Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
Albuquerque Journal, telegraphs that
there is no doubt of the success of Mr..
Clark in that state
Rebuke to Roosevelt Committee.

keDuke to Roosevelt CommlCCee.
The Taft national bureau gave out the
following today:
1.-The following open letter was sent to
the national Roosevelt committee by c.
P. Goree of Atlanta, delegate-at-large
from Georgia to the Chicago convention:
National Roosevelt Committee,
1929 e street northwest Washington
Gentlemen: / have been receiving
from your committee daily statements re-
lating to the candidacy Of Theodore
berating President Taft and his admins
tration. 1 am receiving also daily the
North American and the Chicago Tribune.
newspapers devoted to Mr.. Roosevelts
candidacy. I would be pleased to know
who has taken such a great personal in
terest in myself as to have those news
papers sent to me without any charge,
and 1 would like to know who is paying
the bills.
81 am one of the Taft minions" re-
ferred to in one OF your circular state
ments, and am also a delegate-at-large
from this state to the Chicago conven-
ton. / am not an office holder and never
have been. l also note in several of your
the twenty-six delegates elected to the
Chicago convention from Georgia have
been contested. l suppose that this state
ment is perhaps fairly within keeping
with all Of the statements which you are
sending out from your committee, and
that they are all entitled to about the
same degree of credit. 1 suppose you
know as well as I that not a single one
of these delegates has been contested,
and there is no ground upon which to
base contest
ut grieves me that men calling
themselves republicans can get their
consent to villify and abuse southern
publicans simply because 1T suits
hoir convenience and
help to promote the interests of their
candidate.
flour years ago Mr. Roosevelt had
no criticism for southern republicans
and delegates from the south to the
Chicago convention. They were, to
man. admitted to the national conven-
ton as delegates. However. they gen.
orally stood for the nomination OF Will
liam Howard Taft, and he was Mr..
Roosevelt's candidate. It makes a Diff
ference whose OK Is being gored
Doesn't it?
"I suppose that you are sending
these circular statements and these
newspapers to southern delegates gen.
orally. not for the purpose of winning
our support for Roosevelt. but for the
purpose of showing us that you hold
us In perfect contempt. and inasmuch
as the lesson has been thoroughly
rubbed In on me. I take 1t for granted
that you may just as we'll quit sending
me those circular statements and
those newspapers. I may be obtuse,
but think I can recognise an insult
when 1 meet 1t. and I have no doubt
southerners generally are possessed of
the same capacity.
You have been sending out some very
reckless statements. wholly unwar-
ranted by any facts. and will say for
your Information, in conclusion. that
President Taft will be renominated
and reelected, and I hope that after
the November election you will put
your heads In a cooler, and be more
considerate In the future for the well
fare of the party and the prosperity
Of the country.
"'Yours very truly,
"(Signed) c. p. GOREE.'"