Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-13
TAFT MEN ARE
REAL BOILERS
RoesevsItCalIs National Com
mittee Party Destroyers.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, June 1s.-Coionei
Roosevelt after hearing by special wire
of the action Of the Loss Of additional
delegates 1t the bands Of the national
committee In Chicago eTinced gres'
Indignation. He was particularly In
censsd at the loss of two delegates
from California. lie refused to com
ment on senator Films ultimstum
threatening thst presidential electors
from Roosevelt sta tes would refuse 10
vote for Taft, even If the convention
nominated him.
Judge Ben Lindsey OF Colorado was
the most important visitor. The state
ment suggesting a woman's suffrage
plank In the national platform, made
after the judges yidt, Mr.. Roosevelt
would not smplify. IL favor such a
plank" was all he cared to say.
MIR. Roosevelt's latest statement In
part la as follows:
In Arixons Mr.. Taft's national commit
teennen acted with great ~frankness on
their view that the intrusion OF the peo-
pie into politics 10 an unwsrranted imper-
tinencs calling for rsbuSs by the national
committee. The national committee, act
Ing on Mr.. Tstt's theory that this ought
to be . government by tho people. treated
tho fact that the voters had themselves
been stven the right to say who their delo-
gates should be a. 3 reason for refusing
to ssst the delegates elected by the voters
l call special attention TO the fact that the
sir Roosevelt delegates from Arisons are
excluded from the national COMMITTEES be-
Cause they represent the people from Ari-
coma and the six TAFT delegates are ad-
mittad because they do not.
In the Eleventh district OF Kentucky the
theft OF the delegates wa perhaps more
fragrant than elsewhere. The Taft men
Of the national COMMITTEES first voted
down seating the Roosevelt daayatss by
y TO 10. Immediately attsrvard they, on
tbs motion Of Mr.. yorys, seated one TAFT
and one Roosevelt man. This Decision
MAS on its face prspostsrous. II wAs q
frank admission hat the TAFT member
OF the national oommittes, not being quits
willing to steal two mon. were willing to
and did actually steal one
California Action "Fiasrsnt-"
IN California the action OF the national
COMMITTEES WA perhaps not morally worse
h II has hitherto been. but Ii was just
= little more fragrant. The legislature OF
California decided that in California. az
In Oregon. South Dakota and North Da-
kotA, ths delegates should be all elected al
large. All parties and all factions acQui-
ssesd In the law, and the supporters OF
the three Republican candidates for presi-
dent made Z campaign throughout the
state. Mr.. Taft sent . special letter tO
California which showed his entire acQul.
esoence in the law. There were no candI-
dates in tho district at all, and until after
the primary was held there was not 6
suggestion made about tho district dele
gates. The Taft members OF the nationa,
committee now seated two Taft men. say.
ing they came from the Fourth district
As q matter of fact. fourteen precincts ii
tho Fourth district overlap the Fifth dis
trict. and no man on earth cen tell whs'
the vote IN the Fourth district was.
After tho primary every decent man ir
California acquiesced, but a lieutenant OF
Mr.. Patrick Calhoun, the man whom Mr.
Heney indicted. has made tho contest. anc
the national committee has acluauy seat.
ed two Taft-Cslhoun delegates from Cali
fornis. although there we're no districr
candidates and although no human beinf
can say what the vote WAS in the distric'
which these men claim, Governor John
son has rightly said that 1t Is an insult e
the state OF California to listen to Cal
houn's representative in such a case q.
this, and he refused to appear before tn,
national committee.
have before me the list Of the thirty
seven Taft national committeeman VIII,
have presented Mr.. Taft with two dele
gates stolen from the people Of Californi,
by the national committeeman at the re
quest OF the henchmen of Mr.. Patrick Cal
houn. Thu list offers interesting reading
and 1t u curious to see Mr.. Rrooker O
Connecticut and Mr.. Crane Of Massachu
sets and Mr.. Nagsi, Mr.. Taft's persona
representative from Missouri, following
behind Mr.. Psnross. Mr.. Franklin Muir
ply, Mr.. Powell Clayton, Mr.. Mulvape o
Kansas and Mr.. Stevenson Of Colorado.
Trying 70 Wreck Party.
! ask that the decent voters Of the Sour
try read Judge Ben Lindssy's book on tn,
Beast and the Jungle" study what h
has said about Mr.. Stevenson and the,
Will appreciate the FULL significance OF tn,
action OF MeRsrs. Crane, Brooksr an,
company in backing up Mr.. Stevenson
These men, who are sndssvortng to wrecl
the Republican party by trying to pacl
the national with mon no
elected to 1t al delegates. are men JUS
rspudiAtod by the Republicans CT thei
own states. 1t L. they who are now irreg
ular. 1t 10 they who are now Profound
disloyai both to the Republican party an,
the cause of good citizenship.
They are boiling from the Republics
party at this moment. Every decent Re
publican must be loyal to the Republica n
OF California. who by 1900 majority elect
their delegates, and they can only be loya
to the Republican party by repudiatin
the action OF the thirty-sevsn members O
the national committee who by their vote
In the matter have shown their profoun
and abiding disloyalty to tho party whic
In theory represent and which in practic
they have betrayed. l do not for one me
ment believe hat the convention will RAJ
lily this action by the national committee
Tor to do so would be to bstray the caus
OF the people. to DO false to the principle
OF good citizenship and American democ
raey and wreck the American party.