The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-11
IS NAKED ISSUE OF
 RIGHT AND WRONG
Roosevelt Questions Honor
 of President Taft
IN REGARD TO OHIO
q Fail to See How an Honorable Man Can Profit by Such a Piece of Trickery,'
 He Says

New York June et0.--Theoaore Roose- welt discussed conditions at Chicago in an article, "A sSalsed Issue Of Right and Wrong made public toMigh1, and to appear in a current issue of the Out look. Mr Roosevelt says in part:
 @The contest for the republican nomination has now narrowed down to Ia naked issue of right and wrong for the issue is simply whether or not we shall permit system of naked fraud, of naked theft from the people to triumph.
 T have made this contest on two great ciples-first. the right of the people to rule and therefore in the ex- ereise of their deliberate judgment to control their government and their governmental agents; and, second their duty so to rule as to bring about not only political but social and industrial justice.
 Appeal to People. Not Bosses
 T have endeavored everywhere to appeal. not 10 the politicians but to the people themselves and to get their judgment. stating scores of times that would do my best to convert them to my way of thinking. that I should acquiesce as a matter of course in their judgment if it was adverse, but that if their judgment was favorable, l did not intend tamely to submit to an ef- fort by the politicians to throw aside the verdict of the people and substi ute a fake verdict of their own. This is precisely what Mir. Barnes, MT Mc- Kinley and their associates and repre- senfatives on the national committee at Chicago are now attempting"
 After discussing the primary results by states. MT. Roosevelt continues:
 ITO recaptulate then. In the repub- iican states which have had direct pri- maries nearly 2.500, 900 republicans have voted and of these nearly two-thirds have voted against Mir. Taft In the other republican states where the pri- maries have been such as to give the people. not an entire chance, but some small chance 10 express their will, the showing; has been almost as heavily against Mir Taft.
 Tn the aggregate the vote was near. ly two to one against him. in some states 1t went as hgh as five or six to one against him. The other states in the north which sent Taft delegates were states in which the republican voters had no chance to vote. Ohio went by over S0,O00 majority against MT Taft at the primaries, but the Taft managers had refused to permit a vote to be taken at the primaries for the |deiegafcs at large. and in the state convention by adroit political trickery they sent six Taft delegates to vote at Chicago for the man whom his own state had just repudiated by So,0o0 iinajorlty.
 Questions Taft's Honor
 T fail myself 10 see bow an honor table man can profit by or take part In such | piece of trickery as this Ohio state- conventions victory In the same way | fail to see how an honor able man can profit by or connive at or approve of tho farcial New York county primaries. But the case was far worse in Washington. In Indiana, in Michigan. In many of these cases the Taft delegates represent absolutely nothing but fraud as vulgar. as brazen and as cynically open as any ever com mitted by the Tweed regime in New York forty odd years ago.
 MT. Taft cannot be nominated unless he gets the overwhelming majority of tiie rotten borough states which never east republican eieeorai vote, and in which the delegations represent only the officeholders. Even if Ire gets practically all the delegates from these states. he cannot be nominated unless, by deliberate fraud. in such states as Indiana. Michigan and Washington, not. to mention others, the republicans are
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