Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-06-13
Finn of Pittsburgh Says
Pennsylvania Roosevelt
Men Will Not Cast Their
Votes for President.
MARYLAND THE SAME
SAYS GLASSCOCK
Plan of Roosevelt Leaders
to Defeat Taft in Elec-
toral College and Elect a
Democrat Announced.

Democrat Announced.
Chicago, June 12.-Recourse ia
Roosevelt men who have been select
ed as presidential electors in different
states Is the announced plan Of VII.
liam Finn Of Pittsburg, should the
convention nominate President Taft.
The Roosevelt leader made this
statement today in vigorous i ack
on the national committee in which he
declared that such a movement While 4
It. might defeat the republican morn.
inee for president, would SAFE the
party in the big republican s.a ,es
His position was indorsed ~ Gov.
w. E. Glasscock of West ,ir iaia,
who declared that all the Yves, .'lr. )
giria republican electors ale ior
Roosevelt and would vote for him In
the electoral college regardless OF the
action Of the convention.
Senator Joseph NJ Dixon listened
to Mr. Finn and Gov. Glasseos.i and
said: 'I don't think there will lie
any need for such action You hear
what they say. In my opinion Col.
Roosevelt will surely be nominated
The Taft forces will not dare to steal
the nomination" "ss5 a3
Declar Two States viii Bolt.
Mr.. Finn and Gov. Glasscock de
clared that the state conventions In
Pennsylvania and West Virginia had
not been adjourned and would be re-
convened it necessary and the cleo.
tors given positive instructions to vote
for Col. Roosevelt If the circumstances
warranted.
I'VE are not going to allow the ma.
tional committee to destroy the repub.
lican party in Pennsylvania" said
Mr.. Finn. "We don't intend to stand
idly by and lose ten or fifteen con.
gressmen and the legislature. We
propose to protect ourselves at home.
Thirty of thirty-eight presidential cleo.
tors are for Roosevelt and If they are
elected and the nomination is stolen
anu given to President Taft those
thirty will vote in the electoral college
for Col. Roosevelt.
Finn For Political Rebellion.
I'VE don't propose to allow dele
gates from the southern states and
presidential nomination to the great
republican states. The time has come
when political rebellion Is necessary
for self-protection of the republican
states Under this plan no bolt will
be necessary. 1t would result. per.
haps in losing republican president
but would win locally.
II have talked with Roosevelt men
in Pennsylvania and they agree with
me that 1t is necessary If Taft is
nominated to carry the fight to the
electoral college"
I'm our state the entire list OF presi-
Dental electors Is for Col. Roosevelt
and will vote for him. said Gov.
Glasscock. There is no law to pre-
vent it. The people vote for the cleo
tors and not for the president. II
Taft you can say that West Virginia's
Roosevelt. l agree with Mr.. Finn
have looked up the law and there Ia
no doubt that this action is we'll with
in it,
stubbs Back From Oyster Bay.
Gov. Stubbs of Kansas, returned to
the Roosevelt headquarters today
from conference with Col Roosevelt
and again declared his belief that the
republican convention will place
Theodore Roosevelt at the head Of the
ticket.
81 cannot believe" said Gov.
stubbs, that $40 delegates can be
found who will dishonor and disgrace
themselves by refusing to give him the
nomination"
While he was talking twenty foot
oil painting depicting Col. Roosevelt
in rough rider costume with his foot
on lions head was being hung in
the Roosevelt committee rooms.
The Kansas governor added to the
uncertainty over the coming of Col.
Roosevelt by saying ''he has no plans
for coming, but he may come"
John McVicar and c. A. Rawson OF
Des Moines, and j. l.. Stevens, OF
Boone, Iowa, were active at the Cum
minis headquarters where it was an.
nounced that Senator Cummins would
not come to the convention unless
Col. Roosevelt does.
D. B. Burton of Washington, secre-
tary of the National Republican lea
que, arrived and began preparations
for the biennial convention OF the