Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-06-29
THE G. 0. P. NAMES
TAFT AND SHERM AN

ABOUT TO read "a statement Just placeC
in my hands from Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt the Roosevelt adherents
broke into demonstration and cheer
ing and renewed cries OF I'VE wani
Teddy"
While Allen stood waiting for quiet
New Jerseys delegation tore hei
standard from. the iron pole and start
ed around the aisles. California was
next in line Minnesota, Nebraska, In
diana, West Virginia and Oklahoms
joined the procession, and the thing
was on in earnest. West Virginia tooi
her place in line. Out of sea o.
Beething heads and arms the standards
were suddenly raised as the process
sion passed around the hall. Pennsyl
vania, Maine and North Carolina goi
In line. BY this time the noise was ter
rife The demonstration lasted twenty
minutes.
Mr.. Allen when he had obtained at
tention asked that the delegates keel
quiet: that what he had to say was
not intended 10 start demonstrations
sive Republicans. He was listened &c
attentively for a time and first read
the Roosevelt statement as follows:
Roosevelt's Valedictory.
"A clear majority of the delegates
honestly elected to this convention
were chosen by the people to nominate
me Under the direction, and with the
encoura cement of Mr.. Taft, the ma
jority of the national committee, by
the so-called 'steam-roller' methods
and with scandalous disregard of every
principle of elementary honesty and
decency, stole eighty or ninety dele
gates, putting on the temporary roll
call sufficient number of fraudulent
delegates to defeat the legally ex
pressed will of the people and to sub.
stitute dishonest for an honest ma
jority.
THE convention has now declined
to purge the roll of the fraudulent
delegates placed thereon by the fe'
funct national committee, and the ma.
tority which thus Endorsed fraud was
made majority only because it in.
Guided the fraudulent delegates them
selves, who all sat as judges on one
another's cases II these fraudulent
votes had not thus been cast and
counted the convention would have
been purged of their presence. Thia
action makes the convention in no
proper sense any longer Republican
convention representing the real Re
publican party. Therefore | hope the
men elected as Roosevelt delegates
will now decline to vote on any mat.
ter before the convention. / do not
release any delegate from his honor
able obligation to vote for me if he
votes at all, but under the actual con
ditions | hope that he will not vote
at all.
1.-THE convention as now composed
has no claim to represent the voters
of the Republican party. 1t represents
nothing but successful fraud in over.
OF the party. Amy man nominated by
the, convention as now constituted
would be merely the beneficiary of this
successful fraud; it would be deeply
discreditable to any man to accept
the conventions nomination under
these circumstances; and any map
thus accepting it would have no claim
to the support of any Republican on
party grounds and would have forfeit
ed the right to ask the support of any
honest man or any party on moral
grounds"
The statement was interrupted at
one point by groans and Kisses This
was renewed when Mr.. Roosevelt ask
ed his followers not TO vote on any
other proposition in the convtntion.
The Roosevelt delegates cheered.
The platform was then adopted, the
majority of the Roosevelt delegates re
fusing to vote.
The nominations for president were
then in order. Warren G.. Harding, OF
Ohio, placed the name of President
Taft before the convention for the
nomination, and in doing so he re
ferred repeatedly to the internecine
strife that almost convulsed the con
Ntullnns ne ueCidItu lHdt Ouig OllNt
before was the foundation of the ma,
ton attacked" making reference tc
the Civil War.
frequently during his speech Hard
ing was interrupted by applause and
cheers
Taft Name Starts Stampede.
When finally he reached the name,
william Howard Taft" floor and gal.
leries burst into life. Hats and hand
kerchiefs We're swung in the air and
steady roll of cheering swept through
the hall In the galleries women as
well as men joined in the demonstra'
ton, which redoubled in vigor when
Harding stepped to the front of the
platform and tried to quiet it.
Through the tumult California, New
Jersey. Pennsylvania and the Roose-
Welt states sat silent.
John Waaamaker, of Philadelphia,
and Nicholas Murray Butler, Of New
York, seconded the nomination OF