Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-07-28
SHOUTING INSTEAD OF PROOF
Says that Roosevelt Knows that Taft
Was Renominated Fairly.
MAJORITY OF CONTESTS FARCES
T. r. Asks Public to Believe Re-
maiader Are Honest.
REVIEW OF ALL CASES Is MADE
Asserts Gross Misrepresentation of
Republican Party Attains PropOr-
tiOns Far Greater Than
Factional Quarrel.

NEW YORK, July N.-Charles D.
Hilles, formerly secretary to President
Taft and now chairman of the republi-
can national committee, gave out a
statement today at the headquarters of
the republican national committee IN
this city as follows:
THE only possible justification Of the
avowed efforts Of the third term party
leaders to induce the republican electors
In at least six states to betray their
trust and cast their votes in the ELECTORAL
college for ex-President Roosevelt would
be the truth of the charge that Presi-
dent Taft was nominated by the fraudu-
lent seating of sufficient number Of
delegates to affect the choice Of the
national convention.
There is no truth whatever in that
charge. Mr.. Roosevelt and his associates
know there is no truth in it, but they
have been attempting, by vociferation
and reiteration to becloud the fact that
they have no proof to offer. They would
drown out all attempts to establish the
truth by persistent cries Of thief" and
fraud"
The third term party Is the self-con-
fessed sponsor for fake" contests by
which it attempted to secure fraudulent
control Of the national convention and
now it has the termity 20 ask the Ameri-
can public to believe that in the remain
ing seventy-eight contests the right was
all on it's side. t-
Contests Brought for Effect.
"of the 23s contests which Mr.. Roose-
welt ordered to be brought before the ma
~t.onal committee, his political managers
voluntary abandoned 100 and one Of his
press agents announced that these con-
tests were instituted solely for psycholo-
gical effect and in order that q table of
delegates elected might not reveal the
large majority Of legdtimately elected
delegates instructed for Presidenta Taft.
This gross Misrepresentation Of the re-
publican party has attained proportions
far greater than a facttonal quarrel. Were
the charges true it would be national
scandal For that reason the proper au-
thorities have caused to be prepared
complete review of all the controverted
cases, a review which 1t is the duty Of
every loyal American to read. A re-
sumo of this will be published more or
less fully in the newspapers Of Monday
morning, and copies of the complete state
ment will be available to all who write
for them to the republican national COM
mittee at its headquarters in the Times
building. The document furnishes all the
facts in every contest.
"Why, take the state of Alabama. Mr..
Roosevelt. through his political managers,
asked the national committee to unseat
twenty-five Taft delegates. Twenty of
the contestants were thrown out by the
practically unanimous vote of the COM
mittee, and one avowed Roosevelt COM
mitteeman remarked: I am convinced
the country will be astounded BY the
flimsy character OF the Roosevelt con-
tests
There was no steamroller in opera
ton: the committee voted in accordance
with it's convictions, and as 1t was COM
PEELED to on the evidence. Mr.. Roose-
welt confessed his own knowledge of the
fraudulent character of his contests and
testified to the justice of the commit
tees work when at Oyster Bay on the
night the committees action was taken
he showed to the representatives of the
press section of his confidential list
of delegates. The list showed that Mr..
ROOSEVELT expected only two of his
contesting delegates in Alabama to be
seated. and Mr.. Roosevelt added, We
hadn't counted on any but these two
Yet he sought to cast a cloud over the
title to twenty other seats.
When you go seeking equity. do
equity. That Is an old maxim of equity
law and just one. Mr.. Roosevelt. pre-
tending to seek equity from the repub-
lican national committe, sought to in
duce that committee to unseat at least
100 regularly eleced delegates and In
their stead to seat Roosevelt delegates
whose election he had admittd was
raudulent-admitted it by abandoning
the cases either before the national COM
mite or before the time came to pre-
sent them to the committee on creden-
tials Of the convention.