Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18

tional committee will read the call of thi!
convention
Reads Convention call.
Secretary Hayward read the call.
The moment the call was completed
Gov. Hadley was on his feet.
Mr. Chairman, he called out.
The chair recognizes Gov. Hadley o.
Missouri said Chairman Rosewater
Mr.. Chairman. l rise to a question o
information. said Hadley.
The governor was beckoned to the stage
and made his way there amid applause.
lowed him.
In the meantime William Barnes, jr.. o.
New York was on his feet.
Il make a point of order" he shouted
but was not recognized.
Gov. Hadley then stated his question
which involved the substitution of a
roll of delegates prepared by the Roose-
Welt forces for the temporary roll pre-
pared by the national committee.
Il rise to inquire whether the national
committee has framed for this conven-
ton a proper temporary roll said Had
ley.
Mr.. Watson interrupted. saying:
Mr.. Chairman. l make the point OF
this convention until it has been organ
lied"
Question of Information.
Il rose to a question of information. =
answered Gov. Hadley, preliminary to
making a motion.
Until | had made that motion there
was nothing to make a point of order
against. l still have the recognition of
the chair"
Again the cheers broke out.
Gov. Hadley then presented his formal
motion, to take from the temporary roll
the Taft delegates and substitute the
Roosevelt delegates in certain contested
states.
Mr. Watson renewed his point OF order
before the list was read.
THE point of order seems to be well
TAKEN" said Mr.. Rosewater, but II the
governor will address himself to the point
of order we will hear him for twenty
minutes not wishing to be arbitrary
Gov. Hadley called to the platform Gov
Deneen of Illinois and former Gov Fort
Of New Jersey.
Secretary Hayward announced to the
delegates that each side would be heard
for twenty minutes.
Hadley Begins Argument.
There was brief consultation on the
stage by the opposing forces. Then Gov
Hadley stepped to the front of the stage
and began his argument.
The plan of Roosevelt leaders announced
two days ago. was being carried out ap.
parently without regard to the action OF
the Roosevelt delegates last night. who
voted to put in a resolution requiring 5i(
uncOntested affirmative votes to carry
any proposition.
Gov. Hadley briefly announced again
HIS motion and the fact that Rosewater
had ruled that point of order against
the motion seemed to be well taken.
Instead of following the illustrious
example of our distinguished leader
William Mckinley when he presided
ton of a point of order, the present
chairman has asked for only a brief
statement from each side,' said Gov.
Hadley.
The mention of Mckinley's name
evoked no applause.
II assert he went on, that the ques-
ton is whether the national committee
of the republican party has the absolute
power to form temporary roll for this
convention. which can only be changed
by report from a committee of this
convention. or whether this convention
itself shall say who shall sit in it.
IF it is in the power of twenty-seven
men to say who shall sit in this conven-
we have reached the end of representative
government in this country"
Only One Government.
I'VE know but one government in this
country" he said. Government by po-
litical party.
IF political convention can be con-
trol:ed by a group of men within the
party, then have we established political
oligarchy; then have we given a few men
control over party and convention"
Gov. Hadley said he had ample prece-
dent for the action he demanded.
In 1864, he said. the convention in its
own right to conduct it's own business in
its own way overthrow the national COM
mittee's selection of a temporary chair
man.
That convention declared that the ma
tional committee was the servant. not
the master. of the people in the party"
Quotes Precedent.
Hadley also quoted as a precedent a
decision OF George F. Hoar of Massa-
chusetts. presiding in the convention in
1880. who recognized motion to
amend the temporary roll by substitute
ing delegates.
This is the way this question should
De ueCtucd toudy, SaodlC0 1ldulcy, ana
the crowd cheered. Il offer you, Mr.
Chairman" continued Mr.. Hadley, "the
precedent of the convention Of 1864
which for second time nominated
Abraham Lincoln. l call to your at
tention the statement Of Senator Hoar
at that time that a motion to amend
the temporary roll was in order for
consideration and to be passed upon.
But conceding for the sake Of argu
ment the contention of the other side tina,
this is entirely a new question and tina,
there Is no precedent. every precedent
must have a beginning. And in order te
live that precedent must be decided in &C
cord with the eternal principle of righ
and wrong This my friends, 1 repeat /:
q question Of principle rather than OF
precedent"
1--WE cannot sit and close our ears te
what the American people are saying to-
day." continued Gov. Hadley.
Wild cheers broke in upon his speech
integrity Of Roll Challenged.
1.-The integrity of this temporary roll
has been challenged by fifteen men on the
national committee, whose signatures
have in my pocket. saying that eighty
names on that roll are Of delegates no,
honestly elected. in place of eighty dele.
gates who have been elected by the re.
publican voters Of the respective state,
and territories.
LAS long as we do not fairly discus,
this matter. any man who goes out Of thu