The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-08-01

I'm the ninety, were manipulated on
Of eleven Southern Democratic states
alabama, Arkansas. Florida, Geor
!gia, Kentucky, Louisiana Mississippi
lSouth Carolina, Tennessee, Texas AM
lVirginia), three dependencies Cha
wall. the Philippines and Porto Rico)
and the territory of Alaska, all o.
which elect no single Republican cleo
, tor, and two votes which were trick
cd out of the State of Massachusetts,;
whereby it becomes painfully evident
that the Taft candidacy received, al
most. barely two hundred and fifty
! votes from actual Republican states
which at best could not hope to elect
more than one hundred and twenty
five electors out of the two hundred
, choose president.
| In the 26 states where president
Taft has a majority of the delegates,
Is are controlled by the Democratic
party. These rs states elect 245
,, Presidential electors. OF this number
the Is Democratic states will not elect
1926 electors. Of the remaining 129
there are 107 Taft electors and IL cleo
tors committed to the candidacy of
Theodore Roosevelt.
In the Is states where Colonel Roo
sevelt has won his delegates, COM
prismg the great Republican states
where the preference was taken IN
primary elections, there are ESQ cleo
tors who are already authorized %
cast their vote for Mr.. Roosevelt in
the electoral college. Two other Re-
publican states, Wisconsin and North
Dakota with IS electors, are commit
ted to the candidacy of Senator La
Toilette
These figures show conclusively that
the electoral college will be domi-
mated by the Progressive Republicans
There will be 26S electors from nor
mally Republican states who favor the
election of Theodore Roosevelt, while
107 possible votes are committed to
President Taft
And whereby a purported nominal
ton was foisted upon the Republican
voters of the nation, misrepresenta-
tive Of the sentiment and wishes of
majority Of the electorate and on
face, impossible to carry into success
full election. vain attempt of party
bosses and vested privilege to itself
retain control of the machinery of
power at the cost of the welfare and
wishes of a majority of the Republi-
can voters of the nation.
II is because of these momentous
and fragrant political crimes, because
of this theft of your and my own po-
ltical rights, and of the political rights
the free people Of this nation, that J.
as one of your delegates who witness
ed and participated in the transac-
tions of that convention, feel in coin
science bound to now solemnly protest
that William II. Taft and James
Schoolcraft Sherman are not the nom
cstly chosen and regularly nominated
candidates of the Republican party of
the nation, nor, yet more of the Re-
publican party of this state.
Roosevelt Regular Nominee.
And I do not hesitate to here as
sert that the only regular nominee
'of the Republicans of the nation and
IF bo tot If ~
sentative Of the sentiment of a ma
jOrity Of the great Republican states,
representative Of a majority Of more
than two millions of the Republican
voters Of the United States, represent
tative Of nine teRths~ Of the Republi-
can voters Of the state Of West Vir-
Theodore Roosevelt.
While it may be true, that in this
state there exist, here and there, a
largely patronage fed and place hunt
ing minority who adhere to the Re-
publican party SO long as it's dimes
and dollars adhere to them, and who,
hoping for place and profit, now an
nounce themelves as for the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Taft, yet on the other
, hand, as demonstrated by the senti-
ment overwhelmingly expressed in
the series Of notable conventions al
| ready held in this state during the
| past four months, there exists a
great and increasing majority of Re-
publican voters, men who have been
and are today the backbone and sinew
of the Republican party in West Vir-
ginia, who recognize the inevitable
and certain nomination Of Theodore