Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-23

twenty-eight men was sent to the Re
publican convention held in Chicae
on the nineteenth day of June las
CARRYING a commission from the lie
publicans of New Jersey approved b
So 900 of our fellow citizens. This wa
the first commission of that kind eve
taken by any delegate from this Stat
to a national political convention. TIL
people of New Jersey by that sig
nifcant vote declared that their rep
resentatives at that convention
should support Theodore Roosevelt
as their choice for President of tn
United States.
Receiver of Stolen Goods"
What New Jersey did at that tim
every other State having the direc
primary also did. By a majority o
over a million and a half of votes tn
States that are surely Republican
and which could surely give thei
electoral votes for a Republican
President, all declared for Theodore
Roosevelt. BY any fair count o
delegates duly elected to that con
vention Colonel Roosevelt would hav'
been nominated. But the will of th'
people, thus forcibly expressed at thu
polls was defeated and, by ths
fraudulent action of the nationa
committee. composed largely of mer
repudiated at the primaries. anothei
nomination was made. For the frs'
time In its history the Republican
party stands pilloried before the ma
, ton as the receiver of stolen goods
No amount of excusing or explana-
ton can remove this crime or wash
away its stain. 1t is so burned into
its record that neither time nor re-
pentance can ever %efface it. And
this is the party with which most of
us here have always bee associated
and by which some of us have been
greatly honored. To you your dele
cation at Chicago comes today to
give an of its Stewardship
and to submit for your consideration
its conduct in re~pudiating the fraud
and crime of that convention, and to
ask your condemnation OF the action
of that convention for its fraudulent
subvertion of the popular will.
TAFT Not the Nominee
1T is not my purpose at this time
to go into the details of the fraudulent
seating of over seventy delegates in
that convention, who were not legally
or morally entitled to their seats. /
have in my possession a clear, con-
vincing statement made by John
Boyd Avis, the New Jersey member
on the committee on credentials Of
that convention, giving the facts as
to the unseating of forty-five of the
honestly elected delegates to that
convention, which, at my request, he
prepared. These forty-fve alone
would have reduced the vote of Mr..
Taft in that convention, without
counting other fraudulent delegates,
to a number far below that required
to nominate. Mr.. Avis's paper dem
onstrates what your delegates all
know, that Mr.. Taft was not the NOM
inee of that convention, and no Re-
publican is bound in law or morals 20
support him al the polls. A Repub-
lican convention has beeen held in
the great Republican State of Iowa,
and by a vote of T73 to 343 it has re-
pudiated the action of the Chicago
convention and its nominee. South
Dakota has done the same. Cali
fornta. Kansas, Nebraska. Maine.
Pennsylvania, Minnesota. Maryland.
New Jersey, West Virginia and other
States viii, do likewise. Before No
vember the Chicago convention will
be a stencil in the nostrils of every
honest man.
Party Name No Longer Potential"
Moral forces are counting for more
in public life today than ever before.
Party zeal and partisan spirit awake
no echoes. A party name NJ longer
has n potentiality.
1T has been suggested We s1ould
have compromised at Chicago. Gem
promise what? Is it lot perfectly ap-
parent to every intelligent person
that the two wings of the Republican
party do not think alike? Let US give
the r~eactionaries credit for being as
honest IN their opinions. as we aie.
What results? We favor and they
oppose the election of United States
Senators by the people. We favor
and they oppose the physical valua-
ton of railway property by a COM
mission to secure thereby a basis for
fixing rates. We favor and they
oppose the taking over Of all ex-
press matter and delivering it
by the government as part of
its parcels post system. We favor
and they oppose the direct pri-
mary for the selection of all non-
inees for public Office. We favor and
they oppose economic legislation look
ing to the regulation of the hours If
labor and the issuance of the injurc-
tive process of the courts in all labor
controversies. We favor and they
oppose restrictive constitutional pro-
visions on the power of the Appellate
Courts to declare acts of the Legs
lature unconstitutional. We favor
and they oppose, under reasonable
constitutional provisions. the initia :
tive of legislation and a popular ref
erendum.
Favor Compulsory Arbitrati IN.
We favor a s~tricter control of the
banking business of the country and
a definite defining by statute of what
interstate business may or may not
do to prevent future controversy
owe its legality. We favor a more
speedy accountability of the judiciary
TO the popular will. and a trial by
jury in proceedings for contempt not
committed in the presence of the
court, If demanded by the accused.
We favor the compulsory arbitration
of all disputes between employer and