Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-17
WHO WILL RULE?

yention convenes tomorrow and
sometime between then and Satur-
day a candidate for President ought
to be nominated.
By an Overwhelming majority the
Republican voters, where they have
been given the opportunity, have ex-
pressed their desire that Theodore
Roosevelt shall be the nominee.
This includes such strong Repub-
lican states as Pennsylvania, Him
OILS, Ohio, Nebraska, Maine, Ore
gon, California, Minnesota, West
Virginia, Washington, South Da-
kota and New Jersey. 1t ia the
Republicans in these states to
whom any Republican must look to
be elected. 1t would seem there
fore, that the expression of these
Republicans at the presidential pri-
marles ought to have great weight
with the delegates assembled to Sc
leot a candidate.
Judging from the high handed
manner in which the national COM
mittee has been throwing out
Roosevelt delegates where there
have been contests, however, the
verdict of the rank and file has had
no significance whatever to the
committeeman. 1t remains to be
seen how the delegates themselves
will act, beginning tomorrow. One
thing is certain. To deliberately
defy the great majority of Republi-
cans in the country means certain
defeat for the party in November.
1t will mean that party success is
secondary to the defeat of Roose-
welt. And the country will know
why the men now In control of the
Republican party desires his de-
feat.
The boog-a-boo about a third
term is put up merely to deceive
the pretended fear that the courts
will be destroyed and the constitu-
ton abolished Is all twaddle. The
people know that the party bosses
have been opposed to Theodore
Roosevelt ever since he entered
public life. They never could han
die him. He could beat them at
their own game and then use the
power thus gained to overthrow
their corrupt rings and enact legis-
lation for the benefit OF the people.
He always has been the great
champion of the plain people. AS
police commissioner in New York
city, when he enforced the strict
letter Of the law, but endeared him
self to his men as no other commits
sioner has ever done; as assistant
secretary of the navy when he
stocked up all the coaling stations
and had the navy prepared so that
when the Spanish war broke out
the great feats at Manila and San,
tiago were possible; as colonel OF
a regiment in the Spanish war wher
he led his men UP San Juan Hill
and later headed a round robin
bitterly criticising some of his su
perior officers when the soldier!
were dying of yellow fever in Gu
ban swamps after the war was over
as governor of New York when h,
more than ever demonstrated hi'
independence and defed the Ton
Platt maChlne- 1aCt, In every
thing he has done his honest anC
fearless character has attracted ma
tion-wide attention, all his energiej
being exerted In behalf of tn
plain people, the under dog, and tn
{ sufferers.
1t was because of this rapid,
\ growing popularity and the knowl
edge that he would not be bosse'
r that TON" Plat and Mat" Quay
, in 1900, c~oncocted a scheme t &c
rid Of him for all time, as the.
! thought, by placing him on tn
+ shelf OF the vice presidency. Jus
how we'll they succeeded we al
, know. The point we wish to max,
is that the opposition to. Roose
welt among the party bosses /
-, nothing new. They were trying t,
eliminate him from public life lon
before he was ever president 70
one term, let alone a candidate 70,
a third, They fought him whel