French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-07-20

having derived Roosevelt of the re-
nublican nomination four years ago
and who are alleged by MI. Heney 20
have prolonged their power again TO
defeat the will Of the majority OF the !
r%epubican voters are Senator Pen
rose of Pennsylvania, ex-senator w.
MURRAY Crane of Massachusetts, VIII
liam Barnes. Jr., and E4fhu Root or
New York.
Il do not question the personal IN
t~egritv of character Of NJ Hughes"
/ saws Mr.. Heney, but I . condemn
/ him for permitting pre- ssional pollt-
ical tricksters to make a nationwide
canvass for his nomination while he
was a member of the Supreme Court
a the United States, UNDER an appoint
lment for life. with the vast potential
! power which accompanies that posi-
! ton"
Some striking sentences in Mr.. Hen
ey's telegram say:
ut is now my intention earnestly
and actively to work for your re-elec-
ton as president"
Il cannot follow Theodore Roose-
welt back into the republican party,
while it is still controlled by these
same men,"
Hughes represents merely the con-
sent Of PenT0seL Crane and Barnes to
permit the republican party to have
as its candidate a man selected by
themselves, who, therefore, if neglected
president would be disinclined to at
tempt to destroy the continuance of
their control of the nominating ma
chinery.
81 cannot vote for-or support him
CHughes.)"
Personally 1 shall not vote for any
republican candidate for president
hereafter, as long as the corrupt con-
troll Of the nominating machine of the
republican party is permitted thus to
continue in existence"
Through your personal efforts as
president most of the other import
ant planks of the national progressive
platform Of four years ago have al
ready been enacted into law by con-
gress.
Mr.. Heney, who is a native of New
York, was. a practicing lawyer in San
Francisco when he was urged by Phi
lander C. Knox, attorney general dur
ing the Roosevelt administration, to
undertake the prosecution OF the ia
14OAo o4Au II IA Il ~ ~NA4N
Ore. He obtained the Indictment,
; among others, of the late Senator
Mitchell of oregon. He has been a
stanch personal friend admirer and
> follower of Colonel Roosevelt, and as
serts in his telegram that he would
! Loyalty and vigorously have supported
Roosevelt if he had accented the Pro-
> gressive nomination.
AIR uonnv'C to1noran oiV6S his req
son for refusing to support Mr..
= Hughes in part as follows:
q -Four years & after the fiasco OF
nominating Mr.. Taft, with the aid of
!: dishonesty seated delegates and of
D delegates who were representatives of
= a mere handful of ofice-holders in the
n southern states had been perpetuated
< against them, a majority of the re-
publican delegates who had been le-
= gally elected from those states having
4 a preponderant republican vote reas-
sembIed in Chicago and organized the
national progressive party. The pri-
mary and paramount purpose Of the
= Organization of the national progress
sive party was to place in the hands
of the voters of each n every polit-
ical party. through the instrumentality
i VI d udILOudI uI1SCL pISSIuSLIld1 pre-
: ference primary law, the power for
= a majority of the voters of each pO-
= litical party to nominate it's candidate
for the presidency. All thoughtful men
among the republican delegates who
organized that progressive movement
realized that the manipulation of ma
tional political conventions by corrupt
methods of invisible government
: through political bosses constitutes an
e ever-continuing menace to the very
existence of the republic itself. Every
= serious minded person must realize
S that a republican government in fact
e cannot continue to exist under such
political conditions. Political freedom
= is a mockery under a system which
; permits a few INSCRIPTIONS manipu-
lators and ~corrupters to defeat the will
, of millions of voters in any political
party by substituting the will of those
, few for the will of the voters. To
continue such a political system means
to invite and promote the ultimate de-
, struction of the republic.
1 by depriving Roosevelt Of the re-
l publican nomination four years ago,
: Senator Boise Penrose of Pennsylva-
. MIA, Murray Crane, then senator of
= NAdSSdCuuSSCIS, ana William Barnes or
New York. with the aid of such men as
= Elihu Root who was the permanent
g chairman of the convention continued
! their control of their republican ma
.. tional committee and thus prolonged
their power again to defeat the will of
the majority of the republican voters.
And they have now once more insured
their control Of the republican ma
jfI0n91 POmmiffnn for onnfhnr &0.p
, years, with the continuance of their
4 present power again to defeat the
will Of the republican voters in 1920
3 and thereafter indefinitely so long as
1 we are without a presidential prefer
ence primary Law. Under the circum-
D stances. I cannot follow Theodore
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