The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-29
HAND PICKED DELEGATE
Y Honestly Organized the Convention
Would Have Stood Ono Hundred
Majority for Roose.
velt

onel Roosevelt today took direct issue
Win the statement issued from the
White house last night iustifying the
A action of the republican national COM
mittee, and the convention credentials
committee in connection with the con
tests decided at the recent national
/ convention. Roosevelt declares that
Senator Root had said that there was
merit in the Texas contests, and that
he (Root) would have voted to seat
4 the Roosevelt contestants there. He
also referred to the fact that Nicholas
{ Murray Butler said the Roosevelt dele
gates in Washington should have been
seated and that many Taft men adj
mitted the seating of the Taft dele
gates from the fourth California was
a steal" From all of this, he argued,
; the Taft defense was In contradiction
to the real facts
The Roosevelt statement was as
follows:
I saw in the papers that Mr.. Root
said he would have voted for the Texas
cases. DR.. Butler is declared to have
Washington cases. Several are re-
ported to have said they would have
voted for the California cases. II
! these cases alone had been reversed,
even If the Texas cases alone had been
reversed-Mr Taft could not have
been nominated.
Look at the three articles wrote
for the Outlook. did not
consider one-third OF the cases
!. l should have considered.
: merely took few cases that were
! notorious, and where there was nc
possibility of disputing the facts
: These cases alon. had 1t not beer
z for the downright theft perpetrated b.
Q Mr.. Taft's lieutenants, would hav,
= absolutely prevented all possibility 0
u Mr. Taft's nomination.
y "If honestly organized, the CONVEX
Z ton would have been against MI
7 Taft by over 100 majority Moreover
' aside from the stolen ninety delegates
which gave the fraudulent majority
Mr.. Taft's vote was made up three
Is fourths by the delegates from thos
q southern states. where there Is n
IS regular republican party and whic
re have never cast republican electora
IN vote, and from the hand-picked dele
gates of Messrs. Barnes, Penrose, Gut
genheim and company from the nortl
81 wish to state with all emphasl
j that there is no room for homes
IS doubt as to what happened at the Oh
ay cago convention 1t is not a case fe
ed honest discussion. The fraud was q
IL barefaced and shameless as any frau
go ever committed at elections by tn
Id Tweed machine in those days whe
go there was no pretense at holding
to fair election in New York City.
wv "In private conversation the rel
en- leaders of the Taft forces merely
as not deny this but glory In 1t an
OF sometimes they incautiously expires
OF the same sentiments in public. NJ
q Taft's Cleveland leader, Mr.. Doug
OF erty, was reported In the papers tt
us other day as exulting in the succe
M of the steam roller methods IA
ne Hilles was reported the other day
1 expressing enthusiastic gratitude
behalf of Mr.. Taft to Mr.. Barnes f
the way he held the bringe at q
cago. It is nonsense to suppose tn
.lIMr Hilles and Mr.. Taft do not kno
of lust exactly how that particular BIRDS
lpt was held. 1t is no mere coincfden
of that at least nine-tenths OF the ser
de. torial leaders in the theft OF the q
art cago convention were also leaders
bly, the fight to retain Mr.. Lorimer IN Z
the seat in the senate. Messrs. Penros
Sc Gngg enheim, Gallinger and Crane, q
len instance The two cases stand on
,pt- mar. The successful theft and fra
My which resulted in Mr.. Tafts nomlI
in tion in Chicago made piece OF pol
zen icsl work which fundamentally, ire
of the standpoint OF decent politics, a
INST honest popular government, deserv
n. To rank with the proceedings. VIM
YER eliminated in the election OF Mr. 10
mer to the senate, and his retenti
in the senate, for over two years,
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