The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-24
MondeII Delivers Bitter Speech In
Which He Flags the Bull Moose
Leader and Fol-
lowers.
CLARK HAS SAME CAUSE
Democratic Nomination Was No More
Secured by Fraud and Thievery
as Was That Of
Taft.

United Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, July "a Branding
Colonel Roosevelt as pirate"
charging him with deliberately mis-
leading the public, and alleging that
he trumpet up and faxed" contests
of delegates at the Chicago conven-
ton. Representative Frank Mondell,
(rep, Wyo.) today in the house de-
MED alleged fraud" in Taft's renom-
ination.
The speech was one OF the most
bitter ever delivered in the house,
teeming with epithets of denunciation
for Roosevelt and his managers. The
Wyoming member spoke in Taft's de-
Tense to the Roosevelt charge of "stol
en- delegates and larcenous nomina-
ton" firing the opening gun in con-
gress of a campaign of defense that
will be followed up by representative
Bartholdt, of Missouri and by Senator
Root.
Colonel Roosevelt and his support
ers have repeatedly and in the most
violent and Incorporate language made
most serious charges of fraud and
wrong doing in connection with the
election and seating of delegates"
Mondell declared. Many people ac-
cepted them as gospel
Few realize how men may be led
by over-zealous or interruptions sup
porters or subordinates. The truth is
ever at a disadvantage in the presence
lof persistent prevarication."
Commenting upon the plan of Will
liam Finn to nominate the same men
on the Taft and Roosevelt tickets In
Pennsylvania Mondell said:
TT is proposed to steal the livery
and secure the benefits of republican
state organizations, while at the same
time repudiating the party. 1t is diff
| ficult to conceive more shameless
proposal of pure piracy. The local
boss Of the new crew, Dis a more eau
tious pirate than some others. But the
chief repudiates any such mushy pro
cedure; If you are to be a pirate
quoth ne be a pirate; carry their flag
as long as it Is to your interest to dc
SO, but eventually make them walk
the plank and scuttle the ship
Mondell declared Speaker Clark has
as much right to bolt" the democratic
ticket as Roosevelt has to form the
new party, asserting that the nomi
nation was ruthlessly snatched from
him without warrant Justification OF
excuse.
/ Roosevelt, the speaker said, first
contested 23S delegates and then be
fore the credentials committee aban
doned all but 1913.
That even his list of 1913 was padd
ed by cases known to have no merit,
the Wyoming member continued, lis
levidenced by the fact that only 81
icontests were finally heard by the
credentials committee. including some
whose seats we're given unanimously
to the Taft delegates by the national
committee.
The overwhelming majority were
brought deliberately for the purpose
of confusing the issue, misleading the
public and laying the foundation fol
the outrageous charges which follow
ed. The southern contests were toe
raw for the stomachs of even the most
dprejudiced Roosevelt supporters
Hunted Press Leased Wire Service.
THE impudent demand by those re
sponsible for faxed and flimsy con
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was contested should vote on any
: question was simply adding insult to
injury. What was proposed was tha
having given notice of contemplate,
wholesale theft, all the proposed vic
, tins were to be disarmed to ALLOW
: easy and expeditions preparation o
the outrage.
: "As admitted by Roosevelt manag
} ers they started out deliberately t.
, create contests, large number bein!
: pure fiction. Many were upon pre-ar
: ranged bolts based on the flimsies
pretexts.
THE proposition that electors Oh
tie republican ticket in Roosevelt
states shall cast their vote for an,
candidate of third party has it
j alleged excuse In downright and pei
). sistent, Arevarication on which rottel
founda@l it lays it's proposal Q
: reasonable larceny"
! Mondell, who was one of the men
a bers Of the national committee review
r ed in detail the testimony before tn
Z credentials committee in the Roose
welt convention tests Of ~ delegates
made the basis of the Roosevelt me
ton Ito purge the roll He declare
! every committeeman decided ever
e case upon its merits. often unan
9 mously, and we're forced by decen
o and honest dictates of conscience, t
q seat the Taft delegates"
/ Mondell declared that statement
i published in the newspapers of Fran
e A Munsey, leading Roosevelt sur
porter, gave proof that many Of tn