The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-30
NO CHANCE FOR JUGGLING.
An Associated Press dispatch from

An Associated Press dispatch from
Topeka says:
The only chance the Taft follow
ers have in Kansas to get the presi.
dents name on the general election
ballots in November is to prepare a
set OF ten presidential electors and
make fight for them in the August
primary.
Nine of the electors whose names
have been filed with the secretary of
state are known Roosevelt men. and
II tney are nominated by default in
August Roosevelt Will get the elector-
al vote of Kansas
The Sioux City Journal pronounces
this .piffle," and points out that the
electors nominated on the Republican
| ticket IN Kansas at the primary, wheth.
er originally Taft or Roosevelt men.
II elected at the November election.
VIII be pledged TO cast their ballots
IN the electoral college for the Repub-
lican candidate for President. VIZ
nam Howard Taft was named as the
Republican candidate for President at
the Chicago convention. Saws the
Journal:
onder no circumstances can there
pe announcer presidential candidate rep,
resehtlng the Republican party. Rocse-
w may secure a nomination as the
cdnuiuate OF new party. II SO there
tan We electors representing that par
~ On the ballot in the various states.
| ihese electors can be pledged to vote
| LOT roosevelt. If any present candi-
ua.e ior eiector in the Republican
party wants to support Roosevelt the
Erst thing for him to do is to join the
roosevelt party IL there is to be one
Ihat would make 1t impossible for
him 70 run as a candidate for elector
on the Republican ticket
!, The Journal further declares that
Tor Republican to secure a nomin,.
ton as Republican elector. gain
election as representative of thar
party, and then go into the electoral
college and vote for other than the
party nominee for President would be
the blacklist kind of treachery. IT
would involve such rank political dis
honesty that any attempt to profit nv
such a plan must be repudiated Nv
every honest man in any party Tho
Journal does not anticipate any sucb
procedure 1t says.
Colonel Roosevelt is too shrewd ~
iead a movement placing reliance mn.
on such double dealing. If he is to Re
candidate it will be as the candidate
OF a new party standing on its own
feet and seeking support from Nom.
Ders OF both old parties. 1t might he
possible to take over to the new nartv
good share OF the present Repnb,i.
can organization in few states not.
ably California. Officeholders. candi.
dates for office and members OF party
committees might go along. But the
transferred organization would have
to be part and parcel of the new
party. Its transfer would leave vacan-
cfes to be filled in the Republican par
ty ranks, and they would be filled out
OF the membership remaining loyal to
the old party.
Honesty is the primal requisite OF
any new party that is to hope to gain
, public confidence. This is particular
~ true OF a party making much OF
the motto. Thou shalt not steal,' The
! Republican party has a right to its
own name, its own platform. its own
candidates and its own organization
Any attempt to do business for an.
other party in the name of the Repub-
lican party would amount to theft
Republicans who are not satisfied TO
work with the Republican party must
work openly with some other party"