Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-15
Roosevelt and Governor Hadley.

my amendment to that motion,
says Governor Deneen, in further OK
PLANTATION, provided that no delegates
whose right to q seat was questioned
by Governor Hadley's motion should
have a right to vote on the selection
Of a member Of the credentials com
mittee or its report"
Denies Charging Theft.
Governor Deneen says Colonel
Roosevelt tries ITO bolster his false
position" by making him responsible
for the Hadley motion. Governor
Deneen denies that his amendment
charged that Taft delegates were
stolen The governor declares his mo
ton was compromise providing
merely that uncontested delegates
should decide the merits Of the con-
tests. Governor Deneen quotes from
a former address of the coloners TAX.
ing Deneen's horn OF the dilemma. The
governor says he voted with the Roose.
volt delegates in the California con-
tests. .- H. ... a-.
II do not think they were seated
fraudulently," he declares. There was
ground for an honest difference OF
opinion upon the merits of that case
Then he says:
ION the general question of contest
ed delegations it may be remembered
that Colonel Roosevelt cried, crook,
and quoted the scriptural injunction,
Thou shalt not steal very vehemently
regarding the selection Of the south
ern delegates, long before the states
with primary laws had had an op-
portunity to vote. .-
.'He did this with apparent SINGER
ity, but he reduced his claims and In
disnation with mathematical precision
as he gained delegates in the primary
states"
Referring again to the Lorimer mat
ter. Governor Deneen says: ..
Colonel Roosevelt went out of his
way to seek to injure me by garbled
in an effort to make it ap-
pear that l was an ally Of Senator
I orimer. His statement is without
truth or justification. -.
Roosevelt Makes Reply.
Col. Roosevelt issued the following
statement in reply to Gov. Deneen of
illinois,:
Fifteen years ago was on good
terms with Mr.. Lorimer as with every
member of congress against whom l
knew nothing and nobody did know
against him then. But when
Mr.. Lorimer was elected senator his
character has become matter not
only Of statewide but nationwide motto.
riety and if Mr.. Deneen-who was
then governor and who advised Mr..
Lorimer, as he himself testified, to
take the senatorship and who congrat.
ulated him upon his election-if Gov.
Deneen at that time was such an in.
nocent lamb as to not know about Lori.
mer and about what was going on I'M
der his own eyes in the jackpot legis-
lature, then Gov. Deneen Is altogether
too innocent q creature to be allowed
at large in American political life.
"As for last June in the Chicago con.
vention Gov. Deneen cannot hide him
self behind bubbles as to the form of
any one particular motion. Certain
motions we're to prevent the delegates
from voting and others were directly
against the seating of the stolen dele
gates.
"Mr. Deneen voted on these last mo.
tions exactly as he voted on the other
motions. The question was whether
seventy-eight delegates were or
were not stolen. Mr.. Deneen voted re-
peatedly that they were stolen and his
vote was justifiable on no other
He can now face which.
ever alternative he chooses. If these
delegates were stolen then his conduct
is infamous now, and If they were not
stolen then his conduct was infamous
then"