Arizona republican., 1912-07-29

tion" and "reiteratiOn."
 However. it can yet be done if the American people will consider it their duty as MT. HilIes suggests, to read his statement. It is a duty that the voters owe to themselves as well as to the republican party Much of the opposition to MT. Taft in fact, the greater volume of it. is based on the belief that his nomination was eff fected by fraud. But for that inn pression. there would be very little of the Roosevelt movement. for we cannot conceive that any considerable part of the thinking people of this genuineness of the professions of MT Roosevelt. or in his political or per sonal honesty. But. as the victim of a supposed fraud, he appeals to many as against the beneficiary of that alleged fraud
 He has diligently played this strong card. Through the bosses who are supporting him, such as the notorious Bill Finn. Tim Woodruff. Bill Ward Johnson and others, he has appealed by the cry of "boss-ridden." "spe- cial privilege" and predatory wealth" to the ignorant and the minimizing
 Through the Outlook, once journal of great moral force. but now pros tituted to the basest political uses, he addresses himself to the more in telligent, his constant theme being the alleged theft at Chicago. There fore. it becomes the duty of the in telligent to look beyond the accusa- tion. to the proof. It is a duty they owe to themselves. d reasonable and natural precaution to he taken against an interruptions candidate. It is a duty they owe to their party, ac- cused of this monstrous crime.
 In his brief preliminary statement of Saturday. MT. Hilles goes partial ly over the ground covered by The Republican some weeks ago We will very briefly go over it again and for the accuracy of the statements herein made. our readers are referred to the dispatches from Chicago and oyster Bay during the sessions of the national committee and the early days of the convention.
 The statement of MT HiIles men tions that 238 of the contests were instituted in behalf of MT. Roosevelt. 164 of which were plainly fake that they were either abandoned or dis Roosevelt members of the commit tee. But, at any rate. there were only seventy-four contests which any of the Roosevelt members of the committee supported and all of the Roosevelt members did not support all of them. It is impossible to say just how many members of the com mittee were favorable to MT Roose- welt, for the votes in his behalf in to twenty-one. But it was estimated at the time, that nineteen of the members were, at least, inclined to the colonel. As we recall not more than sixteen supported as many as sixty of the Roosevelt contests Thus some of them regarded fourteen of the seventy eighth as also fakes
 The dispatches show that when MT Roosevelt was preparing to leave Oyster Bay for Chicago, he angrily declared that he had already been robbed" of ninety delegates but that he would still be able to control the convention if the robbery" could be stopped at the point it had reached On his arrival at Chicago he reduced the number of robbed" delegates to seventy for. as it then appeared. to him and his managers, seventy would have given him control of the con vention The colonel was probably counting also upon the support of the Cummins delegates. But it later appeared that seventy was not enough and then the number of stolen" delegates was raised to sev- enty-eight Upon what theory that 1 particular number was arrived at has | never been explained in the charges of fraud. It is plain though that Mir ] Roosevelt and his managers saw that | they had to have that many. though
 at the most as has been shown. his representatives in the committee, anC not all of them, claimed only sev- | enty-fOur.
 It is difficult to determine what tho 1 Roosevelt strength in the convention
 exclusive of the contested delegates actually was but it is certain that 1T
 no circumstances could it have eX-
 ceeded 464. Supposing that ii haC 1 i, v1-hxr