Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-06-28

IL.
AT the conclusion of the Republican
convention at Chicago, the following
address was made by Heny Allen,
of Kansas in behalf of Mr.. Roosevelt
Gentlemen of tire onpvention: We
have reached point where major
ity of the Roosevelt delegates feel
that they can no longer share in the
responsibility for the acts of this con-
vention. We have contended with you
until we have exhausted every parlia-
mentary privilege in the effort to have
placed upon the roll the names of men
legally elected.
"When by using the votes of the
delegates whose rights to sit in this
convention are challenged you took a
position which places the power of
political committee above the
authority of 1900 majority, elected
in primary in California, we decid-
cd that your steam roller hat exceed
ed The speed limit. Since then we
have asked for no roll call. You have
now completed the seating of all con-
tested delegates, using the votes of
the contested delegates to accomplish
your purpose. We cannot in Justice to
ourselves share the responsibility of
a convention which has said to Ohio
THE home of President Taft-that
majority of 1900 voters, obtained
in legal primary, must stand aside
for the political dictum of a national
committeeman discarded by that same
majority
1--WE cannot become parties with
you in DECLARATION to Pennsylvania
that defeated committeeman sitting
in an obscure room of this building
can nuilfy the 1906 majority by
which Pennsylvania gave expression
to her wishes. We will not put our
selves in position to be bound by
any act in which you say to the mai
ority who rejected Mr. Taft in New
Jersey, to the majority which rejected
him i'll Wisconsin,, to the majority
which rejected him in Minnesota, to
the majority who rejected him in
Maine, to the majority who reje cted
him in Maryland, to the majority in
South Dakota, to the majority in
North Dakota which gave him only
1900 votes out of 80. 900, to the mai
critics which rejected him in Neb-
raska, in Oregon, Minnesota, Kansas,
OH ahoma, West Virginia and North
Carolina, that all these majorities
added together went down under the
mere ruling of political committee.
We will not join you in saying to
the home State of Abraham Lincoln
that the $50 900 majority with which
we defeated Mr.. Taft and his manag-
ers in Illinois, was overruled by those
very managers with the consent of
those who have arrogated powers
never intended to be there.
"Mr. Payne sought to question the
| Republicanism of those great Repub-
lican States yesterday. Until he can
show better record than is shown by
the results of his type of conservative
leadership, he is estopped from criti-
cism. When Theodore Roosevelt left
the White House four years ago he
left you an overwhelming ma ;ority in
both branches of congress; he left
you an overwhelming majority in all
the great Republican States, he left
you record on which you could elect
Mr.. Taft. he left you progressive
program to carry forward. The pro-
| e ra hrri aA
of words at Winona and eighteen Re-
publican governors were buried be-
meath an avalanche of votes which re-
buked receancy to party pledges.
"a big majority in the lower house
gave way to Democrats and in the
senate were reduced to a mere major
ity. So much for your conservative
leadership, Mr.. Payne.
1--WE will not participate with you
in completing the scuttling of the
ship. We will not say to the young
men of the nation, who, reading poll
tical history with their patriotism and
longing to catch step with the party
of their fathers that we have nothing
better to offer them at this hour than
this new declaration of human rights.
that discarded political committee,
as its last act. holds greater power
than majority OF over two million
voters. We do not bolt. We merely
insist tnat you, not we. are making
the record. 4 nd we refuse to be bound
by it. We have Sleaded with you ten
days. We have fought with you five
days for square deal. we fight no
more We plead no longer. We shall
sit in protest aud The p .npI. who sent