Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-28
JERSEY CAMPAIGN ENDS.
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\
iticians of four years ago to the
judgment of the people of today. 1t
is treason to take away the machin-
cry of the party from the people,.
1t was another day of big crowds
and rapid fire speeches. Col Roose-
! Welt first went through the mountain
section in the northern part of the
state. thence to Princeton, and finally
he returned to the vicinity of New
York
In speaking at Lambertvile, Col
| Col Roosevelt took UP at some length
the charge that he was attempting to
wreck his party. our opponents have
said that we are breaking up the Re-
publican party" he said. What is the
| direct reverse OF the truth. We are
building up the Republican party. The
| only chance for the Republican party
lies In our success. The success of our
| opponents would men the absolute ruin
of the party. And they know it. They
| are willing to ruin the party IL they
can keep their hands upon the ma
| chinery.
Il ask you to compare this with the
| attitudes of myself and of Mr.. Taft in
| Your own state. Just the other day,
| here in New Jersey. he said he expect
ed to win because the national commit
| tee is with him. l have told you that |
expected to win because the people are
| with me. The national committee was
| chosen by the politicians four years
| ago: and these 40 or SO men represent
| ed the choice of the politicians in 1908,
are to be used, forsooth to overthrow
the wishes of the Republican party in
| 1913. am loyal to the Republican par
/ ty when ! say that we represent the
rank and file of today and not the pol
illcians of four years ago
MANY of those national committee
men of whom Mr.. Taft speaks as the
friends of constitutional government,
| as the men who are to save the party
are 10 save it from who2 From you. 1t
| is to save the party from the Repub-
| licans of Illinois and Pennsylvania.
who repudiated Lorimer and Penrose.
| That is the proposal of Mr.. Taft on be-
! half of the national committee. The
| only men who impeach my loyalty to
the Republican party are the bosses,
vino are themselves being repudiated
| by the Republican party wherever the
rank and file have the chance to vote.
| l hold myself bound to be loyal to you.
! So my friends, my withers are wrung
when they talk of me not being loyal
| to the party
At the rally in Princeton, where
! Col Roosevelt spoke in the ball
cony Of the hotel. he talked in d
| friendly confidential way to the stu
dents. with never reference to the
| President, and only general allusion TO
! political questions.
| Newark, May 27.-The New Jersey
state primary election, tomorrow, will
/ bring practically TO a close the spec
tacular campaigns for the Presidential
nomination which have resulted this
year from the adoption by several
states of Presidential preference laws.
4 The South Dakota primaries are still
in the future, but it is believed that
the opening of the polls in New Jer-
sey, tomorrow, will see the end of the
persnal appeal for primary votes
that President Taft and Theodore
Roosevelt have voiced in many parts
of the country.
/ This state will choose IS delegates
to each national convention, four at
! large and two each from the IL con-
gressional districts Each district Sc
Iects its own delegates. but the dele
| gates at large are elected by the vote
of the whole state. The primary law
| ais permits the voters to express
personal choice for Presidential can
didate but this preference vote has no
direct bearing upon the division OF
= delegates. The delegates to be voted
for are pledged to Taft, Roosevelt or
La Toilette on the Republican ballots,
and on the Democratic ballots for
! Governor Woodrow Wilson or marked
"Uninstructed."
The Democratic canvass has been be-
tween only Gov. Wilson and his oppo-
nents inside the state. The Republican
candidates found no state issues TO
aiG them and have made their cam
paigns largely on personal grounds
Gov Wilson'S friends said, tonight.
that he would win the full state dele
cation with the possible exception oil
the members from Newark, the strong
hold of ex- United States Senator James
Smith, whose reelection to the SEN
ate the Governor opposed.
Col Roosevelt closed his campaign
tour, tonight, but the President viii
|, speak, tomorrow, right UP to the hour
of opening the polls, making tour oil
, the farming and shire towns in the low
CIR part of the state.
In ALL the President and Col. oRose-
welt have made more than 80 speeches
! each since they entered the state, last
: Thursday Senator La Toilette has been
in the state for the past five days and
has made nearly a dozen speeches.
Gov. Wilson has spoken three times
and has issued one address TO the vot-
ers explaining why he did not canvass
the state and attacking his enemies.
The polls open at =. NJ. tomorrow,
and close at 9 r. NJ
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