Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-29
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Never have there been SO many ap-
pliCat:ons for admission to a national
republican convention as there are on
file for admission to the forthcoming
national convention at Chicago. Sell
dom has there been such interest as
has been aroused by the contest at
the preference primaries between
Taft and Roosevelt. 1t has been a
campaign unprecedented In American
politics, and it is not to be wondered
at that the country generally and the
republican party in particular is alive
with excitement and interest over the
probable outcome of the convention.
The selection by the national COM
mdttee's committee of arrangements
of Secretary Root as temporary chair
man for the convention seems to have
aroused the determined opposition OF
the Roosevelt supporters. The selec-
tion of a temporary chairman is and
has always been a prerogatve of the
national committees sub-c committee Of
arrangements. There are few bigger
Americans and broader statesmen
than Senator Root and save for the
bitter contest THAT has been developed
between the Taft and Roosevelt
forces, his selection as temporary
chairman would be generally COM
mended. 1t has already been an.
nounced, however, by Ormsby Nc
Harg, who claims to speak by author
dty of Roosevelt, that the Roosevelt
delegates will not assent to the choice
of Secretary Root, who has been
loyal to Taft through the campaign,
and dt said to be persona non grata at
Roosevelt headquarters.
II a fight is made upon the selection
of Root 1t will of course have to be
settled on the floor of the convention,
as the first skirmish of the battle. We
incline to the belief that the conven'
tton will support the choice OF the
committee. The question seems to be
as to whether the republican parity is
a party entirely capable Of governing
itself under certain we'll settled rules
and precedent or whether it can be
Stampeded from Tits mornings by the
usual methods adopted by stamped
ers. And the same is to great ex-
tent true of the national committee,
which will have an important part to
play in the determination of contests.
The contesting of delegations has been
a favorite method of creating senti-
ment before aconvention. We think
the national committee will pass upon
these contests according to whatever
merit there may be i'm them and with
out reference to the particular de-
sires of those who are interested dn
breaking up the admitted strength OF
President Taft and seeking to get
enough votes by contest to approach
q majority of the convention.
What the people of the United
States who are affiliated with the re-
publican party want is a fair express
sion of the will of the people as ex-
preset in their choice of delegates.
The republican party has passed
through a number of crises and diff
culties and lit will pass through this
one and survive.
The North Dakota delegation in the
convention is for La Toilette, and IT
THE question of a temporary chair
man arises on the floor, will have to
take a stand either for the commit
tees choice or for the Roosevelt
choice. So it would seem that the La
Toilette delegates to the convention
will be called upon to make a choice
as between Taft and Roosevelt at the
outset. For La Toilette, except Incl
denhaaly, does not seem to be a great