The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-23
Attorney Hite for Taft Electors
Gives Cause
For the Suit Against I. R.
Electors.
MASTERLY PIECE OF LOGIC
Is the Hite Summary of His
EIectOr Case.
The Facts of the Suit Before
Secretary of State.

The attorneys Tor the Tart preSloen-
tial electors rolled another stone in the
path of the Roosevelt electors today
when they filed a contest with the sec
rotary of state. in behalf of the Taft
administration electors, asking that
their names be placed on the Republi-
can ticket in November and pointing
out the reasons why the Bull Moses
are not eligible under the strict party
emblem of the Republicans.
The contest was fled by D. r. Hite.
leading counsel of the Taft attorneys.
The suit represented the Taft electors,
Paul E. Rich, G. w. Miller, A. @. Mil
Ter. John Dellinger, Charles H. Brown.
L. H. Thompson, w. A. Thompson and
J. A. Bocock against J. A. Lister, r.
G. Postlethwaite, L. A. Millspaugh.
Dorsey Green. E. s. Rule, S. A. Davis
John Stewart and r. M -Armstrong.
The Taft electors filed their objec-
lions to the Roosevelt electors on the
following grounds:
1. That the said (name Roosevelt
eleetor) is not Republican.
2. That the said (name Roosevelt
elector) is not in sympathy with the
principles of the Republican party nor
with it's candidates for president and
vice president of the United States.
8. That said (name Roosevelt elector)
is a member and affiliated with GER
tain political party known as the Pro-
SreSS1Ve party ana CnaI the principles
of the said Progressive party are OPP
posed to t, principles of the Repub-
lican party and said party has for its
principal object the defeat of the prin
ciples of the Republican party.
4. That said (name Roosevelt elector)
by virtue of his membership in and
utilization with said Progressive party
is and has been supporting it's candi-
dates nominated by its national con-
vention for president and vice presi-
dent of the United States and. seeks
and has sought to defeat it's candidates.
3. That said (name Roosevelt elector)
if elected as such presidential elector
will support and vote for the candi
dates of said Progressive party for
president and vice president of the
United States and will oppose and at
tempt to defeat the candidates OF the
Republican party for said offices.
6. That said (name Roosevelt cleo
tori obtained nomination papers and
secured his name to be printed on the
Republican party primary ticket by
false reprcs nations and fraud.
z. That said (name Roosevelt electorl
was not nominated by qualified mem
-bers and voters IF the Republican
party.
g. That said nomination papers and
certificates are fraudulent and void.
9. That said (name Taft elector) il
a duly nominated candidate of the
Republican party for the office of pres
idential elector and is entitled to have
identiaI elector and is entitled
to have his name certified as
such Republican candidate to the
various county clerks of the state of
Kansas to be placed under the Re
publican name and emblem and the
names of the candidates of said party
for president and vice president OF the
United States as presidential elector
II explaining the meaning of the
sol after
noon:
.'It is important that the Republican
voters understand the difference be-
tween these contests and the suit pend
ing in the United States supreme court
and a case lately brought which will be
heard before Judge Sanborn in Denver
September 2.
1.-THE present contests involve the
right of the Republican candidates ap-
pearing on a Republican primary ticket
and voted for by members of the Re-
publican party to have certificate of
nomination as candidate of that party
as against the Progressive party candf-
dates for electors who fraudulently Sc
cured the printing of their names on
the Republican party ticket and who
were not voted for by members of the
Republican party but by persons who
are members of and affiliated with a
political party opposed to the Republic
cans and whose principal object is to
defeat the Republican candidates for
president and vice president.
I'm the court cases the rights of the
If dividual citizens are involved. In the
contests brought today the rights of the
Republican candidates are involved.
I'm the contests it is not claimed
that the Roosevelt electors have not
been nominated as candidates of the
Progressive party but it is claimed that
under the Kansas laws recognizing and
protecting political parties these T. R.
electors are not Republican candidates
and to place their names in a Republic
can column and under a Republican
emblem is not only a legal but a moral
outrage"
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