Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-04-18
FROM THE NATIONAL
 ROOSEVELT COMMITTEE

WdSuIuSI IOu, O O., AUTH lA. uS
 campaign for the election of delegates | to the repuDncan naCIUnaI convention
 at Chicago in June has now proceed ed far enough to make certain facts | perfectly clear to every man who
 gives any attention whatever to the
 present political situation. The first
 of these facts, and the most import
 ant, is that if the unexpected should | happen and MT. Taft should be re
 nominated at Chicago, he could not by any possibility hope to be elected | in November. The demonstration of
 this fact is already ample. The sec
 ond fact made clear by the progress of the campaign to this date is that Colonel Roosevelt is the only man
 whom the republican party can nomi
 nate for the presidency at Chicago
 with any hope of success at the Nov
 ember election. The demOnstrati n
 of the unavailability of MT. Taft as
 candidate to succeed himself has
 been cumulative. The Taft managers, following a perfectly natural and an
 easily understood method, have sought to create false impression through
 out the country regarding the strength
 of their candidate by piling up what passes on the surface as a mass of delegates to the convention at the start.
 Those delegates come almost who'll ly from states which have not cast a republican electoral vote since the
 reconstruction. They are the result of snap conventions held almost in-
 variably without notice to the repub licans of the districts and states pur- porting to be represented, and made up usually, not of delegates regularly elected by the republican voters them selves, but of men carefully selected by the Taft federal office-holding ma chine and receiving their alleged ere dentials by appointment rather than
 by ballot. It is the northern and the
 border states where there is a real republican party that the true situation regarding the candidacy of MT. Taft is demonstrated. In every one of these states, where delegates have been cho- sen thus far, there has been tremend- ous protest among the rank and file republicans against the re-nomination of MT. Taft.
 Some of these states have repudi- ated his candidacy entirely and he has not secured a single delegate from them. Others have given him a small minority of the delegates selected. In every one of these states the protest against his re-nomination will mani fest itself at the Chicago convention in the shape of anti-Taft delegates.
 A peculiar and emphatic signifi- canoe attaches to this fact. It must be borne in mind that MT. Taft is not seeking a first nomination. He is asking the republican party to give him vote of confidence by a re-nom- ination. No, that statement is not ac- curate. He is not asking the party for a vote of confidence, he is com manding it to give it to him. He is exerting every conceivable influence to force such a vote from the party. He has prostituted the power of his office to that purpose. He has put unlawful and corrupt pressure upon men whose means of livelihood he holds to compel them to assist in giv ing him such a vote of confidence. He has openly offered what is tanta- mount to a bribe in the way of ap- pointment ofederal office for such support. In North Carolina it was on- ly ten offices. In Texas, by brazen advertisement of his manager, it was every federal place in the state. From all over the republican northern states there comes a rising chorus of pro- test against this outrageous and TOT rUpC use of federal patronage. SIch a protest has never been heard iE thls country before. The Taft mana gers seek to ignore it and continue to declare that despite this opposition they will nominate their candidate at Chicago. The steam-roller is effect i've in conventions, but it loses it's potency at the election. It has nn force when the voters themselves get their say. The Taft managers may not be willing openly to admit the truth of these statements but in their hearts they kno wit.