The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21

The credentials committee, appointed to try their cases. includes three of their own number from the states of Washing ton and Arizona and Texas, where the del- egations were stolen in mass. This con- vention selected as it's chairman the Gug- genheim delegates from Colorado who had already as national committeeman assist ed in initiating the very frauds upon 1 which he is now sitting in judgment.
 Nothing that this committeeman does Is entitled to consideration, and in consid- erlng what they do it will be well to keep In mind the remark made in private by one of the national committeeman, who, when asked why they had stolen so many more delegates than were needed for their purpose, answered that 1t would enable the credentials committee to make show Of generosity by unseating some while retaining number amply sufficient to &C., complish all the ends they have in view.
 Moreover, it Is we'll to remember that the fraud is equally great and equally responsible whether the fraudulently elect ed delegates actually vote on the nomina- ton for President or whether they are merely used to create situation which renders 1t unnecessary for them to vote on the nomination for President. If roll is not purged in mass of these fraudulently | elected delegates the whole election of the convention is tainted
 The committee on rules has just, against the protest of the progressive members, provided for the perpetuation of the national committee in the form re- sponsible for the scandalous outrages which at this moment brought the re- publican party to the breaking point and they have explicitly refused to recognize the principle of popular presidential pri- maries and have made the national com mittee supreme over the people in the matter of primaries.
 Can Get Respectable Support
 'Unfortunately In our political life the interruptions man who commits wrongs such as these can usually count on hay
 ing some respectable men support him, and other respectable men oppose him, but cease their opposition at the point when 1t would become really effective. In this convention the interruptions men who are the leaders have already received sup port from the former class of respectable men, and they count upon seeing repre- sentatives of the latter class who sit here to vote against them. fearing to take the decisive step of severlng connection with the fraudulent convention itself.
 Such are the facts about the national convention as now constituted I decline any longer to be bound by any action 1t make take. I decline to regard as bind- ing any nomination 1t may make. I don't regard successful fraud and deliberate po- 5 litical theft as constituting a title to party regularity or a claim to the support of any honest man of any party q hope that the honestly elected ma : jorty will at once insist upon the im- mediate purging of the roll in it's en- tirety and not piecemeal by the convenr ton. If this purging is not accomplished I hope the honestly elected delegates will decline all further connection with con- vention whose action is now determined, and has hitherto been determined by a | fla action of the fraudulent delegates whom the convention has refused to strike from the rolls.
 ''If the leaders of the honestly elected majority disagree with me in this matter and wish for any cause to defer for the moment this action. then I most earnestly hope that at least they will insist upon voting on the cases of these fraudulent delegates in block and not separately We cannot afford to pardon thief on condi- ton that he surrenders half the stolen goods.
 Will Accept Any Nomination
 "If the honestly elected majority of the convention choose to proceed with busi- ness and nominate me as the candidate of the real republican party, I shall accept. If some among them fear to take such stand and the remainder choose to in- augurate movement to nominate me for the President as a progressive on a pro- gressive platform. and if in such event the general feeling among progressives favor my being nominated shall accept. In any case shall make my appeal to , every honest citizen in the nation, and I shall fight the campaign through, win f or lose, even if do not get single elec- i toral vote.
 T do not wish a single man to support me from any personsl feeling for me. l have nothing to offer any man: any man who supports me will do so without hope of gain and at the risk of personal loss and discomfort. There can he no cause for which 1t Is better worth while to fight, none in which it is of less consequence what happens to the individual himself provided only that he does his duty in the , forward movement. I shall make my ap- peal to all honest men east and west. north and south, and gladly abide the result, whatever that result may be THEODORE ROSEVELT." , Have Already Nominated Him That the American people and the re- publican voters of the country already have nominated Theodore Roosevelt for President of the United States and that Roosevelt and his followers will not rec ognize the national republican convention. unless the Hadley motion to oust the IS contested delegates is adopted, was the declaration of Colonel Roosevelt and his I today.
 Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Dixon conferred after the forenoon adjournment and when they concluded their discussion , MT. Roosevelt was rushed through the crowd at the Congress hotel to his lunch con room and Senator Dixon announced the conclusion that had been reached
 We will not recognize the legality of this so-called republicans convention until it purges itself of the 7S stolen delegates enumerated in Governor Hadey's motion of yesterday. The nomination for Presi- dent has already been made The Amer . ican people have named Theodore Roose- welt and elected majority of more than 10 delegates to this convention. These delegates must be recognized or we will not recognize the convention as the regu- lar convention of the republican party If tlfe convention does not unseat the 7S delegates we will fight"
 Senator Dixon concluded with snap: If they are not seated?"
 i, That will come later: we must await action" replied the senator
 Denies Releasing Delegates ''The statement that Roosevelt has re- ] leased his delegates is not true" Senator Dixon said. No such action" he added. has been taken. Roosevelt could not release the delegates from the states m which direct primaries have been held If he wanted to-.
 Ex-Governor Post. who was responsible for the original statement that the dele gates had been released, said later in the day that he had been in error.