Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-12

file VINO nave Just ONerNnelnlnSly re-
pudiated the bosses, or the bosses who
| have just been Overwhelmingly repu-
dated by the rank and file? TO whom
does the Republican party belong?
hold that it belongs to the plain people
| who make up the enormous majority OF
/ its rank and file. Mr.. Taft through his
| lientenants. acts on the belief that the
! party belongs to the bosses. Mr..
| Barnes has now appeared in Chicago
| as Mr.. Tafts chief lieutenant. The Ma
i tional committeeman like Messrs. PEN
rose, Mulvane, Murphy and company
hvae no claim to speak for the Repub-
| lea nparty, have no claim to consider
| themselves regular. They have just
| been repudiated by the Republican
party. They have no wish for Repub-
| lican success. Their actions make ii
| evident that in their anger at the par
| ty that has repudiated them they now
seek to bring the party down TO share
| their own disaster.
But these men no longer have polit-
| zeal pawer in their own states. In one
| week more they will be thrown out of
the National committee and they are
seeking to bring that party to utter de-
struetion. They err if they believe thaS
the theft of delegates by beaten and
discredited bosses win be tamely nc
guessed in by the mass of the Repub-
lican party. The mass of the Republi-
can party will never consent to accept
the view that either party regularity
or party loyalty can be conditioned by
theft.
Eat the Presidential elections of 1901
fvaF
,, publican nominee. OF these 20 states
Illinois. Ohio. Pennsylvania, Maryland.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine,
Missouri, Vermont, New Jersey. Mime
sofa, Nebraska. Kansas, Wisconsin,
South Dakota. North Dakota, West Vir-
gnia, Washington, Oregon and Califor-
nia-have had direct primaries, or at
least primaries which gave some show to
the people to express their views and
all but two of them have declared over
whelmngly against Mr.. Taft. Out Of
about 100000 votes cast Mr.. Taft got
less than one-third. In other words, ont
of the SO states which have voted for a
Republican nominee for President the
rank and file in 20 have had a chance to
declare their will, and where they have
thus declared 1t Mr.. Taft has gotten but
one-third of the votes and only about
one-eighth of the delegates.
THE vote at the primary in most
states has been large. In Ohio, for
Instance, the vote at the Republican
primary was about so per cent. as
large as that at the election of the
last Republican candidate for COVER
nor In Ohio. my majority over
Messrs. Tart and La Toilette COM
bined, was 10000 and my plurality
over Mr. Taft was 1900 But the del
egates-at-large We're chosen by state
convention where the politicians and
not the people had their say Mr.
Taft was not ashamed after he had
heen Overwhelmingly repudiated by
the people of his own state, to beg
tho politicians to stand by him and
misrepresent the people in his inter
est. He sent out a telegram beseech-
ing the politicians assembled in CON
vention not to make what he called
any Voluntary concession to the ov-
erwhelming sentiment of the people
against him This gives in exact
measure what Mr.. Taft means when
he speaks of the government of the
people by a Representative part of
the people. He means the government
of the people ty politicians who shall
misrepresent the people.
MIR. Taft has been repudiated by
the people and he now appeals to his
representatives, in the National COM
mittee, half of whom have themselves
also been repudiated and asksk them
to force his nomination on the rank
| and file of the Republican party who
have declared that they do not wish
I.him. Mr. TAFT at one period of the
| campaign said ! was unjust to him
because | stated that the bosses
! We're with him and the people against
him. Events have proved that / was
1 right. The people were against Mr..
| Taft in his own state of Ohio. They
! were against him in New Jersey, in
! Maryland, in Maine and in Vermont.
They were against him overwhelming
~ in Pennsylvania and Illinois, in
Minnesota, Nebraska. Kansas, South
Dakota and North Dakota, isWconsin,
| Washington, Oregon and California.
In but two states where they
had chance TO express them
selves at all was there even a
small-and in one case a doubt
iul plurality for Mt. Taft. The
people are against him. Who are in
MS favor? Who are trying to secure
his nomination? His nomination at
Chicago Mr.. Barnes of New York,
Mr.. Crane Of Massachusetts who has
been beaten as delegate in Massachu-
setts' Mr.. Franklin Murphy OF New
Jersey, who was defeated as dele
gate in that state; Mr. Muivane. who