Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-06-11
AGAIN Scores Losses
DECLARES TAFT MEN ARE DE
LIBERATELY ATTEMPTING
4 BRAZEN THEFT.
Goes after The President
says No Honorable Man Could Ac-
Ccpt the Six Delegates at Large
From Ohio.

NEW YORK, June 10.-Theodore
Roosevelt discussed political oondi-
tions at Chicago in an article entitled
"A Naked Issue or Right and Wrong,
made public tonight. and to appear
In the current issue of the outlook.
Mr.. Roosevelt says In part.
Tho contest for the republican
nomination has now narrowed down
10 a naked issue of right or wrong:
for the issue is simply whether or not
we shall permit IA system of naked
fraud, OF naked theft from the peo.
pie, to triumph.
| have made this contest on two
great principles. First, the right OF
the people to rule. and therefore. In
the exercise Of their deliberate judg-
ment to control their government and
their governmental agents; and, sec
ond, their duty so to rule as to bring
about not only political. but social and
industrial justice.
What He Has Done.
! have endeavored everywhere to
appeal, not to the politicians but TO
the people Themselves, and to get
their judgment stating scores Of times
that ] would do my best to convert
them to my way of thinking, that
should acquiesce as n matter Of
course in their judgment II It was ad.
verse, but that If thelr Judgment was
favorable, | did not inIend tamely to
submit to an effort by the politicians
to throw aside the verdict Of the peo-
pie and substitute a verdict Of their
own. This is precisely what Mr.
Barnes, Mr., Mckinley, and their as
sistants and representatives on the
national committee at Chicago are
now attempting.
After discussing the primary results
by states, Mr., Roosevelt continues:
Discusses the Vote.
To recapltulate then. In the repub-
lican states which have had direct
primaries, nearly two and a half mil
lion republicans have voted, and of
these nearly two-thirds have voted
against Mr.. Taft. In the other repub-
lican states where the primaries have
been such as to give the people, an
entire chance, but some small chance
to express their will. the showing has
been almost as heavily against Mr.. |
Taft.
In the aggregate the vote was near
ly two to one against him. in some
states II went as high as five or six !
in the north, which sent Taft delega-
tlons We're states in which the repub-
lican voters had no chance to vote |
Ohio went by over 10000 majority |
against Mr.. Taft at the primaries but |
the Taft managers refused to permit |
vote to be taken at the primaries
for the delegates at large, and in the
state convention by adrot political |
trickery they sent six delegates to
vote at Chicago for the man whom
his own state had just repudlated by
10000 majority.
I fail myself to see how an honor.
able man can profit by or take part in .
such a piece Of trickery as this Ohio .
state convention victory. In the same
way. | fail to-. see how an honorable |
man can profit by or connive at or
approve of the farclcal New York .
county primaries But the case was
far worse in Washington, Indiana in /
Michigan. In many OF these states
Taft delegates represent absolutely |
nothing but fraud as vulgar, as hraz-
en- and as cynicaly open as any ever
committed by the Tweed regime In |
New York forty odd years ago.