Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-06-27
Taft Gets Total Of 561.
Some Roosevelt Delegates
Break Away, But Great
Majority Is Firm.

break Away, DuC UFcdC
Majority Is Firm.
With the party admittedly facing tn
greatest crisis in it's history, William n
Taft, of Ohio, at 9.25 o'clock Saturda!
night, was nominated for President O
the United States by the Republican Ma
tional Convention, the official vote being
Taft, SCI; Roosevelt, lO7; La Toilette
Al; Cummins, II; Hughes, 2; absent, 6
present, but not voting, 344.
Vice-President Sherman was renomi
mated, after Governor Hadley and Gov
ernor Deneen both refused to permit the
use of their names in connection with the
nomination.
The vote for Vice President was: Sher-
man, 597; Borah, 81; Merriam, 20; Had.
ley, Ia; Beverage, 2; Howard Gillette, /
absent, II; present, but not voting, 952'
The Republican convention adjourned
at 1890 sine die.
The revolt of many Roosevelt dele
gates in the convention was open from
the moment the permanent roll contain
ing the names of contested delegates
was approved. A "valedctory" state
ment was read in behalf of Col. Roose.
welt, asking that his name be not pre-
sented and that his delegates sit in mute
prot, s. against all further proceedings.
To show the difference of opinion ex-
pressed by the city press regarding Mr..
Taft's nomination we reprint editorials
from the Baltimore papers as follows:
THE NOMINATION OF MIR. TAFT.
(From the Baltimore Sum
1.-The nomination of the President by
the Republican National Convention for
another term in the White House is in
strict accord with Republican precedent.
In all the line of Republicans Presidents,
only one of those who survived the first
term failed of a denomination. That one
was Rutherford B. Hays, whose title was
disputed. Lincoln, Grant, Harrison and
Mckinley were all nominated for sec
ond term. Hayes was not candidate
for the renominat ton nor was he consid-
cred because of the manner of his first
election. His successor, Garfield, was
murdered during his first term or he
would have been renominated. Mr..
Roosevelt was not nominated for the Sec
ond time because he declared that he re-
garded himself as having already served
two terms.
"The denomination of Mr.. Taft, how
ever, is departure from precedent as to
its method. Other candidates have been
nominated in Republican conventions by
the use of the "steam roller" and all
other political machinery that could be
of service. But at least the delegates
who made the nominations have always
been considered bona fide delegates and
entitled to their seats in the convention.
Not so, however, with the delegates by
whose votes the nomination of Mr.. Taft
was achieved. Without the votes of the
contested delegations from number of
States Mr.. Taft could not have received
the nomination. If the contestants, who
were clearly elected and who plainly rep
resented their party had been seated Mr..
Roosevelt and not Mr.. Taft would have
been the nominee.
The denomination of Mr.. Taft sup
plies strong and telling argument for
the constitutional limitation of the Pres
ident to single term. Even with the
votes of delegates denounced by Mr..
Roosevelt as fraudulent, Mr.. Taft could
not have been nominated without the rot
ten borough, or pocket borough, votes of
the South. The votes represent no Re-
publican party and no Republicans. The
Southern delegations in the main repre-
scented the Federal Office holders-the ad-
ministration in short. With such pow
err as the President has, if he is content
to use that power and his political agents
are without political scruples, then he
can command and compel his nomination.
Does anyone suppose that if Mr. Taft
and Colonel Roosevelt had been running
against each other Oh equal terms that
Mr.. Taft could have been nominated?
1.-The significance of the action of the
Republican convention is twofold. 1t is
as we have said, the triumph of machine
methods and unfair methods. In addi-
ton to this, it is triumph of conserva-
tism and reaction; it is the triumph OF
the high tariff and the protected andpriv-
LEGGED interests; it is a triumph of the
"old guard" and the standpatters. 1t
commits the Republican party to all these
things. 1t commits the Republican party
to the continued oppression of the people
by excessive tariff taxation; it commits
the party to the continued protection OF
the great manufacturing monopolies from
outside competition; it commits the party
to everything against which the Progress
sive Republicans of the West have been
protesting"
TAFT, THE MAN OF THE HOUR.
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