Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-13
TAFT MEN ARE
REAL BOILERS
RoesevsltCalIs National Com
mittee Party Dastroyers.

Oyster Bay, N. T., June 13.-Colonel
Roosevelt nf1eg hearing by special wire
Of the action Of the loss Of additional
delegates at the hands Of the national
committee In Chicago rvinced great
Indignation. He was particularly In
censed at the loss OF two delegates
from California. He refused to COM
ment on jenator Firms uitinatum
threatening that presidential electors
from Roosevelt states would refuse to
vote for Taft, even II the convention
nominated him.
Judge Ben Lindsey Of Colorado was
the most important visitor. The state
ment suggesting d woman's suffrage
plank in the national platform, made
after the judges visit, Mr.. Roosevelt
would not smplify. 81 favor such a
plank" was ali he cared to say.
Mr.. Roosevelt's latest statement in
part Is as follows:
In Arizona Mr.. Taft's national commit
teemen acted with great frankuess on
their view that the intrusion of the peo-
pNc AAANO pDIiA'Nb . al -" "a - =
thence calling for etuHe by the national
committee. the national committee, act
ing on Mr.. Taft's theory that this ought
to be a government by the people, treated
the fact that the voters had them selves
been given the right to say who their dele
gates should be as a reason for refusing
to seat tho delegates elected by the voters.
/ call special attention to the fact that the
six Roosevelt delegates from Arizona are
aYplIIdGd from tho n finnll rom r1.I "a hA-
cause they represent the people from Ari-
IONA and the six Taft delegates are ad-
mitted because they do not.
In the Eleventh district Of Kentucky tho
theft Of the delegateS was perhaps more
fragrant than elsewhere. This Taft men
OF the national committee arst voted
down seating the Roosevelt delegates by
90 to 10. Immediately sfterward they. or
the motion of MIR. Vorys. seated one Taft
and one Roosevelt man. This decision
WAS on Its face preposterous. 1t was a
frank admission that the TAFT members
Of the national COMMITTEES. not being quite
willing to steal two men, were willing to
and did actually steal one.
California Action "Fiaerant."
In California thA action of the national
committee was perhaps not morally worse
than It has hitherto been. but II was Just
a little moro fragrant. The legislature Of
California decided that in California. as
in Oregon. Bouth Dakota and North Ds-
kots. tho delegates should be all elected at
large. All parties and all factions acqui-
esced in the law, and the supporters of
the three Republican candidates for presi-
dent made II campaign throughout the
state. MIR. Taft Bent a special letter to
California which showed his entire acqui-
escencs In the law. Thers wsrs no candi-
dates in tho district at all. and until after
the primary was held there was not a
suggestion made about the district dels-
gates. The Taft members of the national
COMMITTEES now seated two Taft men. say
ing they came from the Fourth district.
AS a matter Of fact. fourteen precincts In
the Fourth district overlap the Fifth dis
trict, and no man on earth can tell what
the vote in the Fourth district was.
After the primary every decent man In
California acQuiesced, sbut a lieutenant OF
Mr.. Patrick Calhoun. the nan whom Mr..
Heney Indicted. has made the contest. and
the national committee has ac,uuIiy scat.
ed two Tart-Cainoun delegates from Cain
fornia, although there wers no district
candidates and although no human being
can say what the vote was in the district
which these men claim. Governor John
son has rightly said that 1t Is an insult to
the state of California to listen to Cal
houn's representative In such a case as
this, and he refused to appear before the
national committee.
l have before me the list of the thirty
seven Taft national committeemen who
have presented MIR. Taft with two dele.
gates stolen from the people OF California
by the national committeeman at the re-
quest Of tho henchmen of Mr.. Patrick Cal.
houn, The list offers interesting reading
and 1t Is curious to see Mr.. Brooker OF
Connecticut and Mt. Crane of Massachu.
sets and Mr.. Eagel. Mr.. Taft's persona
representative from Missouri, foIIowins
behind Mr.. Psnrose, Mr.. Franklin Muir.
ply, Mr.. Powell Clayton. Mr.. Mulvans OF
Kansas and Mr., Stevenson Of Colorado.
Trying to Wreck Party.
ask that the decent voters of the coun,
try read Judge Ben Lindssy's book on tn,
Beast and the Jungle" study what h.
has said about Mr.. Stevenson and they
will appreciate the full significance Of tbs
action of Mesers. Crane. Brooker anc
company In backing up Mr.. Stevenson
These mon, who are endsavorinx to wreci
the Republican party by trying to pac4
the national convention with men no.
elected to 1t as delegates, are men jus.
.repudiated by the Republicans Of theh
own states. 1t Is they who are now irreg
ular. 1t Is they who are now profoundly
disloyal both to the Republican party ant
the cause of good citizenship.
They are boiling from the Republican,
party at this moment. Every decent Re.
publican must be loyal to the Republican,
Of California, who by 1000 majority elect.
their delegates, and they can only be loyal
to the Republican party by repudiating
the action of the thirty-seven members OF
the national committee who by their votes
In the matter have shown their profound
and abiding d~isloyalty 10 the party which
In theory represent and which In practice
they have betrayed. do not for one mo-
ment believe that the convention will rat
ify this action by the national committee,
for to do so would be to bstray the cause
Of the people, to be false to the principles
OF good citizenship and American democ-
rscy and wreck the American party.
A CARD.