The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-28
Cry Of Fraud is
Great Fraud Itself

lW ~ WA1cn IS Cn6 duty OF
every loyal American to read. A re-
sumo OF this win be published and
copies OF the complete statement will
be available to all who write for them
to the republican national committee
at its headquarters In the Times
building, New York City. The docu.
ment furnishes all the facts in every
contest
Why, take the state OF Alabama.
Mr.. Roosevelt. through his politfca.
managers, asked the national commit
tee to unseat twenty-five Taft dele
gates. Twenty Of the contestants
were thrown out by the practically
unanimous vote OF the committee and
one avowed Roosevelt committeeman
remarked I am convinced the coun-
try viii be astonished by the nimsy
character Of the Roosevelt contests
Mr.. Roosevelt confessed his own
knowledge OF the fraudulent charac-
ter Of his contests, and testified to
the justice of the committees WORK
when, at Oyster Bak on the night the
committees action was taken. he
showed to the representatives Of the
press a section of his confidential list
of delegates.
This list showed that Mr.. Roose-
welt expected only two Of his contest
ants In Alabama to be seated and
Mr. Roosevelt's added We hadn't
counted on any one but those two
Yet he sought to cast a cloud over
the title OF the twenty other seats.
When you go seeking equity, dc
4 equity That is an old maxim OF
I equity law and a just one Mr.. Roose
A velt, pretending to seek equity from
the republican national committee
/ sought to induce that committee tc
Iunseat at least sixteen regularly cleo
ted delegates, and in their seats t.
seat Roosevelt delegates, whose elec
tion he had admitted were fraudulent
i admitted it by abandoning the case.
i either before the national committee
or before the time came to presen
4 them to the committee on creden
tials of the convention
What would you think of lawye
who advised his client to bring %,
1 suits knowing there was Justice, II il
any, at least In only IS? Would no
esueh a course prejudice the most jus
court on earth? But that is prccisel
what Colonels Roosevelt's lawyer
did in the case OF the republican na
tional committee. Why? They kne,
the revelation of the fraudulent chal
acter of their cases in one contes
after another must prejudice tn
court against them and thus tend t
lose any of their cases which POI
( sessed merit. Were they forced t
! pursue such course? No; they wer
g wise, II unscrupulous, Politician
! They are not seeking equity; but pt
litical advantage. They knew none {
e their cases possessed merit But the
sought to deceive the public, not
convince the court. They believe
:. that by instituting and pressing man
! fraudulent contests they could eithe
$ induce the committee as a matter
i political expediency, to seat som
5 fake contestants, rather tha
e reject them ALL or compel tt
f. committee to reject them all. in ord'
2 that they might deceive the public i
e to believing that steam roller met
d DDS had been used. The correctne'
It OF this reasoning will be shown
the full statement Of the facts.
If "Mr. Roosevelt is too shrewd
O. politician, had there been real mer
Al in the contests of the rs delegat'
it whose title he said was plain ev
it to have ieopardized them by mixii
e them up with 160 contests which
e. knew and had admitted were pu
al fakes"