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Show WRITES TO 1 ROOSEVELT 1 William Allen White of Kansas Gives His M Views M New York. July 3L "I have re- IJM celved a letter from William Allen H White," said Colonel Roosevelt today, IHJ "making a strong statement In regard fiHj to the effort of the regulars in Kan- Hl sas', in making an appeal to the federal H court to reverse the action of the IH Kansas state judges as to the decls- ion allowing Roosevelt electors to he El on the Republican ballot El " 'The Taft men Mr. White writes, IBB 'headed by Mulvane, who was rear El brakeman on the Chicago steam roller, are now taking the case before Judge M Pitney of the federal supreme court on M the constitutional question, involved in M the fourteenth amendment which M guarantees to every man his political M rights.' H "The Kansas people feel that the IH appeal cannot be successful and that H it Is a fresh Illustration of the wicked KM way In which' the effort is made to n twfst the constitution so as to cause It to protect privileges against the H people Instead of to protect the people Wm against privileges. H "This Is an eifort by Mr. Taft's H managers in Kansas to uie the su- E preme court to deny the people of m Kansas the right to a referendum un- dor the Kansas laws as to "That was Si done In tho Chicago convention. Kan- Hfl sas is the only state In the union BJ where such a referendum may be had B at a legally conducted primary. There ID could be no more complete evidence Bf of the need of a third party, which H shall in good faith and reality and S9 not as a sham accept and act upon the doctrine that ln this country the peo- ( pie shall rule themselves." HJ |