The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

who, when his theory is translated into
actual practice, actually appear as that
representative part of the people"
Colonel Roosevelt then turned to the
primary election in New York. He
referred to Samuel Koenig, chairman
of the New York county Republican
committee, as a figure head" and
said he was simply doing the bidding
of the stronger men behind him, some
of those stronger men appearing in the
open and others being the big sinister
figures that are never seen in the light
of day"
Primary a Criminal Farce.
Before the election took place." the
speaker continued, II denounced IT as
criminal farce, because under the
wicked law which had been thrust upon
New York by the machines of the two
parties, Mr.. Koenig. had been given the
right to name all the inspectors at the
primary election in the county of New
York anC had already used that right
to throw out over a hundred of the in
spectors because it was known they
were supporting the Roosevelt ticket.
Every inspector kept was an anti
Roosevelt man. If in any political con-
test here in Illinois one party an
nounced that it would not permit any
inspectors except it's own to superin-
tend the polling, you would accept 1t,
as a matter of course, as an announce
ment that the election was not to be
fair election. 1t is mere matter of
elemental decency, that If contest is
to be fair, the inspectors shall be repre-
sentatives of both sides.
81 have received today from Judge
Charles H. DUEL, the chairman of our
executive committee in New York City,
a citizen of the highest type, a state
ment of the following facts:
81 may add that eI en- before I left
yesterday afternoon two or three men
had come to me protesting that they
were not being given an opportunity to
vote when they went to the polls, that
they could not find any Roosevelt tick
cts; that there were no Roosevelt
watchers, that they were maltreated
and that no protection was given to
them when they applied to the police;
and / had to call upon the commits
sioner of police over the telephone and
ask him to issue orders that the police
should protect the voters IN their right
to poll.
Judge Duell telegraphs me that in
the Seventh assembly district, where
William Halpin is leader, every one of
the 80 election inspectors were re-
moved and anti-Roosevelt men suostl-
tuted. In 10 election districts or the
Twenty-sixth assembly district, the bal
lots did not arrive until o'clock in the
evening. The polling places had then
been filled up with the Koenlg-IaIt
men. who occupied the remaining time
Young
no chance to vote. In three election
districts of the Twenty fifth assembly
district, the ballots did not arrive until
minutes of and here again the Ta1t-
Koenig men had taken possession of
the polling places and they kept the
Roosevelt men out until it was too late
to vote In the thirteenth and four
teenth election districts of the Thirtieth
assembly district, when the ballot boxes
were opened, our watchers saw several
bundles of ballots with from two to hve
ballots folded n each voted as one, so
that in each election district 20 ballots
were voted over the number of men re-
corded as voting. All these ballots were
marked in the Taft column in spite or
the protest of our watchers. In the
Third assembly district the names of
the Roosevelt delegates were not print
ed on the ballots. In the Twenty
seventh assembly district, the entire
Roosevelt ticket was left off the ballot,
and a similar omission IN the F1fteenth
assembly district.
ION Staten Island, where Mr.. Chauncey
NJ Depew was running for delegate on
the Taft ticket, were six election dis
tricts where ballots did not arrive, nine
election districts where they arrived at
o'clock. and seventeen where they arrived
after O'Clock. In the Thirty-fifth as
sembly district the Roosevelt ticket. was
rnisprinted so that the delegates appeared
to be running for the national committee
instead of the national convention
I'm many OF the ulSliiCAS Inc DdAiONo
were so printed that two or three feet Of
blank space was left under the Roosevelt
emblem and the voters didn't understand
that what was below the Roosevelt
ticket.
His Men at the Bottom.
ION some of the huge ballots the Roose-
Welt delegates were at the bottom of the
ticket and the ballots were folded in such
a way as to make it practically impossi |
BILE for the voters to refold them in case
they opened them up in order to find
where the Roosevelt delegates were. The
Independence league men never got any
ballots in many of the election districts