The Washington times., 1912-06-25
MARYLAND LEADERS
APPEAL TO ALL TO
JOIN ROOSEVELT
Plan Aggressive Fight to
Carry State for the
Colonel.

BALTIMORE, June 25.-Col. f. c.
Darlington. jr.. Of Montgomery county,
chairman OF the Maryland Roosevelt
committee, and Galen l.. TAFT, chair
man Of the sixth Congressional dis
trist Roosevelt committee. have made
the following stat sment
"On behalf of the Roosevelt delegates
to the Republican national convention
we deem II proper TO repder an account
ing Of our stewardship to the Republi-
cans of the state Of Maryland that
they may Judge which Of their dele
gates have been good and faithful
servants. and which have been false.
"Ev a primary vote of several thous-
End majority the Republicans of Mary
land declared that their sixteen dele
gates should follow the mandatory pro-
visions Of a statute deliberately passed
by the legislature and solemnly signed
by the governor, directing the entire
sixteen 20 vote as a unit in support
OF the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt
for Republican nominee for President.
Eight Of our number considered that
the mandate Of a sovereign State was
not subject to quibble, evasion, or teen
nical subrerfuge. We therefore loyalty
supported Theodore Roosevelt upon the
several questions vital TO his candidacy
which arose prior 20 the organization
Of the convention. The most important
was: Shall the contested delegates sit
and vote upon their own cases? Shall
one accused sit in judgment in his own
suit On this great moral question
seven of the opposing eight, including
ftesI the governor Of MARYLAND, tut not in
crt Garrett. voted with those who held
in effect that u jury should be packed
with man all under separate indictment,
und that they should thus be eligible
cases. Through this vital vote in which
the seventy-hve stolen delegates Joined.
the convention was organized and the
stolen delegates controlled the nomina-
tl"n for President by the slender ma
joritv of twenty-one.
when this great national larceny,
aided by Maryland votes, was accom-
plished. Theodore Roosevelt declined to
have his name presented to tainted
convention and requested his delegates
to refrain from voting. Therefore six
OF Of his delegates namely E. c; Carring- ns
and Theodore ?. weis, represented by
William g. Albrecht as alternate. re-
and upon the call of the convention for
the nomination Of President answered
present and not voting one delegate
voted for Taft; while nine. includlns
Dol Of the law and sovereignty of Mary.
land having, as to seven of them voted
on vital questions against Theodore
Roosevelt, now against his wishes voted
for him in a belated and futile effort
to appear to support primary statute
whose letter and spirit they had there
tofore wilfully and impudently violated.
Roosevelt Is Nominated.
THAT night Immediately following the
adjournment of the Taft convention le-
gally elected Roosevelt Republican del
egates, both contested and uncontested
from the various States, without the
stolen delegates. gathered together and
nominated Theodore Roosevelt to the
Presidency.
I'VE desire to- say that our position
clared on May 6 that Maryland Repuc-
licanism was for Roosevelt. We do moi
recognize as binding upon us as Re-
publicans and citizens the action OF an
arbitrary, dishonest, illegal and revo-
lutionary Republican national conven-
tion which by the aid OF fourteen dele
gates from Alaska, Hawaii. the Philip
pines. Porto Rico and the District OIL
Columbia; Of 219 delegates from South
ern States that do not go Republican
and seventy-fiSe stolen votes, has
beaten candidate discredited by every
primary into which he has entered.
1--WE therefore declare 1t to be oul
purpose to do all in our power to carry
out the will Of the Republican party o.
Maryland as declared in tire May rri
mary by supporting Theodore Roose'
welt, the only legal nominee of the Re-