The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-28
Former Congressman Spoke
Saturday Night at the COL
iseum and a Large Crowd
Heard Speech.
TAFT NOMINATION
HELD LEGITIMATE
Local Newspapers Charged
With Printing Incorrect
Version of the Convention
Teddy Cheered.

James E. Watson, former Sixth dis
!trict representative and whip of the
house under the Cannon regime,
speaking under Republican auspices
at the Coliseum Saturday evening,
gave his version of the Chicago con-
.vention, defended Taft's administra-
ton, and explained the difference be-
tween his party and the Democrats
on the tariff issue.
In his explanation of the manner
in which the national committee set
tied disputed seats in the Chicago
convention, Watson incidentally as
sailed the local newspapers. "The
Richmond papers in speaking of the
Chicago convention" said he, "cry
steal, fraud, robbery, crooks and porch
climbers. They have not given you
a fair account of the proceedings of
that convention and they never will.
/ have for two months challenged any
man to deny the account of the con-
vention l am proposing to give you"
Watson then told how the national
d
convention to settle contests and
showed that delegates had a right to
appeal to the credentials committee
and ultimately to the convention it.
self.
The Indiana Dispute.
when the committee heard the In
diana dispute regarding the four dele
gates at large, it asked where is the
evidence of fraud" We were selected
by majority of $50 at the state con-
vention. Less than 100 delegates in
a meeting held in the corner of the
room, without a call selected four men
to take our places. The national COM
mittee held they were not entitled to
seats, and that we who were regularly
selected were the Indiana delegates" !"
The speaker then reviewed the
trouble in the Fifteenth ward in India
napolis, the seating of the Texas dele
cation and Governors Hadley's con-
duct in the convention.
He alleged that the International
Harvester company and the Steel
trust, against whom President Taft
hou piou6AI oulIS, "cI0 Iu0 pow 6I b
that wanted his defeat.
In the introduction of his speech,
Watson said, he believed the citizens
of Wayne county were an enlightened
people who wanted the truth. "Inas-
much as you are not able to read the
truth in the Richmond newspapers"
he continued, Il am glad to speak on
Republican principles, traditions, and
the future that lies before the party.
I am not here to seek personal ven
geance."
"Teddy, Teddy!"
. After a presentation of the prosper
GUS condition of the country, Watson
in a rhetorical flight asked, How
can the Bull Moose party make it
better? What do you propose?"
A hundred voices answered, Teddy,
Teddy!"
Teddy is name, not a policy, not
a principle" rejoined Watson.
He is not robber," came back the
reply of the crowd.
Explain the irrigation steal" cried
lone voice in the rear of the hall.
DO me the respect to hear me-
continued Watson. Il have nothing
but regard for him. and if do strike,
it will not be behind his back I will
not write an article and publish it af-
ter the man has left your city"
you Bull Moosers propose the in
itiative, referendum, recall and equal
suffrage. They are not the ends of
h,,t
you change the monetary system, the
tariff, the trust legislation, the form
of government? You say, no. If then
you have the end what use have you
for the means?
Ninety days ago We all stood on
the same platform. Roosevelt and
,Beveridge believed as We did. We
agreed on tariff, money and trusts.
Roosevelt said he believed in the Sher-
man antitrust law. Now he says he
believes that the enforcement of the
Sherman law is not the solution, but
that national Incorporation law to
license trusts is the proper method.
THE president is to appoint this
commission. Roosevelt. has never ad-
'oSaSSo q io" tudt VIII the
power OF the executive, but he has
advocated measures that will weaken
the power of congress and limit judi
cial authority.
Pass prosperity around cries Mr..
Beveridge. How? How can we pass
it around more than it has been pass
ed. We cannot make people equal
physically, intellectually, or morally
by statute. because God has willed
otherwise. We can only give them
equal Opportunities to develop their
own characters.
"Mr. Beveridge in a speech at
Washington, Ind, promised to despoil
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