Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-10

petuated with impunity, as far as ma
tional nominations are concerned. But
this is a difference in Legality and not
in morality. Again and again we have
sent to the pen election officials for
defects morally not one while worse
than what was done by the members
of the national committee who I'M
seated the two properly elected dele
gates in this ninth district of Ala
bama and substituted for them men
who have no more right to vote in the
national convention than repeater
has to vote at an election. The ma
jority of the committeeman thus voted
TO seat in the Republican convention
men who have no shadow OF right to
represent any portion of the Republic
can party anywhere and who have
no more right TO sit in that eonven-
ton than any other two outsiders.
Nine ef these committeeman came
from the Republican states of Illinois,
Kansas, Missouri. New Jersey, North
Dakota. Ohio. Oregon and West Vir-
ginia. Every one of these national
committeeman has been repudiated by
his home voters.
Not one of them will succeed him.
self in the national committee. Each
of them represents a state which at
the recent primaries has declared oN-
erwhelmingly against Mr.. Taft The
nine states in the aggregation have 30l
| delegates in the convention, of which
| 25S are for Roosevelt and only 81 for
| Taft The nine committeeman are
for Taft. the delegates from their
states are s TO against him.
IT is in view of these facts and
j OF what these facts foreshadow that
/ wish to make my appeal to the
sober judgment of all men that the
usefulness of the Republican party
has not ended. Every man who wishes
to see the Republican party continue
to exist should at once protest against
those who are deliberately proceeding
to wreck it. The leaders speak as if
they Were the regular Republicans !
don't concede that there is a test of
regularity. The Republican party is
not in commission, nor has il APP
pointe as its receivers the nine repu-
dated committee ! have mentioned,
nor their colleagues who have in
similar fashion been repudiated by
the popular vote of the Republicans
of their states Nor is the question
now at issue one as to the personal
preference Of any Republican for any
particular man for President or for
the doctrine which that man embodies.
The question is not merely whether
the deliberately expressed judgment
of the greater majority of the rank
and file of the Republican party is TO
be less deliberately nullified by the
very men whose leadership has lust
been repudiated by this same major
ity A nomination obtained by the
votes of delegates seated in utter de-
hanee OF Justice as these two Ala
hama delegates have just been seat
ed would be worthless to the man OBJ
tanning it, and would be Indignantly
repudiated by the party as whole
Apparently certain national commit
teemen and certain of the bosses, who
from outside influence the national
committee, have yet TO learn that the
rank and file of the Republican par
ty must be treated as the masters and
not the servants of their representa-
lives The Republican party cannot
continue To exist unless its official ac-
ton is determined by the expression
of the sober and deliberate judgment
Of the majority of the party