The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-15
INDIANA PROTESTS
STILL POURING IN
Square Deal" in State Con
tests Demanded by an
Army of Voters.
BY CARL MOTE.

oIie Vi Aoi. hooseNelt HOSl dIueHl
supporters in the recent campaign in
Indiana.
Mr.. Dye has been in Chicago for sew
eral days working among the delegates
of other states in behalf of the Colonel
and has done effective work in several
instances. Mr.. Dye is with Col. Roose-
welt to the finish. He has declared that
the electors from the Ninth will not
vote for Taft if nominated in view of
the fact that he is bound TO be a CON-
mittee-made and not convention
made candidate.
Many of the protests are reaching
Chicago by wire. A few have been re-
ceived by mail. Protests also have
been arriving from other states and
particularly from those states where
the national committeeman has fol-
lowed the road roller instead of the
band wagon-in those states that gave
large preferential pluralities to Col.
Roosevelt and are represented on the
national committee by a member who
votes to seat Taft delegates regard
less of merit.
Seeking Scalp of New.
Not few Republicans, who have
telegraphed their protests to Mr..
Dye and to Louis Litman of Fl Wayne,
manager of the Roosevelt campaign
in the Twelfth district, have singled
out Harry S. New, national committee
man for Indiana who has invariably
voted with the porch climbers of the
committee.
Edwin r. Lewis, lawyer, of Indian
apolis, in telegram to Mr.. Dye EN-
phatically denies the statement made
before the national committee the 9TH
er day by Joseph l.. Hogue, superin-
tendent of streets at Indianapolis,
that he was offered a chance to watch
the count of votes in the Fourth
Ward during the Taft-Roosevelt prim-
aries.
1.-The statement was entirely false"
said Mr. Lewis. 81 was refused en-
trance to the polling place both at
the opening and at the close of the
polls
S. C. Loring, of Plymouth, Marshall
county chairman, telegraphed as fol-
lows:
AT the request of the leading Re-
publicans of this county, / protest
against the seating of Taft delegates
in the Thirteenth Indiana district and
urge that the committee reopen the
contest in the interest of the party.
can confirm the validity of these af-
fidavits as we'll as the truths they con-
tain In the name of the Republicans
- ,cf
the intimation that these affidavits
were bought with IS bills as was sug-
gested by one of the committee. BY all
means give us a square deal. Please
present this to the committee"
Judge Neal Protests.
"a large majority of the Republi-
cans of Hamilton county want you to
protest to the national committe
against their unfair method of seating
delegates for Taft without hearing all
the evidence and reading all the affi-
davits showing fraud offered to be
read on behalf of the Roosevelt dele
gates. Such action persisted in tends
to disrupt the Republican party. The
Indianapolis gang does not represent
the Republicans of this district
This came from Judge John F. Neal
of Noblesville, probable candidate for
congress in the Ninth district"
What in the is the use to
protest against the action of the ma
tional committee?" inquiries Louis w
Vail of Goshen. You might as well
protest through a megaphone to a
gang of train robbers"
Indiana Republicans are shocked al
the action of the national committee in
! seating Indiana delegates, especially
seating those depending upon the vote
of Marion county Men will not forget
soon the disgraceful farce at the pri
maries, so characterized by Merrill
! Moores, Taft attorney before the com
mittee. If the committee would lose
the state by 100000 let them keep UP
! the work.
! The above was a second telegram
| from Edwin r. Lewis.
Montgomery S. Lewis, Of Logans
port, telegraphed a protest, also Mel
vim F. Boulder and Charles A. Ash
paugh, of Frankfort.
Some More Protests.
| Lucius B. Swift of Indianapolis de
clared that 1.-The hitle to the four In
diana delegates-at-large admitted by
the national committee is without q
leg to stand on. Taft got control OF
the Indiana state convention by bare
faced trickery."
! Louis n. Litman, of Fit. Wayne, re
ceived the following protest from Har
ry Chapman, Charles A. Massena and
T. L. Chull, of Logansport:
Insist on an honest re-hearing anc
a Just decision for the Indiana dele
gates. We will not tolerate such steam
roller tactics as are being practiced
1t spells ruin for our party"
Protests also have been received
from Frank A. Preston, Edmond III
Eitel, Indianapolis; Alva o. Reser
Robert Prass, Jesse c. Andrew, Henri,
Rosenthal, E Burleigh, Davidson. vii
liam Lugar, F. G. Heinmiller, Charles
H. Henderson, Harry Lyman, William
A Roberts, c. E. Thompson, Joseph B
Ross, William VI. Jackson, Edgar ID
Randolph, B. ". Langdon, Russell X
Bedgood, Joseph A. Andrews, Martin