The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-06-13
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from California that a progressive
third party propaganda was beini
given impetus there as result Oh
the throwing out of two Roosevelt
delegates from that state.
Director Mckinley of the Taft bu-
reau supplied the star sensation of
the day. The new policy adopted
Sunday of shutting off the signed
statement business went to smash.
Mr.. Mckinley, with rumors flying,
about to the effect that even more
sensational exposures" were on the
tapis, put forth the following:
President Taft today has a major
ity of the republican national con-
vention instructed for or pledged to
his candidacy for a denomination for
president. and he will be renOminat-
ed on the first ballot at the Chicago
convention. Confronted by certain
ty of defeat men high in the coun-
ellis of the Roosevelt camp are plan
ming most desperate measures to pre-
vent the inevitable. These measures
include attempts at actual bribery
of Taft delegates and an attempt to
capture the republican national con-
vention by force
The effort to corrupt Taft dele.
gates to the Chicago convention has
been under way for several weeks.
1t Is common knowledge that seven
weags ago money was sent to two Taft
instructed delegates in certain south
ern state by telegraph by we'll
known Roosevelt leader in Chicago
Says Money Was Offered.
within the past week two men
sent from New York to a southern
state have brazenly approached Taft
delegates with offers of money in
return for votes for Roosevelt. Other
agents on similar mission hav,l
made their appearance in several
states recently.
That we'll defined effort l., on
foot to buy the presidential rnmina-
tion for Theodore Roosevelt is beyond
question. 1t is the first time in the
history of the country that presiden
tial office, as such, has been scandal
lied by such methods. The honesty
and integrity of the republican party,
as represented by it's delegates to
the coming convention. is now being
seriously tested b. the political agents
of man who has twice been elected
president of the United States by the
republican party and who has assrm-
ed unto himself, in this campaisn at
least, all the virtues and none of the
vices CT human kind Such tactics can
only make more certain the defeat of
Mr.. Roosevelt. AS a matter of fact
Mr.. Roosevelt, who is doubtless per-
sonally uninformed as to these mat
ters, should come to Chicago. inform
himself and end such dsgraceful
work being done in his name
"ordinary Campaign Lie.'
1T is a cheap, ordinary campaign
lie" was the reply of Chairman Dixon
to the part of the Mckinley state
ment embracing corruption charges
The other part of the Mckinley
statement was directed to the alleged
trough house" plans of Mr.. Finn and
was as folowsl:
The other side of the Roosevelt,
movement at this time has 10 do with
William Finn of Pittsburg, Pa. the
strong arm man of the Roosevelt
forces. William Finn by nature plays
upon the passions of men. Persistent
and repeated rumors and reports have
reached the national Taft bureau that
Finn, working through BIZ
partisan combination in Chicago, in
cluding a well-known newspaper pub
Usher friendly to Roosevelt and a
of equally well-known dem
ocratic leaders, is endeavoring to in