Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-06-07
THOSE SOUTHERN DELEGATES

There is a great deal of speculation these days
as to what the Southern delegates will do in the
Republican national convention at Chicago. Will
they remain loyal to President Taft to whose
nomination they have been pledged, or will they
turn to Roosevelt Wien tie ballotng begins and
serve his mad ambition to get third term in
the White HouseY
The Roosevelt claim to majority in the con-
venton is openly based on what his managers re-
gard a promising prospect of being able to
detach considerable number of the Southerners
from Taft s cause. In other words the colonel is
counting on support from the South to make up
the deficiency with which he will go into the
convention and he expects to get that support
from men who have been instructed to vote for
his opponent
1t is pertinent, therefore to ask how he plans
to win over those delegates to guess a bit as to
the means he will employ Certainly Cancellation
will not be his method. In some other way he
will have to get them if get them he does in vio-
lation of the promise under which they will
be sent from their home states to Chicago
Golfers Weekly, one of the leading support
ers of Roosevelt, has been telling few things
about Southern delegates in general who sent
to Republican conventions In series of articles
it has charged that the large majority of them
are either disreputable federal office holders
and accused by name some of those who will go
to Chicago as being eX-cOnvicts Other Roose
welt organs refer to them as 'mercenaries" and
that the whole bunch will vote for the nomina
ton of Roosevelt in spite of the fact that they
are under instruction and obligation to support
Taft
Now what does this meang What is the rea-
son for such confidence that the Southern dele
gates will stampede into the Roosevelt campY If
it means anything, it that the enormous
campaign fund contributed by the steel and har-
vester trusts for the advancement of the colonel s
candidacy will be evidence after the delegates
have assembled that not all the millions George
W. Perkins Dan Hanna and their associates are
willing to spend to put Roosevelt back in the
presidency will have been used before June Is.
II is matter of history that Southern Republi-
can delegates have been bought before and there
will be plenty of money on hand to buy them
again. il it is possible to get them by outright
purchase
Let us recall that incident of the convention
of 1888, referred to by General Sherman in a
letter he wrote to his old comrade General Alger
then United States Senator from Michigan John
Sherman the generals brother was an aspirant
for the presidential nomination, but was put out
Of the contest by the desertion of the Southern
delegates. Commenting upon the incident III hi.
letter TO Ager, General sherman wrote John
is sore because you bought his naggars away from
him. but that should not interrupt our friend
ship"
Times have changed since 1888, and il ma,
not be possible for Perkins to finish the cam
pagn for the nomination Alger did; but there
is sore because you bought his niggers away from
will resort TO the same means if they see a chance
to win that way.-Saeramento Union