The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-07-25
Eleven Short.

Allowing Roosevelt. however every
one or these votes. all the Southern
Tart Instructed votes which he allen
ated. the Massachusetts, votes and
the New York votes. and adding 20
them every one % the seventy-eight
votes which he claims he was robbed
OF by the credentials committee. and
be would have a total in the conven-
ton or only 529. which was eleven
short OF majority. and nowhere we're
there eleven more votes In sight for
him. So it will be seen that accord
ing TO his own claims. all he would
have had with every one OF his con-
tested delegates seated was a chance
at the nomination. He would not
have had majority. The figures ut
, terly disprove the claim in the resolu-
ton presented by Senator Clam al
the boiling Roosevelt meeting. declar-
ing that IL represented "a clear ma
lority OF the delegates and aliernates
legally elected to the convention"
Ihis meeting was not only without
most OF the 100 votes counted for
Roosevelt on the final ballot. but with
them and with all the contestants.
win every vote that Roosevelt
claimed before the convention. IL
would not have been a majority The
Roosevelt figures themselves disprove
the Roosevelt contention that he ever
had a majority or was ever entitled
10 majority in the convention.
II the moral aspect OF the situation
Is 10 b. considered. as the Roosevelt
partisans were so fond Of declaring.
then Roosevelt was not entitled TO
votes instructed for Taft. and his to-
tai In the convention. allowing him
every contest. would have been only
'l6. which is tWenty-four short OF a
majority. And this estimate is made
without deducting the New York
votes. which were taken from Taft
by Tho treachery % a discarded boss
Nor IS II true that Roosevelt was
morally entitled 10 all .ihcse seventy
eight contested delegates. II any of
them. While most ~ not AL Of them
would have been given 20 him II he
had still been in control % the steam
roller. which he built and used four
years before. technically 80 least. tho
Tart delegates were in The right They
had been chosen IN conformity with
tho call. and had regularity on their
side. But wherever the Roosevelt men
had hold soap box primary. or where
ever The visitor from the north" with
steel trust doodle. had induced another
convention 10 he held months after
the Taft delegates had been legally
chosen according 70 the call. a great
cry was set up for the Roosevelt con
'esfants rs representing the real
wishes of the party n is easy 70 see
that II tho national committee or tho
committee on credentials disregarded
the provisions OF the call. dlsregardad
regularity and sought 10 inquire not
Vho had boon chosen In tho respective
districts and states. ihcre would ba
no l.mit 70 what might be done in
the way 81 manipulation Yet this
was what both committees We're asked
by Roosevelt 20 do Their decisions
iu every case We're based upon the ovf.
donce as % the regularity of tho cleo
ton. and whether tho provisions OF
The call had been complied With.
+ was declared by Roosevelt and
hv AIT bis follower that tho Fourth
California case was Tho worst a. aii
that fh" viii ~ majority ~ e.. ooO
voters had been set aside by tho
steam roller Md iu the campaign
which is now beginning. the California
case wiIl he Cifod ae fha most fagranf
~ at th"s" "theffs' which robbed"
Roosevelt az the nomination
The California Case.
Sow fhe facts On this particular
ems" arc rather VOL known fn Gail
forria. although thore Is a. tendency
in misrepro-eut Them elsewhere 4
wear ago iast spring Tho present log.
'islatur". under Gov. Johusouz load