El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-18


one thousand and seventy eight men
are to meet here in convention to de-
eide the future of the Republican party
At least seven out of eigh- Of these
among them who really represent the
people are against the nomination of
Mr. Taft 1t is the duty of all OF
them. their first duty, to throw out OF
the convention every man frauduIenJly
seated there by the national commit
tee The fraudulent Taft delegates
whom the national committee seated,
for instance. from California from
Washington, from Indiana, from Ken
lucky from Michigan. from Arizona,
from Alabama from Texas. represent
nothing but the deliberate attempt by
certain discredited bosses TO upset the
free and honest expression Of the peO-
pies will. These fraudulent Tart deie-
gates were beaten by the voters OF
Washington, of California, of Texas. OF
Arizona, of Indiana, Of kentucky-anu
then they were seated by the dlScreO-
tied political bosses who had Just
themselves been beaten by the people
of their own states, in Massachusetts,
in New Jersey, in Pennsylvania IN
West Virginia, in Kansas, in Missouri
Beaten as Delegates; Bosses.
'Messrs- Crane and Penrose ana
Company were so d1scredlted IN the
ewes of the Republicans of their own
states that they were beaten as dele
gates to the conventions; and yet they
arrOgate to themselves the right to
seat in the convention the delegates
whom the states of Washington, Cali
fOrnia, Arizona, Texas aud the rest
have just beaten at the polls
May Wreck the Party.
"If the convention proves false to
the cause Of the people, If it records
the Will Of the Bosses whether yet un-
beaten as in New York and Colorado,
a beaten as in Massachusetts and New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Kansas 1t
will wreck the Republican party. There
can be no yielding, no flinching on our
part We have the people behind US
overwhelmingly. We have justice and
honesty on our side. We are warning
against bOssism, against privilege, So
cial and Industrial; we are warning for
the elemental virtues of honesty and
decency. of fair dealing as between
man and man.
How the Vote Went.
THE Republican primary states cast
over twO-thirds of the Republican vote
in the electoral college. In them the
people spoke They went OVerWhelm-
ingly for me, and still more over
whelmingly against Mr.. Taft. In the
other states that went Republican
eight years ago, no primaries are held,
and in all but one the politicians had
nearly complete sway. In those states
Mr.. Taft secured 176 votes. I secured
40, Mr.. Cummins 10. In the Republic
can states. therefore, 1 received the
overwhelming majority of the dele
press themselves, and taking these
states all told in spite OF Mr.. Taft's
triumph in the states where there were
no real primaries, I received 435 dele
gates (ncluding those which the ma
tiOnal committee has stOlen) as against
the 243 for Mr.. Taft, the Sc for Mr..
LaFOllette and the 10 for Mr.. Cummins.
To put il in another way, I carried
q of the old Republican states; these
states cast 263 votes in the electoral
% n =
the total electoral vote. Mr.. Taft car
ried enough states CWhere there were
primaries) to give him 50 electoral
votes.
There remain states. which. al
though Democratic at the last election,
contain a genuine Republican party;
states like North Carolina and Okla
hOma, where there were primaries and
where I carried every delegate except
three. 1t thus appears that in the
Republican states Mr. Taft was beaten
two to one, and that in the Republican
states which held primaries where the
people could express their desires, he
was beaten by over seven to one
people Versus Crooks
My Victories have been won before
the people and by the people Mr..
Tafts have been won by the bosses
and by the representatives of special
privilege. by the national committee,
and by boss controlled conventions OF
machine politicians carry Washing
ton at the polls, he carries it before
the national committee. He never has
had, and has not now, a chance with
the peopi@; and I have just as little
chance wherever the crooked type Of
politician has power. If I am nOm--
mated, it will be because whenever they
have had a chance. the verdict of the
people as expressed in millions OF
votes. has been over two to one in my
The Taft Theft.
THE majority Of the national COM
mittee have acted with deliberate dis
honesty. a majority committee COM
posed nearly half of politicians from
territories and states that never cast
a Republican electoral vote, and near
" half of politicians who have just
been repudiated at open primaries by
the people OF their own states. has
stolen from the rank and file of the
Republicans from so TO so lawfully
elected delegates, has substituted for
them an equal number of fraudulent
delegates. not elected by the people,
and claims the right TO nullify the viii
Of the people by placing these frau
dulent delegates on the temporary roll
call of the national convention with
the hope of thereby controlling 1t IN
the interest of the candidate and OF
the bosses whom the people have just
now emphaticGlly repudiated- This at
tempt 10 defraud of their rights the
plain citizens of the Republican party,
by the bosses whom that party has
Just reDuulaLeQ- DEluSS IN question
certain elementary principles which lie
at the foundation not only OF party
procedure and party organization, but
Of free government, of social order.
Convention the Only Judge.
ct hold that the convention in it
self is OF right the only judge Of the
qualifications of its members. From
Washington, California, Arizona, Texas,
Kentucky. Indiana, Alabama and GER
tain other states, the people elected
certain delegates who are legally and
morally entitled to sit in the cOnven-
ton. The discredited politicians max
ing up the majority of the national
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