New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-30
Expects Osborn to Come Over.

Expects Osborn to Come Over.
There was Just one other thing that
made Colonel Roosevelt good humored to-
day. II was that he expects Governor
Osborn Will eventually come out for the
Progressive party in Michigan. 1t be-
came necessary for Sycamore Hill to
smoke out Governor Deneen in Illinois
but the Roosevelt leaders are so confident
Of Governor Osborn that they are not
worrying.
a prominent Democrat Of Missouri has
predicted that you will get 30 per cent Of
the party's vote In that state, colonel"
some one said.
Fine" the colonel exclaimed. 81 ex-
e. pect TO get 81 per cent Of tho Republican
vote anyway he added, with a grimace.
isn't that perfectly lovely working
basls-llo per cent? by George, that's
just fine"
The declination OF Judge e. r. Dillon,
OF Ohio, to run as the Republican nominee
for Governor was referred 10 Colonel
Roosevelt for comment
isn't that FUNNY" he exclaimed.
Nothing to say. nothing to say" he re-
peated 10 the accompaniment OF pro-
nounced Rooseyeltian smile. Colonel
Roosevelt implied that lie confidently eX-
pected 10 carry Ohio.
Colonel Roosevelt statement in reply
10 President Tafts defence of his Eomi-
natonfollows:
l saw in the papers that Mr.. Root said
he would have voted for the Texas cases.
Or. Butler is said TO have declared that
he would have voted for the Washington
cases. Several are reported 10 have said
that they would have voted for the Cali
1Orna cases. II these cases alone had
been reversed even if the Texas cases
alone had been reversed, Mr. Taft could
not have been nominated. Look at the
three articles J wrote IN The Outlook,
sailed M Taft's Majority" Thou Thou
Roller" This attempted defence of Mr..
Taft does not cOntrOyert and cannot con-
trovert one single statement made.
did not consider OnC-third of the cases
] could nave considered. ] took merely
a few cases which were notorious and
where there wa no possibility of dis
putting the facts. These cases alone had
trated by Nj. Tafts lieutenants, would
have absolutely prevented all possibility
Of Mr.. Tafts nomination.
Source Of Tafts Strength.
II honestly organized. the convention
would have been against Mr.. Taft by over
one hundred majority. Moreover as de
from the stolen ninety delegates which
gave the fraudulent majority, Mr.. Taft
vote was made up three-fourths by the
rotten borough delegates from those
Southern states where there Is no real
Republican party, and which have never
east a Republican electoral vote, and
from the hand-picked delegates OF Messrs.
Barnes, Penr0se. Guggenneim and COM
pany from the North.
I wish TO state, with all emphasis that
there is no room for honest doubt as 10
what happened at the Chicago convention.
IL is not a case for honest discussion.
The fraud was as barefaced ana shame
less as any fraud ever committed at cleo
tons by the Tweed machine in those days
when there was no pretcncc at holding
a fair election in New York City.
In private conversation the real leaders
of the Taft forces not merely do not deny
this, but glory in il, and sometimes they
ineautiously express the same sentiments
in public Mr. Taft's Cleveland leader,
MIR. Doughcrty, was reported in the pa
pers the other day as exultng in the
Hines was reported tho other day as ex.
pressing enthusiastic gratitude on behalf
Of Mr. Taft 10 Mr.. Barnes for the way
he held the bridge at Chicago. 1t Is nON-
sense to suppose that Mr.. Hiles and Mr..
TAFT do not know just exactly how that
particular bridge was held.
II Is no mere coincidence that at least
nine-tenths Of the Senatorial leaders in
tile theft Of the Chicago convention were
also leaders IN the fight TO retain Mr.
Lorimer in his seat in the Senate,
Messrs. Penrose Guggenheim Gallinger
and Crane, for instance. The two cases
stand on q par. The successful theft
and fraud which resulted I'm Mr.. Tafts
nomina ton in Chicago made a piece OF
political work which fundamentally