Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-06-13

10 ed plan to disrupt the republican c 10 party and can destroy it, then c 10 their steam rolling is easily un- o O derstood Gov. Hiram Johnson. 0 IOOO 10000 OOO ) 9
 Sacramento, June Ex-Governor H.
 Johnson today issued the following
 statement explaining steam roller"
 tactics at Chicago:
 T find so little understanding of
 the steam roller now in operation
 in Chicago, that I would like to make
 it plain. The republican national committee is the governing body of the republican party to determine just who shall act as delegates to the con vention. It now is engaged in this | task. If it's decisions are based upon chicanery or fraud it can give any candidate a majority of the conven- tion, irrespective of the state and the republican voters.
 Examples Are Cited
 Here are a couple of examples: The state of Washington has four delegates. Certain primaries were held there and in every primary MT. Roosevelt won by two, three and four to one over Taft. The delegates were then selected by the old convention method, and the Roosevelt men smash ed the bosses, so that when the con- ventiOn met to select national dele gates Roosevelt had a majority of 100. Fourteen delegates were selected ac- cordingly The Taft men, nothing daunted, however, and in a minority, seeded from the convention and cleo ted IA delegates, and these minority delegates now contest the seats Of those regularly chosen.
 "This contest comes before the na tional committee. If the national committee desires to commit fraud it will declare the Taft men delegates from Washington, and thereupon their names are printed upon the roll of delegates.
 Similarly, California declared for Roosevelt by 76,000, as figures now show, more than two to one, over MT Taft The delegates were all elected at large. Our law so provided, anC every faction acquiesced in it. No election by districts was held.
 "The president of the Union League | club of San Francisco, Ephe Tryon, was one of the Taft men beaten by | 76,O0O votes. He marches on to Chi | cago in charge of Calhoun's Hogue of the Post, and Calhoun's Hogue pre- 1 sents a contest of the California del | egates to the national convention, Ol | at least of the Fourth congressional | district delegates Of course, such contest would nauseate even a Taft 
 Suppose, however, the natiOna in outrage upon the people of the state, should seat at the in stance of Calhouns Hogue the two Taft delegates, who say they are from the Fourth congressional district anG were beaten by 76,0OO in the state.
 1t Is Rank Fraud
 Our people, then, are utterly help less, and those men go into the na tiona1 convention after being repudi- ated by 76OOO in their own state as delegates from California.
 "This kind of fraud is what is call ed the operation of the steam roller, md the men who managed Tafts are mad in this day of pop l liar rule to think of using such means. Of course, if these Taft man. agers have a well-defined plan to dis $ 'upt the republican party and can de ,troy it, their 'steamrolling' is easily t understood.
 ''No party today can be perpetuated ,y chicanery, and no candidate fore s d upon the people by fraud can be V successful. f