The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-08-01
Roosevelt
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on Credentials to seat in the conven-
ton, as permanent delegates, men
having neither legal nor equitable
right to such representation.
How they withstood the partisan
ruling OF the temporary chairman of
the convention, holding as all honest
men just hold, that no man is en-
TITLED in justice to sit upon a jury
which tries his own crime or that of
his accomplices, when that chairman
permitted such contested claimants to
vote as members of the convention
upon cases similar to their own, there
by helping to create precedents in
their own behalf, to be used when
their own cases should in due course
be presented to the consideration of
the convention.
Refused to Participate.
How they, upon this final, fragrant
and inequitable abuse of right, there
after refused to take further part in
the proceedings of convention which
they deemed to be sitting morally and
legally in contravention of the OK
pressed and declared will of the ma
jority of the Republican voters of the
nation, as we'll as in fragrant contra
vention to the expressed and declared
will of a great majority of the Re-
publican voters of the State of West
Virginia.
II fhn dol of
ginia, in full accord with the dele
gates from twenty great Republican
states, to-wit: California, Iowa, ILL
nois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massa-
chusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey,
North Carolina), Ohio, Oklahoma,
Oregon, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wisconsin
and minority from New York re-
fused to further participate in the
transactions of a convention whose
proceedings had already been thus Wis
tiated by persistent and fragrant
fraud.
Refuse to Recognize Nomination.
How they, along with those dele
gates representing twenty great Re-
publican states, and representing a
majority Of more than two millions
of the Republican voters of the ma
ton, refused to participate in or rec
ognize as valid a so-called nomination
put upon the country by bold and de-
liberate fraud.
1t is matter we'll known, how
they in company with more than five
hundred other delegates, representing
an overwhelming majority of the Re-
publican electorate of the nation,
knowing themselves and the people
behind them to be responsive to pos
tive and honorable sentiment for the
nomination Of a candidate represent
ing the proposition that the people,
and not the machine and bosses shall
rule, and against the nomination Of
any candidate representative OF priv
ilcge and vested power, returns from
that convention free TO declare that
the so-called nomination of VIM. II.
Taft and James S. Sherman were, by
reason of their iniquity and wrong, il
regular and not binding upon the Re-
publican voters of this State and ma
ton, either in conscience or in law.
All Of these proceedings of the con-
vention herein set forth are now in
scribed upon the pages Of history and
lie wide open to the gaze and scrutiny
Of an attentive world.
There, are indelibly writ:
The fierce and intolcrant pcrvcrsion
of justice on the part Of the already
discredHed and expiring National
Committee. whose momentary MAORI
ty Of Is had already been wiped
out by the newly chosen committee
men, newly sent up from states where
bosses and machines had been wholly
or partly smashed and the people had
in greater or lesser measures regained
their right to rule
(viz:-the states of California, Ida
no, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri. Ne
braska, New Jersey, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylva-
MIA, Washington, West Virginia.; and
which committee in the dying mo-
nents of its power conspired to rob
the nation, anil 10 roo YOU, of the
fruits Of your already spoken will
through the making up Of an untrue
temporary roll.
The ruthless and unblushing theft