The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-28

responsive to those great financial powers
that work in the darkness?"
He then reiterated his oftmade charge
that President Taft's political fortunes
are now committed to men Of this type.
naming Tawney. Keating. Penrose. Bal
lineer. Gallnger. Guggenheim. Evans OF
Colorado, Aldrich Of Rhode Island. Cox
Of Ohio. Isorimer of Illinois and Barnes
and koenig in New York.
The Colonel's assault upon the New
York primaries was detailed. He had
been receiving intimate reports Of the
primary miscarriage in New York all
along the line.
"The election machinery in New York
vas used as unscrupuously as in the days
Of Tweed" he said Names Of Roose-
welt delegates were left of the ballots.
ballots we're misprinted. were folded in
such a way as to confuse the voters and
In numerous instances were not delivered
to polling places until four or five hours
after the polls had opened. and in some
instances not before twenty minutes or
aouarer NJ an hour before closing.
sour election inspectors were removed
whenever il was thought they were not
with the machine.
As | have said, such primary contest
10 not me rely farce. but criminal farce.
The men nominaly elected as its result,
men like Mr.. Parsons. Mr.. Griscom and
the rest cannot. if they wish to preserve
their reputat ions as honorable men, con-
sent to accept positions as delegates.
The results in such a primary are in no
shape or way representative OF the Repub-
lican party. and have no binding force
whatever upon the Republican party"
The Colonel told his audience how eighty
election inspectors we're removed and anti
Roosevelt men substituted in the Seventh
Assembly district where William Halpin
u leader and Of how he had to telephone
to Commissioner Waldo for protectio
for the voters. Two or three men had
Come to him yesterday afternoon. before
he left town. he said. to tell q rialtreat-
ment and inability to get Roosevelt tickets
at the polls Mr. Roosevelt continued:
In ten election districts Of the Twenty
sixth Assembly district the ballots did
not arrive until s o'clock in the evening
The polling places had then been filled
up with koenig-Taft men who occupied
the remaining time in voting. and gave
the Roosevelt men no chance to vote.
until the polls closed ate.
In three election districts OF the
Twenty-fifth Assembly district the ballots
did not arrive until four minutes Of O.
and here again the Taft-k oenig men
had taken possession OF the polling pla ces
and they kept the Roosevelt men out until
II was too late to vote.
In the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
election districts of the Thrtieth Assem-
bly, district. when the ballot boxes were
opened our watchers saw several bundles
OF ballots with from two to five ballots
folded in each voted as one. so that in
at
were voted over the number Of men re-
corded az voting. All Of these bal lots
were marked in the Taft column in spite
Of the protest Of our watchers.
In the Twenty third Assembly district
the names of the Roosevelt delegates
we're not printed on the ballots at all.
In the Twenty Assembly dis
trict the entire Roosevelt ticket was left
off the ballot. There was a similar omis-
sion in the Fifteenth Assembly district.
-on. Staten Island. where Chauncey NJ
Depew was running for delegate on the
TAFT ticket there were six election dis
tricts where ballots did not arrive at all.
nine election districts where they arrived
after 8 o'clock and seventeen where they
arrived after Q O'Clock. In the Thirty
fifth Assembly district the Roosevelt
ticket was misprinted. SO that the dele
gates appeared to be running for tho
national committee instead OF the national
convention.
@In many Of the districts the ballots
were so printed that two or three feet OF
blank space was left under the Roosevelt II
emblem and the voters did not under
stand that what was below was the Roose-
welt ticket at all.
.On some of the huge ballots the Roose-
welt delegates were at the bottom OF the
ticket and the ballots we're foldcd in suci,
way as TO make 1t practically impossible
for the voters to refold them in case they
opened them up in order to find where
ka al tao no
pendence League men never got any bal
lots at all in many of the election districts
throughout the city.
in election district after election dis.
trict. both in the county OF New York and
in the county OF Kings, the numbers OF
which are given me. ballots did not arrive
until o'clock or 3 O'Clock or almost {
O'Clock. Nine O'Clock was the hour fol
closing. and when the ballots arrived o.
either four minutes OF 0, rs happened in
some cases. or at fifteen minutes OF D. OF
twenty minutes OF Q. most OF the or
binary decent citizens, the men upon
whom I had depended. had gone home
Against them were the professional breat
and butter politicians and these Of cours'
stood through the whole time and wer'
in the polling booths voting and did no
leave the polling booths until after
o'clock. when the hour for closing had
come
happened in Colorado and In Indiana
where the will Of the people was reversed
In urging the people OF Illinois TO ge
the direct Presidential primary lawnov
pending in the Legislature adopted Col
Roosevelt varied his attack upon Presi
dent 1ait by charging that the Taf
lieutenants in obstructing such laws ar
only following the President lead il
disfrusting the people. He quoted Presi
dent Taft as saying at Concord:
1T is said that | distrust the peopl
because | said that under impulsive &C
tion they may do wrong. ] do ! thin
90. Don't you?' And then continued:
when the President. with whateve
good intentions, keeps dwelling upon hi
distrust of popular action, his disbelief /
action by the people thems elves it
natural that his lieutenants should fee
that they have free hand in trying t
thwert the wishes Of the people"
The Colonel charged that the Tai
forces are trying to wreck the party
The character Of the campaign whic
the chief supporters Of Mr.. Taft are no'
wsging" he declared. ..is such as to max
il absolutely impossible that they ar
striving to create situation where til
Republican party cen win ct the poll
On the contrary the methods they ar
resorting to are such as to make il ey