Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-18

Of the bosses, of the men who uphold
he combination of crooked politics and
crooked business, which has been the
chief source not only of our political,
of our social and industrial corrup-
ton. 1t has now. alas, become evident
that Mr.. Taft Is willing to ncquiesce in
and to condone and to accept the fruits
Of any course of action on which these
men embark, even though such action
reason, as well as destruction,
to the Republican party to which they
nomlnalIy belong, and also treason to the
of the American people as a whole.
Among the national committeeman
who have taken part In this conspir-
acy there are a number of me who
In the ordinary relations of life are
decent and reputable.
Probably these men excuse them
to themselves for what they
are now doing on the ground that
they are not committing what the
law recognizes as a crime.
politicians and Criminals"
1T may well be doubted whether on
the whole our country does not suffer
more from the misdeeds of men who
recognize as binding on their con-
sciences only the obligation of law
honesty, that 1t suffers from the
misdeeds of actual criminals. Men
like IMessrs. Crane, of Massachusetts,;
Brooker, of Connecticut. and Nagel, of
Missouri, who trail behind their holder
associates, such as Messrs, Penrose,
Murphy and Mulvane. are doubtless
genuinely shocked at the misconduct
of a defaulting bank cashier or at
the action of some small election
official who on election day falsiies
the returns.
"Our opponents here In Chicago to-
day have waged such a bitter and
INSCRIPTIONS fight for the very rea-
son that this Is no ordinary fractional
1.-THE big bosses who control the ma
tiona1 committee represent not merely
the led captains Of mercenary politics,
stand behind these led captains.
These political bosses are obnox-
ious in themselves, but they are even
more obnoxious because they repre-.
sent privilege in it's most sordid and
dangerous form.
HThe majority of the national COM
In deciding the cases before
them, have practised political theft
In every form from highway robbery
TO petty larceny, and political theft IL
rs dishonest as and more damaging
than ordinary theft.
"One thousand and seventy-ei eight
men r to meet here in convention
% decide the future of the Republican
fraudulent Taft Delegates"
CAT ienst seven out of eight of those
among them who really represent the
Taft. 1t is the duty of all of them,
their first duty. to throw out of the
every man frauduIently
secuted there by the national commit
THE fraudulent Taft delegates
whom the national committee seated,
Tor instance, from California, from
Washington. from Indiana. from Ken
lucky, from Michigan. from Arizona,
from Alabama, from Texas, represent
nothing but the deliberate attempt
by certain ~discredited bosses to upset
the free and honest expression of the
peoples will.
"Theso fraudulent Taft delegates were
by the voters of Washington. Of
California, of Texas, of Arizona. of In
diana, of Kentucky-and then they were
by the discredited political bosses
who had just themselves been beaten by
the people of their own states. in Mas
In New Jersey. in Pennsyi-
vania, In West Virginia. in Kansas, in
Missouri! Messrs. Crane. PeDrose g.
Company were so discredited in the eyes
of the Republicans of their own States
that they were beaten as delegates to
the convention. and yet they arrogate to
the right to seat In the con-
the delegates whom the States
Of Washington, California, Arizona,
Texas and the rest have Just beaten at
the polls!
Warning Against BOssism."
IF the convention proves false to
the u of the people, If 1t records
the will of the bosses, whether yet
unbeaten as in New York and Colo
RADIO, or beaten as in Massachusetts
and New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Kansas, it will wreck the Republican
party, it will put back the cause OF
democracy, 1t will be false to every
principle of honor and justice.
by every consideration of real JUS
tice we are entitled to have these of
whom ! speak, who were elected by
people, put on the roll call at
1nce. But we do not ask this. AL
we are deprived of our just
rights when these men are not al
to vote from the beginning, we
ask merely that neither set of con-
.estants be allowed to vote on any
questions before the convention until
he 1000 members of the convention,
whose seats have not been contested,
shall themselves decide which of the
delegates are entitled to
membership.
4 believe that even with the adj
1ition of these fraudulently seated
delegates Mr.. Taft's supporters are
N a substantial minority of the con-
v%ention, and l do not merely believe,
[ know, that we have a large ma
iority of the legally elected members
Of the convention.
IF those methods were allowed to
prevail the Republican party would
to an end, for it would cease to
be the party of the people. 1t would
pass under the control of an OIL
of the representatives OF
privilege, and no method of over
that control would remain
Available to the people. If this action
by 2 majority of the national COM
is allowed to stand. primaries
are a farce and election the idle exer-
else of a useless privilege,