Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-27
ACCUSES TAFT FORCES OF RE.
SORTING, TO TAMMANY TAG.
TICS IN PRIMARY.
FOLLOWERS WILL SEEK
TO PREVENT INSTRUCTIONS
RoosevsIt Declares Up.etats DsIss atss
Are For Him-Progrsssives Secure
Majority Of Delegate in Scott coun.
~ caueusss-Taft Mon Control
Colorado Convsn ntion.


voring the nomination Of Theodore
Roosevelt were defeated at yesterdays
New York state primary in every dis
trict where they opposed candidates
designated by the regular" republican
organization and claimed by the fol-
lowers Of President Taft. The Taft
campaign managers declared today at
least eishty-three of New York's nine
ty delegates would go to Chicago ia
foring the presidents denomination
This estimate included the four dele
gateS-at-large to be chosen at the state
| convention on April g.
The remaining seven delegates were
designated by the regular district or
ganization as conceded to Colonel
Roosevelt.
Colonel Roosevelt lost the only two
fights his friends made up state, and
the returns from the fifteen contested
districts in New York City and Long
Island gave his opponents g. plurality
averaging more than two to one.
May Prevent Instructions.
Colonel Roosevelt's supporters now
are expected to concentrate their at
tention on the state convention In an
effort to prevent the Taft men from
sending to Chicago an Instructed dele
cation. The primary law in operation
yesterday did not permit specific In
struction Of delegates at the time they
were elected.
Roosevelt Indignant.
Colonel Roosevelt was apparently
brimming over with indignation Just
before he boarded the 5:04 Pennsyl-
vania train for Chicago yesterday af
ternoon. He said:
Before leaving my office received
GUS polling districts thruout the city
These were to the Sne efrect-the
Roosevelt watchers were driven from
the polling places and the bosses were
running things to please themselves
Nothing more scandalous has occurred
In the political history of this city
First, the bosses had gangs to throw
out the Roosevelt inspectors. and later
they threw out the watchers, SO there
can be no guarantee Of the honesty of
the primaries.
Roosevelt is Indignant.
appeals made by our people to the
police for protection were in vain. Our
men were actually driven away from
the polls. Finally I called Commits
sioner Waldo personally upon the tele-
phone and asked him If our men could
not have protection. He told me a
few minutes ago that he would do
whatever was possible. but now" and
the colonel threw both arms into the
air in dramatic gesture--."the harm has
been done. ~
IT say it-and take this down care
fully-that under the conditions that
existed at the so-called primaries today
1t was absolutely impossible to get even
an approximately honest expression OF
the wishes Of the republican voters OF
the city. The tactics employed by the
machine was a disgrace to the state"
Roosevelt rode in an electric loco
motive from New York to Manhattan
transfer, a distance of nine miles. at
the etart Of his trip. The invitation
was extended by the engineers at the
Pennsylvania station.
"Absurd," Says Roosevelt.
Perfectly absurd" was Roosevelts
comment when asked regarding the
statement that the Roosevelt people
had dumped q large amount OF money
into New York at the last moment to
influence the primary vote
The coloneIs friends state that there
Is no large sum at hand that could be
used in the manner suggested and that
Il has been Impossible as vet to provide
for campaign trips of speakers whom
the Roosevelt forces wish to send thru
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