The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-06-15
ROUGH RIDER RACES.
WILD MAN FROM OYSTER RAW
NlLLIFIES ALL WHO OPPOSE
HIM.
tart Men Are Boilers. Thieves and
DestructiOnists Prospects arn
Good For The Roughest Sort OF
housh House When the Republican
Convention Meets.

Oyster Bay, y. Y, June 12-"Tbey
are boiling from the Republican party
at this moment" said Col Roosevelt
'ohight OF supporters of President
Taft or tn. Republican national COM
mittee.
The former president was aroused
10 a hghting mood by the news which
reached him today over his private
wires from Chicago. He denounced
with all the emphasis he could COM
mand the action of the national conn
mites in deciding the contests for
seats in the national convention from
Kentucky, Arizona and California.
He declared that the 81 Taft supporr-
ers on the committee have shown
their profound and abiding disloy-
atty to the party which they repre-
sent and which in practice they have
betrayed"
He said that of the 81 national
committeeman who have robbed the
Republicans of California of two of
their delegates and have presented
the stolen goods to Mr.. Taft, there is
just one man who is entitled to speak
for the Republicans in his State"
The colonel expressed the opinion
that the national convention would
not ratify the seating of the delegates
from California.
what do you think the "a Roose-
Welt delegates already seated from CAL
ifornia will do if the convention de-
clines to admit the others?" Col.
Roosevelt was asked
Il am not going to try to say what
they will do" he replied. Il am not
making any prophecies"
Col. Roosevelt declined to comment
upon the statement of William Flynn
of Pittsburg and other Roosevelt
supporters that the members of the
electoral college from several Repub-
lican States which have been carried
by Roosevelt at the primaries would
cast their votes for him in case Presi-
dent Taft is renominated.
When he was asked if he had de-
cided whether he would go to Chi
cago, Col Roosevelt replied smilingly:
I'm not going in the next half
hour any way. / can assure you that
this is not a Disguise" as he pointed
to himself, "and that my real self is
on the way to Chicago"
Col. Roosevelt's statement in con-
clusion says:
Those men who are endeavoring
TO wreck the Republican party by try
ing to pack the national committee
with men not elected to it as dele
gates are men just repudiated by Re-
publicans of their own States, whose
official position in the Republican
party comes to an end within one
week.
These claim to be regular and to
speak as if opposition to them means
boiling the party.
1T is they who are now irregular.
1t is they who are now profoundly
disloyal. both to the Republican party
and to the cause Of good citizenship.
They are bolting from the Republican
party at this moment. Every decent
Republican must be loyal to the Re-
publicans of California who by 1900
majority elected their delegates and
they can only be loyal to the Repub-
lican party by repudiating the action
of the 81 members of the national
committee who by their votes in the
matter have shown their profound
disloyalty to the party which in theory
they represent and which i'm practice
they have betrayed.
Il do not fear for one moment that
the convention will ratify this action
by the national committee, for to do
so would he to betray the cause of the
people, to be false 10 the fundamen-
tai principle of good citizenship and
Of American democracy and to
wreck the Republican party"
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