The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18

Republican convention to nominate Re-
publican candidates for president and
vice president of the United States; and
did not disclose to the plaintiffs that
they and each of them reserved to
themselves the right to determine who
should be candidates of the Republican
party for president and vice president
OF the United States; nor did said pre-
tended Republicans, or either of them,
disclose to the plaintiffs their intention
not to abide by the action of said Ma
tlonaI Republican convention in nom
mating Republican candidates for
president and vice president; but on the
contrary the said pretended Republic
cans and each of them, through their
duly authorized agents engaged by
them to circulate said petitions and
procure these plaintiffs to sign the
same, represented and led plaintiffs TO
beileVe that said pretended Republi-
cans, and each of them. would do
everything in their power to uphold the
principles, rules, regulations and Gus
toms of said Republican party; and
mat they and each of them We're MEM
pers or the Republican party; that they
and each of them had in the past and
would IN the future abide by the action
OF the duly constituted authorities of
sald Republican party; and, particu-
larry That they, and each of them, be-
ing such Republicans and representing
the principles of said party, would 10y
ally support the candidates of said
party nominated by said Republican
National convention.
Imposed on Signers.
The plaintiffs aver that the afore-
said Intentions of said pretended Re-
puoncans not to abide by the action
OF SAID Republican national conven-
uon' ana not to represent the princi-
pies or said party and otherwise to
act IN opposition to said principles of
said party and its candidates were
concealed from the plaintiffs and each
of them, and that said plaintiffs were
lnduced by said false representations
ana concealments so made by said
pretended Republicans, and in their
pehalf, to sign said petitions; that if
the plaintiffs had been informed of
SAID intentions and designs of said
pretended Republicans not to repre-
sent the principles of said party, and
not to abide by the action of the duly
constituted authorities and national
convention of said party, and not to
support the candidates of said party
tor president and vice president of
the United States nominated by said
national Republican convention,
neither of the plaintiffs would have
signed said petitions, but on the con-
trary would have refused to do so;
and the plaintiffs aver that by reason
of the aforesaid false and fraudulent
representations made to them by said
pretended Republicans and in their
behalf, and by the aforesaid fraudu-
lent concealments practiced upon the
plaintiffs and each of them the plain
tiffs were induced to sign said petit
lions which if the plaintiffs had
known the facts and intentions of the
said pretended Republicans the plain
tiffs would not have signed. Plain
tiffs further aver that without the
signatures of the plaintiffs and other
Republicans similarly situated in
other counties above named procured
as aforesaid by the fraudulent conduct
of said pretended Republicans, they
nor either of them lawfully could have
procured the certification of their
names to the county clerks of this
state to be placed upon Republican
primary ballots as Republican candi-
dates for presidential electors
Party Organization Should Rule.
1.-The plaintiffs further say that the
said Republican party has a national
organization known as, the national
Republican committee; that ever since
the organization of said party it has
been the invariable practice, rule and
custom for said national Republican
committee every four years to issue a
call for a delegate national Republican
convention with authority to nomi-
nate candidates of said Republican
party for president and vice president
of the United States, and to adopt a
party platform of principles; that
pursuant to said invariable practices
customs, rules and regulations, which
has been in continuous force and eff
feet for more than fifty years, the
said national Republican committee
duly called a national delegate Repub-
lican convention to be held in the city
of Chicago on June 8, 1912; that pur-
Suant to said call said delegate con-
vention duly assembled and thereafter
on the 22nd day of June, 1912. said
national Republican convention duly
nominated as candidates of said Re-
publican party for the offices of presi-
dent and vice president of the United
States, VIM. H. Taft to be president,
aned James S. Sherman to be vice
president; that thereafter and on or
about the 9th day of July, 1912, the
said Samuel H. Davis one of said pre-
tended Republicans answering a letter
addressed to him by F. B. Stanley,
Kansas Republican national commit
teeman, stated that he would vote for
Roosevelt If nominated. Dieter is
made part of petition)
'sPretended, Republicans.
And the plaintiffs further pray that
upon final hearing it be ordered and
by this court that the pc
titions to which the plaintiffs sub
scribed and attached hereto as exhibits
been wholly null and void, and that the
certification of the names of the de-
PENDANT candidates was obtained by
Misrepresentation and fraud practiced
by said pretended Republicans and that
neither said petitions nor said certif-
cations constitute any lawful authority
to said county clerks or to any of them
for placing the names of said pretend
ed Republicans upon the Republican
ballots to be printed under
the direction of said county clerks tic
be used at the ensuing primary cleo
ton to be held in the state Of Kan
sas on August 6, 1912; and that sale
clerks and all other persons
acting in their behalf, be
restrained and strictly adjoined from in
any manner whatsoever recognizing
said pretended Republicans or either
Of them as entitled to have their names
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