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Show J: NOTHING MORE THAN A FAROE. :-, i " "We cannot, try as we may, look upon the Chicago convention, ; :Z constituted as it is, as other than a stupendous farce. I The forces in control represent nothing. The one set of crc- I Jf'dentkls given to the majority by the people is held by the eighteen' I- delegates from Massachusetts. Beyond that oighteen, the majority j stands for nothing. From .states that never have cast a Republican I -vote and where even mass primaries, bad as thev are, are almost I T. unknown, the Taft people have over 200 of their 558 votes. ; Eliminating the Southern delegations, "which are vest-pocket j creations, and the delegations from the states where there were no preferential primaries held, and the men who now control .in the ; t Z. Chicago gathering are shown to hold their power b.y virtue of a I T representation so small as to be negligible. t X. And yet the Taft leaders are storming around and boasting as i 2 though they had back of them something more than bold effrontery. |