The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-20
Taft Expects Him to
Bolt Repub lican
Convention.
SACRIFICES ALL
FOR SELFISHNESS
President Gives Out Statement
Which Is All Intensely Bitter
and Scathing Denunciation of
His Predecessor-Patriotic
Citizens Congratulated
on His Defeat.

Cincinnati, Ohio. May ls--In n most
bitter and scathing denunciation of
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt President
tart tonight declared that the Ger
tainty his defeat for the Repubii-
( can nomination must be sourca of
profound congratulation TO all pa
triot!c citizens" declared that his pre-
decessor in the White House would
wreck the Republican party If he is
! not chosen by the Republican Ma tional
Convention. and compared Mr. Roose-
welt to Louis XIV. OF France. who said
! the state. / am H." The attack was
In the form of Il statement.
on Thursday last" says the Pres
! idcnt' II gave statement 10 the press,
in which / said that with 500 Taft
ton. and with the immediate prospect
/ OF the election of enough to exceed
the necessary $50. the success Of the
, cause of constitutional government
seemed assured. The delegates select
cd since that time have confirmed this
I conclusion.
/ Would Work Utter Ruin.
! "Mr. Rooseveits speech at Cleveland
shows him in such Il light that the Ger
tainty of his defeat fer the Rcpubli-
can nomination must he source Of
/ profound congratulation to all pntrio-
| tic citizens. who can now see the ut
| ter ruin that ne would nave made Of
/ the party II nominated, and tho great
danger TO which the country would
Z have been exposed had there been any
chance OF his election to a third term.
/ Mr.. Roosevelt says that he is the
! Ihpublican parry. and that II the Re-
! publican National Committee. in pass
! ing on the credentials OF delegates for
the preliminary roll in the conven-
ton. shall hold TO be unfounded his
many flimsy pretexts he will decline
to abide by the Judgment of those hav-
ing authority.
The Inference from this is that he
Will bolt the convention because a
duly constituted Republican National
Committee shall. after a judicial in
vestigation. refuse TO scat his contest
ing delegates. II his uaict is to be
needed. then tho holding of ny con-
vcntion a all IS perfunctory and SUI
! periiuous.
| The arrogance OF his statement tha;
! he IS the Republican party. AMI that
| failure to comply with his views and
wishes puts those doing so in lie atii-
! tude OF bolters, finds no parallel in his
! tory save in the famous words of Louis
! NV: The state-I am IL 1t is en- 4
/ par with his declaration that 1 typify
and embody' the progressive sentiment
| of the age.
| With clearly trsceable premedita-
| tlcn he PROJECTED contests without the
/ slightest reason therefor, In many
cases weeks after the regular convem-
| lions had been held, merely TO maSS a
basis for 4 campaign CT bluff and blus .
! ter. Now he threatens that unless tcis
| campaign thus carried on is TO be rec
ognizcd as successful. and unless hon
| estly elected delegates shall be thrown
| out in sufficient numbers to give him a
majority. he Will break from the party
and try 10 ruin that which he cannot
! rule.
His Claim Forfeited.
/ u appeal to all Republicans to say
| whether a man who assumes this atti-
tudc does not forfeit his claim 10 any
right to become candidate in Re-
| publican convention. Honored with
, the nomination 10 the presidency by
| that party, and with the sacred obliga-
| lions resting upon him to be loyal 10
! Its organization, to respect the rules
| governing its national convention and
| TO recognize the authority of The COM
mittees duly appointed under its ira
ditional policy, lie nouts in advar-e
| all these and announces that unless he
is TO be nominated the interest of the
| party and the interest OF its members
are 20 be sacrificed. and only his selnst.
| ambition is to be consulted. 1t cannot
| be that Republican will countenance
| such breach of party fealty. such
treason to the party's constituted gov
| crnment and such defiance of the will
| of its ma jority.
! mfr. Roosevelt reiterates tho un-
! founded statement that | held confer
ences with him or in the Cabinet con-
| corning the treatment OF the steel trust
| and of the harvester trust. So clAarly
| have l made the proof that those uues-
4 nj ,aIr n
was out of the country and that
| therefore I could have had no part In
! any conference on the subject that 7
| did not think 1t necessary to refer 10
the matter again. Mr. Roosevelt's
Statements in this regard are mere as
| sert!ons. without reference to record
| or contemporary memorandum. Mine,
! were based on both.
! "Mr. Roosevelt says that Mr.. Dan
| lianna's indictment for rebates was for
! mere technical violation Of tin, law
| and involved no moral delinquency.
| The fact is that the discontinuance of
the criminal proceedings against Mr..
! Hanna was part of II settlement I'm
which the companies repros ented by Mr..
| Hanna paid $4,000 of fines This
would seem more than mere technical
violation Of the law.
Questions Not Answered.
| "Mr. Roosevelt has not seen lit ia
answer the question whether, If he is
nominated and elected. he Will discon-
tinue the steel trust suit and the har-
vester trust suit. nor has he answered
the question whether h. will accept a
| fourth term"
! President Taft spent quie. day ir,
Cincinnati. He went 10 church IN the
morning. and this afternoon lunched
I.with Mrs. Anderson. a. sister oil Mrs
Taft. and took Il motor ride.
Tomorrow the President Will leave