The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-24
TAT TAND SHERMAN
HEAD TICKET At
CHICAGO
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pronounce "the Roosevelt valedic-
tory" When he announced he was
about to read statement Just plac-
ed in my hands from Col. Theodore
the Roosevelt adherents
broke into demonstration and {
cheering and renewed cries OF I'VE
want Teddy"
The demonstration had been in
PROCESS q minutes when Senator
Root at last pounded for order. Mr..
Allen when he had obtained attention
asked that the delegates keep quiet;
that what he had to say was not in
tended TO start demonstrations, but
to set out the position OF progressive
republicans. He was listened TO at
tentively for time and first read the
Roosevelt statement
"A clear majority of the delegates
honestly elected to this convention
were chosen by the people to nomi-
nate me Under the direction and
with the encouragement of Mr. Taft
| the majority of the national com
mittee, by the so-called steam roller
methods and with scandalous dis
regard of every principle OF element
airy honesty and decency, stole 80 or
80 delegates, putting on the temper
airy roll-call sufficient number of
fraudulent delegates to defeat the
legally expressed will of the people
and to substitute "a dishonest for an
honest majority.
THE convention has now declined
to purge the roll of the fraudulent
delegates placed thereon by the de
funct national committee and the ma
jorty which thus Endorsed fraud was
made a majority only because 1t in
cluded the fraudulent delegates them
selves, who all sat as judges on one
another's cases If those fraudulent
votes had not thus been east and
counted the convention would have
bee purged of this presence. This
action makes the convention in no
proper sense any longer republi-
can convention representing the real
republican party. Therefore | hope
the men elected as Roosevelt dele
gates will now decline to vote on any
} matter before the convention. do
not release any delegates from his
honorable obligation to vote for me if
he votes at all; but under the aactual
conditions hope that he will not
vote at all.
The convention as now composed
: has no claim to represent the voters
, OF the republican party. 1t repre-
sents nothing but successful fraud in
overriding the will OF the rank and
: file Of the party. Any man nominaat.
ed by this convention as now consti.
y tuted viii be merely the beneficiary
) OF this successful fraud. it will be
deeply discreditable to any man to
accept the conventions nomination
( under these circumstances and any
Y man thus accepting it would have no
n claim to the support OF any republi.
can on party grounds, and would
u have forfeited the right to ask the
support OF any honest man of any
D party on moral grounds"
u The statement was interrupted at
? ono point by groans and Kisses. This
T was renewed when Mr. Roosevelt
asked his followers not to vote on
!, any other proposition in the conyen.
U ton. The Roosevelt delegates cheer
% ed. Mr. Allen then proceeded with
D his own statement He said.
8 Gentlemen Of the convention: We
a have reached point where a majori
2 ~ OF the Roosevelt delegates feel
= that they can no longer share in the
& responsibility for the acts of this con
~ yention. We have contended with
you until We have exhausted every
parliamentary privilege in the effort
to have placed upon the roll the
y names OF men legally elected.
i7 When by using the votes OF IN,
: delegates whose rights to sit in thi:
e convention are challenged, you tool
70 position which places the power o.
y a political committee above the au
thority OF 1900 majority elected in
II legal primary in California, we decid
ed that your steam.roller had exceed
ed the speed limit Since then W,
have asked for no roll-call. You hay,
now completed the seating of all con
tested delegates, using the votes o
: the contested delegates to accomplish
your purpose
n We cannot in justice to ourselve
At share the responsibility OF conver
he ton which has said to Ohio-th
home OF President Taft-that a ma
Iority OF 1900 voters, obtained in
81 legal primary election, must stan
N aside for the political dictum Of a ma
tional committeeman discarded b
that same majority We cannot b,
~ come parties with you in declari
ton to Pennsylvania that a defeate
committeeman, sitting in an obscur
., room of this building. can nullify IN
l5O'OOO majority by which Pennsy
a. wanna gave expression to her wishe,
u We viii not put ourselves in
~ position to be bound by any actio
which you say to the majority VIII
" rejected Mr.. Taft In New Jersey: I
the majority which rejected him 1
~ wisconsin, to the majority who r,
~ lected him In Minnesota: to the m,
lority who rejected him in Maine:
!. the majority who rejected him 4
Maryland, to the majority in Sout
Dakota, to the majority in North ID,
N kota, which gave him only 1900 vote
" out OF $4,000; to the majorities whic
n rejected him in Nebraska. in Oregon
A" Minnesota, Kansas. Oklahoma, We,
virginia and North Carolina. that n
these maioriies added to gethe
o. went down under the mere rulings ,
an a political committee
~ We VIII not join you in sayin
" to the home state of Abraham LII
% coin that the 10000 majority b
% which we defeated MIR. Taft and n
managers to Illinois was overrule
by those very by those very manager
with the consent OF those who ha,
- arrogated powers never intended
81 be there.
J. Mr. Payne sought to question N
sai. r,nuhtt,,vt.u. 80 ~ .'