Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-06-03
BLAME NOT ON THE TARIFF
SPEAKER ASSERTS THAT PRES
ENT CONDITIONS ARE NOT
CAUSED BY 1T.
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
SUPPORTERS OF EACH WILL TRY
TO CONTROL THE PARTY
GATHERING.

Columbus, o., June S.-"No com
promise" was the slogan Of both Taft
and Roosevelt leaders as the hour
approached today when they go into
convention to fight for Ohio's six
delegates-at-large to the national con-
vention. United States Senator Bur
ton, temporary chairman Of the con
vention, also declared there would
be no compromise in the convention
and said the gossip that the delega-
ton would be split was not founded
on fact.
"Cuyahoga county's uninstructed
delegation of SO stands As for Taft
and for Roosevelt" said Senator
Burton.
Committee Chairman Brown. leader
of the Roosevelt camp, said his fig
ures Of 42O of the 754 delegates had
been reached without counting any
Of the Cuyahoga delegation. L. @.
Laylin, Taft's state manager, holds
to the claim that the president viii
have 40S delegates.
Trains and FRACTION cars early today
began pouring delegates and poll
ticians into Columbus. while dele
gates and officials already on the
ground were busy making the final
preparations for the opening Of the
republican state convention at 4
O'Clock this afternoon at Memorial
hall. Numerous conferences were IN
progress during the morning between
the Taft and Roosevelt managers
and the various delegations.
United states Senator Theodore g.
Burton of Ohio, delivering the key
note speech before the republican
state convention, declared the coun-
try was confronted with crisis far
surprising any through which 1t has
passed in the memory of the present
generation. He deplored the absence.
from the polls of a great percentage
Of voters in recent state primaries.
He foreshadowed many of the ten
cts that will be laid down in the plat
form to be adopted at the coming
national republican convention and
reviewed the high cost Of living,
which he traced to various cases,
and declared they weer not attribute
able to the present tariff law sena
tor Burton deplored the spectacle of
a vote barely one-half that OF the to-
tai electorate in recent primaries N
Ohio and other states. The absence
of voluntary interest in the ballot
box he characterized as alarming
The primary he said, seems the ideal
system, but equally good results
could be obtained if the electors de-
sired that representative men be
chosen to select the candidates.
Senator Burton predicted that no
radical changes looking toward civic
betterment would follow such re-
forms as the primary the initiative.
the referendum and certain not the
recall. unless there be widespread
awakening which shall arouse the
citizen to a new and abiding sense OF
his responsibility to the state and to
the community"
Passing by the record of the re
publican party's earlier achievements,
@the days Of the unsuccessful strug-
gle under Fremont and its matchlel-
record under Lincoln and his sue
cessora," Senator Burton traced the
course Of events up to the present
campaign.
"The last four years Of republican
control Of the nation he said. "have
been marked with an unprecedented
amount of beneficient legislation.
Our party organization has taken the
lead for now these fifty years and we.
can congratulate ourselves upon a