The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-28

were not pelng gwen an opportunity to vote; that they could not find any Roosevelt tickets. that there were no Roosevelt watchers, that they were malreated and that no protection was given to them when they appealed to the police; and had to call up the commissioner of police over the telephone and ask him to issue or ders that the police should protect the voters in their right to poll
 Judge Duell telegraphs me that in the Seventh assembly district, every one of the 80 election inspectors was removed and anti-Rooseyelt men sub stituted
 '1In 10 election districts of the Twenty-sixth assembly district the ballots did not arrive until oclocK in the evening. The polling places had then been filled up with the Roe nig-Taft men, who occupied the re- maining time in voting, and gave the Roosevelt men no chance to vote un- til the polls closed at o'clock.
 Tn three election districts of the Twenty-fifth assembly district. ilhe ballots did not arrive until four min utes of 9 and the Taft-Koenig men had possession of the polling places.
 MT Roosevelt then said similar conditions existed at many other polling places and in each case he designated where each alleged ir- regularity was said to have occurred. He charged that four and five ballots folded together and voted as one were counter into the Taft column in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth election districts and the Thirtieth assembly district.
 Tn many of the districts the bal lots were so printed that two or three blank spaces were left under the Roosevelt emblem and the voters | did not understand that what was below was the Roosevelt ticket al l all" he continued.
 "On two of the huge ballots tho Roosevelt delegates were at the bot | tom of the ticket and the ballot. it practically impossible for the vot were folded in such way as to max, CTS to refoid them in case they open 1 ed them up in order to find wher' the Roosevelt delegates were.
 'The Independence league men nev CT got any ballots at all in many o the election districts throughout tn
 city. In district after district tn
 numbers of which are given me, ba
 lots did not arrive until almost
 o'clock. Nine o'clock was the hou
 for closing and when the ballots al
 rived at either four minutes of 9, a
 has happened in some cases, most
 the ordinary decent citizens, the me on whom had to depend. had gop
 home. Against them were the pr, fessional bread and butter politician ! and these. Of course, stood thYoug the whole time and were in the pol
 ing booths, voting and did not leav
 ilhe polling booths until after
 o'clock
 Tn short, the election machiner
 was used as unscrupulously as Il the days of Tweed
 'As I have said, such a primar. contest is not merely farce but ; | criminal farce. The men nominall, l elected as it's result, if they wish ts preserve their regulations as honor able men, cannot consent to accep l positions as delegates. The result 1T such a primary are in no shape ol way representatives of the republi can party and have no binding force whatever on the republican party. What was done in New York is substantially what was done in In diana and in Colorado Against all the money all the patronage, all the efforts of the Keeling machine in In diana, with nothing but the plain people of the state to rely upon, we carried the state convention hand somely and then by fraudulent ac tion. which can only be called bruta in it's utter defiance of deeency, near ly 200 delegates were thrown out and the will of the people reversed. The men honestly elected of course, de l cined to abide by the result and held separate convention. They would have been defelict in their duty had they not done so, for the Keeling Taft state delegation in Indianapolis does not represent the people at all and its actions are in no shape or way representative of, or binding on the rank and file of the republican party in Indiana.
 The same thing was done in Colo. rado by the Guggenheim-Eyans ma chine. Outside of Denver, in spite of every species of attempted trick cry and foul play, we carried a ma iority of the delegates, but we were beaten by the most outrageous meth ods in Denver itself by the Guggen' heim-Eyans machine. If you wish to know just precisely what the Guggen- heim-Eyans people represent, and what they are, ask you to read Judge Ben Lindsey's book, The Beast and the Jungle
 "In Missouri we have overwhelm- ingly carried three districts and yet in each district, q boitiHg convention has been organized, convention which cannot pretend to represent tenth part of the voters of the re publican party but which is to be sent to the Chicago national conven- tion in the hope that the same tao ties win be tried there that were sue cessfully tried in New York and Den yer and in Indianapolis.
 "In all these places our opponents have shown that they wished to win by any means, no matter how foul and that they will not abide by the will of the people. We ask nothing but