The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-06-19
WATSON AGREES
TOLONG DEBATE

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ourselves worthy OF Thy blessings
Make us mindful OF our duties as
well as our rights, our responsible
ties as well as our privileges. Grant
us the insight that a people per-
ishet6 where there is no vision, and
the understanding that a great ma
ton maketh its rulers righteous
ness and its officers peace, seeketh
leaders who despise the gain of OPP
preston and withhold their hands
from brides, maketh chief those
whose glory is to serve mankind by
justice, fidelity and truth. Bestow
upon the delegates assembled the
spirit of wisdom and understanding.
OF counsel and might. that they de-
eide in justice and equity and not
after the sight OF their eyes or the
hearing OF their ears, and that they
guide themselves by the truth that
righteousness exalteth a nation and
injustice is a reproach to any peo-
pie.
"And so may Thy Kingdom come
and Thy will be done on earth.
Amen"
Hadiey is Cheered.
Delegates and altenates and the
remainder of the vast assemblage
stood up while Divine guidance was
invoked. Chairman Root an
nounced the unfinished business as
the motion OF Taft leader Watson
that the convention proceed to the
appointment of committees and the
substitute motion of Hadley that the
Roosevelt list of delegates be sub
Istituted for the temporary roll.
! 1t had been agreed in advance that
there. should be no parliamentary
points Of order against the Roose-
welt motion, the Taft forces agree
ling to fight it out before the dele-
gates.
Hadley was greeted by a round OF
cheers as he advanced to the front
of the stage to open the debate on
his motion. When ne tumult sub
sided, Hadley began. an explanation
OF the situation confronting the con-
vention.
Hadley reviewed the incidents Of
yesterdav's session. and read an Gin
allotment" of the national committee
uttered Monday night by Colonel
Roosevelt in his auditorium
speech. at may be true that many
persons do not agree with us that
Theodore Roosevelt should be our
candidate for president" he said,
"but there can be no difference of
opinion that his voice today is the
greatest in the western world"
Question of Principle.
Hadley then read statement
from fourteen members of the ma
tlonal committee protesting against
the action of the majority in seating
many of the delegates, particularly
those from California, Texas and
washington He made an earnest
plea that personalities be left out OF
the debate, declaring that the ques-
ton was clearly one of principle.
1t was not a question of any mans
candidacy, he said, but a question
of the next campaign, embracing the
existence OF the Republican party.
Hadley was given the closest at
Itention, and at the close he declared
that when the vote on the substitute
roll is submitted only votes of those
delegates whose seats were not con-
tested be allowed to vote.
GAIL law, all presidents agree, "
he said, chat no man shall be judge
of his own case"
Committee Denounced.
i Hadley was followed by W. T.
EDovell, OF Washington, who argued
in favor of Taft. "The declaration
Is recklessly false, he said tnat
the state OF Washington was carried
by Roosevelt.
|. The clerk read for the informa-
ton of the convention, the names OF
the delegats Hadley would have
stricken from the roll, and Henry J.
Allen, OF Kansas, spoke for Roose-
welt. He denounced Dovell's state
ment as fiimsy, and was jeered by
1.-THE Taft men. A delegate from the
floor ami great confusion demanded
to know If Allen would support the
nominee of the convention, and ar
ter trying to answer he was allowed
to say he would If the nomination
was not accomplished "by fraud and
corruption. He denounced the ma.
tional committee.
Allen was followed by former Sen.
ator Heminay, o. Indiana. who
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