El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
COMMITTEE ACTION
WOULD WRECK PARTY
Roosevelt Reviews Cases De
cided and Calls Many
Decisions TheftS.

oyster Bay, n Y. June I3-"They
are boiling from the Republican party
at this moment" said Col. Roosevelt
last night, OF the supporters of pres
ident Taft on the Republican national
committee The former president was
aroused to "A fighting mood by the
news from Chicago He denounced the
action of the national committee il
tiOnal convention from Kentucky, Ar
iZOna and California.
Col Roosevelt laid special empha-
sis upon the seating Of the Taft del
egates from one California district.
The colonel expressed the opinion
that the national convention would
not ratify the seating Of the Taft del
egates from California.
What do you think the "a RoOse-
welt delegates already seated from
California will do if the convention
declines to admit the other twoF
colonel Roosevelt was asked
I am not going TO try to say what
they will do" he replied. I am not
making any prophesies."
The Statement In Part.
Col RoOsevelts statement in part
In Arizona Mr.. TafFs national
committeeman acted with great frank
ness on their view that the intrusion
Of the people into politics is an IN
warranted impertinence calling for re
buke by the national committee. me
case turned on the single county OF
MaricOpa. The county committee had
the option Of selecting delegates to
the state convention or Of calling q
primary to give the people the right
to vote.
AT a meeting Of the county commit
tee all the Roosevelt men Joined by
two of the Taft men ordered a pr1-
mary to be held throughout the cOun-
mittee held a rump meeting and Sc
lected Taft delegates to the state con-
vention. At the primaries the Roose-
welt delegates were elected by a vote
of $50 as against % for Taft
Tit national committee acting on
Mr.. Tafts theory that this ought not
to be a government by the people,
treated the fact that the voters had
themselves been given the right to
say who their delegates should be as
a reason for refusing to seat the del
egates elected by the voters
L call attention 20 the fact that the
six Roosevelt delegates from Arizona
are excluded by the national commit
tee because they represent the people
Of Arizona, an the six Taft delegates
are admitted because they do not
The California Case.
'In California the action of the ma
tional committee was perhaps not
morally worse than hitherto but il is
Just little more fragrant. Here I
can contribute out OF my personal
knowledge 10 the history Of what was
done. The PrOgressives Of California
had control of the legislature and par
ty machinery. Under the primary law
then existing. which had been passed
by the old Republican machine, the
PrOgresSiyes could have obtained all
the delegates without resOrting to a
primary This was of course, what
they would have done if they had been
willing TO act like the Taft-Barnes
machine in New York, the Taft ANAL
gamated copper machine in Montana,
the Taft-keatiug machine in Indiana
and the Taft-G uggenheim machine in
Colorado. The temptation was very
strong to take the delegates without
risking q primary
Governor Johnson wrote for my
views, saying he felt that even at the
cost Of surrendering the advan age
the old primary law gave us, we should
be true to our principles and give the
people chance TO vote at a primary
for whom they wanted
Il wrote back that entirely agreed
with him and urged the passage OF the
primary law, governor johnson and 1
agreeing that what we wished was to
give the people a chance to decide for
themselves and whatever our personal
views we should acquiesce in such
decision Accordingly, the Progress
sives in California gave up the GER
tainty of having all the delegates for
US and as a matter Of principle and
justice passed the primary law
All Parties Acquiesced-
Every reactiOnary paper in the
state was pleading for such a law be
cause they hoped to win under it
The legislature OF California DEGREES