Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-06-18
AUDITORIUM IS PACKED
COLONEL DISCDOSES LINE OF At
TACK WHICH WILL. BE MADE
IN TITANIC STRUGGLE
FOR NOMINATION.
DENOUNCES OPPONENT
Hearers Give Favorite Roaring Vel
come and Cheer Him on Lustily
With shouts Of Go Al 'Em'
and Hit En- Again
~ Associated Press.

~ Associated ffces
Chicago, III June l7.-On the eve
Of the national convention, Theodore
Roosevelt tonight disclosed the line
Of attack which he will make, and
outlined the principles for which he
would fight
lie said that the delegates whose
selection he contested must not vote
in the organization OF the convention
or on settlement OF contest He
made II rather clear that he would
resist that.
He declared that no action OF con
vention. based upon the 5otes Of
these "fraudulemtly seated delegates
would be binding upon the Republi-
can party"
II was al the Roosevelt rally In the
Auditorium that the eX-president
made this challenge lie faced a
cheering thronc which iammed the
huge building as tightly as the fire
marshal would permit
The vast crowd gave Roosevelt a
mighty welcome and he made a fight
m speech. tits hearers we're q
fighting mood and cheered him on. as
no denounced his opponents shout
ing 20 him
Go AZ en-. Teddy" Knock out
the steam-roller, Hit 'em again -
Mr.. Roosevelt said in part
One thousand and seventy-eisht
men are TO meet here In convention
70 decide the future of the Repub-
lican party At least : out Of Of
these among them who really repre-
r.nt the people are against the nom
nation of Mr.. Taft. II Is the duty
of all OF them. their first duty. 70
brow out OF the convention every
man fraudulently seated there by the
national committee The fraudulent
Taft delegates whom the national
committee seated, for instance from
california. from Washington. from
Indiana. from Kentucky. from Michl-
san, from Arizona. from Alabama.
irom Texas. represent nothing bun the
deliberate attempt by certain discred-
Sed bosses To upset the free and hon
st expression Of the peoples will.
These fraudulent Taft delegates were
beaten by the voters Of WASHINGTON,
~ California. OF Texas, of Arizona,
OF Indiana. of Kentucky then
they were seated by the discredited
political bosses who had just them
selves been beaten by the people Of
their own states. in Massachusetts.
IN New Jersey. in Pennsylvania, in
Vest Virginia, n Kansas. in Missouri
Meesrs Crane, Penrose and com
pany We're 80 discredited In the eyes
II the Republicans OF their own states
hat they were beaten as delegates to
the conventions; and yet they aegre-
-ate to themselves the right 10 seat
in the convention the delegates whom
the states Of Washington. California.
arizona, Texas and the rest have Just
heaten at the polls
II the convention proves false TO
the cause OF the people. II IL records
ne will OF the bosses. whether yet
unbeaten as in New York and Colo
ado, OF beaten as In Massachusetts
and New Jersey. Pennsylvania and
Kansas, IL will wreck the Republican
party. II will put back the cause Of
temocracy. IL will be false 20 every
principle OF honor and Justice II
sannot with honesty or propriety
stand In any shape or way for the
action OF the national committee.
neither aoceptiug that committees .
-ominee for temporary chairman. nor
nv accepting its decision as 70 the
eating and unseating OF contested
delegations There never has been \
carer line up than thls between the
lain people % the country on the one
side, and on the other the powers that
p-ey, the representatives OF special
Drivilege IN the world Of business and
heir tools and instruments in the
World OF politics. There can be- no
compromise IN such a contest II g.
natural that the representatives %