The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-06
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PUBLIC OPINION
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search MIN TOT the Stoleh SoouSs
j To the Editor of The Gate City:
We believe the admitted evidence
will show that Mr.. Roosevelt did not
go into the Chicago convention in
good faith and that his nomination by
i his own convention was brought
i about through fraud and want Of good
faith on his part in the original con-
\ vention. A short time before the con-
] that the vote between Roosevelt and
Taft would be close and from the feel
ing that was being engendered through
! the campaign being waged, that, it
might be better to take up a third
man, leaving both Taft and Roosevelt
out. Mr.. Roosevelt spurned the idea,
said, / shall be nominated at Chicago
am the compromise, am the nomi-
nee, in other words, am the whole
thing-so he entered the convention,
as We think the record will show,
with the sole determination to either
| be nominated or break up the con-
yention. Then after several days con-
| test and when it seemed certain that
Taft would be nominated, the Taft
delegates and all the other delegates,
except the Roosevefts proposed a
compromise on some third man. This
Roosevelt again spurned, and to make
sure that the convention should not
compromise, told his delegates not to
bolt Or leave the convention hall, but
not to vote unless the delegates
Should undertake to nominate some
third person, in which event they
We're to fight and vote against any
such proposition, and that when
they had nominated Taft, he would
have convention of his own, and be
nominated, all of which was done. So
( If Mr.. Roosevelt was fair and in good
faith why did he not let the conven-
ton name some one else and support
that man. There is nothing strange
In conventions or legislative bodies
taking up some dark horse when
neither candidate can likely be named
as 1T stands. Mr.. Cumnins. Mr.. La
foilette, or a number Of good repub-
licans, even progressives, might have
been nominated, the party preserved,
their election assured, but no, Teddy
Roosevelt was the only man who
can be elected and the only man who
could save the country, and he must
break up the convention and The re-
publican party and the time honored
rule that no man should lave three
terms OF presidency, all because out
OF the ninety millions Of great Ameri.
cans, he was the only man VINO could
save the country from immediate de-
struction. Oh. what ignorant end
worthless people all we otter Amert-
cans must be in the eyes Of this man
Roosevelt.
If as Roosevelt says Presid snt Taft
is a reactionary under the contrib of
the bosses, not a progressive. ard
should not have been nominated and
that his nomination and election
would greatly endanger the safety of
our form of government and destroy
the rights of the common people,
then we say without a possibility of
contradiction, that Mr. Roosevelt is
absolutely responsible for the situa-
ton as 1t is, and had his sole motive
in securing the nomination of presi.
dent, been for the good of the COM
mon people and not for his own per-
sonal ambition, when it was proposed
that compromise be made and some
other person nominated for president.
even progressive, he would have
gladly accepted the situation and join
ed with the Taft and other delegates
in securing some good man with such
qualities, but on the contrary he took
advantage of the situation and refus-
ed to compromise or agree upon any
other man for the nomination than
and rather than that any 9TH
er person should be nominated than
himself he would split the Republican
party and start a new one to DESTROY
the old, and as we all know IL he di- |
vides the Republican votes, as he
hopes to, there can only be one end,
and that is the election of a demo. |
crat So we say. upon every phase of
the case Roosevelt through fraud and I
his own ambition seeks to disrupt the
republican party, and now SAYS II is /
DESTROYED. We say surely all the acts
he did were in violation of the com.
mon rules of the convention Had he
acted in that patriotic and self-sacri- /
icing way, that all good republicans
should, with his motto, how noble
would he have been, but on the con.
trary he says, everything for prin-
,iple, nothing for the man, everything
.or me, and nothing for principle So
we can truthfully say that If there
vas any stealing or fraud in the Chi.
sago convention. 1t all came about
through Roosevelt's ambition, and he
s the founder and source of It all
Roosevelt had no right to saw to
my of the delegates to the conven.
ion to sit still In their seats and not
'ote unless 1t should become neces.
AIRY to prevent the convention from
Mr. Taft just SO he could
all another convention to nominate
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