The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-30
RESENTS INSULT.


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tific commission to discover the causes
and suggest the remedies, and TINS is
the only way in which this problem
can be honestly dealt with.
HypocriticaI Statements.
You again show your persistent I'M
fairness in your speech at syracuse,
N. Y, on September 9th, before the
New York state convention OF your
new third party. You again make the
statement that at the Republican ma
tional convention two delegates from
San Francisco were unfairly seated
and you say in effect that the two
delegates not seated were stolen away
from the people of California. Why
will YOU not state this case fully and
fairly? You are familiar with all the
facts. Why do you not SHOW that the
national committee, under the terms
of the convention call and party prece-
dent in national affairs, had to guar
antee to the people of every con-
greSsional district the right to select
their delegates to the national con-
vention and thus could not do other
wise than seat the duly-elected dis
trict delegates? You know very we'll
that the national committee ana ma
tional convention must establish the
rule of representation for all the
states and that the rule must be uni
form for. all in order to be fair and
avoid chaos while California reSu-
lates its own affairs only You know
very we'll that the new primary law
of California went into effect after
the call for the national convention
was issued and it it was absoIuteN
impossible for national coInHlltt"e
when it, assembled to repud1ate the
terms of its own CALL on Wn1cl the
Republicans of all the states had act |
ed You know very we'll that the ma
tional committee and national conven-
ton can only act, as they nave ac+eu,
in obedience to the le-honoreo
American principle CT -jor1ty RUE;
You know very well - the national
committee and natl u convention |
have no powers of o. -ession, that, |
subject to the constitution and stat
utes of the United States, their organl- |
zation is practically a voluntary asso- |
citation whose customs and rules are |
changed when the majority of the |
members wish it, and that no state /
has the right or power to dictate to
associations of citizens from all the
states
The Massachusetts, Case.
If YOU hold to. the idea that votes
by districts and every other consider
alton ought to yield to the will of the
voters as expressed in statewide cleo
lions, why do you not apply this idea
to Massachusetts as we'll as to Cah-
fornia? You know very well That IN
the primaries was for president Taft
by a very substantial majority, but
that between eight and nine thousand
votes for Taft delegates at large were
thrown out because OF a technlcal er-
ror in marking the ballots. You know
very we'll, and you know that even
Mr. Roosevelt admitted it publicly at |
that time, that the Republican Vot-
ers of Massa chusetts had declared for
Mr. Taft and that the Taft delegates
at large had been fairly chosen and
that the inaccurately marked ballots
really represented the purpose of the
men who cast them. But, as you
know. the throwing out of these in
validated ballots gave. technical ma
tortty to the Roosevelt delegates at
large, and these delegates, with only
a minority of the Republican primary
votes back of them, took seats in the
Republican convention and used their
places and authority for Mr.. Roose-
Welt to the end. Why do you not de-
ncunce this as fraud on the people?
It is because you know that Mr..
and his followers will take ;
advantage of every technicality or Is
tabIished procedure that will give him
an advantage and then. thunder moral I
platitudes against a similar procedure !
somewhere else where 1t operates 10
ais disadvantage. You know that Mr. 1
Roosevelt will not respect any rule or {
or even his own solemn {
pledge, when it interferes with his '
purpose
You are playing the same part of
1eceitful cant. humbug and hypocrisy
Why do you not denounce the great
fraud attempted by Mr.. Roosevelt
when, through the use of enterpristng
agents apparently well supplied with :
he had an enormous number !
Of contests for seats in the Republt- ,
can convention framed up in southern :
states. You know that when these ?
southern contests came before the ma =
.ionaI committee so many of them c
collapsed completely OF were aban- 4
loned by the Roosevelt people them i
selves that the truth was made known I
% all. You know that one of the [