Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-21

ION behalf of these principles j
made my appeal straight to the people
themselyevs. | went before them; |
made my argument in full, and every
move | made was In the open, without
concealment of any kind. The oppo-
sition to me was extraordinarily Bit
ter. for / was opposed by the prac-
tically solid phalanx of the big, con-
scienceless political bosses, with back
of them the practically solid phalanx
of the big, constituencies bene-
hciaries OF special privilege in every
form and. of course, the msA.y big
newspapers which are controlled by Oh
in the interest of the bosses and
special privilege.
"In Appeal to People. 1 Won"
Nevertheless, in the appeal to the
people | Won In many or n Ike
publican States and of the Demo-
cratic States where there is a large
and real Republican party primaries
of different kinds were held. and a
substantial expression of the Will OF
the people was obtained In these
primary States some three million
voters. the rank and file of the He-
publican party, cast their votes l
heat Mr.. Taft considerably over W
m one. In these States | obtained
about six delegates to Mr.. Tatts
one Nearly three-fourths OF my
ega came from these primary
States where the people a a chanee
to express themselevse.
"NIr, Taft's strength, as indicated
nv the two roll-calls already taken,
consisted chiefly aside from his
ntnetv stolen delegates) of the nearly
solid delegations from the territories
and from the Southern States IN
which there is no real Repuphcah
narty-South Carolina, Georgia,
FLORIDA. Alabama, Arkansas, Mlssis-
s,nni Louisiana-and of Northern
statea like New York, where the
neonle had no chance to express
themselves at primaries and where
The delegates were picked by the
bosses.
.In spite of these odds against me-
7 obtained a clear majority of all the
delegates elected to the cohVeheioi
In nv campaign l again ana AGAIN
stated that If the people deeloeo
o~uo,rst me | would have nothing to
saw hut that If they decided Tor me
and the politicians then robbed me
of the victory, l would not sieh'iS
pand tamely acquiesce'
ct was already evident that my
o-nnonents. with Mr.. Taft's eneour-
ogament. intended to beat me by loul
means If they could not do SO py IAN
means. s,or
=. +ha concerted and hitherto sue
cessful effort to cheat the people ou'
90 tho victory they had fairly won,
vas taken up by the now dofunei
national committee, which wlthoul
ono show of justification, and witt
tnical contempt of TIL most orci'
nary rules of decency in making III
the temporary roll call, unseatef
ninety fairly elected Roosevelt dele
gates and substituted for them hinetS
Taft delegates, who in the convention
represent nothing whatever but sue
cessful fraud.
"CIearly Entitled to All"
ct was clearly entitled to all these
ninety delegates; all the ninety pos
sessed, for instance. clearer title'
than the uncontested Taft delegates
from New York city; and as t.
seventy of them, their titles were a
nawless as those of any other dele
gates in the convention.
"Mr. Root was elected and Gov
ernor Deneen's motion for PARTIAL,
cleansing the roll of fraud was de
. feated, by the vote of these ninet!
fraudulent delegates; the last beinI
a vote on a straight moral issue, tn
result of which in my judgmen
ought to render 1t impossible for an.
man longer to take part in the pro
oeedings of the convention as noy
constituted. The majority in eacl
case was slightly over fifty. In eacl
case therefore. If it had not been TO
the hitherto successful r~ascalit'
which placed these fraudulent dele