The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-04

Mir. Root is pushed for nomination
 only with the purpose to secure tho
 defeat of the principles for whict
 the progressive republicans stand. MT
 Roots personality becomes unimpor
 tant in view of Mr Barnes telegram
 MT. Barnes stands as the representa-
 tive of the very worst form of bossism in politics.
 This is not faction fight in the ranks of the republisan party It is a fight between the plain people and the bosses, with back of them the great sinister splints, which are en deavoring to sustain the cause of priv, ilege by perpetuating by combination between crooked politics and crooked business.
 There have been direct presiden- tial preferential primaries so far in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, New Jersey, North Dakota, Maryland, California, Oregon and Ne braska. In these states the popular vote against MT. Taft has been be- tween two and three to one and often over that and he has secured only 36 delegates out of total of 344 In cer- tain other states, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire, okla homa, North Carolina, West Virginia, Washington and Vermont there were primaries which, while not direct pres idential primaries, still give a rough approximation of the actual sentiment of the states. In these states se- cured 154 delegates and MT. Taft se- cured IT, with three uninstructed. In those cases. where the republican voters have had a fair chance to eX- press their convictions, they have re- pudiated MT. Taft so completely that he has been able to obtain less than One-eighth of the delegates.
 If the wishes of the republican voters could be given fair expression Mir. Taft would nave but a corporal's guard at the convention. MT Barnes in the telegram above quoted states that the doctrines which l have advo cated are surversive of our form of government The doctrines that have advocated are surversiye only of the form of government for which MT. Barnes stands, that is, of gov .ernment by the bosses for the special interests.
 Mir. Barnes has always been frank. He thoroughly distrusts the people and gays so. He disbelieyes in democracy safs so. He disbelieves in democracy. he embodies boss rule in its most of fensiye form. The kind of represent ative government he believes is that which the representative shall repre- sent not the people but MT. Barnes and the other bosses. Mir Taft's nom. ination at Chicago can only be brought about by nullifying the will of the peo- pie and fraudulently seating a suffi- controlled delegates in the place of those who have been legally elected by the people. Among all the men who represent the combination of priv. ilege in business and privilege fl poli- tics. there is probably no others more eminently fit than MT Barnes to be entrusted with the carrying out of such a program.
 "Our opponents have shown that they will stop at nothing in the effort to subvert the will of the people From those southern states where there is Tt, real republican party ;Aey have sent delegations secured by the most unblushing use of the federal patron age. Wherever 1t has been possible to choose Taft delegates in defiance of the popular will, this has been done. At this moment such an instance is af- forded in Ohio, In Ohio at the recent primary the majority against MT. Taft's nomination was 30,000. High minded and honorable men would un- der such circumstances refuse to ac, cept delegates. Yet at this moment the Taft managers in Ohio are strain ing every nerve and using every means to upset the peoples verdict and give the delegates at large of Ohio to the man whom Ohio. by an overwhelming majority declared ought not to have them"
 But in spite of all these efforts the convention, if left to itself, will be heavily against MT. Taft, His whole chance of winning depends not on the vote of the national convention, but upon the hopes and plans for securing improper action by the national com mittee.
 q do not believe that the national committee as a whole will follow the lead of MT. Barnes and his allies in this matter. The success of MT. Barnes at Chicago-the possibility of his nomi-