The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-13
TELLS HOW DELE
GATES ARE CHOSEN
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shadow of warrant of any kind, sort
or description, steal from the people
of California the delegates they have
elected by $1,000 majority and pre-
sent them as gift to Mr.. Taft from
the lieutenant of MIR. Patrick Cal
houn
Il have before me the list of the
thirty-seven Taft National Commit
teemen who have thus presented Mr..
Taft with two delegates stolen from
the people OF California by the Nat
ional Committee at the request OF the
henchmen of Mr.. Patrick Calhoun.
The list offers interesting reading.
and II is curious to see Mr.. BROKER
OF Connecticut and Mr.. Crane of
Massachusetts and Mr.. Nagel, Mr..
Taft's personal representative from
Missouri. following behind Mr.. Pen
rose. Mr.. Franklin Murphy, Mr.. Pow
ell Clayton, Mr.. Mulvane of Kansas.
and Mr.. A. NJ. Stevenson OF Colorado.
Il ask that the decent voters OF
the country read Judge Ben Linsey's
book on the Beast and the Jungle,
study what he has said about Mr..
Stevenson, and they will then appre-
ciate the full significance of the ac-
ton of Messrs. Crane, Brooker and
Company in backing up Mr. Steven
son.
"Of these thirty.seven National
Committeeman who thus robbed the
immense majority Of the Republicans
of California of their rights four
represent Alaska, Hawaii. the Philip
pine Islands and Porto Rico, who
don't vote for the President at all;
twelve represent Democratic States,
none OF which voted for Mr.. Taft at
the last election. Then there come
fourteen who represent the Republi'
can States, every one Of which has
repudiated Mr. Taft at the primaries
this spring. with the exception OF
Massachusetts, which, however. repu'
dated Mr.. Crane, that man through
whom the vote OF Massachusetts, has
Just been registered in favor of the
theft OF the two delegates in ques'
ton from the people OF California
This makes a total of thirty out OF
the thirty-seven Taft members Of the
National committee. There remain
but seven men from Republican
states, and OF the seven states in siN
no primaries were held this spring
and the Republican voters had NC
chance TO express their wishes.
Those men who are endeavorine
to wreck the Republican party by
trying to pack the National conven
ton with men not elected TO IL as
delegates, are men just repudiated by
the Republicans of their own states
whose official positions in the Repub
lican party come to an end within one
week. These men claim to be regu
lars and to speak as II opposition tC
them means boiling the Republican
party.
1T Is they who are not irregular
II is they who are now profoundly
disloyal both to the Republican part,
and the cause of good citizenship
They are boiling from the Republi
can party at this moment. Evorl
decent Republican must be loyal e
the Republicans OF California, who by
1900 majority elected their dele
gates. and they can only be loyal 4
the Republican party by repudiatnl
the action OF the thlrty.seven mem
beers of the National committee witt
by their votes in the matter hay'
shown their profound and abidin
disloyalty to the party which in the
AIRY they represent and which in pra
tice they have betrayed.
IL do not for one moment believ
that the convention will ratify thi
action by the National committee 70
to do so would be to betray the caus
OF the people, to be false to the fur
damental principles Of good Glitter
ship and of American democracy an
to wreck the Republican party.
Theodore Roosevelt"