Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-05
|. R. GIVES TAFT
70 HONEST VOTES.
All Others of SCI Nominating
Votes Fraudulent, the Col
oneI Declares.

The current issue of The Outlook
has an editorial by Theodore Roose-
welt, entitled "Mr. Taft's Majority:
An Analysis" in which the o n
tributing editor says the Chicago con-
~vention makeup was fraudulent ana
it's action fraudulent and binding on
no Republican. "It should be re-
pudiated by every man who sincerely
believes in honesty" writes Mr..
Roosevelt, who takes his pen in hand
and does some figuring. When
through with his mathematics he an
that MI. Taft was morally
votes thai nominated him.
After quoting from Western papers
which follow his own ideas, the
colonel says:
when 1 went into the contest fo-
the nomination I was, of course,
pitted against very heavy odds. To
start with, Mr.. Taft had more than
$50 delegates from the territories and
from States controlled by federal
office-holders in which there vas no
real Republican party, and he thus
began the contest with nearly half
the necessary number of delegates to
nominate him.
"In addition, he had with him the
votes of certain purely hoss-con-
trolled States, like New York, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island, Utah, Wyom-
ing and Colorado, where the voters
had nc chance to express their pref
erence and where the leading papers
were controlled by the special in
~terests, so thai the sources of general
information were choked and the
truth was sedulously hidden from the
people. Adding these votes to the
others, Mr.. Taft had nearly four hun
bred delegates in whose selection the
people had no say whatever.
Overwhelming Victory.
Nevertheless, we started in max
ing our fight, especially in the pri-
mary States. In these States the
rank and file of the Republican voters
had their say, instead of the poll
~ticians, and in these States we beat
Mr.. Taft on the popular vote
more than two to one in a total vote
of three million or Whereabouts, and
in delegates beat him very nearly In
proportion of seven to one.
so overwhelming was our victory
in the States where the people had
even a partial chance to express
themselves in primaries that We over
came Mr.. Taft's nearly solid vote
from the peterborough States and
the boss-picked delegates, and
obtained a clear majority of all the
delegates elected to the convention
that is, about $50 delegates.
by MI. Taft's direction and con-
nivance and under the personal
supervision of his private secretary
and one member of his cabinet,
Messrs. Barnes, Penrose, Guggen-
helm, Crane, Franklin Murphy and
Mr.. Taft's other l~ieutenants pro-
ceeded to steal from the people
enough delegates fraudulently to con-
vert my majority into a minority"
Continues His Deductions.
The contributing editor dissects the
nominating vote for Mr.. Taft, re-
marking that at SCI it was twenty
one more than the majority neces-
sary to nominate. From these he sub
tracts two votes, which he says the
chairman, Mr.. Root, Gin his capacity
of modern Autolycus, the 'snapper-up
of unconsidered trifles.' took from
Massachusetts, The title of seventy
eight Roosevelt delegates, he says,
was absolutely plain, and thus he
estimates that MI. Taft's vote sinks
at once to 4S1, or sixty less than were
required for his nomination.
'These 4S1 represent the maximum
of legally obtained votes which Mr..
Taft could claim in the convention"
the colonel writes.
By a process of Rooseveltian de-
duction the colonel next strikes out
the twelve votes from the territories,
which a no electoral votes, sub
Florida, Georgia, Arkansas,
South Carolina and Vir-
ginia, where, he says, there is no
real Republican party" and even
shears away "the boss-picked dele
gates from the States where the peo-
pie had no choice"
There remain about seventy dele
gates, and to these the colonel on
cedes and admits that Mr.. Taft is