Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-10
MAKES ATTACK ON BOSSES
II Typify and Embody the Great
Cause He Declares.
APPEALS FOR
SUPPORT
Writes Letter to Chairman of His
Forces in State of Min
nesota.

NEW YORK. May 10-The Roosevelt
committee today gave out the following
copy of letter from Col Theodore
Roosevelt to r 4. Caswell of Minneap-
oils:
New York, May 10. 1912.
'.Hon r. r. Caswen.
Chairman of the Roosevelt committee
and clerk of the supreme court, Min
neapolis. Mimi:
Il wish it had been possible for me
to go again to Minnesota. Unfortunately
II is physically impossible. Nine states
have now held presidential primaries. or
their eauivalent-North Dakota, Wiscon-
sin. Illinois, Pennsylvania, Nebraska,
oregon, New Hampshire. Massachusetts
and Maryland. These states, the only
ones in which there has been a free
chance for the expression of the popular
will are to be represented by 256 dele
gates in the Chicago convention. Forty
of these delegates are instructed for
President Taft. and 216 are against him.
He has carried but two of the nine
states-New Hampshire and MasSachu-
setts-while in Massachusetts the Roose-
welt delegates at large were elected by
over twice the majority which Mr. Taft
obtained on preferential vote.
General Situation.
I'm Maryland the majority against Mr..
Taft was about the same, proportionately
rs the majorities for him in Massachu-
sets and New Hampshire. In the other
seven states the majorities against him
range from two to one to twenty to one.
In all the states together about three out
of every four of the republicans Who
voted at the primaries were against Mr.
Taft If primaries could De held IN all
the states there would undoubtedly De no
substantial variation from these figures,
and Mr. Taft could by no possibility have
two hundred votes in the Chicago con-
vention.
Mr.. Taft's chance of denomination lies
solely in securing at Chicago deiegaIes
who will misrepresent the will OF the
people He can get these delegates, not
in the primary states, but in the conven-
ton states. where delegates are CHOSEN
under the old system. and even In these
states he can only get them Where tue
state is ruled by boss
AFTER a prolonged experience or me
as President practically all of the big
bosses in the republican party dislike
me so heartily that they opposed MI
Tafts nomination because l favored it.
They were afraid that Mr.. Taft would
give them the same kind of trouble
had given them. After three years and
a half experiences OF MT. Ta1t since ne
turned around and heartily favor his
denomination.
Eight Is on Bosses"
They were opposed to me four years
ago, and they are opposed to me now.
They were opposed to Mr.. Taft four
years ago. when they had not tried
him as President, and they heartily
support him now These men include.
for instance, Mr.. Gallinger. in New
Hampshire; Mr. Aldrich, in Rhode Is
land: Mr.. Penrose. in Pennsylvania, Mr..
Healing. in Indiana: Mr.. Lorimer. in IL
linois. Messrs- Guggenheim and Evans.
in Colorado: Mr.. Calhoun and the
Southern Pacific railway crowd. in Cali
fornia, and the Amalgamated Copper
crowd, in Montana, and in your own
state they include Mr.. Smith and Mr..
Tawney.
The fight Is nationwide fight of the
plain people against the bosses. There
Is just one candidate whom IL Is possible
10 nominate against the bosses, and that
Is myself. Every vote for every other
candidate from now on is in reality a
vote for Mr.. Taft The fight Is against
the boss in Minnesota, as 1t is every
where else. A vote for Mr.. Taft is a
vote for the bosses; 1t is vote for Lori
mer. for Penrose, for Guggenheim, for
Gallinger and for all the rest of them
and IL is a vote for these men whether
Fl is cast in Minnesota. or in Massachu-
setts. or in Ohio, OF New Jersey, or Cali
forria