The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-08-01


this state, who. I dare assert. stant
, nine to one for the Roosevelt candi
dacy as against the candidacy of MI
1, Tart, have become irregular" becaus,
they still stand where they have al
ways stood, for common honesty ant
the Square Deal. --..
I Where originates this strange doc.
trine which teaches that because nser
stand for Honesty and the Square Dea
that they thereby become irregular;
While the conspiring thief who profits
by the felony shall be counted regu-
lar? What fantastic perverslon Of
the practices of good morals and fair
play is the pretense?
The great convention at Chicago
became irregular the very moment 1t
became dominated by stolen ma
jority conspiring to sand-bag the vot-
erS of the state and nation; and the
candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt be-
came regular and inevitable the very
moment that the delegates rejecting
the public conscience of majority CT
more than two millions Of the Repub-
lican voters Of the nation, refused to
further participate in the proceedings
of that convention, for the reason
that there in great political crime
had been committed
How solemn the occasion! How
Ominous the spectacle!
The honestly electvd delegates of a
majority of the great Republican
states of the land, within the womb
of whose constant majorities is nu-
tured all permanent Republican power
in the nation, sitting in angry, silent
protest; representing in their dignity
and wrath more than four millions of
the Republican voters of the Repub-
lie. and actual majorities Of more
than two millions of Republican votes,
with the consequent majority of those
Republican electors, all Of whom are
needed to elect a Republican Presi-
dent.
1t foreboded the inevitable and
crushing defeat Of the irregular and
dishonesty nominated candidates of
the moral minority, VIM. II. Taft and
James S. Sherman.
1t foretold with portentious signifi-
canoe that within the clean hearts Of
the Republican masses of the land,
honesty must ever be the test Of reg
ularity. and that those candidates who
shall be honestly nominated in con-
ventiCn and primary, and those alone,
shall be taken to be the regular can
didates of the Republican party
For State Ticket.
The Republican voters of West Vir-
ginia stand today where they stood
at the time of the holding of the
county district mass conventions, the
Congressional district and State con-
vaptions, and the statewide primary.
Ihey are for Hatfield, they are for the
State Congressional and county tick
cts, and they still hold Theodore Roo
sevelt in their hearts.
The platform adopted at the State
convention at Huntington is as pro-
gressive and as alive to the COM
handing issues of the day as any in
the land. In this alert and advanc
| ing commonwealth, the Republican
party, rank and file, is a progressive
party. 1T is in full accord and SYM
pathy with the Progressive Republ-
can majorities Of the nation.
Furthermore, it is your primitive
right, and mine, Tepudiating the If
regular and fraudulent transactions Of
the unrepresentative convention n
Chicago (heId5 in June), to rise in
our sovereign might, and by our
votes, when cast in November, there
by instruct our already selected cleo
tors how we require them to cast
their ballots dn the electoral college
in December next.
BY the doctrine and the teaching
Of the Constitution Of the United
are beyond the authority Of any in
dividual or group of men. 1t is re-
served to their own calm and DELHI
crate judgment, as the representatives
Of the sentiment Of the majority Of
the Republican voters of their state,
so to cast their votes in that electoral
college, that they shall thereby ex-
press the will Of the sovereign voters
who elect them.
| 1t is now up 10 you and to those
sovereign Republican voters, SO to ar
range 1t, that the instructions given