The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
ANOTHER D|ATR|bE
 FROM ROOSEVELT Attacks President Taft and
 National Committee HE TALKS OF TREASON
Lays Especial Stress Upon the Action of Committee in Seating the Taft Delegates From Thir-
 teenth Indiana District

oyster Bay, N Y, June 11.-With an attack on his opponents in the republi- can national committee and on President Taft, Colonel Roosevelt again tonight protested against the course of affairs at Chicago. Tn a statement issued at Saga more Hll he said MT. Taft assumed that the presidency is to be treated as gift within the bestowal of the poli- tlcians in defiance of the duly expressed wish of the people,"
 Such conduct Colonel Roosevelt wrote, comes dangerously near being treason to the whole spirit of our con= stitutlon, to the whole spirit of demo- cratic free government'
 The former President laid especial stress upon the action of the committee in seat ing the Taft delegates from the Thir- teenth district of indiana, notwithstand- ing the fact he said, that the Roosevelt men were clearly in the majority in the convention which was called to elect these two delegates.
 Rooseyelts Statement
 Colonel Roosevelt's statement says in part;
 "The question at Chicago becomes clearer with every vote of the national committed It is simply whether the peo- ple have the right to nominate whoever they wish for the highest office In their gift, or whether by deliberate theft and fraud certain machine leaders. acting in the interest of special privilege are to be permitted to deprive the people of this right. By an overwhelming ma jority where they have had the oppor- tunity to express their wishes at the primaries the plain people the rank and file of the republican party have repudi- ated MT. Taft. Now we are face to face with the question whether the peo- pie rule the republican party or whether the party is to be ruled by the dIscred- tied bosses whom the people have them selves repudiated."
 He listed the committeeman "repudl- ated" in their own states and sitting for their last time.
 These men prattie about regularity. Who are the regulars7 the great majority of the republican rank and file who have just overwhelmingly repudiated the bosres. or the bosses who have Just been overwhelmingly repudiated by the rank ana file? The national committeeman like MeSsrs. Penrose. Mulvane Mur- phy and company have no claim to speak for the republican party, have no claim that in their anger at the party that has repudiated them they now seek to bring the party down to share their own dlsaster.''
 After reviewing at some length the re- suits in several states where primary elections were held the statement con- tinues:
 Taft Appeals to Bosses
 'Mr. Taft has been repudiated by the people and he now appeals to his repre- sentatives In the national committee, half of whom have themselves been re- pudiated and asks them to force his nomination on the rank and file of the republican party who have declared that they do not wish him. MT. Taft at one period of the campaign said was un- juste to him because stated that the bosses were for him and the people against him. Events have proved that was right.
 How do these bosses hope to nom mate MT Taft? What they did in the Thirteenth Indiana district yesterday supplies the answer In this district the convention which assembled to elect two delegates to-ChIcago contained a clear and uncontested majority of ----~-