The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-15
TAFT STILL IN FIGHT;
WILL STAY TO THE END
Was Nominated Four Years AGO
Without States That ROOse-
welt Has Won.
WARNS REPUBLICAN PARTY
No Man Ever Elected to a Third
Tcrm-Managcr Resents I
Misrepresentation.
WARNS REPUBLICAN PARTY

WASH INGToN. April l4.-Director Viii
lam h. Mckinley OF the Taft campaign
issued this statement tonight:
The outcome Of the Pennsylvania primary
is plainly indicative " the fact that national
issues are playing only u small part In some
States in the campaign for the Republican
nomination for President. Instead of con-
strUctiNe tatesnlenship being put forth
in an Cfort TO solve the problems before
the country and ~ Il bid for votes on the
ground of merit Il nationwide campaign
of wiisful and malicious misreprese ntation.
viiliiicatiOn and assault on the President
ri the nited States has been substitute
Such campaign, amounting in fact o u
conspiracy. made not only TO humiliate
l the President personally but to commit
! the Republican party to rank socialism.
has not only been countenancpd but con-
Quoted by former President Theodore
! Roosevelt
The time has arrived TO call halt on
such proce eedings
President Taft. always mindful OF the
decencir- OF human conduct believing that
friendship is a sacred thing and that, like
truth. il should I've maintained even at a
personal sacrifice. and also believing that
the American people expect the occupant
OF the highest Office IN the git Of the nat ion.
as well ~ those who have formerly occu-
pied il. 'o respect the dignity OF that office,
has during the course of this campaign
patiently submitted to misre representation.
vllifcation and insult without reply.
| The result is tina. his opponent has thrown
kall restraint TO the winds. Senator Joseph
H. Dixon. the national campaign manager
of former President Roosevelt. has been
! permitted. without rebuke from his cand-
date. to insult the President of the United
states. Tie has not only been permitted to
charge the President with being "a receiver
OF ST Olen goods" without protest but former
President Roosevelt has repeated the charge
| on the stump
The time has come when the American
people will no longer sit idly by and see his
unfair and malicious persecution and vilf-
cation continued by man and by the
| friends of II man who has already served
two terms in the White House. by the votes
OF the Republican party, and who now, not
only in violation of the unwritten law OF
the republic. hut in violation of his own
solemn promise to the nation. voluntarily
given ON the night of November 4. 1904. is
seeking third term on IA national plat form
so iin-Rr-publicani In nature that he dare not
discuss II himself. as is shown by his rec ent
speeches in Illinois, PENNSYLVANIA and New
Hampshire.
The fact that this candidate is now claim
ing 10 wear the mantle OF Abraham Lincoln
is evidence that the acme OF demagogis ism
I in this country has been reached
These States which have yet to elect
delegates to the national convention IN
Chicago might just as well realize now that
the republic as we'll as the Republican
party has been placed in jeopardy by the
issues raised by Theodore Roosevelt They
must realize that the unwrtten law of the
| republic that no man shall he President
three terms IL an insurmounta 10 obstacle
A u sF M in ...,l
election in this country. they mN., ,taiize
and Of judicial decisions IL not only un-
Republican, hut rank socialism The duty
Ot Republicans toward such u platform and
such a platform is therefore plain.
Including Pennsylvania. which accord
ing to latest advices has given President
laft "a, least twenty one votes in the
national convention. the President to-day
has sa+ delegates INSTRUCTED fol, or pied dged
more delegates to insure his renominat ion
HE Is already assur ed OF 49, more dele
gates. making his support in the ChiCag 20
convention .<8 delegates. or more than 200
najOritv
The President is in this nght 10 stay.
/ Ne will be the nominee Of the Republican
! convention At G hioago. n this connection
nat"i four years al o without he votes Of
the States OF Illinois. Pennsylvania, In
diana. New York or Wisconsin. IN this
contest he IL a already assured OF an over
whelminK majority OF the delegates from
Indiana and New York and OF large
number of delegates in Pennsylvania. none
of which voted for him In 1908.