PROMINENT FIGURES IN REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. 1- .... . ., 71 i f i J:. ,1 J la j ti . ... ' ' ' j I -x 9 of Ormsby McHarg he was ushered into a committte waiting room through a side door. The majority of the bolters wore In duced to return to the committee room, but the Roosevelt men made it clear that they would leave in a body unlees the Dolnt was conceded to them. Colonel Roosevelt was in the midst of a series of conferences tonight, and was figuring on the loyal delegates whom he-could expect to carry with him out of the convention, or rather info separate convention on tho Coliseum floor In event the crisis is reached. Missouri Is tra-lng Hadley. Persons who talked tonight with the Colonel said no longer was there tiny doubt as to his attitude. Convinced that the credentials committee was against him and would retain the con tested Taft delegates- In their seats, Colonel Roosevelt decided to go no fur ther with his futile fight In the regu lar convention. The Colonel did not Issue' a formal statement as to his warlike Intentions, but was said to have made his position SUMMARY OF" DAY'S MOVES OS POLITICAL CHESSBOARD. Roosevelt forces muster their full strength and suffer second defeat. Take first steps looking to a bolt. Taft on first ballot or Taft or some man other than Roosevelt on some succeeding ballot now considered certain. Remarkable demonstration for Governor Hadley, of Missouri, shows he is the strongest second choice. Mrs. W. A. Davis. ' Roosevelt admirer, creates 30 minutes' up roar . by waving his lithograph and shouting for him. Diversion falls to stampede the convention. Senator La Follette's platform, which may be presented to the committee on resolutions Thurs day, contains. 27 - planks, chief among which are "Amending the Constitution"- and "Banking and Currency." Roosevelt members walk out of ' committee on credentials when It refuses to reopen contests. clear to his followers. Some of the conferences at his head quarters were exciting. Senator Borah, of Idaho, It was le ported, asserted as he left the Roose velt rooms that he would not bolt. The Missouri delegation In the convention bad a caucus tonight, for the purpose, it was reported, of formally launching a boom for Governor Hadley for Presi dent. The remarkable demonstration given the Missouri executive in the con vention today, together with the sud den turn in affairs, was said to have strengthened their belief that the time was ripe for bringing forward a com promise candidate. Talk: of Hushes Heard, Too. In the meantime there was much talk of Justice Hughes, of New York, as the candidate of the 'convention. Some of the leaders ventured to sug gest a ticket of Hughes and Hadley. The fact that the xait iorces strengthened their hold on the conven tion in the test vote today, getting 664 votes as against 658 on yesterday. threw the opposition into something of a panic The Roosevelt vote In the convention today was oio, out n was realised that 26 votea from Wisconsin, 10 from Iowa and 10 from North Da kota must be deducted from that on a Presidential ballot, while few of the Taft votes could be gained. The Taft DSODle were exultant to night. They dented Intimations from the Roosevelt side that they were con sidering a compromise candidate and said that with a tightening of the lines it was apparent that President Taft would win on the first ballot with something to spare. Final Appal Is Possible. Senator Dixon said tonight one final appeal might be made to the member ship of the convention. - "We shall have exhausted then every legal and moral duty devolving upon us. The future will have to take cate of itself." he said. William Barnes, jr., of rew yorc said tonight: "The vote today was simply an Indi cation of the vanishing strength of Mr. Roosevelt in this convention. The dem onstration in behalf of Governor Had ley was evidence, clear to any mind, that the adherents of Mr. Roosevelt were reaay to aeserx nira ior any uuc of his followers who happened to be In thel imelight. The Tart iorces. however, are absolutely Intact and ln- j V Y I TiTiiTintii-n i nrtfr i -iTi -s-innaWTTr- mri tn wi i wmf i t YinnTir tth wi i n m e-iii.ni.nii-. g8Wjiwiiawwy j& ft r IF 1 F Li ! i : (4 y 'I v ! IS CZIO. Photos Copyrighted by Am. Press Assn. creasing in. strength. Talk of a com promise now comes entirely xrom me followers of Mr. Roosevelt." . Disorder la Anticipated. The Taft ' forces said tonight they were prepared for any attempt by the Roosevelt people to hold a convention within . the convention hall and had taken steps to prevent any such dis order. It was said BOO policemen and 800 assistant seargeants-at-arms will be stationed in the convention hall to pre vent disorder, and would do so at any cost. - .... .. It was said some of ' the Roosevelt leaders would plead with the conven tion tomorrow to Instruct the creden tlals committee to grant more time for a hearing of the contests. Colonel Roosevelt. It was said. 'would be present In the convention hall, and that, whilo he. would have no legal standing in the convention, he might be swept into the fight by his followers. Colonel Roosevelt counselled delay at a conference of his supporters lust D for. mldnleht. He asked them to ad journ until later In the night when he would have mode facts to lay before them. . - i CHICAGO PASTOR ON COAST Dr. Timothy , Stone Is at Columbia Beach Race Meet Is Planned. - COTXTMBIA BEACH. Or.. Jan. 19. (Special.) Dr. Timothy Stone, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian cnurcn, or Chicago, arrived at Columbia Beach to day from the Estes Park conference in Colorado. He spoke at the noonday platform address on "Consistent Chris tianity." - vh. . ..ha ti m nf tho dav re sulted in a victory for the faculty over the Willamette Valley division by a rnre of 22 to 5. while In the Indoor game Puget Sound took the scalp of the Inland Empire, resulting in a score o . n t - n,thfn, fa indiilired in . .4,nnnn mnA 1 i It f n ST n.r 1 1 PS STS organized every day for neighboring points of interest, mcjuaing uwrnui, Fort Stevens and the Jetty. Thursday afternoon the annual track meet will be held on the beach and in the evening the various delegations will present their stunts on the beach by an immense bonfire. , ONLY THREE FROM' OHEGOS WOULD JOIN T. R. IX BOLT. CHICAGO, June 19. (Special.) -If Colonel Roosevelt, failing to control the Republican conven tion, undertakes to bolt he will take with him-only three out of the ten Oregon delegates. . Coe, Ackerman and Boyd are expected to bolt If Roosevelt gives the word. The other Ore gon delegates will take the po sition that their instructions gov ern their vote in the regular Re publican convention only, and do not contemplate that they must ' bolt in order to support Roose velt , Roosevelt would have no support from the Washington delega tion, nor would any of the eight delegates from Idaho follow him In a bolt Idaho, though for Roosevelt now. will stand by the party and abide by the decision of the regular convention. V Governor JM'&acZ. O" iS 7S77 o ' zT. RULE GONE TO STAY Samuel G. BIythe Sees End of " Present System. PARTY SPLIT PREDICTED Writer Says Democrats Are In Sim. liar Predicament and That Four '-. Parties, In Nature of Events, Cannot Long - Endure. Continued From First Page.) Uon. Instead, It is really two parties. a standpat or conservative party, and a radical, or progressive, party. There is not the slightest doubt If there had been primaries In all the states In stead of a few of them, the crowd would have had a pitifully small rep resentatlon, no matter whether Mr. Roosevelt was a. candidate or not If a census could be made, it would be found that the radical element In the Republican party Is not so much greater than 'he conservative element as has been claimed. There are many conservative Republicans, but even the conservatives are fully alive to the de ficiencies of the present system, and many of them are as anxious for a readjustment os the progressives. The fact of it all is that the Republicans, conservatives and progressives- have advanced beyond the methods of 20 years ago and that neither wing is wholly in sympathy with the present methods. Next Convention May Merely Ratify. It is quite probable that before It comes time to nominate another candi date for the Presidency enough more states will have adopted the preferen tlal primary system to make whatever convention shall be held merely a rati fication meeting, about the same sort of a gathering as a meeting of the electoral college; but even if that does not come for eight years, say, there never will be another Republican Na tional convention where the Republican National committee can make up the temporary roll, and where a prear ranged credentials committee can have the last word on the confirmation of that roll. There never will be another Repub llcan National convention where dele gates of the South, where there are no Republicans in number, and where no Republican electoral' votes can b4 obtained,- can hold the balance of power as those delegates do In this convention. There never will be an other Republican National convention where there can be the pre-convention manipulations and contests and dupli cated contests there have been in this convention, or where It will be pos sible to do what has been done by the National committee at this convention. I say this without criticism of the present committee. Many of the con testa brought before that body were bogus and trumped Up for political ef fect What I mean Is that the people will no longer tolerate a system that will give to the National committee the power to name a Presidential can didate by selecting delegates to a con vention. They will no longer allow one man from each state to act as , Judge and a dictator. They will do their selecting themselves, or most of them. Committee Will Lose 'Power. - The Rational committee, as a deter mining factor for candidates, has been shoved out of power. No . National committee ever will perform as any National committees have performed In the past even without enough primary states.' It will be deader than a smelt in four years from now. The old cry of "stand by the or ganization" has ceased to be a fetish. The people will stand by no organiza tion that will not stand by them. And by this I do not mean that the pro ti.MiWUJSg mmm IMiiiiiiiriiiiTnTmftf-"HrHnri tiihi IV v I " iaw J test Is pro-Roosevelt for It Is greater than that. Mr. Kooseven aoroiui seized a moment for his own ag grandizement that is much greater than he is, great though he may be. He capitalized a cause that existed before he thought of seizing It and that will continue to grow even after he has retired from view. Mr. Roose velt projected himself to a leadership. He did not incite the rebellion, nor did he ever- do much. The condition Is not a Roosevelt condition. He Is merely the Incident symptom of conditions. It is a wide spread movement that has worked with much rapidity in the last four years and will work with even greater rapid, ity in the coming four years. ' Old Order la Caana-ed. This convention, with its contests, its struggle for. delegates, its parlia mentary seesawing, its lack of de termination, its almost equal division between the old order and the new. its creaking, rusty machinery. Its pet ty politics and its petty politicians. Its reliance on patronage and irederai or ficeholders. its coercion and corrup tlon. Its methods of 20 years ago, when the people were complaisant Instead of contentious, its bosses - and Its bossed this convention is the last of its kind. There never will be another like it. It is quite likely there never will be another of any kind, except as a ratification meeting, but certainly there never will be another where a National committee will have -so great power. Those days are gone. Moreover, to get to the second prop osition, the Republican party, as such no longer exists. It is dead. The old Republican party of nign protection of war memories, of notable achieve ments, has passed. No further proof of that is needed than the convention now in session in Chicago. The pen Ins- dav and the second day. as well as the preliminaries, gave . ample proof of this. Imagine a Republican con vention of so recent a date as four or eight years ago where not one-tentn of the delegates knew, even by sight, the men who have directed the af fairs of the party for two decades. Imagine a Republican National con vention of even four years or eight years ago where JaraesE. Watson, of Indiana, was floor leader and the great leaders were Boles Penrose and Mur ray Crane and William Barnes on the one hand and Herbert S. Hadley and William Flinn and Francis J. Heney on the other. Imagine a Republican convention where Sereno E. Payne and William O. Bradley were the best who can be DUt forward to defend a propo sition on which the whole structure of the organization depends. Imagine a Republican convention where the or ganizatlon candidate, who Is President of the United States, has a few ad herents and no friends and those sup porters are supporting him for purely selfish and political reasons and not for patriotic or party reasons even. Old. Leaders Are Gone. Imagine a convention where scores of Republicans from all parts of the united States, men who have been ac tive leaders .In years gone by, are on hand merely as spectators, and, where scores of other men passed them by. They are not considered. No matter what kind of a platform Is adopted, no matter who Is nomln ated, no matter whether Mr. Taft Is nominated, no matter whether Mr. Roosevelt is chosen or bolts, no mat ter if a third candidate, is selected to "save the party," the party that follows Taft, that follows Roosevelt, or that is saved by a compromise, will be a new party, or it will be two parties, one a relic and the other a foundation. All this is clearly apparent to any person who has watched the two ses sions of the convention thus far held, who watched the preliminaries, both in the states and before the National com mittee, this uprising that has wrecked the old Republican party Is not due to Mr. Roosevelt It began before Mr. Roosevelt took advantage of It It will crow with or without his expert as sistance. There is rjore to it than there is to Rooseveltlsm, who. merely types It now. and there Is more to it than there Is to anti-Taftism. It is a basic, a fundamental condition. New-Style Politician Due. The country has outgrown the old svstem. It has outgrown the old parties. It is Intolerant of organiza tion demands. It has cast the old stylo politician aside. The people are working with whatever instruments they have at hand, and some of those Instruments are crude, but tney win find the men when they get condition established. The old-time politician is nt nf if Thf, fnnventton shows that fthey have done nothing but nominate him. The people nave tne say as m his election, and the same will hold true of Roosevelt There will be poli ticians, of course, but they will De new politicians, not old style ones. Here Is a convention now being held in Chicago that is epicene, not one thing or the other. It marks the last stand of the old crowd and sets out the skirmish line of the new. Unfail ingly it predicts the new alignment that must come, certainly it points out the fact that must be recognizeo, ins fact that the politics of his country must be readjusted, that there must be a radical party and a conservative party. Four Parties Cannot Last. Inevitably, also, the convention at Baltimore will prove tne same conies tion. There are now four parties, a Conservative Republican and a Radical Republican, and a Conservative Demo cratic and a Radical Democratic Four parties cannot exist for no one of four parties can hold the majority and ours is a government by majorities. Every word of debate, every bit of strategy, every piece of manipulation, every struggle for votes, every deal with delegates, every speech, every mo tion, every voice in the convention, both on Tuesday and on Wednesday, proved this contention. Nominally, all were either Taft or Roosevelt demon strations. Really they showed the struggle between the conservatives and the radicals in the Republican party. Absolutely they pointed to the disin tegration of the Republican party as it has existed In the past It makes no dlfferelce whether they succeed in nominating Mr. Taft in this convention or whether Mr. Roosevelt Is nominated by this convention or by a bolting convention he organizes. If Mr Taft is nominated, the Roosevelt partisans will make their protest on election day and If Roosevelt is nomi nated the Taft men will do the same thing and if both are named the issue would be clean out within the Republi can party. Compromise Will Be Same. It will be the same If a compromise candidate is selected, for In case of a compromise, and after the event of the Baltimore Democrat nomination, there is no doubt that the people will divide to large extent on radical and conserv ative lines and that the more radical of the two men named by the oppos ing parties will receive the votes of a large proportion of the radicals in both nartlen and the conservatives will be supported similarly by the conserva tives. If Roosevelt had not gone into the fight at all, and the Republicans were now naming mr. .- -few months ago they would do with out much opposition, the result would be the same; for the radicals in the Re publican party, in that event would surely support the Democratic candi date in large numbers if he were rad ical. Falling such a candidate, there probably would be a third party. No compromise candidate can make a cohesive party of the Republican party. It Is split wide apart This con vention has proved that time and again. and is proving it every minute it is in session. . v 100 American cities discloses a gradual re duction 1U 1 11 1Mb .1.1 WISCONSIN FORCES FACE BITTER FIGHT McGovern's Candidacy Said to , Mean Political Death of Him or La Follette. BREAK THOUGHT COMPLETE Governor Said to Rely on His Own Strength to Force Through His Election to 6enate "Suicide," Say State Progressives. CHICAGO, June 19. (Special.! A Milwaukee dispatch says that Tues day's split between Governor McGov ern and Senator La Follette In the Wisconsin delegation's stand on the convention chairmanship at Chicago means, according to the best Informed leaders in Wisconsin, the v. .political death of one of the two. It Is declared the split means that McGovern hat come to the long-expeoted point wheie he believes he has an organization which can wrest control of the state from La Follette. The next step will probably be the coming out of Governor McGovern for the United States benatorshlp against Representative Lenroot, of sSurerlor La Follette's candidate, and in . this fight he will probaoiy adopt the plan of campaign used by La Follette when he won the Senatorsntp. .Mr. McGovern, It Is believed, will seek re-election as Governor and from the vantage point of the executive tesidence will con duce his fight for the upper house of Congress. The defying of Senator La Follette by McGovern, in the oGvernor's ac ceptance of the proposal of the Roose velt men to seek the temporary chair manship of the convention, is taken to mean' that there will be no further political association of thetwo Wis consin leaders. Democrats say the split between th two men, each with a strong follow ing, means a Democratic victory In the fight this Fall for the Governor ship. Others say it was political sui cide for McGovern to oppose La. Fol lette. but a third class, the McGovern devotees, say there were reports weeks ago that of the Wisconsin delegation at least 21 were ready .to switch, despite their instructions, .to Roose velt and desert La Follette at a mo ment's notice. "Political HarlkarV Say Some. That Governor McGovern committed political harlkari when he became a candidate for temporary chairman is the declaration of prominent progres sives who were active In his campaign for Governor two years ago. That when he seeks renominatlon he will have as bis opponent a man whose progressiveism and loyalty to Senator La Folette has never been doubted is another assertion. The man who will probably oppose McGovern. it is said, is Lieutenant-Governor Morris, who was the choice of Senator La Follette. for Gubernatorial honors two years ago. .i itrr,.i withdrew from the race at that time to preserve peace In the party ranks arter it niu ueuumo i- ,hnt MfGnvM-ri was determined ,4u. nf the possibility of plunging the progressive ship on the rocks oi oeieai uy iu nTt.li. rilil.airn rnnnrta RAV that t fl ft Governor's candidacy "presaged an open' break with La Follette," those on the Inside here declare that nis canaioacy was the open break and that - it had i .ABeao.A k, u. HArlAfr of events. WCH I'l 13 1. . .' knowledge of which has been kept from all save those m tne ring wnicn constitutes the directorate of the pro gressive faction in this state.'" OREGON DELEGATES DIVIDE (Continued From First pas.) nullify the vote of every delegate, thus rendering the convention powerless.. T. B- Writes Personal Appeal. TMntwlthBtanrtincr the fact that Colo nel Roosevelt personally appealed to the ten delegates from Oregon to stand by him throughout his fight in the Na tional convention, three delegates yes terday and nve today voted against the Roosevelt programme. ' It was not known until today that the Colonel had maria b. nersonal anneal to the Oregon delegates, but It seems that the appeal was made on Monday ana was consid ered by the delegation at its meeting yesterday morning. The appeal read as follows: ' . 1 m a r C ortal n nawinpnur com ments and rumors, chave -come to me that some of the Oregon delegation, either from lack of knowledge of the Importance of carrying out the full re sult of the programme In convention or for other reasons, were faltering in their "allegiance thereto in . some of the details of the coming contest From statements made to me by old-time Oregon friends touching the character of the men making up your delegation, I have not seriously considered these statements and rumors. I.TT.n...... am . V. a ra.l Wnrlr ("1 f thS convention begins tomorrow, I take this occasion to urge you to the fullest support of the entire Roosevelt pro gramme, .T i. v -.., Mmaarv for me to state that no one will be considered as carrying out his preferential pri mary instructions for me who. while himself voting for me, shall stand for AM,inn in thA convention which WfCCkUVUB ... - might defeat me. For Instance, the election of Mr. Root as tn.inu.u mean seating of some 75 stolen dele- . . ..i.sut. therefore, who should support Root and not the Roose velt candidate for chairman of tho convention would De put in m .m tude provided at the same time he should vote for me as President, of casting one vote for me and 75 votes gf!-la St.. , , .Averal person's! preferences, since the State of Oregon . . . j ...... m t hair., fau nas insiruoieu -----that the entire delegation and every . i, thoi-Ahv h,rjimi mv friend memuci . - and supporter for which let me assure you, I am and shall be grateful to every member of the delegation. "I shau De giaa w u.yo ration as a body call upon me and will fix a date convenient to all wnen x can talk this matter over wnn uu in detail if you desire. 1 wouja a. !. i n nt unii. nnmmlttAM to take up and arrange for this meeting with Mr. JJixon. . "I write this letter to you now in view of the information that you are . L . . j - ma.tinir in thA morning for IO Iiuiu " ... . . n ... ----- . . the purpose of organization, when tnis invitation can De orougui full membership. "Yours very truly, (Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT, LOW RATES EAST. -T'l nanaAian Pu flH(7 makes lOW round trip rates to Eastern points. Tiirot office. Third and Pine. (Mult nomah Hotel bldg.) ' ' ,