The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-26

stolen. This committee selected as it,
chairman the Guggenheim delegate
from Colorado, who had already as
National committeeman assisted in in
itiating the very frauds upon which he
is now to sit in Judgment.
Nothing that this committee may
do is entitled to consideration and IN
considering what they do it will be
made in private by one of the Nation
al Committeeman. who, when asked
why they had stolen so many more
delegates than were needed for their
purpose, answered that 1t would en-
able the credentials committee to
make show of generosity by unseat-
| ing some. while retaining a number
amply sufficient to accomplish all the
ends they have in view.
| Moreover. it is we'll to remember
that the fraud is equally great and
| equally reprehensible whether the
| fraudulent delegates actually vote on
the nomination for president or
whether they are simply used to cre-
ate a situation which renders it un-
necessary for them to vote on the
nomination for president If the roll
lis not purged in view of these fraud
|ulently- elected delegates, the whole
election of the convention is tainted.
The committee on rules has Just
against the protest of the progressive
ton of the National Committee in the
form responsible for scandalous out
RACES which have at this moment
brought the republican party to the
breaking point and they have ex-
plicitly refused to recognize the prin-
Iciples of popular presidential prima-
ries and have made the National Com
mittee supreme yer the people in the
matter of prin aries.
Unfortunately, in our political life,
the unscroupulous man Who commits
wrongs such as these can usually
count on having some respectable
men oppose him, but cease their oppo-
sition at the point when it would be-
come really effective.
I'm this connection, the unscrupu-
lous men who are the leaders have al
ready received support from the for
mer class of respectable men and they
count upon seeing representatives Of
the latter class, who have hitherto
voted against them, fear to take the
decisive step of sundering connection
with the fraudulent convention itself
Such are the facts about the Ma
tional convention as now constituted.
decline any longer to be bound by
any action it may take. I decline to
regard as binding any nomination it
may make. I don't regard successful
fraud ana deliberate political theft as
constituting title to party regular
ity. or a claim to the support of any
honest man of any party.
Il hope that the honestly elected
majority will at once insist upon the
immediate purging of the roll in its
entirety, and not piecemeal, by the
convention. If this purging is not ac-
|complished. hope the honestly elect
| ed delegates will decline all further
connection with convention whose
action is now determined and has
hitherto been determined by a major
ity which is made majority only by
the action of the fraudulent delegat 81
whom the convention has refused to
strike from the rolls. If the leaders
of the honestly elected majority dis
agree with me in this matter and wish,
for any cause, to defer for the moment
this action, then most earnestly hope
that at least they will insist on the
consideration of the cases of these
fraudulent delegates in block and not
separately.
We cannot afford to pardon a thief
on condition that he surrenders half
the stolen goods. ..r
If the honestly elected majority of
the convention choose to proceed with
business and to nominate me as the
candidate of the real republican rar-
ty shall accept. If some among
them fear to take such a stand and
the remainder choose to inaugurate a
movement to nominate me for the
presidency as a progressive on a pro-
gressive platform and If in such event
the general feeling among progressives
favors my being nominated, shall ac-
cept.
I'm either case 1 shall make my ap-
peal to every honest citizen in the ma
ton, and / shall fight the campaign
through, win or lose, even il / do not
get single electoral vote. I don't
wish single man to support me from
any personal feeling for me. I have
nothing to offer any man; any man
who supports me will do so without
hope of gain and at the risk of per-
sonal loss and discomfort. But if,
having this in view. those fervent in
this great fight for the rule of the peo-
pie and for social and industrial JUS
tice, which has now also become a
clear-cut fight for honesty against dis
honesty, fraud and theft. desire me to
lead the fight, will do so.
There can be no cause for which
1T is better worth while to fight none
in which it is of less consequence
what happens to the individual him.
self. provided only that he valiantly
does his duty in the forward move
ment. I shall make my appeal to all
honest men, east and west north and
south, and gladly abide the result,
whatever that result may be.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
NATIONAL PARK INN SOLD