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Show oo "TAFT CANNOT CARRY INDIANA' it WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Edwin M. Lee, chairman of the Indiana Republican Repub-lican state committee, issued a statement state-ment tonight in which he declared that his state would be lost to the Republican party If Mr. Taft was renominated. re-nominated. "Mr. Taft cannot carry Indiana," Mr. Lee says. "If he Is the Republican Repub-lican nominee our fight is lost beforo a gun Is fired. As one of his original friends, who labored for him night and day, I have been driven to this knowledge with extreme reluctance." Mr. Leo adds that his conclusloi waB reached only after a sparchlng inquiry in-quiry through his precinct committeemen committee-men and In person. What two months ago was passivity on tho part of the voters, ho says, now had boon transformed trans-formed Into "dissatisfaction." Almost simultaneously, a statement was Issued by Walter Brown, chairman chair-man of the Ohio Republican state central cen-tral committee in which he deplored tho action of the national commltteo In refusing to provide means for the selection of delegates by primaries. This expression, however, merely was in tho nature of a protost. |