Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-10-31
LA TOILETTE SAYS
ROOSEVELT CHARGES
Theft UNTRUE
WISCONSIN SENATOR DECLARES
MOOSE DID NOT HAVE MA
JoRITY OF DELEGATES

MADISON. Wis. Oct 31-Theodore
/ Roosevelt did not lose the republican
nomination at the Chicago convention
by theft; he with Governor McGov-
ern of Wisconsin planned to steam
roll the nomination OF Roosevelt" in
the same manner in which Colonel
Roosevelt dictated the nomination of
Mr. Taft in 1908; "overmastering
craving" for a third term is respons-
ible for the birth of the bull moose
party. Along these lines does Sen
ator Robert NJ. La Toilette continue
his attack on Colonel Roosevelt in
his fourth article in this weeks is
sue OF La Follette's magazine.
The Wisconsin senator also says
that big business. personified in Geo.
w, Perkins and steel and harvester
trust officials. are behind the new
movement.
In minute analysis OF Roosevelt's
career Senator La Toilette says that
the trust policy which Mr.. Roosevelt
is now advocatlng-the policy Of le-
CALLING the trusts-was. in effect.
carried out by Colonel Roosevelt
when he was president.
Mr.. Roosevelt, he declares. placed
himself above the law when presi.
dent and refused to prosecute trust
magnates with whom he was on
terms of friendly and political init
macy.
Colonel Roosevelt's interests in
Mr.. Morgan, Mr.. Gary and Mr.. Perk-
ms and his part in the Tennessee
Coal and Iron company deal. as well
as numerous speeches and other
actions, are cited to prove that Roose-
welt thought more of the trusts
than he did OF the people during the
seven and one-half years he occupied
the White House.
OF Colonel Roosevelt's actions be-
fore the convention, he says:
Knowing that he did not have
a majority OF the delegates honestly
elected to- the convention, Roosevelt
made loud cutlery against the fraud
which he professed to believe the
national committee intended to per
petrate in passing upon contests 20
be brought before II. This served
the double purpose OF diverting at.
tention from his own fraudulent con.
tests and discrediting the decisions
of the national committee in ad
vance of its action.
The sole excuse for the forma-
ton of the new party was based
upon the contention that delegates in
the republican convention were stol-
en- from one candidate and given
to another Thou shalt not steal"
was made the keynote of the Roose.
welt boiling convention.
Thou shalt not steal-from me
would have been more in keeping
as a Roosevelt slogan"
Senator La Toilette concludes that
Roosevelt lacked "A votes OF enough
10 nominate him. He says:
The true psychology of the Roose-
welt proceedings at Chicago became
perfectly plain. He was there to
force his own nomination or to smash
the convention He was not there
to preserve the integrity of the re-
publican party, and make It an in
! strument for the promotion Of pro
gressive principles and the restora-
ton of government to the people.
Otherwise he would have directed
his managers to contest every inch
of the ground for a progressive plat
form before the committee on reso-
lutions and in the open convention.
II he had evidence to prove that
Taft could not be honestly and fair.
ly nominated, why did he not direct
his lieutenants to present that evil
dence to the national committee, and
then to the convention and the coun.
try, so clearly that the convention
would not have dared to nominate
TAFT and that Taft could not, in
honor, have accepted the nomination
IL made?"
/