The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-13
ROOSEVELT SAYS TAFT SUP PoRTERS ARE 6oLTiNG THE
 PARTY AT THIS MOMENT.
COLONEL GROWS SARCASTIC
Accuses National Committee of Open Theft and Profound and Abid- ing Disloyalty to the Re.
 publican Party.

are boiling from the Republican par lty at this moment" said Colonel Roosevelt tonight of supporters of President Taft on the Republican na tional committee.
 The former president was aroused to fighting mood by the news which reached him today over his private wires from Chicago. He denounced with all the emphasis he could com mand, the action of the national com mittee in deciding the contests for seats in the national convention from Kentucky, Arizona and California He declared the g Taft supporters on the national committee have shown their profound and abiding dis loyalty to the party, which in theory they represent, and, which in prac- tice they have betrayed"
 He said that of the g national l committeeman who have robbed the Republicans of California of two of their delegates, and have presented the stolen goods to MT. Taft, there is just one man who is entitled to speak for the Republicans of his state"
 The colonel expressed the opinion that the national convention would not ratify the seating of the Taft delegates from California
 What do you think the 24 Roose- welt delegates already seated from California will do if the convention declines to admit the other two?" Colonel Roosevelt was asked.
 T am not going to try to say what they will do," he replied. II am not making any prophecies"
 Colonel Roosevelt declined to com ment upon the statement of William Flynn of Pittsburg, and other Roose welt supporters that the members of the electoral college from several Re- publican states, which have been car red by Roosevelt at the primaries, would cast their votes for him in case President Taft is renominated
 When he was asked if he had decid- ed whether he would go to Chicago Colonel Roosevelt replied smilingly:
 ''I am not going in the next half hour anyway. l can assure you this is not disguise" as he pointed to himself, "and that my real self is not on the way ut Chicago"
 Colonel Rooseyelt's statement in part follows:
 Tn Arizona-the case turned on the single county of Maricopa-the county committee of that county had the option of selecting delegates to the state convention or of calling a primary to give the people the right to vote. At a meeting of the county committee all the Roosevelt men, joined by two of the Taft men, or dered a primary to be held through out the county. A minority of the county committee held a ramp meet ing and selected Taft delegates to the | state convention. At the primaries the Roosevelt delegates were elected by vote of $50 as against less than 20 for Taft.
 T call attention to the fact that the six Roosevelt delegates from Ari- zona are excluded by the national committee because they represet the people of Arizona and the six Taft delegates are admitted because they don't
 Tn Kentucky the Taft Bradley forces were guilty of grosser frauds than anywhere else in the country There was no form of rascality, which was clearly proved before the nation al committee, that the Taft men had not resorted to in order to get Taft delegates
 Tn the eleventh district the theft , of the delegates was perahps more fragrant than elsewhere The Taft men not being quite willing to steal two men, were willing to, and did, actually steal one.
 Tn California the progressives could have obtained ali the delegates without resorting to a primary. The temptation was very strong to take the delegates without risking a pri- mary.
 Governor Johnson wrote to me for my views, saying that he felt even at the cost of surrendering the ad- vantage the old primary law gave us in the state, we should be true to our principles and give the people a chance to vote at a primary for whom they vented. 1 agreed with him. The legislature of California , decreed that in California, as in Ore gon South Dakota and North Da- kota, the delegates should all be elected at large. There were no can didates in the districts at all, and un- til after the primary was held there was not a suggestion made about the district delegates.
 After the primary every decent man in California acquiesced. but a , lieutenant of Mir. Patrick Calhoun, the man whom MT. Heney indicted, has made the contest and the nation al committee has actually seated two Taft Calhoun delegates from Call ifornia. Governor Johnson has right 1, ly said that it is an insult to the state of California to listen to Calhoun's irepor in such a case as this and he