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gates on the roll and permitted them
to vote, the cause of decency would
have won; Mr.. McGovern would have
been elected in place of Mr.. Root,
Governor Deneen's motion would
have prevailed, and the Republican
national convention would now have
been exercising in good faith the
high, honorable and vitality important
functions of honestly representing
the wishes, the Judgment and the in
terest of the plain people who make
up the mass of the Republican party.
Instead, it now represents nothing but
successful political fraud perpetrated
in the interest of political and
financial privilege.
General Conspiracy"
Il understand hat Mr.. ROOF has
announced that no one of the stolen
delegates will be allowed to vote on
his w case, but that all will be al
lowed to vote on any other cases.
Such a ruling is a sheer denial of
justice and fair play. This case bears
no analogy to ordinary cases, where
contesting delegates have no connec-
ton with m another, and where
there is no general conspiracy, which
must De considered.
IAN these ninety fraudulent dele
gates were seated at the same time
by the votes of the same national
committeeman, to serve the same
purpose. The credentials committee
appointed to try their cases includes
three of their w number from the
States of Washington, Arizona and
Texas, where the delegations were
stolen en- masse. The COMMITTEE Sc
lected as it's chairman the Guggen-
helm delegate from Colorado, who
had already as national committee
man assisted in initiating the very
frauds upon which he Is now to sit in
Judgment.
Nothing that this committee may
do is entitled to consideration. and
in considering what they do it will be
well to keep in mind the remark
made in private by one of the ma
tional committeeman, who when asked
why they had stolen so many more
delegates than were needed for their
purpose, answered that ii would en-
able the credentials committee to
make a show of generosity by un-
seating some, while retaining a num-
Der amply sufficient to accomplish all
the ends they have in view. More
over, it is we'll to remember that the
fraud is equally great and equally
rep%rehensible whether the fraudulent
delegates actually vote on the nomi-
nation for President or whether they
are merely used to create a situation
which renders 1t unnecessary for them
to vote on the nomination for Presi-
dent. If the roll is not purged en-
masse of these fraudulently-elected
delegates the whole action of the con-
vention is tainted.
At the Breaking Point"
THE committee on rules has Just,
against the protest of the Progress
sive members, provided for the per-
petuation of the national committee
in the form responsible for the scan
dalous outrages which have at this
moment brought the Republican party
to the breaking point, and they have
explicitly refused to recognize the
principle of popular presidential pri-
maries, and have made the national
committee supreme over the people
in the matter of primaries.
Unfortunately in our political life
the INSCRIPTIONS man who commit:
wrongs such as these can usually
count on having some respectable mer
support him and other respectable
men oppose him. but cease their OPP
position at the point when 1t would
become really effective. In this con
vention the INSCRIPTIONS men, VIII,
are the leaders, have already receive,
support from the former class OF re
spectacle men, and they count upol
seeing representatives of the latte
class, who have hitherto voted agains
them, fear to take the decisive ste
of sundering connection with tn
fraudulent convention itself.
such are the facts about the ma
tional committee as now constituted