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Show EOOSEVELT'S NEW NONSENSE. Col. Roosevelt is quoted as saying that "No honest main who was put on as a Republican elector at the primaries last spring can fail to record his vote against Mr. Taft." And in support of this extraordinary proposition ho, after indulging in a few flings at pickpockets and thieves, proceeds to say that "Mr. Taft is not the nominee of the rank and file of the Republican party, " but "is the fraudulent nominee of tho Barnes-Penrosc-Giuggeuheim machine, which has nullified the wish of tho great majority of the Republican party," and Roosevelt then lays down the law that "If any elector .named at the primaries last spring is to act honestly hon-estly he must either vote for. me, or not run for elector at all." First of all, Roosevelt affects to acl as judge in his own case and to declare that ho was entitled to the nomination, and not Presideut Taft; but a man who undertakes to judge his own contest is always in the wrong. Wo say "always," "al-ways," because no one who wins objects ob-jects lo the decision. It is only the one who loses who undertakes to overrule over-rule tho decision against him. So that, ou general accouut, Roosevelt is wrong on this proposition; and specifically he is wrong with regard to the Chicago convention, because even if he were to bo given the seventy-two votes that he cries for so persistently, that would not be enough to nominate him. Ho loses, thorefore, on both accounts. With respect to the electors that were nominated prior to the Chicago convention, conven-tion, there is only one plain duty before them. They wero nominated as Republican Repub-lican electors, to support the ticket that was to be nominated in Chicago, j They were nat nominated for Ropso- -volt, for Taft. or for anybody clso. In j like manner the electors nominated I prior to the Baltimore convention wore j nominated to support the candidate for j President and Vice President that weru J to bo nominated at Baltimore. To say jj that each State has a right to nominate J electors who will support the "favorite ! son'' of that State for President, is to introduce anarchy, and to make -unity of action absolutely impossible. On that basis Roosevelt claims tho clectorb of the States that declared for him in the primaries, and Taft would be ousted from his rights; Wilson would receive the vote? of the electors of those States only which showed a preference for him: Champ Clark would get the electoral elec-toral vote of thoso States which supported sup-ported him at Baltimore; Underwood would receive tho votes of Alabama, Georgia, and tho other States that sent j delegates for him, and so on. Tho impossibility im-possibility of electing anybody on that, basis is evident. That would meau ov-erv ov-erv Presidential year that the election of President and Vice President, by the electoral college would fail, and the election would every time bo forced into the House of Representatives. The nonsense of all that sort of claim is clear the moment it is looked into, 1 even a little. If the electors in the Slates of this Union are to stick to the I choice of their States as declared be- I fore the National conventions, and pay t no attention to the nominees there made, then it is .idle talk about party action at all. We won Id in that case g , simply have to follow political leaders, otherwise called "bouses, " and the people peo-ple would have no chance whatever to act unit"dlv for any principle, policy, or plan of procedure. a It is astonishing that Roosevelt? 1 political sky is so overcast with the big H ME, that he should, be led info (ho ex f, position of bucIi ridifiloiiH folh m i" s contained in this latest exnrrsion from him. , 1 |