Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-07-19

These Republicans in these States
made the Republican nomination. In
hardly a single spot on this wide CONT
nent did Mr.. Taft in any sort of a
primary from straw ballot to legal
primary - receive majority of the
ballots.
3. The National Committee elected
four years ago, eleven of the most
active and influential of which were
repudated in the primary voting of
this year, on which committee A. M.
Stevenson of this state was so neces-
sary that day after day a proxy was
secured for him, piled up the Taft dele
gates in the most fragrant, vicious and
revolutionary method ever recorded in
the history of contests before that com
mittee. Let me use two illustrations
The two California delegates from
the Fourth district and the delegation
from the State of Washington. The
California primary law did not recognize
the congressional districts as units.
The rules of the National Committee
required this. Roosevelt carried the
State by 1900. Mr.. Taft entered the
primaries with full knowledge of its
provisions. His name appears today as
formally entered by telegram signed by
himself with the Secretary of State of
the State of California. There was
confusion in this district resulting from
confused boundaries in sixteen pre-.
cincts. No one knows what the vote
was. The preteXt was seized to ignore
the overwhelming choice of the State
under a State statute which Mr.. Taft
accepted.
In the State of Washington | quote
the Spokesman Review of Spokane,
the great Republican journal of eastern
Washington, and, up to this time, a
Taft publication: 1.-The act of the
National Committee in depriving Mr..
Roosevelt of this delegation to which
he is entitled, and which the Republi-
cans of Washington wished him to have,
is Infamous. Are Mr.. Taft's sup
porters mad?" In this view the Even
ing Chronicle concurred, and both
papers abandoned Mr.. Taft.
Forty-six per cent. of Mr.. Taft's
strength of SCI, as shown on the nomi-
mating ballot, came from the South ard
insular possessions.
, Twenty-seven per cent. was made up
: with States like Colorado and Wash
: ington, where everyone who knows
= enough to come in out of the rain
knows Taft could not win primary
: VOTE and twenty-seven per cent. in
Guiding New York, from States with
: fair Republican prospect, but which
: have in times past cast their electoral
: votes for Democratic candidates fol-
the presidency.
2 say, therefore, that Mr.. Taft was
''put over" by sinister influences; that
the committee and the convention be-
2 trayed their trust and the people, anc
r that conspiracy of months duration
s eliminating in revolution by the com
support Mr.. baltimore, that it com
pels me as Republican and a lover Of
my country to protest against such {
candidacy.
appeal to the people of the State o.
v Colorado-not in spirit of frenzy Of
hysteria, but calmly and dispassion
o ately-to answer this question.
v If you represented the crew on {
splendid ship-seaworthy and sound
= and a small, reactionary minority O.
n that crew should become mutineers t
d the principles governing the course ant
: conduct of that ship-in other words
l. pirates-what would you, as one of {
majority of that crew, feel warranted
+ and justified in doing?
! Would you desert that splendid ship
turn it over to the pirates and build (
@ new one, plank by plank-or would you
= rise like men, throw the pirates over
t board, regain control of your splendid
n vessel and put good men at the helm t.
g guide it safely to the port of honor TO
which it was destined?
Il What, under the circumstances, an
!. |, and the mutitudes who possess tn,
same belief, to do?
4 Mr.. Roosevelt has accepted nomina
n ton rendered him by the honestly elect
n ed majority of the Republican conven
g ton.
h AS candidate for the Republican nom
p inaton for Governor, and believing tina
. | am emphasizing my Republicanisn
o and my patriotism by my position allow
!. outlined, will go to the primaries il
= this State if secure the NECESSARY
votes in the party assembly.
!. If some way is found by which tn
people can say whether they prefe
l. Taft to Roosevelt electors, will abid