The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-06-19
fire 'EM OUT"
CRIES COLONEL
"FrauduIentIy Seated" Dele
gates Should Be OuSted
CONDEMNS POLITICAL Theft"

Roosevelt in Fighting Speech In Chi
cago Coliseum Before Immense
Audience Denounces Taft's candi-
dacy and Charges That Moneyed
Interests Are Behind Him-Cannot
Accept National Committees Work.
Chicago, June 1S-Speaking in the
Coliseum last night Colonel Roosevelt
denounced President Taft and the Re-
publican national committee and
charged that "big business" was
financing Mr.. Taft's campaign.
The auditorium was packed by an
enthusiastic crowd which sang Roose-
welt songs, In part the colonel said
''As far as Mr. Taft and | are per.
sonally concerned it little matters
what the fate of either may be. But
with Mr. Tafts acquiescence or by
his direction and in his interest his
followers have raised an issue which
is all important to this country. 1t is
not partisan issue; it is more than
a political issue; it is a great moral
issue.
"If we condone political theft, if we
do not resent the kinds of wrong and
injustice that injuriously affect the
nation, not merely our democratic
form of government but our civiliza.
ton itself cannot endure. If the
methods adopted by the national com
mittee are approved by the convention
which is about to assemble a great
crime will have been committed.
"The triumph of such proceedings
at the moment would mean the wreck
of the Republican party; and if such
proceedings become habitual it would
mean the wreck of popular govern
ment
"We come together to protest
against crime which strikes straight
at the heart of every principle OF
political decency and honesty-a crime
which represents treason to the peo-
PIE anu lht uoulpdIlOl VI IhC oo'7
ereignty of the people by irresponsi-
BILE political bosses, inspired by the
similar influence of moneyed priv
ilege"
Mr.. Roosevelt reviewed the reasons
which led him to enter the present
contest, chief among them being to
prevent Mr.. Taft's denomination be-
cause he had, Mr. Roosevelt asserted
abandoned the cause of the people
and only represented the bosses.
"The big BOSSES" he continued,
''who control the national committee
represent not merely the leading cap
tains of mercenary politics, but the
great crooked financiers who stand be-
hind these leading captains. These
political bosses are obnoxious in them
selves but they are even more OBJ
noxious because they represent priv
ilege in its most sordid and dangerous
form.
zone thousand, seventy-eight men
are to meet here in convention to de-
eide the future of the Republican
party. At least seven out of eight OF
those among them who really repre-
sent the people are against the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Taft.
at is the duty of all of them, their
first duty, to throw out of the conven-
tion every man fraudulently seated
there by the national committee.
81 cannot with honesty or propriety
stand in any shape or way for the
action of the bosses by accepting the
committees nomination of the tenn
porary chairman nor by accepting its
disposition as to the seating and un-
seating of contested delegations. |
hold that the convention itself is OF
right the only judge of the qualifica-
tions of its own members.
"The action of these men is in no
sense regular as they claim to be.
They do not represent the people and
dishonesty cannot give and never
shall give a title to regularity"