The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-30
THEFT STORY UNTRUE
Senator La Toilette Shows Fa!sity OF
Roosevelt Charge.

Madison Wis. oct. 29.-Theodore
Roosevelt did not lose the Republican
nomination at the Chicago convention
| 10y theft he with Governor McCo Govern
| ~ Wisconsin planned TO steam roll
the nomination OF Roosevelt" ir the
same manner in which Colonel Roose-
Welt dictated the nominations o, Mr..
Taft in 1905; "Overmastering growing"
for a third term is responsible fer the
birth uf the Bull Moose party. Along
these lines does Senator Robert VI. La
Toilette continue his attack on Colonel
Roosevelt in his fourth Article N La
Follette's magazine.
The Wisconsin Senator also says
that big business, personifod in George
". Perkins and Steel and Harvester
trust officials, are behind the new
movement.
In minute analysis of Roosevelts
career Senator La Toilette sayS that
the trust policy which Mr.. Roosevelt
is now advocating policy % legal
izing the trusts-was. in effect. carried
out by Colonel Roosevelt when he was
President.
Mr.. Roosevelt. he declares, placed
himself above the law when President
and refused to prosecute trust man
mates with whom he was on terms of
friendly and political intimacy.
Colonel Roosevelts interests In Mr.
Morgan, Mr.. Gary AMI Mr.. Perkins
and his part in the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company deal. as well as
numerous speeches and other actions,
are cited To prove that Roosevelt
thought more of the trusts than he did
Of the people during the seven and
ne-half wears he occupied the White
House.
Of Colonel Roosevelt's actions before
the convention, he says:
knowing that he did not have
majority of the delegates honestly cleo
ted to the convention. Roosevelt made
a loud outcry against the frard which
he professed to believe the national
committee intended to perpetrate in
passing upon contests to be brought
before it. This served the double par.
pose of diverting attention crori mis-
own fraudulent contests and discredit-
ing the decisions of the national COM
mittee in advance Of It's action
The sole excuse for the formction of
tention that delegates in the Rcpubli-
can convention were stolen from one
candidate and given to another. Thou
shalt not steal" was made the key.
note of the Roosevelt boiling conyen-
ton. :.
Thou shalt not steal-from ME-
would have been more in keeping as u
Roosevelt slogan"
Senator La Toilette concludes that
Roosevelt lacked seventy four votes
of enough to nominate him. He says:
The true phsychology of the Roose-
welt proceedings at Chicago became
perfectly plain. He was there to force
his own nomination or to smash the
convention. He was not there To pre-
serve the integrity of the Republican
the promotion Of progressive principles
and the restoration of government to
the people. Otherwise he would have
directed his managers 10 contest every
inch of the ground for n progressive
platform before the committee or reso-
lutions and in the open convention. II
he had evidence to prove that Taft
could not be honestly ana fairly nomi-
mated, why did he not direct his lieu
tenants to present that evidence TO the
national committee, and then to The
convention and the country, so clearly
that the convention would not have
dared to nominate Taft and that Taft
could not, in honor. have accepted the
nominal ion IL made9"