The Republican journal., 1912-07-04

tional committee, to the committee on
credentials, and to the convention in this
case was, Are these two delega es Ell
titled to their seats. despite the pro-
visions of the California primary law?
! On that question have not an instant s
doubt. To deprive them of their seats
would mean not only that the Republican
National Convention is hereafter to es-
tablish the unit rule, with all it's shock
ing unfairness, but that Legislatures in
Democratic States shall have power to
dictate how the Republican Convention
shall be made up.
"By its action in the California case.
the convention served notice that, where
presidential preference primary laws are
enacted, they must not attempt to de-
prlve separate congressional districts of
the right of representation to which
party law and party precedent entitled
Them"
NO STEAM ROLLER IN CONVENTION.
DR.. Butler calls attention to the fact
! that the National Committee had in
many instances dismissed unanimously
the very contests over which the Roose-
welt supporters are now questioning the
action of the convention, and that in the
/ committee on credentials members op-
posed to President Taft's denomination
/ voted with his friends on some of the
matters in dispute.
( Mr.. Taft's title to his nomination is
just as clear as any mans could be-" as
serts DIR. Butler at is the result of the
different methods of procedure in differ
ent parts of the country that the public
at large has been led to believe that con-
tests were decided unfairly in his favor. "
Moreover, the majority of the con-
vention was scrupulously fair to the
minority. At every point ample time
was given for the consideration of every
disputed question, and roll call was had
every time it was asked for. 1t is a
mistake to think that convention of
LOTS men can be turned into rubber
stamp. Senator Roots rulings were
models of clearness, fairness and
cogency. Nobody dreamed of appealing
from any of them.
| humored than the 'wspaper reports ap-
attacks and angry threats were made by
those who were not delegates to the con-
vention at all. The celebrated Mr.. Finn
of Pittsburgh subsidized after a day or
two of ineffective vociferation when he
found that neither Chairman Rosewater
nor Senator Root nor the convention as
whole was disposed to lie down and be
ridden over roughshod. In fact, he
seemed pleased to find somebody that
could hold his own against him.
DR.. Butler, as a member of the COM
mittee on resolutions and its most active
worker, describes the manner IN which
the platform was finally drafted. He
explains that three working models were
submitted to the committee, one from
the Roosevelt faction, another from the
friends of Mr.. Taft and third from the
supporters of Senator La Toilette. The
platform, as finally adopted, he declares,
embodied portions of all three models.
HADLEY HELPED MAKE PLATFORM.
1.-The committee devoted long and
patient study and discussion to every i'm
portant matter that came before it"
asserts DR.. Butler, land the proceedings
were harmonious and friendly and help
full from beginning to end. Governor
Hadley contributed greatly to the final
drafting of the platform, both as to its
substance and as to its language, and the
entire Missouri delegation voted for its
adoption. Governor Hadley has since
issued public statement that the plat
form is the most progressive declaration
ever made by the Republican party, and
he is entirely right.
The attitude toward the platform of
the delegates from the great States of
Missouri and Illinois, taken together with
the proceedings in the committee on res
olutions itself, makes it plain to me that
! there is no very great difference of opin-
ion among Republicans as to the policies
to be pressed and enacted into law. On
ninety-fve per cent of the topics dis
cusSed in the committee on resolutions
the sentiment was unanimous; the only
differences We're as to forms of express
sion 1t is these facts that make it seem
clear that any so-called bolt from the Re-
publican party or from Mr.. Taft's candi-
dacy can have nothing but a purely per-
sonal issue to rest upon.
mo bolt was organized on such ques-
/ tons as WOrklngmenS compensation.
public health, conservation, protection
of American citizenship, control of the
trusts, so that while wrongdoing will be
punished, honest business will be free
from danger or alarm; revision of the
tariff downward where duties are too
high, the alienation of the causes that
operate to increase the cost of living, or
any one of a dozen other topics, for the
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has declared itself in favor of Just these
things. No bolt can be successfully Or
gained on the question of whether or
not the people shall rule, because the
Republican party has declared itself in
favor of making rule of the people, as
effective and potent as possible.
" In a word,' concludes DIR. Butler
earnestly, nothing is left but purely
personal issue, and that in turn must in
large measure be based on perfectly
reckless allegations of fraud, none of
which will stand any investigation what
ever, and all of which were gone into
with the greatest patience and care.
A Pitcher Who Threw 80 Balls in g.
Inning Game.
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