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Show LIKENS HIM TOJORIMER Roosevelt Compares t Taf t Nomination to Election of Senator 0ster Bay, N Y., July 20 The re-nomination re-nomination of Presdent Taft by tho Republican national conventiou last month was compared by Colonel Roosovolt today to thc election of William Lorimer to thc United States senate Tho two cases, he declnrod, stand on tho some moral plane and Mr Taft's nomination, in his opinion, can be dofended only on grounds which would Justly Mr. Lorimer'? election. Has the Chicago convention been organized honestly, he said, there would have been a majority of over 100 against Mr. Taft. Colonel Roosevelt s statement was In roply lo the administration's defense de-fense of the proceedings at Chicago, which was Issued yesterday at Washington, Wash-ington, , "I saw in tho papers that Mr. Root said he would have voted for the Toxas cases. Mr. Butlor Is said lo have declurod that bo would have voted for both the Texas and Washington Wash-ington cases," says the statement. "Soveral are reported to have said they would havo voted for the California Cali-fornia cases. If these cases alono had been reversed, even if tho Texas cases clone had been rovrsd, Mr Taft could not hav been nominated "If honestly organized the convention conven-tion would have boon against Mr. Taft by 'over 100 mujoritv. Move-over, Move-over, aside from the Rtolen 90 dele-FatoB dele-FatoB which gave the fraudulent majority. ma-jority. Mr. Taft's voto waB made up three-fourths by tho rotten borough delegates from the southern states, where there is uo read Republican party and which never cost a Republican Republi-can "electoral vote, nud from tho hand-plcked hand-plcked delegates of Messrs BornoB, Penrose, Guggenheim and qompnny from tho north. "There are politicians and newsun-pcrs newsun-pcrs which continue to uphold Mr Lorimer's inuoncence and to assert that there was nothing Improper about hla election. Almost all those politL clans and newspapers and some others oth-ers In addition make precisely similar assertions that there was no fiaud or thefts of delegates at tho Chicago convention. Ono assertion has precisely pre-cisely as mcb as merit as the other. "The fraudulent nomination or Mr. Taft can be dofonded only upon grounds which would alsp JuBtify xMr. Lorimer's olection to and his retention reten-tion in the Bcnatc." . fn |