The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-23

should be satisfied with an office to
which his title is not as valid as that
of the home which shelters his family.
" | don't know whether our country
men fully realize the gravity Of the
crisis which We at this moment face.
There is no use in holding primaries,
no use in holding elections, If we per-
init small group of interruptions
politicians, some Of whom are GER
tainly acting in the interest of big
crooked business, to exercise the veto
power on these primaries and the cleo
tons, by upsetting the results at their
own pleasure. The convention which
closes its discreditable career here in
Chicago, represents negligible mini
mum of the rank and file OF the repub-
lican party. But what it has done. and
what it had provided for, the future
offers material for very serious con-
sideration. The old national commit
tee, chosen by the politicians four
years ago, made up temporary roll,
including some ninety-fraudulent dele
gates, who had not been elected by
the people, and thereby they controli-
ed the majority Of the convention.
This fraudulent temporary roll in turn
chose fraudulent credentials commit
tee, and, all the fraudulent delegates
voting on one another's cases. thereb
made up the permanent roll which
constituted the fraudulent convention.
Then this fraudulent convention
chooses new and not less fraudulent
national committee.
Now gentlemen, there are two who
ask US to stay in the party which has
just fraudulently nominated for the
presidency a man who inspired and
promoted by the fraud. They ask US
to submit to infamy in the present on
the ground that perhaps we may be
able to prevent such infamy in the
future. They seem to forget that the
vicious circle has been completed and
that this fraudulent convention has
provided in its fraudulently chosen ma
tional committee means whereby
y
and with the like impunity overthrow
the will of the majority of the voters
at the primaries. The national com,
mittee over whose selection and re-
tention in office the voters have no
control whatever makes up the frau
dulent temporary roll call which con-
trolls the national convention.
The national convention thus frau
dulently made up means another ma
tional committee; and the new nation
al committee constituted by the same
elements that constituted the old one
has already shown by its actions that
1t can be trusted four years hence to
repeat the misbehavior of the old one.
The vicious circle must be broken.
The crooked political bosses have and
ought to have no feeling but con-
tempt for the honest men VINO submit
to their violent and INSCRIPTIONS dis
honesty. If we permit fraud Of this
kind to triumph, we do shameful
thing, and show either that we are
faint at heart or dull of conscience.
u Was Cheated
AS for the principles for which /
stand, have set them forth fully in
the many speeches have made dur
ing the last four months. while max
ing an active COMETS for the nomina-
ton which won and out of which /
have been cheated by the men who
feared to see these principles reduced
to action. Fundamentally these prin-
ciples. are. first, that the people have
the right to rule themselves, and can