Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1912 — CONCLUSION. [ARTICLE]

CONCLUSION.

The purpose of this resume of the contests in. which there was any shad* ow of substance has been to inform those who have not time or inclination to read the longer and more detailed account of them contained in the larger pamphlet It is not essential to make Mr. Taft’s title indisputable that all men agree on every one of the issues raised. They were decided by the tribunals which uniform party usage had made the proper tribunals to decide such contests. If those tribunals acted in good faith mistaken judgment would not invalidate their decisions. As a matter of fact, an examination of the facts show that the tribunals were right in every instance. There is not the slightest evtde.n<?e that they were moved by other than a mere desire to reach a right conclusion. On the other hand, the action of the Roosevelt men in bringing 160 contests that they promptly abandoned strongly tended to show the lack of good faith in the prosecution of all of them. Those who support President Taft can well afford to stand on the record in this case and to asseverate without fear of successful contradiction that the delegates whose seats were contested were as fairly seated in this convention as in any in the history of the party.