Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-06-26
is WILLING TO
HEAD A bolt"
Colonel Outlines Two Plans by
Which Delegates May
Name Him.
SCORES TACTICS OF ENEMY
psetares He Made Clean Fight and
Won In Appeal to Seople-If Hon
estIy Elected Delegates NomI-
nate Him He Will Accept.

nate Him He Will Accept.
Chicago. June 21-Theodore Roose-
Welt in a statement addressed to the
delegates pledged to him and read at
a conference of the Roosevelt leaders
late yesterday outlined two plans by
which his delegates might make him
a candidate for president.
One way suggested by Roosevelt Is
for the honestly elected majority" &c
nominate him for the presidency. He
would accept, he says.
The second way. he suggests. is II
any number of this honest majority"
fear to take such action and the re-
mainder decide to start movement
and nominate him on a progressive
platform, he also would accept Roose-
velt's statement in part fallows:
The crucial. but not the only step
in the concerted, and hitherto sue
cessful effort to cheat the people uut
OF the victory they had fairly won, was
taken by the now defunct national
committee. which. without one show
of justification and with cynical con-
tempt of the most ordinary rules of
decency. in making up the temporary
roll call. unseatcd ninety fairly elected
Roosevelt delegates and substituted
for the ninety Taft delegates, who
in the convention. represent nothing
whatever but successful fraud.
Charges Successful Rascality."
''Mr Root was elected and Governor
Deneen's motion for partially cleans
Ing the roll of fraud was defeated by
the vote Of these ninety fraudulent
delegates, the last being vote on a
straight moral issue, the result OF
which, in my Judgment, ought to rem
der It impossible for any man longer
to take part in the proceedings of the
convention as now constituted.
THE majority in each case was
slightly over fifty.
an each case, had Il not been for
the hitherto successful rascality which
placed these fraudulent delegates on
/ the roll and permitted them to vote,
the cause Of decency would have won,
"Mr. McGovern would have been
| elected In place of Mr. Root Governor
Deneeps motion would have prevailed
and the Republican national conven-
| ton would now have been exercising
! In good faith the high, honorable and
| vitality important function of honestly
representing the wishes. the Judgment
and the interest of the plain people
who make up the mass of the Re
/ publican party.
| Instead, Ii now represents nothing
but successful political fraud perpe-
trated in the interest Of political and
financial privilege.
"Such are the facts about the ma
tional convention as now constituted
l decline any longer to be bound by
any action It may take.
81 decline TO regard as binding any
nomination It may make.
~ do not regard successful fraud
and deliberated political theft as con
stituting a title to party regularity, or
a claim to the support Of any honest
man of any party.
Says He VIII Bolt.
"If the honestly elected majority
OF the convention choose to proceed
with business and TO nominate me as
the candidate of the real Republican
party, I shall accept.
'If some among them fear TO take
such stand. md the remain der
choose to inaugurate movement to
nominate me for the presidency as a
progressive on a progressive platform
and If in such event the general feel
ing, among progressives. favors my
being nominated, shall accept.
I'm either case I shall make my ap-
peal to every honest citizen In the ma
ton: and ! shall fight the campaign
through, win or lose, even II do
not get a single electoral vote.
81 have nothing TO offer any man;
any man who supports me will do SO
without hope OF gain and at the risk
of personal loss and discomfort. But
II. having this in views those fervent
In this great fight for the rule of the
people and for social and Industrial
Justice. which has now also become a
clear-cut fight for honesty against dis
honesty, fraud and theft. desire me to
lead the fight, will do so.
There can be no cause for which
II Is better worth while to fight, none
in which It is Of less consequence
what happens to the individual him
self provided only that he valiantly
does his duty in the forward move
ment. shall make my appeal to all
honest men, east and west, north and
south, and gladly abide by the result
whatever that result may be"