The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-22

Tells Public Why He .Coes
Not Favor MIR. Taft
There Are Seventy-two Reasons. He
Says. But Two Are Sufficient to
Justify His Course-Explains the
California and Texas Contests 1t
National Convention.


Asheville, Aug. 15-Hon. Rich
mond Pearson. Republican National
Committeeman for North Carolina.
has given out the following state
ment relative to why he will not sup
port Taft for President:
feel ii 10 be a duty which | owe
TO my fellow Republicans and 10 the
trust with which they have honored
me, to state the reasons which oblige
me to oppose the candidacy OF Mr..
Taft. There are seventy-two reasons
which determine my action, but /
shall enumerate now only four which
| believe will be found sufficient 20
justify the course which have taken
and intend TO take. | have agreed
to abide by the action of the prima-
ries about to be held and by the de
cision OF a duly constituted State
Convention based upon the will of
primaries. This fact obliges me to
eive candidly the motives which gov
ern my conduct and which / believe
! should govern the conduct OF all hon
| CRADLE and fair-minded Republicans
! throughout the United States. My
| respectful as the exigencies of truth
vii, permit | shall not use the
words fraud" theft" robbery"
etc, but shall undertake to prove in
the briefest space possible that Mr..
Taft appropriated" by indefensible
methods delegates duly chosen for
Mr.. Roosevelt sufficient in number to
defeat the will of the convention
and to give 10 Mr.. Taft the slender
majority which he claims.
The California Cases.
The facts which invalidate Mr..
Taft's nomination.:
First. By the last census three adj
ditional congressman were given to
the State of California. The State
had not been redistricted, it was
agreed between the Taft and Roose-
welt managers that all the delegates
to the Chicago Convention should be
elected by the State at large. In
order to make this agreement be-
tween the political managers abso-
lutely binding, William Howard Taft
personally telegraphed his assent and
agreement to the terms Of the pri
maries These primaries gave Thee
dore Roosevelt 1900 majority. Mr.
Taft did not Immediately violate hi:
promise and contest the result, bu
when he ascertained that his need O.
delegates was painfully evident, hi
managers were instructed to start ;
. contest, claiming the two delegate
MIA. The Secretary of State certi
fed under the great seal Of the Stat
of California that mo- one could de
e termine how many votes were cas-
= for the representative candidates il
the fourth district for the reason
that twelve or more precincts over
, Tapped into the fourth and fifth dis
tricts, but it was ascertained an
undisputed that fourteen candidate
for delegates to Chicago receive
more votes in this indefinite and non
- delimited territory than the two de-
~ egates who were seated for Mr.. Taf
Here we have:
1. Mr.. Taft's violation of hi
- plighted faith.
- 2. Arrant defiances of the will c
- the people of California.
:. g. The insolent overruling of tn
- Secretary of State, attested by tn
great seal of his Office.
u No candid man will claim upo
this state of facts that Mr.. Rooseve
was not entitled to these delegates
V and no earthly honor, not even tie
, Presidencies should count in tn
y scale against Mr.. Taft's repudiatio
Of his personal honor.
= The Texas Cases.
t Second. The Republicans {
D Texas were almost as strong fe
ot Roosevelt as the Republicans {
u North Carolina, and it should be r.
le marked that these two States aloI
held primary elections in the va
rs stretch of country from the Potoms
r to the Rio Gfande and l venture
lie assert that If the other Souther
e. States had allowed the people to e
" press their will in any kind of pr
le maries. Roosevelt would have a
IN overwhelming majority because Il
people showed in every State in Il
III Union where there was primary,
IT, overwhelming preference for M
as Roosevelt as against Mr.. Tai
a Texas was entitled to forty del
&c gates, and of this number the pl
IL maries showed unmistakably that NJ
Id Roosevelt was entitled to thirty-fo'
lie The state convention of Texas elect,
ne fairly and regularly eight delegat
ng at large instructed for Mr.. Rooseve
a but the Taft adherents bolted. held