Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-12
TEDDY SAYS TAI 7
IS NEAR TREASON
Assumes His Office a Gift at
Disposal of Bosses in Def
anCe of the People,"

OYSTER BAY, June I'm state
ment in which he charges the conduct
Of the president Of the United States
with being dangerously near treason"
Colonel Roosevelt again assails the ac
tions of the Republican national COM
mittee and the Taft forces. He says in
part
The question at Chicago becomes
clearer with every vote of the national
committee It is simply whether the
people have the right to nominate
Whomsoever they wish for the highest
Office in their gift, or whether BY de-
liberate theft and fraud certain ma
chine leaders. acting in the interest Of
special privilege, are TO be permitted
to deprive the people of this right. BY
an overwhelming majority where they
have had the opportunity to express
their wishes at the primaries the plain
people. the rank and file of the Repub
lican party, have repudiated Mr.. Taft.
Now we are face to face with the ques-
ton whether the people rule the Re-
publican party or whether the party is
to be ruled by the discredited bosses
whom the people have themselves re-
pudiated.
Taft, Repudiated, Appeals to Bosses.
MIR Taft has been repudiated by the
people, and he now appeals to his rep
resentatives in the national commit
tee half of whom have themselves been
repudiated, and asks them to force his
nomination on the rank and file Of the
Republican party, who have declared
that they do not wish him Mr. Taft
a. one period of the campaign said
was unjust to him because | stated that
the bosses were for him and the people
against him. Events have proved that
was right.
How do these bosses hope to nomi-
nate Mr. Taft? What they did in the
Thirteenth Indiana district supplies the
answer. In this district the conven
ton which assembled to elect two dele
gates to Chicago contained a clear and
uncontested majority of Roosevelt men.
But the chairman, a Taft man, refused
a roll call and declared the Taft dele
gates elected on viva voce vote, where
upon the majority of the convention
elected two Roosevelt delegates. Yet
the national committee seated the two
men, the frauduency of whose claims
had been thus shown.
Would Mean Prison Elsewhere.
unfortunately, there Is no law to
touch the astounding misconduct OF
Mitch +l,o ,o+IopaI cop,roi+tea baS haeu
guilty. and which it has sanctioned in.
the cases which have come before it. If
the contest was one for the nomination
of an alderman in New York city, and
obscure men ins the Democratic and
Republican parties who We're acting as
election officers in asgiven taistrict were
guilty of such cpndpc TIA nd their guilt
was proved. theys would lpesssent to the
penitentiarv. But sfhe great and pow
erful politicians, the representatives Of
bossism in politics and special priv
lege in business, Who are now perpe-
trating the same kind of wrong on an
infinitely larger scale, are imunne be
cause as yet. unfortunately the law
does not touch nominating conventions.
MT Taft assumes, and Messrs.
Barnes Penrose, MuRane and company
assume. that the Presidency is to be
treated as a gift within the bestowal Of
the politicians in defiance of the duly
expressed wish of the people
Such conduct currrs dangerously
near being treason to the whole spirit
of our Institutions, to the whole spirit
Of democratic free government ] do
not believe that the people will tolerate
such conduct. nor do | believe that So
Der Republicans will consent to see the
Republican party sacrificed to please
the bosses whom the party has repu-
dated.
III the national committee continues
as it has begun, believe Its actions
will be repudiated by the convention
Mrs Elizabeth McHuah.
Mrs Elizabeth McHugh. SIS years old,
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