THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 303, 19 June 1912, Page 5

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

MR. ROOSEVELT'S PLANS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, June 17. ' Mr. Roosevelt has decided not to ac- | ecpt the decision of the National Committee, and plans to secure the vote of | uncontested delegates immediately the Republican Convention meets; thus there is a clear situation. OPENING OF THE CONVENTION. R/JOSEVELT'S GREAT RECEPTION. A FIGHTING SPEECH. Received 18, 10.25 p.m. Chicago, June 18. v Mr. Roosevelt had a great reception at his hotel. He shook hands with crowds of admirers, until he was forced to retire exhausted. He addressed a va?t audience in the evening. He. declared: "We are standing for elementary decency. It is not a political, but a great moral, issue." He added that President Taft had surrendered himself wholly to the bidding of professional bosses, and was countenancing sharp trickery which was just within the law. He defeated President Taft by, two-to-<rte in the primaries, and had the people t"thind him. "Our democracy," he said, "is being put to a vital test. The conflict is between human right and special privilege asserted as a property right." i 'Je concluded. "With unflinching hearts | and undimined eyes we stand at Armageddon, We will battle for the Lord." Mr. Roosevelt proposed that uncon- , tested delegates should decide the matter ' of contested delegates. As Mr. Roosevelt's uncontested votes greatly outnum-, bered President Taft's the proposal is likely to precipitate a crisis. At the first Convention roll-call to-day uproar was feared. Twelve hundred assistant sergeants-at-arms were enrolled, and a large force of police kept within the chairman's call. Mr. William Jennings Bryan states that the size of the negro honorarium is apparently a determining factor in the struggle.