Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-11
ISSUE Of RIGHT
AND WR0NC-T. R.
Fails to "See How an Honora-
BILE Man Can Profit by
Such TriCkery."

NEW YORK, June lin an arti-
Gle entitled "A Naked Issue Of Right
and Wrong, which appears in the cur
rent issue Of the Outlook. Theodore
Roosevelt discusses the situation at
Chicago in part as follows
THE contest for the Republican NOM
nation has now narrowed down to a
naked issue Of right and wrong for
the issue is simply whether or not We
shall permit a system of naked fraud.
Of naked theft from the people. to
triumph
Il have made this contest on two
great principles-frst, the right Of the
people to rule and, therefore, in the
exercise Of their deliberate Judgment
to control their government and their
governmental agents; and second,
their duty so to rule as to bring about
not only political but social and in
dustral Justice
Will Not Submit to Bosses.
Il have endeavored everywhere to
appeal, not to the politicians, but to
the people themselves. and 10 get their
Judgment stating scores Of times that
would do my best to convert them
to my way OF thinking. that | should
acquesce : matter of course in their
judgment if it was adverse. but that
if their judgment was favorable
did not intend tamely to submit to an
effort by the politicians to throw aside
the verdict Of the people and substi-
t,,t g., 4; n -
is precisely what Mr. Barnes, MIR Nc
Kinley and their associates and repre-
sentatives on the national commit
tee at Chicago are now attempting
Honorable Man Would Not Profit"
ohio went by over 10000 majority
against Mr.. Taft at the primaries. but
the Taft managers had refused to per-
nit a vote to be taken al the prima
ries for the delegates at large. and in
the state convention by adroit polt-
ical trickery they sent six Taft dele
gates to vote at Chicago for the man
whom his own state had just repudlat-
ed by 10000 majority
81 fail myself TO see how an hon
orable man can profit by or take part
in such a piece of trickery as this
ohio state convention victory In the
same way, ! fail to see how an honor
able man can profit by or conniye at
or approve of the farcical New York
county primaries.
But the case was far worse in
Washington, in Indiana, In Michigan.
IN many of these cases the Taft dele
gates represent absolutely nothing but
fraud as vulgar as brazen and as
cynicauy open as any ever committed
by the Tweed regime in New York
forty-odd wears ago.
MI. Taft can not be nominated un-
less he gets the overwhelming ma
iority Of the rotten borough states
which never cast Republican electo-
raj vote. and in which the delegations
represent only the office holders
Even if he gets practically all the
delegates from these states, he can not
be nominated unless. by deliberate
fraud. in such states as Indiana, Mich
gan and Washington not to mention
others. the Republicans are defrauded
out Of their right to express their
preference as to who is to get their
votes He can be nominated only by
diSregarding the expressed win of an
Overwhelming majority of two and d
half million Of Republicans who from
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania TO
Illinois and california. have voted as
to their choice for president