Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-29
Roosevelt Attacks Statement
by the Administration.
REITERATES HIS CHARGES
No Statement Regarding Chicago
Proceedings Controverted, He Says.
LIKENS CASE TO LORIMER'S
Declares Taft's Nomination Stands
on Same Moral Plane as
Senator's Election.

OYSTER BAY. N Y. July a9.-The
republican national convention last month
was compared by CO.. Roosevelt today to
the election Of William Lorimer to the
United States Senate. The two cases. he
declared. stand on the same moral plane,
and Mr.. Taft's nomination. in his opinion
can be defended only upon grounds which
would justify Mr.. Lorimer's election. Had
the Chicago convention been organized
honestly. he said. there would have been
majority of over 100 against Mr.. Taft.
Col. Roosevelt's statement was in reply
to the administrations defense of the
proceedings at Chicago, which has been
issued at Washington. 1t follows:
Il saw in the papers that Mr.. Root said
he would have voted for the Texas cases.
DR.. Butler is said to have declared that
he would have voted for the Washington
cases. Several are reported to have said
that they would have voted for the Cali
fornia cases. If these cases alone had
been reversed even if the Texas cases
alone had been reversed, Mr.. Tart could
not have been nominated. Look at the
three articles ] wrote called Mr Iaft
Majority Thou Shalt Not Steal, and
The Steam Roller.
Charges Not Controverted, He Says.
This attempted defense of Mr.. Taft
does not controvert and cannot cantrovert
one single statement l made. / did not
consider one-third of the cases l could
have considered. l took merely Few
cases which were notorious. and where
there was no possibility of disputing the
facts. These cases alone, had II not been
for the downright theft perpetrated by
Mr.. Taft's lieutenants, would have abso-
lutely prevented all possibility OF MI
Taft's nomination.
IF honestly organized the convention
would have been a gainst Mr.. Taft by over
100 ma ajority. Moreover, aside from the
stolen ninety delegates which gave the
fraudulent majority, Mr.. Tafts vote was
made up three-fourths by the rotten Dor
oush delegates from those southern states
where there is no real republican party
and which have never cast a republican
electoral vote and from the hand-picked
delegates of Messrs. Barnes, PenroSe,
Guggenheim & Co.. from the north
Holding the Bridge at Chicago.
Mr.. HilIes was reported the other day
as expressing enthusiastic gratitude on
behalf of Mr.. Taft to Mr.. Barnes for
the way he held the bridge at Chicago.
1t is nonsense to suppose that Mr. lilies
and Mr.. Taft do not know just eAac'is
how that particular bridge was held: IL
is no mere coincidence that ar least
nine-tenths of the senatorial leaders IN
the theft of the Chicago con nNention were
also leaders in the fight to retain Mr.
Lorimer in his seat in the Senate. Messrs.
Penrose. Guggenheim. Gailinser ana
Crane. for instance. The two cases
stand on a par.
There are politicians and newspapers
who continue to uphold Mr.. Lorimer
innocence, and to assert that there was
nothing improper about his election. Al
most all these politicians and newspapers
and some others in addition make pre-
cisely similar assertions that there was
no fraud or thefts of delegates at the
Chicago convention One assertion mas
precisely as much merit as the other.
The fraudulent nomination OF MI.
Taft can be defended only upon grounds
which would also justify Mr.. Lorimer S
election to and his retention in the Sen
ate