The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-04-04
INDIANAPOLIS STAR, ADMINS.
rRArloN PAPER, SAYS DELE.
GATES WERE STOLEN.
MAJORITY FOR TEDDY
Ohio, Too, Does Some Peculiar Things
--Convsntion Put OF TO Late Date,
Thus Allowing Other States First TO
STATE Their Presidential Preferences
Taft Crowd Gloomy.

Helena, April 3.--(Special) The
Taft boomers here are plainly In the
dumps. Disappointment and gloom are
writ plainly upon their faces.
One Of the contributing causes has
been the recent arrival here of copies
of the lndiapolis star, with its lead
ing editorial denouncing the theft Of
the delegates at large from Indiana BY
the Taft machine. The Star has been
an earnest advocate OF the presidents
nomination, but II refuses to stand for
the rotten methods of the Taft ma
chine In Its own state.
In a leading editorial upon the re-
publican state convention the Star
frankly admits that the honest ma
jority In that gathering was for Roose-
Welt, not for Taft. The majority for
Taft was obtained. according to the
Star, by counting the votes of the big
delegation from Marion county. the
members OF which had no right to
seats.
Protesting against this open theft
of a state, the Stas declares that as
much as II desires the nomination of
President Taft. it, cannot consent that
II should be obtained by dishonest
methods
unheedins Ears.
A second cause OF the dumps per-
vading the local Taft camp may be
noted In the disappointing result OF
last Saturdays meeting of the repub-
lican state committee in Ohio. II Is
true that the presidents friends con-
]. trOlled the committee by large ma
jority and gave him resolution of in
dorsement. But the same committee
put off the Ohio state convention un-
I'll the 3d or 4th of June. the party in
the state thus waiving its right to
lead off In "A ringing Endorsement OF
the president.
Before the republicans of Ohio will
have met In state convention and made
known their favorite IN the presidential
contest, nearly. II not quite ALL of the
great republican states of the north
will have held their conventions and
instructed their delegates to Chicago
The voice of the party in the presi.
dents home state will therefore fal
upon unheeding ears.
Privately, the Taft bunch here ad
nit that this late convention In Ohio
has an ominous import. Had the pres
1ueUt iTleTuS Iclt TeuSOIlaDly sure v
Ohio they must have used their con
troll of the state committee to name al
early date for the selection and in
struction of delegates at large. A Wig
arous announcement for Taft by tn
party convention in his home stat
would have widespread, and prob
ably controlling. influence In other re
publican states. II Is, therefore. feare
that the call for late convention Il
Ohio will be taken throughout tn
county as sounding of the retreat
as an admission that the president
friends feared to put the issue to
test.
And bad situation Is made wors
by the fact that the same state com
mittee did not dare refuse the deman
of the Roosevelt men for open pri
maries In the district conventions, an
the conventions In the 2i districts wi
be 80 held, The confidence of tn
Roosevelt men In this matter sends tn
chills chasing up and down the spine
of the local gangstcrs.