New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-18
Convention the Only judge.

Convention the Only judge.
hold that the convention itself is Of
right the only judge OF the qualifications
Of its own members. From Washington
California, Arizona, Texas. Kentucky. Ind
lana, Alabama and certain other states the
people elected certain delegates who are
legally and morally entitled 10 sit In the
convention. The discredited politicians
making up the majority or the nauohal
committee with the determination TO
nullify the will OF the people, have sub
stituted for those men certain others VINO
have not the slightest claim 10 seats IN inc
a minority OF the national committee.
composed Of honorable men, who have
voted on every case strictly on It's merits.
have in each case protested Strongly
ing beyond the shadow Of doubt that the
men thrown OF the temporary roll by the
majority are entitled 10 seats ~ every
consideration Of law and OF morals
these cases myself, and ! say 10 you that
there is no element Of doubt that the men
in question were honorably and laWillly
chosen by the people. and that the enoit
OF the majority 10 unseat them represents
nothing but naked theft. carried on WIZ
the cole and evil purpose OF disho on ~
deliberately expressed judgment OF the peo-
II is for the convention itself TO decide
these cases; and ny the convention mean
tho lawfully elected members OF the con-
vention. The men fraudulently put on the
temporary roll by the dishonest acuon OF
the majority of the national committee
must not be allowed TO vote on their own
cases-and 10 allow the bepenciaries OF the
theft to vote on one another cases 10 Oh
course 20 allow them really to vote on
Nv every CONFEDERATION OF real Justice We
are entitled TO have these OF whom ! SPEAK,
who were elected by the people, pun on the
rollcall at once. But We DO not ask this
tya
rights when these men are not allowed 70
vote from the beginning. we ask meIeIS
that neither set OF contestants pc al!o"eu
10 vote on any question before the conVen-
tion until the one thousand members OF the
convention whose seats nave not oeeh con
tested shall themselves decide when OF INC
contested delegates are enuted 10 mem
I believe that, even with the addition OF
these fraudulently seated delegates, NJ
Tafts supporters are IN and uPS Do not
merely believe. / know, that we nave d
large majority OF the legally elected mem
bers Of the convention Inc ad, Hesaion conn m
| mittee is OF vastly more importance thdn
| my nomination or the nomination OF any
| man. The whole system or the corrups
| alliance between crooked business ana
| crooked pOtics is at stake In the making
nm of this temporary roll; II has been made
| mn crookedly by the majority OF the ma
tional committee, win tne p prpOtte noi,ncaI
Resss eve even when the people have declared
against him. X A. oco,caq
| thew have committed, but morally these
| offences are far more serious from inc
standpoint Of the national interest .m ma
! any OF the ordinary commercial OF po!lu-
| cal offences which expose the perpetrators
| ~ he brought before the courts OF jusuce.
| The committeeman Responsible TOT sucn az,
| tion need 10 be taught that the nauonai
committee was created 10 70 DE Dlai hne men and
women who make up the bulk OF the re
publican party. The party belongs 10 Inili-
| Ions OF the rank and file, II does not pc
long 10 the handful Of politicians VINO nave
Assumed t.audulenty to upset the Will OF
| the rank and file. ..
regular" as they cia I'm neo u1 thew IN
no way represent the rank ana NE on tne
Republican party; and theft and dlsnon.
cannot give and o never th sns give ana
s,ecyeenty,eight men are 10 meet here IN CON
vention 10 decide the. future OF the he,
nublican party. At least seven OUT 0i
eight Of those among th SaInst Tn tSe T nomi
r rsp3ieS of Nj Taft. II is the duty Of all
OF them, their first duty. to throw Out %, 2l
| the convention every man I rauduie.'iS
seated there by the national committee
Fraudulent Taft Delegates"
The fraudulent Taft delegates whom the
| national committee seated, Tor instance
| from California, from washington, IRON
| indians' from kentucky. from Michigan
! trono Arizona, from Alabama, from Texas
renresent nothing but the deliberate at
| tennpt by certain discredited bosses 10 up
| cot the free and honest expression OF the
neonle's will These fraudulent tart dele'
| oates were beaten by the voters or WASH
| fngton OF California. OF Texas, OF ARIZONA
| ~ Indiana, Of Kentucky-and then uhey
ara seated by the discredited pohtlca
BOSSES who had just themselves peer
beaten by the people. OF their own States p,
| IN Massachusetts,, in New jersey IN fehii'
sylyania, in West Virginia In Kansas III
Messrs Crane, Penrose and company
,are 50 discredted In the eyes or the re
,Hnhijcans OF their own states that theS
Papa beaten as delegates to the conyen-
tTon and vet they arrogate TO themselves
w. right 10 seat In the convention the
| 5nieoates whom the states or Washing
| ton California Arizona, Texas ana the
rost have tust beaten at the polls!
~ the convention proves false 10 tne
| CAUSE Of the people. II II records the VIII
80 me bosses. whether yet unbeaten, as In
New York and Colorado, or beaten, as IN
! Ma ssa chusetts and New Jersey, Pennsyl-
| yania and Kansas II Will wreck the he
nubIican party, II Will put back the cause
| ~ democracy. IL will be false TO every
| principle of honor and justice. II cannot
| with honesty or propriety stand IN any
| shane or way for the action OF the national
| COMMITTEES, neither by accepting that COM
nittee's nominee for temporary Chairman