Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-06-26
building can nulify the
10000 majority by which

Ohio gave expression to her wishes
We will not put ourselves in 6
position to be bound by any aot
in which you say to the majority
who rejected Mr.. Taft in New
Jersey, to the majority which re-
jected him in Wisconsin, to the
majority who rejected him in
Minnesota, to the majority who
rejected him in Maine, to the ma.
jority who rejected him in Mary
land. to the majority in South
Dakota, to the majority in North
Dakota, who gave him only
l 500 votes out of $1,000 to the
majorities which rejected him in
Nebraska, in Oregon, Minnesota,
Kansas, Oklahoma, West Vir
ginia aud North Carolina, that all
these majorities added together
went down under the mere rulings
of political committee.
"We will not JOIN you in say
ing to the home State Of Abraham
Lincoln that $50 600 majority
with which we defeated Mr.. Taft
and his Illinois delegates was
overruled by these very managers
with the consent of those who
have arrogased powers never in
tended to be theirs.
QUESTION THE REPUBLICANIsM.
"Mr. Payne sought to question
! the Republicanism of those great
Republican States yesterday. Un
til he can show better record
than is shown by the results OF his
type of conservative leadership,
he is estopped from criticism.
When Theodore Roosevelt left the
White House four years ago he
left you an overwhelming major
ity in both branches of Congress.
he left you an overwhelming ma
jorlty in all the great Republioa
States, and left you a record on
which YOU could elect Mr.. Taft,
he left you a progressive program
to carry forward. That program
was buried beneath an avalanche
of words at Winona and eighteeh
Republican Governors we're buried
beneath an avalanche of votes
which rebuked reoreancy to party
pledges.
"a big majority in the lower
house gave way to Democrats and
in the Senate was reduced to a
mere majority. So much for
your conservative leadership, Mr..
Payne.
1--WE will not participate with
you in completing the scuttling
of the ship. We will not say to
the young mon of the nation, who
reading political history with
their patriotism and longing to
catch step with the party of their
fathers that We, have nothing bet.
ter to offer them at this hour
than this new declaration of hu-
man rights that discarded polit.
ical committee as its last act,
holds greater power than a major
ity of over two million voters.
We do not bolt. We merely in.
sist that you. not we, are making
the record. And we refuse to be
bound by 1t. We have pleaded
with you ten days. We have
fought with You ten days for a
square deal. We fight no more.
We plead no longer. We shall
sit in protest and the people who
sent us here shall judge u.s."
ADDRESS FROM ROOSEVELT.
"a clear majority of the dele
gates honestly elected to this con.
vention were chosen by the people
to nominate me. Under the di-
| rection and with the encourage
ment of Mr.. Taft. the majority
of the national committee, by the
90 .callsd 'ateam roller methods,
and with scandslous disregard of
every principle of elementary
honesty and deceacy- stole 80 or
30 delegates, putting on the tenn
porary roll call, a sufficient mum.
Der of fraudulent delegates to de-
feat the legally expressed will of
the people and to substitute dis
honest for an honest majority.
1.-THE convention has now de-
clined to purge the roll of the
fraudulent delegates themselves,
who all sat as judges on one an
others cases. If these fraudu.
lent yosea had not thus been cast