Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-06-29 | Page 1 | Tribute to Roosevelt

Torus IT 171 Q iBEiL?U d L i V Meeting for Endorsing Taft is Miserable Failure Jersey City, June 29. Tho Republican Republi-can committee of Hudson countv, Now Jersoy, met hero last night with the announced purpose of endorsing President Pres-ident Taft, instead of which a resolution reso-lution was passed by a vote of 399 to 21, declaring Roosevelt tho "only tnio Republican," denouncing the Chicago convention and asserting that tho president gained his re-nomlnatlon by fraud. When Chairman Kinney looked ovor tho membors and found so many Roosevelt men present, ho announce'! that tho meeting had been called for the dual purposo of endorsing Taft and reading the treasurer's repot t He read the report and tried to adjourn ad-journ tho meeting. Falling In this, he left. nn