Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-19

| fairly represents the conditions all ovel
the first district. Wherever the Roosevelt
people could be induced to vote the ma
| Jorities We're largely in Tafts favor II
| was evident from the time the first re.
! turns We're published that the managers
! OF Col RooSeVelt'S campaign would pay
no attention to majorities, but We're in.
structed to contest the result wherever
| possible to do so.
In the final convention at the city OF
| Evansville limited number of delegates
from the two counties i'm the district
numbering altogether less than one-tenth
or the delegates at the convention. with
drew from the hall and went into another
building and elected a contesting delega
ltlon The better element that favored
the nomination of Col. Roosevelt refused
to approve of this action, and expressed
a determination to abide by the result of
the regular convention, which was over
Whelmlngly in favor of President Taft
At indianapolis, where the primaries
are conducted under the primary law
With every safeguard surrounding the
| there We're almost three times as many
votes cast for Taft as for Col Roosevelt
| 1T Is very clear to any one informed as
to conditions in Indiana that while our
people In the past have been great be-
levers in Roosevelt. they see no reason
why President Taft's administration
should be repudiated and Col Roosevelt
nominated. The general expression is one
of regret that Roosevelt should have per-
mitted the use of his name at this time
l have no doubt that the delegation from
/ Indiana will be almost unanimous and
possibly unanimous for the renomina ton
of President Taft
| Roosevelt is to speak in Carnegie Hal
| tomorrow night celebrating his campaign
| policies. 1t is said that five times a.
| many people as could be accommoda tee
| have already applied for tickets
| i)irertnr n in,
sued last night declared: 1.-The position
/ taken by the President on presidential
| preference primaries, as outlined in hi.
| speech at Boston, is a fair statement OF
the position he and his representative:
| have maintained throughout this entire
campaign. In reply to Senator Dixon:
recent so-called Challenge for such pr
| maries, l said March Z:
| l am in absolute accord with the Sc
lection of delegates to the national con
Vention by the primary system whereve
primaries are or may be legally provided
| fairly conducted and surrounded by tn,
| restrictions of the law
Il called attention in that connection
to the lack of uniformity in the stat,
| laws governing primaries for the pur
pose of making it clear that any primar.
| conducted without the pale of the Law
| would open the door to the participation
| of democrats in republican primaries and
to that extent. nullfy the will of the re
/
| choice of candidate.
| This exact situation, according to re
| ports from the Roosevelt campaign man
| ayers, has already come to pass in Nortl
Dakota, where tomorrow a presidential
| preference primary will be held by tn,
! republicans The Roosevelt managers ar
already proclaiming from the housetop
| that they are in grave danger of defeat
| and, as an excuse, they are alleging tina
| the democrats of North Dakota are pre-
l tn M RI TO in hot MI, 4,
| the interest of Senator La Toilette. TIL,
presidential office is OF too great honor
and dignity to be dealt with lightly by
| the members of the republican party L
| under a widely heralded state law sucl
| charges as this can be made. whether
| based upon fact or not, it is easy to sur
| mise what might be expected and wha
| would be almost certain to happen il
'soap-box' primaries in those states which
| have no primary law worthy of the
I name.'
In Boston last night Cardinal O'Connel
coupled stirring tribute to President
! Taft and a denunciation of the judicia
recall in an address at St Patrick's day
dinner. He said:
1.-The very life of the peoples liberties
religious and civic. is in danger. when the
| foundations of law and the independence
of judges. be they civil or ecclesiastical
are imperiled.
Liberty founded upon the eternal
principles of divine justice. interpreted
| and applied in civil life by God-fearing
i magistrates. untrammeled and unfettered
! and unafraid of passing popular passion
! that, in word, is the guarantee of what
| alone has made this country great-per-
| feet security of civil and religious liberty
| to all
/ mo one has voiced these sacred prin
| ciples more clearly, fearlessly. uncompro.
| misingly than the big-hearted and cool.
| headed statesman who now preSides ovel
| the destnies of the United States OF
| America"
| The Woodrow Wilson headquarters is.
! sued a statement last night virtually
| claiming the majority Of the Kansas
delegation to the Baltimore convention
! that Wilson delegates have been elected
in six of the eight confessional dis.
tricts of Kansas, and claims a total OF
twelve of the sixteen district delegates
Two of the four delegates at large are
also claimed.
The statement asserts that two-thirA.
of the Kansas delegates favor Gov. VIII
son. and that, although the convention
| instructed them to vote first for the
Speaker, the instructions permit them tt
swing to Gov. Wilson after having cast
ballot for Clark.
Clifford Pinchot in telegram sent tt
Frank L. Talcott at Fargo, N. D., has
made specific denial of the statements
credited to Walter L. Houser and other.
that Col. Roosevelt pledged his support
to Senator La Toilette as a progressive
candidate for the republican presidential
| nomination. and declares that Mr.. Hou
ser. manager of the La Toilette cam
paign. was himself among the first o.
La Follette's supporters to urge that the
senator should abandon his own candi
dacy in the interest Of the progressive