Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
ROOSEVELT SEES
BOSSES" S"O0WNEID ! 1 4
COLONEL CITES RESULTS IN
z STATES IN WHICH POPULAR
PRIMARIES ARE HELD. @'

New York, May 27.-In an editorial
in the current issue Of the Outlook,
Theodore Roosevelt declares that inc
battle Of the rank and file Of the repub-
lican party against the bosses has been
wan and that the will Of the masses
must be carried out in the national
convention.
Now the fight that once seemed al
most hopelessly one-sided is ending IN
a. victory" the editorial says. 1T has
been proved that nothing can Withstand
the deliberate Judgment of the people,
not even the deliberate judgment OF the
bosses. In those places where the
honest and decent citizens, the cam
people, the rank and file, have had a
chance to fight, they nave done tnelr
won and that the will of the masses
ten. have overwhelmingly won. And
where these citizens, these plain people
who belong to the rank and file, nave
been denied the chance to fight, we pro-
gressives have been fighting their bat
ties, and now have made it certain
that they will have the right IN the fu-
ture to fight for themselves.
Traitor to Bosses.
"It has been said by my opponents
that what am standing for its treason
to the party When they speak or the
party they mean the bosses and their
understrappers who have 80 often
manipulated the party machinery. de-
cline to recognize the bosses as en-
bodying in their own persons the
party. l recognize the rank and file as
making UP the party. and 1t Is to them
that my loyalty is due. When l say,
therefore, that no republican is called
upon to surrender to the irresponsible
action Of party bosses, am showing
my loyalty to the people.
when he was speaking IN ONO
President Taft said, 'Bossisn1 is false
issue and sham Is it? The repub-
llcan voters in Ohio. where Mr.. Taft
made that statement, did not think so.
They joined with the republican voters
of Illinois and Pennsylvania and Ore
eon and California and Maryland and
Nebra ska and Wisconsin and North
Dakota in deciding that they did not
want what the bosses had been telling
them they must have.
Cites Rebuke to TAFT.
'Is bossisn, then, a false issue and
sham as Mr.. Taft says? Let us see
This is what the republicans Of North
Carolina think about 1t. After instruct.
ingj delegates for me. the thousand
delegates assembled in the republican
state convention at Raleigh by unani-
mousmotls vote adopted this resolution:
Whereas, President Taft did on the
seventeenth day Of March by single
order withdraw from the senate the
nominations Of ten citizens Of North
Sarolina without assigning any reason
therefor, and without any charges
against the character or qualifications
of said nominees; it being understood
that the fate of the nominees Is to await
the actions Of this convention-the ap-
continents to be awarded to the fac
tional leaders who shall deliver the
largest number Of delegates to Mr.
Taft:
1--WE therefore declare that President
Taft has underestimated the pride and
self-respect of the republicans of North
Carolina in supposing that we would
participate in political auction whose
object is to make merchandise of men
"'We unhesitatingly repudiate, resent
and rebuke the whole proceedings and
all parties thereto"