The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-07-09

port w. Fl. Taft. He says:
/ have fled as a Republican candl-
date for governor, as have intended
to do ever since became a candi-
date. In taking this step | do not
wish to be understood as in any man.
ner modifying my recent statement.
regarding the Chicago convention,
and | reiterate that the arbitrary ac-
ton of the National Republican Com
mittee in refusing seats to right
fully elected delegates was not only
rank injustice, but a handed
political crime against the party as
whole, and / hold that it is not only
my privilege, but my duty, as a Re-
publican to denounce in strongest
terms such outrageous procedure
In this controversy | most heartily
endorse Minnesota's twenty-four
Republican delegates. who were
elected by the progressive Republi-
cans of the state in their district con-
ventions and in one of the most rep
resentative state conventions ever
held, who participated in the Chicago
convention and who to a man de-
nounced in strongest terms the high
handed action of the National Com
mittee. and in assuming such atti-
tude | know that those twenty-four
stalWart men reflected fully the
sentiment of the great majority of
the Republican voters in Minnesota.
The time has gone by in the politics
of this country when a wrong is
made right because it bears the
brand Of party label. and the politi-
cal tricksters should be made to und-
erstand this, whether they are act
ing as members of a national COM
mittee in Republican convention in
Chicago or are delegates represent
ing Wall Street interests in the Ma
tional Democratic convention now in
session in Baltimore.
When / was nominated for lieuten-
ant governor in 1910, | opposed and
strongly criticised the appointment
of certain political boss who was
placed at the head of the central
committee. | have since criticised
the action Of that committee, asother
candidates have done and as the re-
cent Republican state convention did
in its resolution demanding pre-
ferential vote. | have criticised the
Republican state administration, as
other candidates have done, and as
thousands of Republican voters are
doing. / now criticise the crooked
work of the National Committee in
the Chicago convention for its acts
in thwarting the will of the voters,
and | have no apologies to offer. On
account CT my attitude, however,
some of my opponents for governor
would read me out of the party. In
this connection let me ask Governor
Eberhart and other candidates who
take similar view, to come out and
make public their views on the meri s
of the case in controversy. To read
me out of the party would not alter
in the least the facts as to the right
or wrong of the action of the Ma
tional Republican Committee.
Let me ask these candidates for
governor, did that committee do
right or did it dc wrong?
Was the action of Minnesota's
twenty-four delegates in denoancing
the committee. right or wrong?
Was the action of Minnesota's
twenty-four delegates in refusing
further participation in the conven-
ton until the convention roll was
purged, right or wrong?
Do you intend to read them out of
the party?
If you consider the National Com
mittee was right, will you come out
publicly and say so?
If you consider Minnesota's dele
gates as having acted wrong and
misrepresented the party in the state,
willyou come out publicly and say SO?
On the other hand, if your views
are opposite. do you not condone the
wrong andKmislead the voters by
your silence, being candidates for
the highest honor within the gift of
the voters of the State?