The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-09
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FORESHAOO WE'D
FlatlyAnnounces HeWilf
Not Abide by Com !,
mittee's Action. /!
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THEFT is NO TEST
OF REGULARITY,,sAs,
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In Vitriolic Statement, Tfff,sT
Term Candidate Denounces Ma
tional Committee, and APP q
peals to Voters In View Z
of What These Facts
Foreshadow." :
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Oyster Bay, \. y. June s.-FIaIfQ
announcing that he will not abide byq
the action of the Republican Nationa1g
Committee, Theodore Roosevelt to-l
night issued a vitriolic statement de-
nouncing seating OF the delegates fromj
the Ninth Alabama District, in whio1l
he said
"a nomination obtained By the votes,
of delegates seated In utter Defiance
of Justice as these twoS Alabama DEL
esates have Just been seated, would
be worthless to the man obtaining It.
and would be Indignantly repudiated
by the Republican party as whola"I
In summing up his argument, Roose-
welt said: Y
The TAFT leaders speak as Il they
were regular Republicans do not
concede that theft is test or resu-
larity."
In discussing the action of the oom-
mittee. the Colonel said:
Again and again we have sent TO
the penitentiary election Aflcials for
deeds morally not one whit worse than
what was done by the members of the I
national committee who unseated tho
two properly elected delegates In this
ninth District of Alabama and sub
stituted for them men who have no
more right to vote in the national con-
Vention than repeater has to vote In
an election"
lie made an appeal to the votcrs
at large. and charged that the Taft
leaders were making dclibcrate at
tempt to destroy the Republican marty.
His Statement
Colonel Rooseveit's statement fol-
lows:
In View OF the action taken by the
national committee Yesterday In un-
seating the two duly elected .tciet-aie.
In the Ninth Alabama District and RAJ
placing them by men who have no more
title to sit in the Republican conven-
zion than trey have to sit in the Dem
ocratic convention. would like to
make as serious an appeal as is In my
power 10 every good citizen who re-
CARDS the Republican party rs an in
strument for good government which
1t is wicked lightly to destroy
Alabama is entitled to wenty-ffys
delegates in the convention. AZ re-
CARDS several of the districts where
there have been contests. it Is my sin,
cere belief that the right was as much
on our side rs on the side of our OBJ |
ponents. But in these districts there !
was room for honest doubt, and talk
ing the matter over with Senator Dix
on, We both agreed to advise the Roose. h
welt members OF the national commit
Tee 10 support no contest In any dis
trict where there was room for reason.
able doubt as to the right OF the Rooae-.I
welt delegates to DO seated. Aocordl
ingly. in all but one OF the Alabama !
districts the Roosevelt men in the ma
tional committee voted with the ma
Jority. and this in spite Of the fact that.
as ! have already said, we regard thst
claims OF the Roosevelt men in certadnt
OF these districts rs being as good .as
those OF their opponents
Facts As lie Sees Them,
But in the Ninth Alabama District,
two Roosevelt delegates had been
unqucstionably elected Tho Sect.
mittce OF this district. composed of!
thirty members, met to call the CON
Ncnt'on. Eighteen members were
favorable TO my candidacy. twelve to
MI Tafts. The Taft men conceded
that this was the regular district corn
mittcc, and began by participating in
the meeting. hut as soon as 1t de-
vcioped that the Roosevelt men were
in tho majority tho twelve Taft men
/ left the meeting and called conven-
( ton of their own. leaving eighteen
members. clear majority OF tho
regular COMMITTEES. to call the regu-
lar convention IN which the Roosevelt
delegates We're named. No serious
evidence was presented before tho
national committee to contrayene
these facts. The contest asainst
these ;wo regularly elected ROOSEVELT
delegates had literally no foundation
whatever. even OF tho most nimsy de-
scription There was M more ground
for unseating these delegates. than
there would be. fou example in un-
seating the raft delegates from Rhode
Island. or in any district in any
State where there It's no contest what.
cvcr.C Yet. tue national committee
men, who arc supportiuS MIR TAFT.
voted to Unseat the two pcn properly
elected. ana To seat iu ,hc national
convention two men who. as L have
said literally haNr mo- more right to