The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-24
President Gets SCI Votes, q
More Than Majority
COL. ROOSEVELT GETS lO7
With 344 Delegates Not voting-Names
of Roosevelt and Cummins Not
Formally Presented to the
Convention.

Chicago June 24In disorder,
convention, some of whose own member
gave warning that its ticket was doomeC
to defeat, William Howard Taft was re
nominated for president at 9:25 o'clocl
Saturday night.
Vice President Sherman will again b.
his running mate.
The vote for president was: Taft, SCI
Roosevelt, I07; Cummins, III La Fol
lette, Al; Hughes, 2; not voting, 344;
absent, 6. Total, l,07s.
The vote for vice president was: Sher.
man, 597; Borah, 81; Merriam, 20 Had.
ley, IA; Beverage, 2; Gillette, l. abb
sent, Ii present but not voting, 352
Total, l,07S.
The names of President Taft and Sen
ator La Toilette were the only ones
presented to the convention formally
The votes for the others we're cast by
delegates who insisted on following their
instructions. Two favored Justice
Hughes.
While this nomination was being
made, Col. Roosevelt declared himself a
candidate for president, and announced
the organization of third party, which
would hold its convention in August.
The grand old party is for the mo-
ment smashed to pieces.
The Roosevelt programme as deter
mined upon Friday night was carried
out at Saturdays session Of the con-
vention after the convention had re-
ceiyed the last of the credentials COM
mittee's report and had become perma-
nently organizeI There was no bolt
but in accordance with the programme
no roll call was demanded Saturday and
after the permanent organization was
completed, the Roosevelt men didn't vote.
This was in obedience to the request
of the colonel and contained in state
ment read to the convention at 3:l5
o'clock Saturday afternoon. In this he
asked the Roosevelt delegates not to
vote on any matter after the report
of the credentials committee, on the
ground that the convention did not rep
resent the real Republican party.
The colonel's statement was read by
Henry j. Allen of Kansas. Mr.. Allen
supplemented it with statement of his
own which he said represented the views
of majority of the Roosevelt dele
gates.
The convention had been in session
four hours and a half when Mr.. Allen
got up TO read Mr.. RooseyeIt's state
ment right after the report of the COM
mittee ON permanent organization had
been received and adopted and Mr. Root
had become permanent chairman. The
announcement by Mr.. Allen that he had
a statement to make from Theodore
Roosevelt led to noisy demonstration
by the Roosevelt men lasting twenty
minutes and in which the scenes OF
Wednesdays session were repeated to
some extent. It did not have great
lasting power, however; for enc thing,
the delegates, particularly the Roosevelt
ones, We're utterly worn cut.
Roosevelt Statement.
Here is the Roosevelt statement:
A clear majority of the delegates hon
estly elected to this convention were
chosen by the people to nominate me.
Under the direction and with the en-
enlargement of Mr.. Taft, the majority
of the national committee by the so
called steam roller methods and with
scandalous disregard of every principle
of elementary honesty aud decency, stole
eighty or ninety delegates. putting OF
the temporary roll call sufficient num-
Der of fraudulent delegates to defeat
the legally expressed will of the REQ
Pile and to substitute dishonest for
an honest majority.
The convention has now declined to
purge the roll of the fraudulent dele.
gates placed thereon by the defnnct ma
tional committee and the majority
which thus indorsed fraud was made
majority only because it included tk>
fraudulent delegates themselves, who all
,at as judges on one another S cases.
If these fraudulent votes had not thus
been cast and counted. the convention
would have been purged of their pres.
.nce. This action makes the conven.
ion in no proper sense any longer
Republican convention representing the |
eal Republican party. Therefore ] hope |
he men elected as Roosevelt delegates, |
will now decline to vote on any matter |
before the convention. | do not re- |
ease any delegate from his honorable
obligation to vote for me if he votes
It all, but under the actual conditions
hope that he will not vote at all.
The convention as now composed has |
10 claim to represent the voters of the
republican party. 1t represents moth