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ton. Now Mr.. Roosevelt saw, there

was no difference between that con-
veYftion and ours. Well I am a bet
ter witness than he Is. for I was at
both Of them and he was only at one.
And I was on the inside Of both and
he was on the outside Of one. He
says the bosses controlled the Chica-
go convention. And I am not going
to dispute 1t. In the first place I
think it is true and in the second
place If I doubted 1t I would hesi-
tate about putting my Judgment up
the subject Of bosses. For he is an
expert. When he says that the bosses
controlled the Chicago convention he
ought to know. for he knew the boss
es. But my friends.
They Helped Roosevelt.
I want to say to you that so ar as
I know there wasn't one single boss
at Chicago who helped to nominate
previous convention helped to nomin-
ate Mr.. Roosevelt. Now If you
think that is a strong statement-I
have been in politics for twenty years
and I never Intentionally made a
statement that I didn't believe I had
support for. And I am not going to
commence now. and I have three
weeks more of this campaign. and II
my statement isn't true I want to cor
rect 1t. and I will pause for a mo-
ment for any friend Of Mr.. Roosevelt
to name one boss at Chicago that
hadn't helped Mr.. Roosevelt. Is there
any one who will inform me? I
pause. wait. 1 wait some more.
OF one single boss that helped to nom-
mate Mr.. Taft that hasn't been a
friend of Mr.. Roosevelt and to whom
he is not indebted for official prefer
ence. So I will not question his state
ment about hts convention, but I will
deny 1t about our The bosses went
to Baltimore to control, but they went
home the worst whipped bunch Of
bosses who ever went out Of a con-
vention. and the North Dakota dele
cation. with John Burke at its head,
helped to whip them.
That Is one difference between
the two conventions. Doesn't Mr.
Roosevelt know this? Or is he indif-
ferent about the truth when he makes
the statement. I will give you an
any Baltimore resolution at Chicago.
At the Baltimore convention, by a
vote of $50 to 196-by a vote Of four
and a half to one, passed a resolu-
ton declaring that the nominee Of
that convention should not be repre-
sentative OF or under obligation to J..
Pierpont Morgan, Thomas F. Ryan.
August Belmont or any other one Of
the favor-seeking, privilege-hunting
class. That was the resolution. And
the next day in every capital Of the
old world there were three names on
the bulletin board, Morgan, Ryan,
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that for the first time in a hundred
years a great national convention had
singled out and named by name three
corrupters Of American politics for a
generation and notified the world that
they should not select the president Of
the United States.
That was done at Baltimore. Did
you hear Of any resolution like that
being passed at Chicago? No. 1t
wasn't passed. And 1t couldn't have
been passed. But you might say that
passed by any party. that o cannot
blame the republican convention for
thinking to pass 1t. But what
will you say Of Mr.. Roosevelt's con-
vention. His met afterwards. He
had the benefit of knowing that it
had been done. and could be done.
But they didn't pass any such resolu-
ton through his convention. And II.
my friends. in his absence n friend
Of his had been foolhardy enough to
introduce such a resolution. and if
the convention had passed it, he
would have demanded it's reconsid-
Grafton as soon as he found 1t out,
and IL he couldn't have it done he
would have bottled and organized an
other party to do 1t. Would he have
offended his friends? No. Why, Mr..
Perkins! his chief financial hacker
and his principal political adviser.