The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-17
Republicans Preparing a Clear
Statement
WILL SHOW THE REGULARITY
OF Taft's Nomina tion-Roosevelt Claims
Based on Fake Contests-Plan to
Strike Fatal BLOW to Third
Party Progress.

7 Washington, July l7.-President Taft
and his managers soon will take the ag-
gressive with regard TO the alleged
frauds in the Chicago convention,
whereby as alleged by Theodore Roose-
welt. President Taft was renominated.
Samuel J. Elder of Boston was associat-
ed with former Senator Charles Dick OF
Ohio and Frederick p Bryan of Wash
ington in the preparation of the Taft
contest cases. having been specially en-
gagged to review the evidence presented
to the Republican national COMMITTEES
and to assist the other counsel in the
strictly legal phases Of the work.
About ten days ago Mr.. Elder came to
Washington and busted himself for sew
eral days preparing statement of all
the contested cases, to be given general
circulation as part Of the Taft campaign
literature. The Taft men never have
Welded an inch in their belief that the
majority of the national committee acted
fairly and squarely in deciding the con-
tests in favor of the Taft delegates.
They knew that Roosevelt was claiming
the nomination on the basis of set of
fake contests of his own, involving be-
tween lis and 200 delegates seats, which
even his own friends on the national
committee were compelled to repudiate.
Since the convention, however, Roosevelt
has ignored his own friends and attacked
Taft as a candidate nominated by fraud
ulent means and therefore unworthy of
the support of the Republican party.
Friends of the third term candidate, in
fact, have gone even farther and claimed
that he was the real nominee of the con-
vention and should be so voted for by
Republicans. This has been the basis of
the third party movement, its sponsors
conveniently forgetting that it was
fundamentally impossible for Roosevelt
to have been nominated without the
votes of nearly 200 delegates whom the
Roosevelt men themselves in the national
convention had formally declared to be
rot entitled TO seats.
The Taft managers are determined
that the attacks upon the validity of
the national convention shall be refuted
and the nsincerity of the Roosevelt
claims exposed. complete statement
of all the contested cases therefore has
been prepared in popular form, never
'theless, with the legal points carefully
stnted, and this will be given to the
public as soon as President Taft, in
whose hands it now is, has finished his
study OF it.. This statement has formed
the subject Of several conferences at the
White House lately. in which Secretary
Hilles, Chairman Mckinley, Senator
Crane and others familiar with the hap
penings at Chicago, have taken part
In fact consideration of this matter
has delayed Mr.. Hilles somewhat in his
departure for New York to assume ac-
lively the duties of chairman of the Re-
publican national committee.
The Taft men believe that when the
people are appraised of the facts relating
to the bold attempt of Roosevelt to con
troll the national convention, public opin-
ion will change and the fraudulent in
tent of the Roosevelt plans be made
clear. One of the amusing episodes of
the Chicago convention was the regu-
larity with which the bull moose would
emit a roar from Oyster Bay every time
a contest was decided against him, and
the frequency with which he would roar
over the wrong contest For example,
the thunders of Oyster Bay were let
loose over the fight for delegates in the
thirteenth Indiana congressional district.
The committee met the same day and
bv unanimous consent, which included,
OF course, the votes of the Roosevelt
men on the committee, decided that the
Taft delegates should be seated The
colonel then drew switch and turned
the batteries of his denuncation against
the Indiana state convention, which, the
evidence clearly shows, was conducted
strictly in accordance with law and pree-
edent and presented no practices differ
ent from those which had been in vogue
since the Republican party was organized
in 1856.
1t is the hope of the Taft managers
that when the truth about the delegate
contests is known throughout the coun-
try the third-party movement will have
received a fatal blow for it is based
primarily upon allegations OF fraud in
the national convention and these, the
Taft men say, are not borne out by
the facts.
Douglass Smith, the youthful Turneru
Falls high school pitcher, who was tried
out by the Boston Americans, has been
farnad ont IN thn Lowell club in the