Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-11
IT'S NAKED ISSUE
Of RIGHT AND
WRONG
SAYS ROOSEVELT.
Fails to "See How an Honora-
BILE Man Can Profit by
Such Trickery."
SAYS ROOSEVELT.

NEW YORK, June lin an arti-
Gle entitled "A Naked Issue of Right
and Wrong" which appears in the cur
rent issue of the outlook, Theodore
Roosevelt discusses the situation at
Chicago in part as follows:
The contest for the Republican NOM
nation has now narrowed down to a
naked issue of right and wrong; for
the issue is simply whether or not we
shall permit a system of naked fraud,
of naked theft from the people, to
triumph.
Il have made this contest on two
great principles-first, the right of the
people to rule and. therefore, in the
exercise of their deliberate judgment
TO control their government and their
governmental agents: and, second,
their duty SO to rule as to bring about
not only political but social and in
dustrial justice
Will Not Submit to Bosses.
Il have endeavored everywhere to
/ appeal, not to the politicians but to
the people themselves and to get-their
Judgment, stating scores of times that
] would DO my best to convert them
to my way of thinking, that | should
acquiesce as a matter of course in their
Judgment if it was adverse. but that
if their judgment was favorable. !
did not intend tamely to submit to an
effort by the politicians to throw aside
the verdict of the people and substi
oie
is precisely what Mr.. Barnes, Mr.. Nc
Kinley and their associates and repre-
sentatives on the national commit
tee at Chicago are now attempting.
Honorable Man Would Not Profit"
"Ohio went by over 10000 majority
against Mr. Taft al the primaries, but
the Taft managers had refused to per-
init a vote to be taken at the prima-
ries for the delegates at large, and in
the state convention by adroit polt
icaI trickery they sent six Taft dele
gates to vote at Chicago for the man
whom his own state had just repudiat-
ed by 10000 majority.
81 fail myself to see how an hon
orabe man can profit by or take part
IN such a piece of trickery as this
Ohio state convention victory In the
same way, ! fail to see how an honor
able man can profit by or connive at
or approve of the farcical New York
county primaries.
But the case was far worse in
Washington, in Indiana, in Michigan.
In many of these cases the Taft dele
gates represent absolutely nothing but
fraud. as vulgar, as brazen and as
cynicany open as any ever committed
by the Tweed regime in New York
forty odd years ago.
"Mr Taft can not be nominated un-
less he gets the overwhelming ma
jority of the rotten borough states
which never cast a Republican electo-
raj vote. and in which the delegations
represent only the office holders.
even if he gets practically all the
delegates from these states, he can not
be nominated unless, by deliberate
fraud, in such states as Indiana, Mich
igan and Washington, not to mention
others, the Republicans are defrauded
out of their right to express their
preference as to who is to get their
votes. He can be nominated only by
disregarding the expressed will of an
overwhelming majority of two and
half million of Republicans who, from
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania to
Illinois and California, have voted as
TO their choice for president.