The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-03
IAN ENTHUSIASTIC
;CROWO HEARD SEN,
GATES ANOlGARF|6lQ|
~'The Way to Fight Is TO
Fight Shouted Fierys Cal
ifornian and Crowd 1Sent
Up a Battle Cry.



where the Republican party exists an
obligation of more force than the ,stol.
en- delegates from statesywhere no par
ty exists.
81 ask you to go forward$with your
fight to express yourselves as you
wish, and in the words of AGovernor
johnson at Chicago, Don't be afraid!
Defeat has no terrors for the man
who Is in the, right-but you will not
be defeated, iftyou are not afraid"
The crowd burst into applause, as 1t
had whenever Garfield gave them an
opportunity.
He was followed by the Rev. S. r.
Lyons, who said: Here is the place
where politics ceases to be politics and
..becomes religion! Search the Bible.
and wherever you look it resolves it
self into the same issues of right and
wrong which are SO plainly involved in
this struggle. 1t is politics that all
can understand, except the politicians
the difference between right and
wrong, the difference between honesty
and theft"
ing citizen of Los Angeles, right-hand
man Of Governor Johnson, and author
of the initiative and referendum, show
ed in logical sequence the reason for
the indignation and outraged decency
of every states that has preferential
primary law against the present ag-
Sgregation of crooks in control of the
party name"
Il love the Republican party. |
know all it's splendid traditions. l have
voted the Republican ticket since my
,boyhood. l am state senator on that
ticket in California, but California re-
fuses to try title to property'before the
thief that stole it.
81 am asked by this nationals commit
tee to say to the people of my
own state that their majority
OF 1900 for Roosevelt is not
worth as much as the stolen
delegates from a state in which the
Republican party does not exist!
am told that party rule adopted in
1884 can never be changed! l am told
that rule of the national committee
is worth more than the state laws and
the constitution of California, and
twelve other states in which the Re-
publican party exists.
Gentlemen, l am asked to believe
that party rule is of more value than
the Republican party-of more value
than decency, law and order.
81 am asked to overthrow the fun
'damental government of this nation in
order to remain a Republican.
"And the fundamental governing in
this country is the nominations.
Let me nominate your candidates,
and you can do all the voting you want
Il will do the governing.
"This has been proved in our own
state. We had the finest legislature
that money could buy-and that is lit
orally true. The Southern Pacific rail
way annually bought and paid for it.
iAnd the judges of the state were
bought and sold, but we never got any
of the profits.
1.-The direct primary was faulty, but
we put it into use. and today we have
igained the right to vote on every law
;that we do not like; to put any law
,on the statute books that the people
want; we have the right to discharge
,any man who works for us. The right
ito hire involves the right to fire. We
said to the railroad which had domin
lated us, Either you will stop running
1our government or the government OF
this state will run your railroad
What the Primary Means.
"All these things depend on the sue
cess of the direct preferential primary
and we are asked to have this null
lifted in order to remain regular Re-
,publicans, subservient to a few bosses,
srepudiated in their own states.
We will not do it! Theodore Roose-
welt means much to the people of Cal
Iifornia. He stands as the originator
iof the policy which protects our water
ipowers and our mines and our for
ests, and We will not give up the will
of the people that chose him in order
ito be regular Republicans!
Gentlemen, in the words of Cover
nor johnson. there is only one way to
tight, and that is to fight! l ask you
to fight with the people of California,
for your rights and ours the right of
the direct primary, the right to nomin-
ate whom you will, the right to our
own government-for the man who
nominates is the man who governs"
Enthusiastic applause was given
Senator Gates when he concluded his
: remarkable address, one of the best
ever delivered in the city.
This morning r. G. Leeds and E. H.