The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-12

situations, TO the whole spirit Oh
democratic free government.
The former president laid especial
stress on the action of the commit
tee in seating the Taft delegates from
the Thirteenth district of Indiana,
Notwithstanding the fact, he said, that
the Roosevelt men clearly were IN the
majority in the convention which ~as
called to elect these two delegates.
Colone! Roosevelt's statement says
in part: - 100000.
clearer with every vote of the nation
al committee. 1t is simply whether
the people have the right to nominate
whomever they wish for the highest
liberate theft and fraud certain ma
chine leaders, acting in the interest
of special privilege, are to be permit
ted to deprive the people of this right.
Massachusetts has just defeated
Mr.. Crane as a delegate to the Chica-
go convention. But Mr.. Crane is in
Chicago acting under the orders of
Mr.. Barnes in the steam roller tactics.
Franklin Murphy has just been de-
feated in New Jersey as candidate for
delegate and all 26 New Jersey dele
gates are for me. But Mr.. Murphy
is on the national committee at Chi
cago taking part in the EFFORT TO pack
the convention against the choice or
the Republicans of his own state. Mr..
Pnerose has just been defeated for
delegate in Pennsylvania, but he is a
Taft leader on the national committee.
Mr.. Mulvane of Kansas has just been
defeated for national committeeman
in Kansas, Mr.. William Allen White
taking his place. But Mr.. Mulvane is
on the national committee acting with
Mr. Penrose. The Taft people were
Overwhelmingly beaten in Kansas and
PENNSYLVANIA. Messrs. Mulvane and
Penrose, the two Taft 1teutenants, are
foremost in the effort to thwart the
will of the people VINO nave just de-
feated them.
UNFORTUNATELY there is no lazy to
touch the astounding misconduct of
which the national committee has
been guilty. If the contest was one
for the nomination of an alderman in
New York city and obscure men in the
Democratic and Republican parties
who were acting as election officials
in a given district were guilty of such
conduct and their guilt was proved,
they would be sent to the penitentiary
But the great and powerful politicians,
the representatives of bossism in pol
itics and special privilege in business
who are now perpetrating the sane
kind of wrong on an infinitely larger
scale, are immune because as yet I'M
fortunately the law does not touch
nominating conventions.
Nevertheless, the wrong they com
nit against the people is far greater
than the wrong done the people by
the little politicians, such as those
have spoken of: for these men are en-
people to express their will as to who
shall hold the highest Office in the
gift of the people, the presidency OF
the United states.
"Such conduct comes dangerously
near being treason to the whole spir-
it of our institutions, to the whole
spirit of democratic free government;
I do not believe that the people VIII
tolerate such conduct, nor DO DeleVe
that sober Republicans will consent TO
see the Republican party sacrificed to
nIease the bosses whom the party has
repudiated. .,-4,.ai
as II has begun I believe its actions
will be repudiated by the convention.