Show Republican Convention of 1912 No I Different from Former Gatherings I HOSE who are actively conspiring with Colonel Roosevelt Hoose to wreck T THOSE I the Republican party would have tho the public believe that the national na- na convention of 1912 was different from tho those c of or former years years that it failed to observe party law and that precedents were violated in the firm finn intention to defraud Mr Roosevelt of a nomination to which he was entitled The They are arc forced to assume this attitude because it is essential al to lend color to their false claim that delegates were stolen from the former Pres President dent They pin their faith especially to the lie fact that in considering the report of the credentials committee on contests delegates whose seats were contested voted on all nIl contests except those which concerned their own seats They constantly argue that if the tho two seventy delegates whose seats scats they claimed had been heen prevented from voting voting voting-at at all nU Mr Roosevelt would woul have controlled the convention cOD They argue from a false basis of which they are arc well aware In Inthe Inthe Inthe the last three Republican conventions there were no contests of importance importance tance since the nominee was predetermined But in 1892 89 when the southern delegations were under controversy there was opposition to tho the of President and the committee on credentials did not nol report until the third da day of the convention con and then two long sessions were held while the majority and minority reports were considered considered con con- just as was the con course e of events in in this years year's convention William McKinley later to be he President of the lie United States was the temporary chairman and he lie ruled that EVERY DELEGATE SEATED IN THIS CONVENTION BY TilE THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE COMMIT COMMIT- CO COMMITTEE DIlT- DIlT TEE IS ENTITLED TO PARTICIPATE IN TIlE THE PRIVILEGES O OP OF THIS TIllS CONVENTION UNTIL BY A MAJORITY VOTE THEY TIlEY SHALL BE UNSEATED Senator Spooner of Wisconsin n opposed any delegate being permitted to act as a n judge in in his own case a vie view which the Republican convention of this year adopted by refusing to permit delegates delegates dele dele- g gates ates to vote on their own contest 1 T Sloat Fassett of New York pointed out to Senator Spooner that if his view vie was correct the tho proceedings proceedings proceedings pro pro- of a convention could at any time be bo brought to naught by a a. sufficient number of conspirators who chose to make a n contest in each delegation and contestants could join together to paralyze the action of any convention And the thc national convention of 1896 went even cen further than that Senator Thurston of Nebraska was chosen PEn PERMANENT ANE T CHAIRMAN CHAIR even BEFORE TIlE THE CO COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS h HAD AD RE RE- PORTED Delegate Mudd of Maryland made a point of order but was promptly overruled by Senator Fairbanks of Indiana the temporary chairman who was vas sustained by the convention It will thus be seen that the national convention of or 1912 acted according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to party rule and precedent and was even more lenient with contests than were any of its predecessors In view of that fact it is rather difficult for the Roosevelt champion to maintain that delegates were stolen from him when hen it is remembered that the national committee commit commit- tee awarded them to Mr Taft the credentials committee did likewise and the lie action of or both was wag sustained by the convention itself no delegate delegate delegate dele dele- gate being permitted to vote yote on his own case althon although h there was ample precedent ent for even en that action had the convention desired to beat all intolerant 2 N 1 HIS speech to the Yew New York state count county Roosevelt I r IK chairman of the National Progress Progressive Progresso o Fixes the party Colonel Roosevelt Roose has fixed the status statu of those who follow him in his leis effort to destroy Status of the party which has honored him and to feed his Followers gluttonous appetite for power It will be bo a party says the former President II into into which ex Republicans and Democrats ex-Democrats arc are to come and that phrase bares to the public the Roosevelt thought that those who support him in his campaign aro are no longer nor can the they be bc members mem mcm- bers berg of the party with which they formerly affiliated lIe He states the matter fairly and squarely those who are with him are naturally and logically against the parties partie to which they formerly gave their allegiance allegiance alle alle- and can no longer bo be regarded as members of them One wonders therefore as to tho the light in which this places Stubbs of Kansas Johnson of California and anel other political pirates who are trying to steal the Republican party for the leading bull buIl moose Since they are Republicans ex-Republicans when they support Mr rr Roosevelt how cin can thc they place on the tickets in their states electors who will trill vote vole for the former President in the electoral college inasmuch as ns these electors lectors also become become become be be- come Republicans ex-Republicans when they get behind the Roosevelt ambition 1 Th colonels colonel's statement leaves no room for doubt that he h. considers every voter oter who supports him hint to have loft left definitely the tho parry party in which he was formerly numbered Senator Dixon the manager of the new party as well as the political secretary to Mr r. Roosevelt Roosvelt declared in Chicago on Monday ronday that Mr J Roosevelt has withdrawn from the Republican party it is evident too that hat Colonel Roosevelt consi considers consider ers his Zia followers follower's also to have withdrawn from the Republican party They should accept their status inasmuch as it is fixed for them b by their leader the remainder of the Republican party which is loyally sup mp up- up porting the party nominee nee will also accept that description of those hose lIo c who have withdrawn Z 2 I C ra r c cI r c- rHE HE attorney general of Illinois seems a most Unseating I THE disconcerting person Politically he lie is a o of FL Lorimer orr er member of that faction o of the Republican party parly in that state which profited largely largey through h Troubling the mistaken hue and cry against Lorimer He lie Illinois should have known rn at least oven even if he be does not that th the whole object of the campaign of calumny and defamation conducted against Senator Lorimer Lorimer Lorimer Lori Lori- mer and his political associates was merel merely for the purpose of creating a a. Senate vacancy in order that Governor Go Deneen or some other of Lh the crowd which tho the governor heads might be chosen to the place thus rewarding one more of 01 the faithful But the tho law officer of or the state stale basing his action upon the tho Senate condition which expunged 1 Lorimers Lorimer's name from the thc rolls and now nov forgets that it ever eYer was there there has decided that the Legislature which elected the he Illinois se senator really did dill not choose anybody and consequently failed to do its work Therefore there is s nothing to be done until the next Le Legislature meets as ns he Ite sees it And he ho has good precedent for this When hen the tho Pennsylvania l lawmaking lawmaking law- law making body some years ears ago ngo failed to elect a senator the Governor Go upon the adjournment of the Legislature appointed Senator Quay But the Senate of the tho United States by a vote ote of ot 32 to 33 decided that Quay was not entitled to a scat Sat because there was not a lawful vacancy the Legislature simply failing to do its duty Although there were good constitutional lawyers in the Senate on both sides of the question tho the Illinois attorney general follows the Senate precedent and is quite stubborn about it So it seems that all an this much ado alo about Senator Lorimer has gone gon for nothing and that lint Governor Deneen n will not have ha the task of appointing ap an- pointing his successor or As we said before the tho attorney general of Illinois 1111 Illi nois seems ems a most disconcerting person Dorson l. l ii- ii WHY fly this this' ladylike campaign on th the lie part of Why This I the bull buIl moose moos 7 We y have heard nothing R Repression sio n I recently that he has them H beaten to a a. m frazzle nor has he promised to slug them theirs over o On Part of the tho ropes Certainly all the thc vernacular of oC the tile Bull Moose prize ring has not been becu exhausted ted thus early in inthe inthe the campaign If so what shall be done about it 1 If the opening of the contest is to bo he so n and chaste what will the harvest be Is it pos possible ihle that Theo Theodore Roosevelt elt is is running g fo for President with the country as quiet as a a. churchyard on a Monday morning No new members have hac been added to the tho Ananias club for at least a week no eminent t American has been vilified and aud the crop of liars Hars for once is not of being tested b by the national connoisseur Gee Isn't t this the dull summer r I The stock market shows that j Wall all street thinks the thc weather and nl the crops are arc more than an offset for politics politics which which is isa is-a a sensible conclusion I This year promises to be noted in politics cs for the number of candidates candidates candi candi- dates fighting hopeless battler as if they thought they could win |