Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-28

Charles Duel, chairman Of our exec
utiye committee in New York city,
and a citizen Of the highest type, for
mcrly a Judge on tie bench and one
Of fearlessness. t statement of the fol.
lowing facts:
He Heard Protests.
81 may add that even before | left
yesterday, two or three men had come
to me protesting that they were not
being given an opportunity to vote,
that they could not find any Roose.
welt tickets, that there were no watch
ers, that they were maltreated and
that there was no protection given
them, and that when they notified
the commissioner Of police over the
telephone and asked him to issue or
ders that the police should protect
the voters in their right to poll, this
WAS denied them.
In ten election districts of the Goth
assembly district the ballots did not
arrive until o'clock in the evening
and the polling places had then been
filled up with the Koenig-Taft men,
who occupied the remaining time in
voting, and gave the Roosevelt men
no chance to vote until the polls clos
ed at 3 o'clock
In three election districts Of the
25Jh assembly the ballot did not ar
rive until four minutes of nine, and
met with the same results"
There Was Some Blank Space.
Mr.. Roosevelt then said similar
conditions existed at many other poll
ing places and in each case he des-
ignated where each alleged irregu-
larlty was said to have occurred lie
charged that four and five ballots
folded together and voted as one
were counted into the Taft column in
the thirteenth and fourteenth elec-
tion districts and the thirtieth assem-
bly, district.
In many Of the districts the bal
lots were so printed that two or three
feot of blank space was left under
| tha Roosevelt emblem and the vot-
erS did not understand that what was
! halow was the Roosevelt ticket at all
he continued.
ION two Of the huge ballots the
Roosevelt delegates were at the bot
tom of the ticket and the ballots were
folded in such manner as to make
: it practically impossible for the vot-
ers to refold them in case they
opened them up in order to find
where the Roosevelt delegates were.
How They Got His Goat.
The lndeuendent league men new
er got any ballots at all in many OF
! the election districts throughout the
/ city, In district after district the
numbers of which We're given me, bal
/ lots did not arrive until almost .
O'Clock. Nine o'clock was the hour
for closing and when the ballots ar
rived at either at four minutes OF
nine as happened in some cases most
of the ordinary decent citizens, the
men on whom | had to depend had
gone home Against them were the
professional bread and butter poll
! ticians and these of course, stood
through the whole time and We're in
the polling booths, voting and did
not leave the polling booths until aft
er 9 o'clock.
I'm short, the election machinery
was used as unscrupulously as in
former days. 1t was criminal farce.
! The men nominally elected as its re-
suit if they We're to preserve their
| reputation as honorable men, cannot
accept positions as delegates.
What was done in New York, is
substantially what was done in In
diana and in Colorado. Against all
the money AN the patronage. all the
efforts Of the Keeling machine in
Indiana, with nothing but the plain
people OF the state to rely on, we car
ried the state convention Handsomely
and then by fraudulent action which
can only be called brutal in its utter
defiance of decency, nearly 200 del
egates were thrown out and the viii
Of the people reversed. The men hon
estly elected. of course, declined to
abide 10y the result and held sep
arate convention. They would have
been dorelict in their duty had they
not done So. for the Keeling-Taft
state delegation I'm Indiana does not
represent the people at all. and its
actions are in no shape or way re-
sponsihle for the people. or binding
on the rank and file of the republican
party in Indiana.
The same thing was done In Col
orado by the Guggenheim- Evans ma
chine. Outside of Denver. in spite
Of every species of attempted trick
cry and foul play, We carried ma
jority of the delegates but we were
beaten by the most outrageous meth
DDS In Denver itself by the Guggen-
helm Evans machine. II you wish to
know just precisely what the Gug-
genheim Evans people represent. and
what they are, | ask you to read
Judge Ben Lindsay's book, The Beast
and the Jungle.
In Missouri we have overwhelm- |
ingly carried three dstricts and yet in |
each district a boiling convention has
been organized. convention which |