The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-26
ssSilent Revolt" of the Roosevelt
Forces Made Presidents Nomi-
nation an Assured Fact
NEARLY $50 ROOSEVELTlANS
REFRAINED FROM VOTING
The Taft Program Went Through
Without a Hitch With La Fol-
lette and Cummins Gathering
in the Scattering Votes

III inc SC0tbCAuAB vOeS
CHICAGO. June 22.-With nearly
aso ~ the roosevelt delegates declin-
ing to vote and Fastening away az du
journment in time to tender Colonei
Roosevelt the nomination of new
marty. the fifteenth republican ma
tional convention at the end or long
and tumultuous session tonight re-
nominated William H Taft Tor presi-
dent and James S. sherman for wee
president. President Tart received
f 5s1 of the 1918 votes in the conveh-
ton, or 21 more than majority.
The decision of the Roosevelt peo-
pie. under the direction of their
leader, to refrain from voting, left no
\ other candidate near the president.
The announcement of the Taft Viclo.y
was greeted with cheering from his
! adherents and groans and misses from
! the opposition.
sherman for Vice President
When it became absolutely certain
early today that Taft would be nomi-
mated without great difficulty, the
I headers in control of the convention
decided to rive him as running mate
his companion on the ticket of 1908.
! Ali Others dropped from the race ana
sherman was the only candidate reg
ularly placed before the convention.
A motion was made from New
Hampshire to make the nomination
I bv acelamatoin, but this was declared
/ out of order, There were many SCAT
| tering votes on the. roll call which
ensued. the result of which is as fol-
: IDS. Sherman, 597 Borah, 81: Mer-
Ram. 20: Hadley IA; Beveridge, 3
Gillette, 1: absent, II; present but not
voting, S52.
adjourned sine die.
At no time was there any indication
of walk-out of the Roosevelt dele
gates. They expressed their revolt IN
silence.
In the confusion just before adj
Sournment a resolution was adopted
giving the national committee power
to declare vacant the seat of any man
on the committee refusing to support
the nominee of the regular convention
of 1912.
Taft Issues Statement
WASHINGTON, June 22.--Presi-
dent Taft in statement issued to-
night declared the issue before the re-
publican convention was whether 1t
would abandon it's principles of stand
ing for the constitutional guarantees
of life, liberty and property. He said
the campaign to seize the republican
party and make it the instrument OF
reckless ambition" was so sudden that
time was not given properly to show
to the people what danger confronted
Dthem. ''The importance of a great
i victory which has been achieved can
not be estimated he said, and it was
not necessary now to speak of the re-
suit in November. but it is enough
now to say that whatever may happen
! in November, a great victory for the
republican party and the United States
has already been won" The presi-
dents statement was in part as fol-
z ows:
" 1.-THE national convention of one OF
the great parties is ordinarily i'm
portant only as the preliminary to the
national campaign for the election of
president The Chicago convention
just ended is much more than this and
is in itself the end of pre-convention
campaign presenting a crisis more
threatening and issues more i'm
portant than those of the election
campaign which is to follow between
the two great national parties.
1.-THE question here at stake was
whether the republican party was to
change its attitude as chief con-
servator in the nation of constitu-
tional representative government and
weaken the constitutional guarantees
of life. liberty and property and ell
other rights declared sacred in the bill
of rights. by abandoning the principles
of the absolute independence of the
judiciary essential to the maintenance
of these rights The campaign car
ried on to seize the republican party
and make it an instrument of the
reckless ambition and the unsettling
of the fundamental principles of our
government was so sudden and unex-
pected that time was not given clearly
10 show to the people and party the
dangers which confronted them. II
was sought to break the wise and val
liable traditions against giving more
than two terms to any one man in the
presidency and the danger from its
breach could not be measured
1.-THE importance of the great vic
tory which has been achieved cannot
be overestimated. All over the coun-
try patriotic people tonight are breath
ing more freely that the most serious
menace to our republican institutions
has been averted.
at is not necessary tonight to speak
of the result in November or the is
sues which will arise between the re-
publican and the democratic parties in
the presid entail campaign to follow
1t will be time enough to do that after
the action of the Baltimore conven-
ton III is enough now to say that
whatever happens in November a
great victory for the republican party
and the United States has already
been won.
THE party remains a great and
powerful organization for carrying out
ats patriotic principles and an agency
of real progress in the development OF
the nation along the constitutional
lines upon which ii was constructed
and has ever been maintained, and It's
future opportunity for usefulness IL
as great as its achievements in the
past"