Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-26
Convention in Session For a
Brief Period Today; Name
OF President Taft Cheered
by the Delegates.
SPEAKER ATTACKS 4
ROOSEVELT POLICIES
Said Progressive Campaign
is Doomed to a Pitiable
Defeat; Emphasizes Re
publican Principles

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Saratoga, N. Y, Sept 25.-As EVIL
dence that the New York republican
party Is "unbossed", attention was
called by leaders before the state con-
vention here today to the fact that
nothing Of the convention program
had been settled other than the names
OF the temporary and permanent chair
man. Candidates and platform re-
NAMED to be discussed and 1t may be
Friday before q ticket is nominated. 1t
was expected that the platform COM
mittee would have the platform ready
for presentation tomorrow. The wom-
an suffrage declaration thus far has
provoked the most discussion.
w. D. Guthrie, temporary chairman,
was given rousing cheer as he took
the platform and began his speech.
When Chairman Guthrie mentioned the
name of President Taft the delegates
and spectators rose and cheered for
some time.
Vice President James s. Sherman.
who marched into the hall with the
Conkling Unconditional club ol Utica,
was given hearty cheer, "
smittees on resolution and psr.
Ffnnnedr examinations were appointed,
after which the convention ad djouFne6
until tomorrow.
0uthrie's Address.
An attack on Theodore Roosevelt
and the policies OF the progressive
party In the nation and state marked
the address of William d. Guthrie
temporary chairman today before the
republican statesconvention. I'VE see
clearly said Mr.. Guthrie, "that the
progressive campaign is doomed to
pitiable defeat and that only malevs
olent desire to work injury to the re.
publican party continues its campaign.
Ing"
The temporary chairman compared
tho present situation In particular 4
with conditions which existed In 1850
and 1896. when, he said, "the outlook
for the success OF the republican pa.ty
had for a time been discourng,ng. /"
The success Of the republican cause
In those campaigns, he prophesie,l, .
would be repeated this fall.
Every republican vote cast f0g
the democratic ticket" he declared,
will be wasted, and will only tend to
magnify the future strength and nuis-
ance value OF the progressives.'
Mr.. Guthrie gave three reasons why
the republican national convention tul.
filled Its duty In refusing to nominate
Col. Roosevelt:
In the first place." he said, .'the (
nominations OF an ex-president R the,
United States for third term would
have been in violation Of an unwritten \
rule established by Washington, JET.
ferson, Madison and Monroe, and fol-
lowed ever since. The common sense
of thoughtful and patriotic men must
convince them that nothing could De
more dangerous than to permit any
individual, however popular or elo-
quent, to WELD the power of the pregi-
dental Office for more than two
terms"
Pays Respect to r. r.
Colonel Roosevelt, he declared,
shad fomented more than any man
living the discomfort and class hatred
existing among our people s~he had
the judiciary and under
minded the confidence OF the people
in the independence, integrity and Inn
partiality Of our judges; he had advo-
Gated revolutionary doctrines; he had
shown that he despised constitutional
restraints; he had held us up to the
contempt Of the world as politicallyga
dishonest people, and he was known
to be socialist at heart although
protesting that he alone could save
the country from socialism. All ap-
preciated his ability, his eloQuence,
his exaltation, his great personal mag.
netism, his fierce and tireless energy,
as we'll as his Unsuitable ambition, his
with any rule OF law that
curbed or checked his own will, his
to rule or ruin the
party. And all were beginning to per-
ceive that his enthusiasm was rather
for the arena and for power than for
But his very popularity,
similar In many respects to the popu-
larity OF Kearney, the sand-lot orator,
and of Bryan. the populist. was like
wise the weakness OF Roosevelt as
candidate Of a great party. The
qualities which attract and make him
popular with the unthinking repel the
thoughtful. the soberminded and the
patriotic.
Z "The third reason why the majority
In the Chicago convention should not
have cast aside President TAFT. and
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