The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-15
THE FL1MsY CONTESTS.

d Republican National Committee which
4. were viewed with such heated interest
N AT the beginning, are now considered
r. largely matter of routine, and they
4 do not call for much comment IL j.
Q true that Col Roosevelt breaks out in
j; a volcanic eruption of words OCCASION.
r ally. but really when one considers that
e the Roosevelt members of the National
0 Committee were obliged BY reason of
4 the himsy nature Of those contents to
vote against nearly all of them, the
, rage Of the Colonel himself can be
; passed over as mere ebullition of tom.
per.
It IS held all al once by the Roose.
welt people that the Southern States
are not entitled 10 much representation
in the National Conventions, Of the Re-
publican party. But this was not Col
Roosevelt S idea four years ago, nor
did that idea prevent his agents max.
ing strenuous efforts TO capture those
delegations this year, and to GET IN
cloud of contests with view OF get.
! ting some of those seats. II is true as
4 matter of fact. that the Republican
delegates from the Southern States do
moi represent much Republican
strength. And vet the representation
/ has been continued on the same basis
as from other States in the hope. doubt
! less, that q time viii come when Re.
| publican principles, which arc unoues.
| tlonably held by large numbers OF
| Southern people, particularly on the
tariff question. will be free Of express
ion, and tho Republican party win
conc INTO votes in the Southern States
TO which it is actually entitled In
Louisiana there is a verv firm protcc
tive tariff sentiment on account Of the
desire for protection for sugar, and in
other parts of the South, as is evident
! from tho votes of Southern members
OF Congress, both in the Senate and i'm
he House, there is n strong protective
tariff sentiment That sentiment can
he expressed only through votes for the
Republican party, and doubtless the
time must come when this Republican
sentiment will gain courage to vote the
Republican ticket
In the meantime, it ought TO be said
That contcmptuous disparagemont Of
the Republican delegations from the
South ought, il genuine, to have pre-
vented any attempt To steal those dele
CATIONS and use them in the Republi
can National Convention. If il is true
that there is no Republican strength in |
the South. and that 10 accord Repub |
hcan representation there is harmful TO |
the party. it certainly would not be |
less harmful To have those delegates |
vote for Roosevelt than TO have them |
vote for Taft IT is a question Of prin-
clpje, if ii is Il question at all, and not |
merely how those delegates will vote. |
The dishonest nature of the argument |
and the imbccilc effort 10 capture those
delegates, is very forcibly presented
editorially in late number OF the
New York Times, under the heading
" inexperienced and Incompetent, in
the following scathing language.
The hearings III tho contest cases be-
fore the Republican National Committee
disclose Enthusiastically a plot to buy the
Presidency for Theodore Roosevelt II
has failed because OF the utter incaDacity
OF his miserable agents. Had their skill
been equal To their, and his unDrjnci- |
pied audacity, If instead of being wretched
palicrers in chlcane and corruption they
had been competent in crime, men thor
uughly schooled in the higher branches of
political Villany, the picture now present.
cd To- the eyes of the Nation in Chi
caGo might have been very different. Mr.
RooscYclts buyers and herdcrs OF dele
gales and his organizers Of contests were
~ chosen for their tasks. His contests
fail. every one OF them. and they are seen
TO be based on such brazen impostures
that even his own friends and supporters
in the committee arc unable to conceal
their wcariness and disgust.
But the plot stands revealed. While
Mr.. Roosevelt was raising his audiences
IN the North to the pitch OF frenzy the
silent workers in the South, with ample
means for their campaign Of conveying
and converting. were everywhere astir
The crowd around the soaphoX in New
JERSEY yelled, tho needy colorod brother
in Alabama or in Florida advanced TO the
proliered, wel-illed hand. and they called
lt a Nation in revolt against the bosses
But while the conscntinG beneficiary Of
these dirty doings complacentiy receives
NJ Oyster Bay professors OF social uplift
the wlnnowers arc al work in Chicago
and the chaff his fuglemen have brought
to the mill is scattered down the wind.
The intention and the design To buy the
Presidency have been made clear. IT is
but too clear also. that had the plot
succeeded. the chief person in interest
WoulO nave taken lle puICh5Scu nOillld-
,iun without scruple. Is he not now
praiing about theft as he sees prop
erty upon which he had laid lawlcsS hand
confirmed to its rlghtful owner? But fail
lrc In crime does not cNcupate. Intent
is the essence IN this case. and that is
proved in the sight OF all men. The adap-
iation Of tho means Ia the end WAS never
more lud.Crously miscslculated, but that is
not even q palilation. II only adds con-
tempt 10 rcprobation. The country has
never before seen q foray upon the Pres-
Tort Ia lFs., |
Ousncss and such incapaCity. Is II too
much 10 hope that the amazing revcla-
lion may give some at least OF the poor
hcfooled people IN revolt a truer view
IS the character o. their great dellyerer?
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