The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-06-14
7. R. ROASTS
The Committee
Gives Statement In Regard
To Rulings.
Committee Hands Taft Delegates
Without Considering
the People.

Col. Roosevelt gave out the following
severe management of the National Com
mittee Tuesday. for It's unfair rulings
In connection with the contest cases:
The question at Chicago becomes
clearer with every vote Of the National
Committee. 1t is simply whether the poo
pie have the right 60 nominate whom
ever they wish for the highest office In
their gift or whether by deliberate theft
and fraud certain machine ieaders.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 had the oppor-
tunity 10 cNprcss their wishes at the pri-
mary the plain people. the rank and file
OF theV Republican party.have repudiatcd
Mr. Taft. Now we are face to face with
the question whether the ,peopie rule the
Repubiiacn party or whether tho party Is
to be ruled by the discredited bosses
whom the pcoPS have themselves rcpu-
dated.
'Massac husetts has just defeated Mr..
Crane as u delegate to the Chicago con
vention Hut Mr.. Crane Is In Chicago act
Ing under orders of Mr.. Barnes In steam
roller tactics. Franklin Murphy has just
been defeated In New Jersey a canf-
date for delegate. and all twenty-six New
Jersey delegates are for me. But Mr..
Murphy II on the National Committee at
Chicago. taking part In the effort to racify
the convention against the choice of the
Republicans Of his state. Mr.. Pcnrosc
has jYst been defeated for delegate In
the National Committee. Mr.. Mulvane.
of Kansash has just been defeated for ma
tionai committeeman In Kansas. Mr. VIII
liam Allen White taking his place But
Mr.. Mulvane is on the National Commit
tee acting with Mr.. Pcnrose. The Taft
people were overwhelmingly beaten In
Kansas and Pennsylvania. yet Messrs.
Mulvane and Penrose. the two Taft leu
tenants. are foremost In the effort to
thwart the viii Of the people who haze
just defeated them.
SCORES Committeeman
These men prattle about Regularity.
Who are the regulars? The great major
ity Of the Republican rank and file who
have just overwhelmingly repudiated the
bosses. or the bosses who have just been
overwhelmingly rcpudiated by the rank
and file? The National committeeman
like Aie&srs. Penrose, Mulvane. Murphy
and company have no claim to speak for
the Republican party, have no claim to
conaider themselves regular. They have
Just been repudiated by the Republican
party. They have no wish for Republican
success. Their actions make 1t evident,
that In their anger at the party that has
repudiated them they now seek TO bring
the party down to share their own dis
aster."
After reviewing at some length the re-
suits in several States where primary
elections were held the statement con-
tnues:
Mr.. Taft has been repudiated by the
people and 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 ana file of the
Republican party, who have declared that
they do not wish him. MIR. Taft at onc
period Of the campaign said was unjust
TO him because l stated that the bosses
were for him and the people against him.
Events have proved that was right. The
people We're against Mr.. Taft in Ibis own
State of Ohio.
SAYS TAFT REPUDlATED.
"rhey were against him in New Jersey.
Maryland, In Maine and in Vermont
They were against him overwhelmingly
in PENNSYLVANIA. Illinois. In Minnesota,
I. Nebraska. South and North Dakota. WIS.,
consin. Washington. Oregon and Cali
.fornia. In but two States where they
had a chance TO express themselves at
all was there even a small, and In one
case doubtful. plurality for Mr.. Taft.
< The people are against him. Who are In
his favor? Who are trying to secure his
nomination at Chicago? Mr.. Barnes. Of
New York; Mr.. crane.of Massachpe etts.
who has been beaten as delegate In Mas
saehusetts; Mr.. Franklin Murphy. of Nes