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Show WRECK OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. j The Newark News, referring to Taft's nomination, says: "There is no mistaking the validity of Roosevelt's claim to be the chosen leader of the majority of the rank and file of those who vote customarily under the Republican emblem. His defeat at the convention has been at the hands of a minority and by the arbitrary arbi-trary rulings of a political committee irresponsible to the party voters The rulings of the committee were not even consistent, except ex-cept on the ground that wherever Taft could be given a delegate, that was the thing to do." The La Crosse Tribune, in fixing the responsibility for the wreck of the Republican party, bays: "Of the two men who engaged in this fight, Roosevelt enjoyed the greater popularity. He might have been elected President. That Taft cannot be is conceded by mnny who helped force his nomination. nomina-tion. Yet these men said to the progressive Republicans: 'You must swallow Taft and wreck the party.' If the great mass of Republicans Repub-licans who have been in the fight for trulj' representative government govern-ment fake the bosses at their word, the wrefck will be upon the) heads of those who, in the interest of minority rule, have pulled the pillars from beneath the temple." |