The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-06-28
ALLEN EXPLAINS Why
ROOSEVELT WITHDREW
In Delivering Coloners Valedic-
tory to Convention, He Re-
cites Gross Irregularities.
TAFT MEN ARE TO BLAME
Prceressives Would Not Become Party
to the Betrayal of the Trust Given
BY Majority of the
Voters,

Convention Hall. Chicago. June a.
After the motion to make the temper
airy organization permanent was
passed Chairman Root introduced
Henry Allen, of Kansas, who stepped
forward to read a Roosevelt state
ment and to pronounce the Roosevelt
valedictory."
Crowd Cheers Wildly.
When he announced he was about to
read a statement from Col. Theodore
Roosevelt the Roosevelt adherents
ing and enewed h cries of We want
Teddy"
The statement was interrupted a.
one point by groans and Kisses. This
was renewed when the Roosevelt fol-
lowers were asked not to vote On IN
proposition of the convention.
T. r. vaIedietory.
Mr.. Allen proceeded with his W
statement. He said:
Gentlemen of the convention: We
have reached a point where a major
ity of the Roosevelt delegates feel that
they can not longer share in the re-
sponsibility for the acts of this nve
ton. We have contended with you un-
til we have exhausted every parliament
tary privilege in the effort to have
placed upon the roll the name Of men
16oAAy xENLco
when, by using the votes of the dele
gates whose right to sit in this con
vention are challenged, you took a
position which places the power of a
political committee above the authority
Of 1900 majority. elected in a legal
primary in California, we decided that
your steam roller had exceeded the
speed limit. Since then we have asked
for no roll call. You have now COM
pleted the seating of all contested dele
gates, using h vote of the contested
delegates to accomplish you purpose.
We cannot in justice to ourselves
share the responsibility OF a conven-
ton which has said to Ohio-the home
of President Taft-that a majority of
1900 voters, obtained in a legal pri-
mary election, must stand aside for the
political dictum of a national com
mitteeman discarded by that same ma
jority. We cannot become parties with
you in a declaration to Pennsylvania
that e defeated committeeman, seated
in an obscure room of this building.
nul1fy the 1906 900 majority by
which Pennsylvania gave expression
to her wishes.
I'VE will not put ourselves in a
position to be bound by any act in
which you say to the majority which
rejected him in Wisconsin, to the ma
jority who rejected him in Maine, TO
the majority who rejected him III
Maryland, to the majority in South Da-
kota. to the majority in North Dakota.
which a W him 1,500 votes out of So
900. to the majority which rejected him
in Nebraska, in Oregon, Minnesota.
Kansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia and
North Carolina; that all these MAORI
ties added together went down under
h mere rulings of a political COM
mittee.
1--WE will not join you in saying to the
home state of Abraham Lincoln that
the $50, 900 majority with which we de-
feated Mr.. Taft and his managers In
Illinois was overruled by those very
manager with the consent of those
who have ~arrogated powers never in
tended to be there
immediately upon the formal an
nouncement by Senate Root of the
nomination of President Taft the roll
cal for nomination for vice president
was announced.
Work on Vice President.
Alabama yielded to New York, and
j. VanVechten Alcott too the plat
form to renominate Vice President
Sherman
Alcott's speech did not last three
minutes. and was received without en
thusiasm. Harry Dougherty. of Ohio
merely nov a second for Sherman's
nomination.
Ten iowans for Borah.
Iowa put Borah on the list, giving
him her. Roosevelt votes
Minnesota emphaticaIly declined Il
ote.
Nebraska gave Senator Beveridg.
we votes. Fourteen delegates declined
to vote.
The announced vote was: Sherman
597, Hadley, II: Borah. 21; Beverage
2; Charles E. Merriam, Chicago. 20
Gillette, /. Not voting, 352. Absent
II.
The vote of six delegates from Yer
mont cast at 1910 o'clock gave Sher
man one over the $40 necessary.
A resolution appointing Senator Roo
chairman of the committee to motif.
the president of his nomination an
naming Thomas Devine, of Colorado
chairman of the committee to motif,
the vice president, was passed. Will
the delegates hurried from the hall.
At 1890 Delegate Estabrook, of New
Hampshire, moved the convention ad
journ without delay and the motiol
was adopted. The delegates filed on
in silence. As the last of the delegate
left the nal the band played "Prais
God. from Whom All Blessings Flow.