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Supplement to the Maramec News.
___ June 27, 1912
been as regular as could be for there for a purpose, they had no at his present down-fall, no oth-
years, called a convention of conscience scruples to hinder er man could have waged such a
several hundred, and by a big their doing the bidding of their grand fight against such odds
majority elected Roosevelt dele- masters, and they are the men and won the fight as he fairly
gates, but the national convention that gave Mr. Taft the nomina- did win. His speech in Chicago
The Republican Party Has Made the seated the delegates elected by tion over the honestly elected the night before the conven-
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TUFT IS NOMINATED BY
STOLEN VOTES
Mistake of Refusing to Heed
the Command of the Rank
and File of the Party
ROOSEVELT DONE WITH OLD
PARTY
the rump convention of Texas delegates. They stole the nom- tion, in which he says. "Use
that only had about 200 delegates, ination for him, and Mr. Taft me as long as I can be of any
In the early part of the cam- was anxious to accept the nomin- service to the cause, and drop me
paign Taft said that the people ation from them. This is the when I cease to be useful/' will
were not capable of self govern- kind of man that you and I will live while American literature
ment, and his national committee be expected to vote for this fall, lasts. I know that some who
Roosevelt Refuses to Let His Name Go Berore the followed up this idea, and dared this man Taft that believed that read this will hoot at th*i idea,
co steal a sufficient number of this government ought to be run but they belong to the family of
delegates from several states to by the political thugs and trick- hoot-owls that hooted at the im-
nominate Taft. sters, who ignores our wants and mortal Lincoln, they never dis-
What is the use of a state pri- insults us by unseating our chos- cover the great man until about
mary, or a state convention if en delegates has the audacity to forty years after the great man
the national committee can die- ask us to vote for him this fall. dies. Say what you will, Roose-
tate to them who shall be the \ye are just the common herd, velt is the greatest living force
delegates? you know, we are not capable of of political purity in the world
Remember too, that this nation- self government, we can be driv- today, he has the confidence of
Convention.—Will Lead New Party
"Truth forever on the scaffold.
Wrong forever on the throne;
Hut that scaffold sways the fu-
ture,
And behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God. within the shad-
Keeping watch a hove his own.9'
The nomination of
by the republican convention at
Chicago is the greatest blunder
of the *ige. The fight between
W H Taft committee composed of one en \\\^e cattle by the party lash the great mass of common peo-
• * member from each state, one to vote for William the Fat. How pie.
from the District of Columbia, about it? Only about three years past
oiLne-.tre ine mrm ueiwtwii °"e fTrTom Alaska, ono each from There is joy in the big business there was a few courageous men
the Roosevelt and Taft forces ,Hawailan and Philippine Is- cjrc|es> great joy jn the camp of in congress called insurgents.
'an"s* the political bosses over the tho't They were ridiculed by Bill Taft
The southern states and these Rooseve]t is down and out and Joe Cannon, Dick Ballinger,
foreign possessions will never ^ey think that they can step on and others. Where is Mr. Can-
his postrate form and elevate non today? Where is Ballinger?
was long and bitter, but with the
aid of the National Committee 92
st ST. 53ST iPSZVrx'SZ
ed and credentials given to that
elector, and in the northern
manv Taft dplee-ates Bv this tIV"w"— themselves into positions of pub- Where is Mr. Taft? He has made
hich handed came of "nlain steal- s.tates most .°* present na- ijc trust, they have sweet visions the discovery that he is a pro-
the Taft men enabled to e- tlona]. ^oniimlf^eem^n14nApolitical power and free en- gressive, in three short years
ing
repudiated. There is Mulvane of
Mr Rnne QQtPmnnvarv rhair- ~ trance to political pie, and with this little band of insurgents have
' as temporary cnair Kansas> Penrose 0f Pensylvama,
man and control the Credentials
Committee.
Remember that these 90
stolen delegates did not get their j^gment
credentials from their home coun-
ties or states, but got them at
the hands of the National Com-
mittee. Think of it, the state of
California by a majority of 77
' this outfit are rejoicing the dem- upset the old order of things,
Crane of Massachusetts. Cade ox ocrats that care more for party have nominated Roosevelt fairly
odd Oklah°ma others who can t victory than principle, they have and squarely, (but are cheated
come back, that have sat in |jeen trembling to think what out of they* victory) was there
would happen to them if Roose- ever such progress made before?
velt were nominated. Fierce and The Progressive Republicans
contemptible has been the de- are not dead, Roosevelt is not
nunciation heaped on Roosevelt, dead. The American people were
on the verdict of the
state primary elected delegates;
these are the men that have
nominated Taft.
seek
Roosevelt. Taft and Roosevelt
endorsed the state primary laws,
and yet the machine, Tafts Na-
tional Committee, unseated two
of the California Roosevelt dele-
gates and seated two Taft dele-
gates, and these two Taft dele-
gates had made affidavit that
they would abide by the result
of the California primary law.
That was perjury on their part,
theft on the part of the national
who
like that that was heaped on Lin- over-ride them. If we can't
coin and McKinley and culminat- purge the republican party of
ed in their assasination. those who are a disgrace to the
From the dawn of creation al- memory of Lincoln, we can get
most, the battle of the classes a- out of the party and form a new
gainst the masses has waged with one. Certain it is, that this fight
unrelenting fury, and this battle will £° on an(l victory is just be-
of the progressives vill go on, yond. and one of the first steps
even now the fight is on at Balti- toward progressive victory is the
more. Our democratic friends defeat of the Taft forces that
have no corner on political pur- have stolen the presidential noni-
ity, the same forces that fought ination.
Celebrate the
forma hv a maioritv 01 n - vote on ^ mot;jon °'' similar to that which was hurled not born to be slaves to a damna-
000 votes elected 2U delegates for ^Hadley, to prevent all con- at Washington by the Tories, and bl. set of thieves
uuu votes elected zoueie^ates ioi tegte(j delegates from voting on j ... r
any question in the convention.
until the uncontested delegates
had passed on their rights to
seats in the convention, 510 un-
contested delegates voted for the
Hadley motion, and 486 uncon-
tested delegates voted against it,
these, with the contested dele-
gates made the 564 votes that
the Taft men secured.
The Taft force's contention
committee and willingness on the that these untested ^legated Roosevelt will fight Bryan and
part of Taft to receive stolen delegates should be allowed to progress within the democratic
delegates. Take the case of the v.ote °n their own case3'' w.as party, more, and since they
Ninth Indiana: there was 142 rldlculous; no court ever thinks know that Taft wijj surejy be
delegates to the district conven- of allowing the indicted person a defeated they will make a stren-
tion, seventy five of these dele- seat on the Jury that 1S 10 try hls uous fight to control the nominee
gates made affidavit that they own case* of the democrats, for this traitor
had voted for RoDsevelt, yet the There was no justice in the known as big business interests
national committee did not even rulings of the chairman and the is loyal to no party. It wants to
read the sworn testimony of majority of the convention in al- keep its strangle hold on the A-
these Roosevelt delegates, and lowing the contested delegates to nierican people, and therefore it BIGr
seated the Taft delegates on the participate in the deliberations wni control the man that will be
say so of some repudiated nation- of the convention, until that nominated by the democrats.
al committeeman. Take the convention had passed on their We are inclined to look on the
state of Washington, whose vot- rights to seats. This is a princi- defeat of Roosevelt as a calamity
/era declared for Roosevelt in their pie of law long established, but indeed it is. Among our living
state primary; the hand picked the eloquent appeals for jutstice ing statesmen there are none
politician ignored that primary by the Roosevelt men, were as greater than Theodore Roosevelt,
vote and seated Taft delegates. "pearls before swine." none so feared by the Big Busi-
Take the state of Texas; the Those Taft delegates stolen ness Interests, and the political
Cecil Lyons taction, that have from the several states were tricksters that are now rejoicing
4th
in Maramec.
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