The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-06-13
ROOSEVELT APPEALS TO
PEOPLE TO RESCUE G. 0. P.
Nomination at Hands Of Present Leaders, He
Declares, l. Worthless-Denounce.
Theft" at Chicago
Colonel, Angered at Ninth Alabama Decision, Urges
Voters to Save Party-Repudiated Bosses,
He Says, Are Ruling Against People
Robbery Not Regularity.

Oyster Bay, n. Y. June s.-The
Republicans of the country were call
ed upon tonight by Col. Roosevelt TO
protest against the action of the Re-
publican National Committee In rui-
ing upon the contest for seats In the
National Convention from the Ninth
Alabama District.
Would Repudiate Nomination.
The Colonel served notice upon his
opponents that, in his opinion, the
party as a whole. would repudiate a
nomination If it were obtained in
defiance of Justice
He declared that every man who
wishes to see the party continue to
exist should protest at once against
those who are deliberately trying to
wreck it,
Theft No Test OF Regularity.
The leaders," said the Colonel,
speak as il they were regular Re-
publicans. l DO not concede that
theft is a test of regularity"
Col. Roosevelt's statement was
given out after a conference which
lasted all the fternoon. He was in
constant touch over his private wires
during the day with Senator Dixon
and his other lieutenants in Chicago.
HIT also consulted with a number of
his supporters who visited him.
Col ROOsevelt's Statement.
follows:
In view of the action taken by the
National Committee -esterday in I'M
seating the two duly elected delegates
in the Ninth Alabama District, and
replacing them by men who have no
more title to sit in the Republican
Convention than the have to sit in the
Democratic Convention, | would like
to make as serious an appeal as is in
my power to every good citizen who
regards the Republican prty as an
instrument for good government
which it is wicked lightly to destroy.
Alabama is entitled to "a dele
gates in the convention. AS regards
several, of the districts where tere
ave been contests, it is my sincere be-
our side as on the side of our oppon-
ents But in these districts there was
room for honest doubt, and talking
the matter over with Senator Dixon,
We both agreed to advise the Roose-
Welt members of the National Com
mittee to support no contest in any
district where there was room for
reasonable doubt as to the right of
the Roosevelt delegates to be seated.
Accordingly in all the Alabama dis
tricts in question the Roosevelt men
in the National Committee voted with
the majority, and this in spite of the
fact that, as l have always said. we
regard the claims of the Roosevelt
men in certain of these districts as
being as good as those of their op-
ponents.
Facts i'm the Ninth District.
But in the Ninth Alabama district
two Roosevelt delegates had been
unQuestionably elected. The facts
are as follows: The Republican COM
mittee of the district, composed of 80
members, met to call the convention.
my candidacy, twelve to Mr.. Taft's.
The Taft men conceded that this was
the regular district committee, and
began by participating in the meet
ing. but as soon as it developed that
the Roosevelt men were in the ma
jority the twelve Taft men left the
meeting and called a convention of
their own, leaving eighteen members.
a clear majority Of the regular COM
mittee, to call the regular convention
in which the Roosevelt delegates
were named
No serious evidence was present
ed before the National Committee to
contravene these facts. The contest
against these two regularly elected
Roosevelt delegates had literally no
foundation whatever. even of the
most fiimsy description. There was
no more ground for unseating these
delegates than there would be, for
example, in unseating the Taft dele
gates from Rhode Island or in any
district in any State where there is no
contest whatever.
Legal Delegates Unseated.
"Yet the national committeeman
who are supporting Mr.. Taft voted to
unseat the two men properly elected
and to seat in the National Conven-
tion two men who, as have said. lit
erally have no more right to appear