Show I I I II I I J Vol No C 62 63 ROOSEVELT T PlOT BARED IN INHOUSE HOUS Contests Created and Cries of Fraud Raised to Excuse Proposal of P Pure re Piracy Says Representative Mondell THEFT OF REPUBLICAN I LIVERY IS ATTEMPTED Rejected Claims for Seats i II iff Chic Chicago go Convention T Termed erme- erme Mere Bluffs' Bluffs by y Member of Credentials Committee NORRIS NORRIS' MAKES REJOINDER REJOINDER- W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON July Sp 24 vv ivy denials of the claims of Roosevelt managers that their cnn candi i. i date had been improperly deprived o 06 delegates in the Chicago convention con in In time the contested cases brought either before the national or credentials I committee were made in a n speech r de-r livered in the House today by rond 11 of Wyoming w wh was a member of the credentials com corn He characterized the contests as mere bluffs without shadow oi of substantiation hit iou Mr Mondell rondell presented a categorical review of at the time various contests data which It was wag understood od later would be given ghen out from the Whit House In an attempt to correct what hat time the administration held to be bt a wrongful wrong wrong- ful rul conception of ot the publication o 0 ol events events at Chicago The speaker declared that Colone Colonel Roosevelt and some of ot Ills his supporters It li In voicing char charges es of ot fraud had bad b by their vehemence nce and persistency In hi a period of ot unrest and suspicion profoundly Influenced many good people an and an continued c. c ed 7 Plan Plau of Political Larceny Th The claim Hiott C lon l Roosevelt was dented denied the time no nomination at Chicago Chi cago through thOrough the larceny of delegates dele dele- gates s-ates was not only expected to contribute contribute con con- tribute directly to the third p party tY I movement but was expected to contribute contribute contribute con con- tribute even more potently b by fur- fur furJ J Indirectly the excuse e for tor forthe I j the thc most impudent and rev revolutionary revolution revolution- I f ary arr plan of ot political larceny ny ever I I conceived f It Is proposed to steal the livery cry j jand i 1 and secure secure the bene benefits tits of ot Republican I j lican state organizations while at I I the tho same tame time repudiating the party and candidates It Is difficult to conceive a more shameless proposal of 01 pure piracy than this As admitted L by bl tho the Roosevelt Roose I managers the they r started out dellb deliberately ratel r- r atel at the beginning of the pre pre- convention campaign to create creato contests con con- coni i tests A large number of these con- con Continued on Page age 2 2 Column 1 t i ROOSEVELT PLOT BARED IN HOUSE I. I Contests Created to 10 e poj Proposal os l of f Pure Piracy Says Mondell f- f f J i Continued 1 from Page One i test testa were pure fiction tho tilo coni contestIng contestinG con con- i testing delegations claiming to be bet elected at conventions which It if t ut ot all wore a month or 01 two after after- the tho r regular conventions Many of ot tho the contests which arose at the tho time conventions were held were the the results of oC a prearranged boltz on the flimsiest pre- pre texts The proposition that electors on the tho Republican ticket shan shall cast castI 1 I their vote for tor tho cun of oC HI a H- 1 I third party larty has Its Ju alleged all excuse In in downright and persistent pro- pro 1 1 f on which rott rotten n foundatIon tIon it ln lays ns n's s its Its' p P H l of ot reason reason- able ble larceny orrl orrIs Jt Replies to Mondell JI v Ir Norris of Nebraska ebra tea an ardent n ose Republican followed Mr lr Mondell with the statement that anan a nan xuan whose name was as known throughout throughout through- through out the countr country had acknowledged that tho thio Taft Tat managers had stolen the delegates from the state tac of oC Washing ton ten This man man- he said 1 was engaged In supporting the President because I Mr lr Norris added he entertained political po aspirations When the thc gentleman makes males such uch a aI I statement interjected Representative C Humphrey ho o certainly should give gl I Is authority Mr Norris declined to divulge ul I c the tho J I Identity of ot his informant He plunged ed lit ht once into hl hits his reply to Mr Mondell I and nd criticised the tho latter's denunciation of l f soap box primaries He lie referred t to 10 o the primaries In Indiana which i went vent for tor Mr Ir Taft and which Mr l Mondell Mon Mon- dell dell deli indorsed as regular Tho gentleman loves the prImary that thai goes oes for Ol Taft Tart said Mr Norris I ironically but how he hate hates and de despises tie tie- pl es the tho primary that goes for tor Roosevelt l to Ho defended the Washington primaries maries manes and said that no charge of oC of ot an any kind had been registered registered regis res-Is- until the tho Tart Taft men discovered that It If allowed to go unchallenged ed tho the managers manager would he be within three votes of controlling thc the state convention He lie declared that secret meetings were ere held and Taft Tart dele delegates ates named lamed am ed Charges Charge Collusion The action o or of the committee In Chicago Chi Chi- I cago said Mr Ir Norris addressing the Democratic side of or tho the House were 11 in favor tavor of oC Democratic success They did more to bring abo about t th the pos pos- i of ot Democratic victory than the Democratic party part over did lid or r ever eer was wasI competent to do The Taft TaU Republicans I Ileana and the machine Democrats are together two souls with but a single I thought hought hou ht two hearts that beat as one one When your our convention met In Baltimore Bal Bal- ilmore your temporary chairman In JiH keynote speech devoted all of or his time ime to an tin attack on Roosevelt and no no attention to Taft Tart There is Another evidence of ot the fusion and uni oni- son ion on Once during Mr 11 speech or order order order or- or der was as restored only onh when the chair was on the point of ot ordering the mace maee macef f wn to compel Mr Ir Warburton of ot 1 Republican to take his seat Ecat Again that emblem of ot authority was as near being used to quell turbulence turbulence turbulence lence when when Representative Humphrey of It f Washington Republican declined to ceas his interruption of ot Mr Norris Norris' I. 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