New-York tribune., 1912-06-12
Question Now, He Declares, Is
Whether People or Bosses
They Repudiated Shall
Rule the Repub.
lican Party.
lNGERED BY INDIANA's LOSS
Latest Oyster Bay Statement Holds
Mr.. Taft Assumes Presidency Is
Gift Within Bestowal of Politi-
clans and Calls It Treason
to Spirit Of Country's
Institutions.


[By Telegraph 70 The Tr!bune1
Oyster Bay, n. Y, June 11.-Ex-Presi'
dent Roosevelt, incensed over the loss OF
the contested Roosevelt delegates from
Indiana, came out tonight with another
attack on President Taft and steam
roller" tactics at Chicago.
The protest against the regulars was
framed late this afternoon, after con-
ference with Governor Stubs Of Kansas.
New York and Amos, Pinchot The
colonel pocketed the copy and started for
Sycamore Hill, where he revised 1t and
gave it out for publicst ton.
The question at "hicago becomes
clearer with every vote Of the national
committee" he said. 1T is simply
whether the people have the right to
nominate omever they wish for the
highest Office in their gift or whether ~
deliberate theft and fraud certain ma
chine leaders, acting in the interest II
special privilege, are to be permitted to
deprive the people of this right. BY an
overwhelming majority where they have
had the opportunity to express their
wishes at the primaries the plain peo-
pie, the rank and file Of the Republican
party have repudiated Mr.. Taft. Now
we are face t face wit the question
whether the people rule the Republican
party or whether the party is TO be ruled
by the discredited bosses whom the peo-
pie have themselves repudiated.
Delegates, Though Defeated.
Massachusetts, has just defeated Mr..
Crane as a delel C 10 the Chicago con-
vention. But Mr.. Crane is in Chicago
acting under the orders Of Mr.. Barnes
in the steam roller tactics. Franklin
Murphy has just been defeated in New
Jersey as a candidate for delegate, and
all twenty-siX Nc v Jersey delegates are
for me. But Mr.. Murphy is or the ma
tional committee at Chicago taking part
in the effort 10 pack he convention
gainst the choice Of the Republicans
of his own state. Mr.. Penrose has just
been defeated for delegate in Pennsyl-
yania, but he is a Taft leader on the
national committee. Mr.. MulYane, OF
Kansas, has just been defeated for ma
tional committeeman in Kansas, Will
lam Allen White taking his place. But
Mr. Mulvane Is on the national COM
mittee acting with Mr.. Penrose. The
Taft people We're overwhelmingly beaten
in Kansas and pennsylvania, yet Messrs
Mulvane and Penrose, the two Taft lieu-
tenants, are foremost in the effort TO
thwart the will of the people who have
just defeated them.
These men prattle about regularity
Who are the regulars-the great majority
of the Republican rank and file, wh5
have just overwhelmingly repudiated the
bosses, or the bosses, who have just been
overwhelmingly repudiated by the rank
and file? To whom does the Republican
party belong? / hold that il belongs to
the plain people. who make up the enor-
nous majority Of its rank and file. Mr.
Taft, through his lieutenants, acts on
the belief that the party belongs 10 the
bosses. Mr. Barnes has now appeared
in Chicago as Mr. Taft's chief lieutenant
The national committeeman, like
Messrs. Penrose. Mulvane, Murphy and
company. have no claim to speak for
the Republican party, have no claim tn
consider themselves regular. They have
Just been repudiated by the Republican
party. They have no wish for Repub-
lican success. Their actions n axe 1t evil
dent that in their anger at the party
that has repudiated them they now seek
to bring the party down to share their
own disaster. But these men no longer
have political power in their own states.
In one week more they will be thrown
out of the national committee and they
are seeking to bring that party to utter
destruction. They err If they believe
that the theft of delegates by beaten
and dscredited bosses will be tamely
acouiesced in by the mass Of the Re-
publican party. The mass of the Repub-
lican party will never consent to accept
the view tndt either party regularity OF
party loyalty can be conditioned by
theft.
AT the Presidential elections of 1901
thirty-three states gave electoral votes
to the Republican nominee. OF these
twenty states, Illinois. Ohio. Pennsyl-
yania, Maryland. Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire, Maine. Missouri, Vermont.
New Jersey. Minnesota, Nebraska, Kan
sas. Wisconsin, South Dakota. North
Dakota, West Virginia, Washington.
Oregon and California. have had direct
or at least primaries which
gave some show to the people to express
their views. and all but two of them have
declared overwhelmingly against Mr..
Taft. Out Of about three million votes
cast, Mr.. Taft got less than one-third.
In other words, out Of the thirty-thres
states which have voted for Republic
can nominee for President. the rank and
iile In twenty have had q chance to de-