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The Star Summer Mission und maintains the air view open air retreat for sick children of the poor Your Donation May Save a Life The Indianapolis Star VOL 10 NO 14 MORNING JUNE 19 1912 TWO CETS VOTE ON ROOT DEATH KNELL TO TAR HOPE Close Count in Chairmanship ight Appears4o Spell Defeat for President DEECTIONS HELD CERTAIN BECAUSE VOTES ARE BOUND Deadlock Seems Inevitable and Talk of Third Man Is All Ab sorbing in Chicago HOOSIERS LAUNCH CONCERTED Movement for compromise Indiana Delegation Ready to Ditch Both Candidates in a vor of Available Dark Horse BY LOUIS LUDLOW CHICAGO June IS President candidacy fcr renomination received a staggering and possibly fatal blow to day when Kllhu Root was elected chair man of the Republican national conven tion by the narrow plurality of 18 votes Governor McGovern of Wis consin who was put forward by the pro gressive forces It is not often that victory spells de feat but that is exactly what appears to have happened in tins instance It is true that Senator Root candidate of the reactionary element won chairman ship by the closest kind of a close shave but his election was brought about under circumstances which seem to sound the death knell of President hopes No thoughtful person can analyze the loll call on the temporary chairmanship without reaching the inevitable con clysion that it foreshadows the elimina tion of William Howard Taft from the presidency and from public life MAJORITY WILL MELT This is because it was on the tem porary chairmanship roll call that his fortunes reached their highest tide Nec essarily the vote for President Taft will be less than the vote for Senator Root for the reason that Root received the votes of a number of delegates from states which have instructed for Roose velt in state primaries and who can not vote for Taft or example Illinois a Roosevelt gave Root seven votes that Taft can not get Maryland another state that Roosevelt carried in the presi dential primary gave Root eight votes A similar result is observed in Pennsyl vania votes The Taft forces tonight are almost in a rout They are utterly disorganized and demoralized realizing that they are facing the worst and that nothing shqrt of a miracle can now save Mr Taft Miracles are not of everyday occurrence in polities any more than they are in any other realm of mundane affairs TWO POSSIBILITIES DEVELOP' The developments of today leave presidential situation even more chaotic and muddled than heretofore with the following among the possible happenings of the next two or three days: 1 A tremendous movement may de velop looking toward the casting aside of both Taft Roosevelt and the nom ination of a third candidate who will unite the discordant elements of the party 2 If this process of elimination and unification does not take place and the names of Taft Roosevelt Laollette and Cummins go before the convention there is an imminent possibility of a deadlock that will tie up the convention indefi nitely The theory of deadlock loomed up big after the vote on temporary chairmanship was announced Every indication at this writing points to the probability that President Taft can not get a nomination majority 540 votes NO ONE HAS MAJORITY Governor McGovern who received the combined delegate support of Roosevelt Laollette and Cummins polled 502 votes Roosevelt as a candidate for Presi dent will attract some votes from the primary states that McGovern did not get but on the other hand Laollette and Cummins standing as candidates for presidential nomination will hold from Col Roosevelt a total of forty six votes that were counted in the 502 cast for Mc Govern Therefore it is not clear as the field of candidates now stands that any one can control enough votes to win the nomination Herculean efforts wore being made to night to spring a dark horse candidate The hotel corridors buzzed with of a compromise would wipe out ani mosities and bring forth a new Moses to lead the Republican party out of the wilderness Indiana men were pioneers in this in cipient compromise movement President Taft's most conspicuous friends on the Indiana delegation are now ready to ditch him at the drop of a hat if by so doing a man may be found who will give promise of leading the party to victory in November One of the most eminent of President Indiana supporters whose name Is a household word' through out Indiana said to me today: opinion is that within the next twenty four hours you will see the olive brunch extended between the two factions and a sincere effort made to get together on a dark horse candidate That is the logical and sensible thing 'to do and the Republican party always acts sensibly when it gets its second wind PEOPLE WANT WINNER know what the peoplewant I have just come from among them The masses think that it is time to put a stop to all of this crimination and recrimination tht is wrecking the party and nominate a candidate who can win The party owes nothing to Taft and it can not be over looked that he has been turned down and repudiated by Republican states just as fast as they can get 'a whack at him through statewide pripiaries is utter folly to go into this cam paign with a candidate whose 'backing in CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 COLUMN 6 WEATHER ORECAST mAh: In BOTH SIDES SEE ADVANTAGE IN RESULT BALLOTING McGov Root 9 16 10 16 1 10 Anont Washington 16 Dlstrlo 6 Dr 538 voting one for 7 7 could would tWisconsin Wyoming Philippines Porto Rico 6 49 Illinois Indiana Iowa a North Carolina tNorth Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas 14 6 ACCIDENT THEORY EXPLODED IN POST MORTEM INQUIRY Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware lorida Georgia of to strike from the temporary roll us prepared by the national com 7 a 7p assumed a bcllig with the start of wo Roosevelt dele ourth District un 1 or ecast for Indiana ALSO for Wednes I rl returned to the more It is believed chance to take when he would leaning against platform and barely missed falling from the train when Beck pulled him in 'In case he had fallen from the train his death would likely have been attributed to accident It was only by accident that au topsy on his body was held It was sug gested that Dr Johnston might have died of ptomaine poisoning and that if an autopsy should reveal such to be the case recovery of the accident insurance be made as ptomaine poisoning be classed us an accident The physicians first removed the which was found normal heart as soon as the stomach was entered as the strong oddr of cyanide of potassium was apparent The stomach was removed to the chemical laboratory of the uni versity' where the analysis was made by Dr Lyon head of the department of chemistry He sealed his report await ing the arrival of the coroner GAINS KNOWLEDGE POISONS At the inquest held tonight at the office of Dr Holland Dr rank Mathers of the Indiana chemical department testified that last Thursday as he and his wife were walking through the university campus Dr Johnston came out of the student ouilding and said he wanted to know of Dr Mathers how much prussic acid a man could take without the dose proving fatal He said he had read of a man at the Palmer House in 1 24 Defection to Roosevelt May Be Offset by Gains in inal Tests Senator Elected Temporary Chairman of Chicago Con vention 558 to 502 Cyanide of Potassium Causes Death of Professor in In diana University inancial Troubles Lead to Trag edy Which Ended Life of Popular Educator TotalsOne not tOne voted for Houser 1'Twu for Houser nine for Lauder Gronna one not voting Those leaders who have been urging a compromise candidate ever since they arrived in Chicago are pointing to an other angle in the figures and claim that they show that it is essential to name a called dark to save the day for the Republican party TO RENEW IGHT TODAY While Mr Root was made chairman to day and managed to deliver his speech the fighting is to be renewed at 11 o'clock tomorrow when the motion of the Roosevelt leaders to substitute a new list of delegates for those seated in some of the contested cases heard before the national committee is to be taken up as unfinished business No committees were named tonight and none will be un til this motion to the convention of "fraudulent is disposed of Today it was defeated on a point of order but the Roosevelt forces declare that parliamentary practice will not be permitted to stand in their way tomor row The Roosevelt people and the Taff people carried out their program as an nounced in advance almost to the letter The Roosevelt adherents say tonight they are going to fight every inch of the way There were cries of hurtled at the Roosevelt delegates at times dur ing the session but the contingency of a holt again tonight seemed to be far dis tant California under the leadership of Gov? ernor Hiram Johnson eront attitude almost the roll call when the gates from the ourth District seated by the national committee not allowed to vote But they confined their protest to eloquence the two votes for Root were the only encroachment in that state upon the vote cast for Mc Govern Later Pennsylvania fell into the breach and made a fierce protest against the vote cf an alternate There is prospect however of another even more bitter struggle tomorrow when as "unfinished the convention Thursday: Cloudy Wednesday Thursday rising tem perature light vari able winds BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO June 18 Against the threats charges and bitter invective of the Roosevelt forces the Taft supporters Jn the Republican national convention to day put through the first portion of their program by electing Senator ICHhu Root of New York as temporary chairman by a vote of 558 to 502 over Governor Mc Govern of Wisconsin In spite of the fact that Victor Rose water chairman of the national commit tee invariably ruled out of order every motion made by the Roosevelt forces it required more than five hours to reach a vote on the chairmanship The calling of the roll was beset with difficulties from the very first name on the list of delegates 'Governor rancis McGovern of Wisconsin was op ponent There were fourteen scattering votes and four delegates failed to vote ROOT IS JEERED When Senator Root began his people in great numbers began to leave the hall He announced then that he would suspend until all those who wished to go had retired Thousands then left but nearly all the delegates remained and listened to the speech with an intentness of interest very noticeable although it was frequently at the beginning by jeers' and catcalls which came chiefly from Pennsyl vania adherents Tbnight both the Taftand Roosevelt forces are that the vote indi cates that their candidate is absolutely sure to win The advantage appears to be with the President however for while he is sure to lose some of the votes that were cast for Senator Root it is claimed that he will gain if instructions are lived up to some of the votes cast for McGovern VOTE BY STATES The vote by states for temporary chair man was as follows: brain as was the Suspicions were aroused however orecast for' dianapolis and Cinity for today Cloudy Special to The Indianapolis" Star BLOOMINQTQN Ind June Cy anide of potassium killed Di Harold Whetstone Johnston head of the Indiana University Latin department who died on a Monon train last night while en route to his home in this city from In dianapolis Chemical analysis of the con tents of his stomach in an autopsy held today by Dr Robert Lyon and Dr Ilolland of this city and Dr Alburger head pathologist qf the In diana University MedicaL School at In dianapolis in the finding That Dr 'Johnston deliberately com mitted suicide was the verdipt of Cproner Kentling Dr Kentling employed the physiciamkl conduct the autopsy The report states more than enough of the poison was found to produce death riends of Johnston admitted that they were not surprised as it is known that the doctor was in a close financial condition and when he built his handsome residence on East Third street facing the university campus he placed a heavy mortgage thereon and only recently the building association foreclosed on the property the amount due being more than $8000 a HAD NOT CONVEYED PROPERTY Dr Johnston was granted an extension of time of ten days to make a deed of the house to the association and the ten had just elapsed without the instrument for the conveyance having been made It is believed that this proved a great bur den to him and that in desperation he deliberately planned his self destruction Dr Johnston obtained the poison from James Lowder one of the custodians of the chemical building at the university by telling him he desired enough to kill a dog Unsuspecting the true intention of the professor Mr Lowder says he gave the poison to him This was two weeks ago and it is believed thprofessor carried the poison in his pocket awaiting the end of the spring term of school when he would be relieved of his classes and would have more time fto plan the details of his While in Indianapolis Monday Johnston obtained additional accident in surance anih was disappointed because he did not obtain more He boarded the train for home and after reaching Gos port went to the water cooler and walked to the observation end of the rear coach where he sipped from the glass NEARLY ALLS ROM TRAIN Carroll Beck a traveling man asked him if he was feeling well and when lie replied in the negative Beck asked him why he did not drink more of the water He seemed to be merely tasting it and returned to the cooler several times for OR JOHNSTON IS SUICIDE POISON TAKEN ON TRAIN ALMANAC THE TAT Sun rises at 4 :16 Sun sets at 7:: WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY Precipitation Amount during the twenty four hours ending at 7 Total amount since Jan 1 1912 211 Accumulated departure from normal since Jan 1 (excess) 1J ROOT HONORED DY VOTE SPEAKS TO EMPTY SEAYS he was watching for a the poison at that time be unobserved He was the railing of the back Temperatures 61 I Highest 61 59 I Lowest 56 or the Same Date Last Year 65 Highest 76 75 Lowest 65 Kansas 2 18 Kentucky 23 3 Louisiana 20 Maine 12 Maryland 8 Massachusetts 18 IS Michigan 19 10 Minnesota 24 Mississippi 16 4 Missouri 16 20 Montana 8 Nebraska 16 Nevada 6 New Hampshire 8 New Jersey 2 8 New Mexico 6 2 New York 76 13 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 COLUMN 6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 COLUMN 2 WIELDS CONVENTION GAVEL SLIHU (PHOTO COpYftGHT Convention at a Glance WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Senator Elihu Root of New Is elected temporary chairman over Gov SUMMARY THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR Day of Republican Close count on chairmanship vote appears to spell defeat for Taft Bryan alleges bad faith on part of rival convention speakers Page Roosevelt leaders repulsed in first skirmish recruit for final battle Page Hoosiers back in limelight at con vention Page Pen picture of interior of Coli seum at opening of conventivn Page Roosevelt brings 'books of ancient philosophers to peruse for fec reation Page Rival managers 'profess to sec victory for their chiefs Page Charles A Bookwaltcr home from Chicago asserts' tire may react Page Taft men confident President will win on first ballot Page Watson shows 'great skill in lead ing fight for Taft PaQe Hadley will renew fight to scat Roosevelt delegates today Page airbanks wins first applause of convention Page Colonel passes word to supporters to center fight on credentials committee today Page William linn of Pennsylvania causes uproar in convention' Page DOMESTIC Warm clash takes place in Trav ernor McGovern of Wisconsin 558 to 502 Chairman Root makes keynote speccVi Roosevelt forces are not dismayed by 1 victory declaring that the first test vote has no bearing on actual strength 2 of two factions Taft leaders Say that election 2 meanc victory for President on the first ballot Compromise talk gains ground among 2jthe delegates and slock takes sudden boom William Jennings Bryan alleges bad faith on part of rival speakers who argued parliamentary precedent before the con vention Louis Ludlow declares the small ma 5 jorlty given Root sounds death knell to Taft's hopes because defections to Roose velt are certain Hocsler delegates directly In front of the Coliseum stage are prominent in the convention 5 Col Roosevelt's fight against the seat ing of contested delegates will come up this morning as unfinished business 5 Victor Roeewater who opened convention dodged this issue through a parliamentary 7 loophole Roosevelt hears convention details by private telephone He refuses to make comment and his leaders keep secret their Protective Association meeting 7 in oil hearing admits com petition Is a myth: Page 15 STATE Dr Johnstone of Univer sity committed suicide Page 1 LOCAL Alumnae of College open tight for endowment fund Page 3 Board of Review investigates "no pleas of corporations Page 3 Many girls apply for admittance to A camp Page 7 Northwestern real estate men en route to Louisville praise 'In dianapolis Page 7 Retailers assert cut rate shops sell diseased meats Page 7 Butler graduates attend reception at home of President owe Page 16 State report shows rheumatism most prevalent disease in May Page 16 Robert Campbell civil war vet eran and Indianapolis police man forty three years is dead Page 16 'SPORTS Indiank idle yesterday will play two at Louisville today Page 10 Taft sees Washington win seven teenth straight Page 10 Pirates win third out of four from champs Page 10 Columbus blanks Hens and take lead Page 10 Canton loses double header to ort Wayne Page 1C Motor Club prepares post eighteen Indiana roads Page 11 TRADE AND INANCE Local hog market recovers part of' lost ground Page 14 Stock exchange has good summer session Page 14 Wall street expected dullness and gets it Page 14 astern selling forces wheal down on Chicago pit 14 DEPARTMENTS plans for today The convention adjourned at 6:45 until 11 o'clock today Temporary Officers of the National Convention CHICAGO June 18 The temporary of ficials for the Republican national con vention named by the subcommittee on arrangements of which Capt Harry Mew of Indiana Is chairman and ratified by the vote of the convention follow: Elihu Root New York Secretary Lafayette Gleason New York Assistant Secretaries Harger Kansas John Moorman Indiana A White North Carolina George Hart Virginia John McNary Oregon Lindsay Nebraska Horace Bancroft Illinois John Adams Iowa Percy Stoddard New Hampshire A Dalrymple New Jersey Sergeant at Arms William Stone a ry I a Assistant Sergeant at Arms Edwin Thayer Indiana Chief Doorkeeper John Henson Maryland Chief Usher William Austin Illi nois Chief Medical Staff Dr George Hunt Illinois Parliamentarian Lamson Ohio Official Stenographer Blumen berg Washington Chief Hechlnger New Jersey Chaplains Rev James Callaghan Chicago Dean Walter Sumner llll ncls Dr Joseph Stolz Illinois the Rev John Shaw Illinois Dr Wesley Hill New York Reading Clerks William A Wait Mich igan Otto Bossard Wisconsin Thomas Williamson Illinois Tally Clerks Archibald Graham In diana Henry Woodlll Massachusetts T'kliforial Page 8 Views of the people Page 8' department Page 9 Railroads 'Page 12 Courts Page 15 Wiat They Say Roosevelt a better warrior than a llixon haVe them renomination is made positive and emptiness of the third term candidacy will be clearly In Indianapolis Today Adscript Club meeting Cornrncrtial Club 8 Buller College class play morning nlumni picnic noon hkn tr mor Night's Dream" on campus afternoon alumni banquet eve ning iCquil Suffrage Association and Central Labor Union meeting home o( Dr Hannah Craliam 7 I nlit napil)B Business Association piciiic ilfTiminbi Park noon Indiana Library School grad ua inn exor cises 230I North New Jersey street evening 1 1 1 1 ton dress parade ort Benjamin Harrison 6 in Bela Sorority national conven tion Claypool Hotel 10 a Bryan Robbed of Ticket by Woman Thought Crazy CHICAGO June William Jen nings ticket to the Republican national convention as a reporter for a series of newspapers was snatched out of his band today at the door of the Coliseum by a woman who gave her name to the police as Katharine Doll At the Police Station she was found to have $100(1 sewed in pockets in her underskirt Bryan's ticket was re stored and the woman will be ex amined for tier sanity After taking the ticket she tried to enter the hall hrsrepulseT THEN RECRUITED OR INAL IGHT Roosevelt orces Not Dismayed 1 by Scant Majority Which Root Has Scored WATSON WIELDS TAT BLADE WHILE COLONEL'S MEN PARRY Wisconsin Delegation Splits on McGovern for Temporary Chairman of Convention BY GEORGE STOUT CHICAGO hum I b'iglil lug nfuliltoni ly from Ihc drop the hat to flic final call of tho vote the progressives in tho Republican uatioiml coiivenHon today hhl tlie Taft forces to a desperate dog full and went down gouging biting and kicking nverhiirne hut still battling Roosevelt men backed Governor Mc Govern tif Wisconsin for temporary pre siding ofllror bJilui Root was made temporary oliafriuait by lie contested Taft votes of Washington Texas Michigan Indiana Arizona and Kentucky nnd the test vote bore out the claims of the Roosevelt men that whal tlioy called delegates were absolutely neces sary to win the 'coniest for the Taft forces The Taft majority was commlttce inadc according to Roosevelt The Taft men say that with Root in the chair and con trol of the credentials committee they will make the temporary roll the perma nent rqll of the convention and will hold fast io everything in sight from this time on They had a margain of only eighteen in the opening test Roosevelt men say tfiey will keep up tile flglit to purge the convention roll of about" seventy six Taft delegates who It is charged have no right to sit in the convention WISCONSIN NOT UNANIMOUS Laollotte and Wisconsin while not joining tho Taft forces refused to back McGovern unitedly on the theory that lie could not consistently combine or deal with cither of his opponents In the presi dential race The Wisconsin delegation voted to keep McGovern out of it but lie was proposed by an individual delegate and not only held a large part of the Roosevelt slrcngtli but made inroads in Taft delegations in the South Notably ho captured Hawaii Uncle Pacific sunburst with six dele gates ripped into South Carolina and Georgia and held many of the reputed bolters in Illinois Maryland and syl va nia There were plenty of shocks in the roll call for flit Taft men The test vote with its slim eighteen majority for the admin istration crowd spelled a probable first ba Hot deadlock and the probable defeat of Taft Root received many votes in Roose velt states that are bound to Roosevelt for President by their slate primaries Theso wlli not le with Taft tomorrow The Root majority will melt over night and will not be at call when his direst need appears CRY IS OR THIRD MAN 'I'hls Is A Taft mon arc up in the air They cun not see how Taft is to win on the first ballot They cai) not see how he is tn win if the test goes beyond the first ballot Their cry is for a third man Who will it be? Who can rally the delegates and keep the Teddy hear from gobbling the major por tion of them? When the test vote on temporary chair inin started there was that tenseness Ilia I 'omrs when troops are rallieri and held in lino under fire amid suspense and terrific hazard Along the ranks coursed the rxoHcmcnt nnd impatience that mark inactiona nd st rain When Georgia gave six to the Roosevelt man tliric was a big demonstration Roosevelt delegates rose and cheered wlicii Tim Woodruff stood to cast his vote for McGovern and with the progres sive cause New York was recognized as the magnetic pivot in the tremendous moving of events So when McGovern got thirteen of the Empire delegates where the Taft men had conceded only ten at the very outside the Roosevelt men were much wrought up In New Mexico while gained one the Taft men pointed out that the colonel had been claiming a gain of live STATES RUN NECK AND NECK Ohio came along with thirty four for McGovern and the bell began swinging slowly for Taft candidacy There was small hope in Oregon for Root and Oklahoma gave him but few Then swung by the flag of Pennsylvania and McGov ern the man with the fighting name took (he lead with sixty four Keystone recruits in his train Then it was a driving hf a rl wrenching throat bursting st ruggle from stale to state The combatants ran strong neck and neck down to Wyoming and Wisconsin There was a strife in vania and a second roll call of that state amid thun der bluster and argument about delegates astray from the fold of Shepherd Bill lynn of the Roosevelt forces The Penn sylvania Roosevelt men denounced the Taft men on the platform both loudly and bitterly and openly charged theft lar ceny robbery and fraud Roosevelt men on the floor they were far from numerous in the audi early showed the Teddy spirit and in delegation yells led by New Jersey CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COLUMN 4 The Star Summer Mission und maintains the air view open air retreat for sick children of the poor Your Donation May Save a Life BRYAN POINTS TO BAD AITH ON BOTH SIDES Sees Ulterior Motives Behind Ar guments of Rival Speakers at 0 Battle NEBRASKAN BELIEVES TAT MAY WIN VIA STEAM ROLLER Holds Only Hope Is Vote of Contested Delegates on Own Cases SAYS CHANCES REST WITH NEGROES SOUTH Commoner Declares Defections Will Shift Tide but That Is Possible BY WILLIAM BRYAN him' IS I am enjoving iny pewit im i among the newspaper boj hut being a lilflc new at this Lind of work have to confess to I he commission of two blunders so far irst I overestimated the acquaintance liic reading public here with (he llible lii'my letter of this morning I referred to the ninth verse of the I i 1 1 1 1 chnp 1 ''l) 1 1 he posing lllilt R'Ub the i i en Im were as inniiHar x'di lie icxi ns Ix um but 1 find nMk 9 that ihey laid the JKbUH I Ill ll thev had time to look it they received every man a penny" If the couhl have noted the sim ilarliy between Mr presenta tion the Issue beiwydi plutocracy and democracy and the speeches which have been made for nearly two (icpules by progressive Democrats and the speeches which have been made more recently by Senator Lit ollette and other among progressive Republicans he would see the aptness of the Bible quo ta limi j' '1 'r IGNORANT RING TALK My second mistake was irrnot associat ing with me a sporting editor who could give me the teclmival phrases of the prize ring My vocabulary is hardly adequate for a description of the firsU round of the great contest which Is lug fought' out at the A little after the appointed hour of nnon Mr Victor Rosewater of Nebraska ating chairman of thy Republican na tional con uni 1 1 called lie convention to order and directed the secretary to read I he call As soon as the rending was completed and before Mr Rosewater could announce the commit for temporary chairman Governor Had ley of Missouri obtained recognition and moved to subslnutc the names of about eight Roosevelt contesting delegates for the Taft delegates whose names had been pul upon he temporary roll call by the committer 1 This move on the part of the progres sives was evidently anticipated for for mer Representative Watson' of Indiana was on his feet in an instant with a point of order Chairman Rosewater stated tiiat he would holi the point of order well taken but would give both sides an opportunity to present 'the mat ter to Hie convention Mr Hadley made the personal argu ment citing three precedents: The con vention of 1861 when the temporary roll call was amended 1880? when the tem porary roll ('all was again amended and 1881 when the convention adopted the policy of considering the committee's recommendations for temporary chairman as jnercly suggestive and not conclusive upon the convention Mr Watson replied that there was no national committee in 1864 to prepare the temporary roll call that in 1880 the temporary chairman hal already been elected before (he motion Io amend the temporary roll was entertained and Hrit in 1881 the amendment of the recommen dallon made by the co'trmiittce as tem porary chairman was not a precedent in the case now before this convention be cause in the selection of a chairman the matter was submitted tu the delegates on the temporary roll while in the present case there is nobody authorized to vote nii'ilie temporary chairmanship until the temporary roll call is made up SPEECHES REVEAL TENSION A number of speeches were made on both sid' most of them discussing the merits of the case rather than the precedents and some of them re vealing the tension under which the lead ers are acting The question was set tled by the refusal of Chairman Rose water tu entertain an appeal which left the Tait forces' in control of enough votes to secure for them the temporary chah maiis hip The tight however yvas interesting enough tn make the specta tors feed that they were getting their worth A national convention is well worth at tending especially when one can look on without being so deeply concerned in the result as to make him blind to the amusirtg side of the picture A conven tion is made up of partisans who are there to help their side and onlookers who applaud things cleverly done as the occupants of the grand stand cheer a baseball player when he makes a good hit Then there is the witty man who says something that catches the audience They were all in evidence today The partisans were giving enthusiastic Support to their representatives and CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 COLUMN 4.