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ernment, whether the law of SOW
ereign state, submitted 10 by both fac
tions In the party should be set aside
by the mandate OF the national COM
mittee.
He denounced what he termed an
attempt TO rob the people of Cali
fornia Of their right representatives. y"
Honey reviewed the political his
tory Of California, saying that two
years ago the people emancipated
themselves from the corrupt rule Of
"A corrupt machine controlled by the
railroads. He compared California
In the past with machine controlled
Pennsylvania and Colorado"
A delegate from Pennsylvania rose
and made a point of order that the
speaker should confine himself to the
issue.
THE speaker is not yet over the line
where he should be called to order" "
remarked Senator Root with an en-
phasis on the yet which the crowd
cheered. Hcney said the two Taft
delegates seated by the national COM
mittee had not desired the remainder
of the California delegation, but had
taken refuge in the vest pocket of
somebody on the PLATFORM
Before these two men We're able to
run under the primary law" he said.
both they and the men they were
to represent were forced to pledge
themselves by the preferential vote
of the state. President Taft did that
and now If he accepts the vote Of
these two men in this convention he
viii be guilty of high treason"
Heney declared it was impossible
under the returns Of the election to
decide what the vote was in an indi-
Vidual district.
Congressman Serene Payne Of New
York, author of the Payne tariff
bin was greeted with mingled cheers
and hats as he appeared to take up
the argument Of the delegates.
Where's Aldrich?" yelled a man in
the gallery.
Mr.. Payne asked for patient hear
ing He said the two Taft delegates
aid not sit with the California dele
cation because the chairman Of that
delegation would not give them the
seats to which they were entitled. His
declaration that the Taft delegates
had been supreme law of national re-
publicanism was greeted with pro-
longed cheering mingled with Kisses,
groans and boos.
The demonstration grew until Sena-
tor Root took hand with this warn
ing: "No cause in q republican ma
tional convention was ever won by
drowning speech on either side"
Mr., Payne said he proposed to be
heard, III il took four hours"
Payne declared the California state
wide primary law was forced through
the California legislature because of
fear of the Roosevelt people that
Taft would get several of the congress
sional districts under the method OF
selecting delegates by districts.
why don't you elect your presi-
Dental electors that way" was asked
10y member of the California dele
cation.
Because We have no control over
that retorted Payne.
Floor Leader Watson took the Taft
argument up when MIR. Payne CON
cluded. He, too, asserted the Califor-
mia law would have the effect Of en-
forcing the unit rule and declared that
such rule would never prevail in q
national convention.
Unit rule by primary other thar
unit rule by decree of conventions,
said watson.
/ 1T is robbing the people OF con.
gressional district of the right to say
who their delegates will be. Shal
the majority In Los Angeles deere,
and determine who shall be the dele.
gates from San Francisco?"
mo, no." said some delegates
Governor johnson, OF California, fol
lowed. He strode to the front Of tn,
stage. clutching legal document II
his hand.
This question" he said. rs fai
more than the question Of seating tw,
individual delegates by report OF {
committee on nNcredentials or by actor
OF this convention. The question goei
TO the very root OF republicanism. l
Is. Shall the people ruler
you men of the east may sneer n
the new progressivism that has CONF
like a giant out of the west. but al
thinking men today recognize that tn
revolution Is on in this country ant
progressivism II sure TO triumph
johnson declared the convention
had demonstrated the absolute neces
sity OF extending the presidential pref