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FLINN STICKS TO ROOSEVELT.j ......... » ■i! V , ; ' • • , . !.,• ! * . ’ . i # . f*4 '!Announces He Will Lead ProgressiveParty In Pennsylvania.Special to The New York Times.PITTSBURGH, July 1,—-At a meeting of the Eleventh Ward Republican Club tonight William Flinn served notice that he* #had in no manner lost his enthusiasm for the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt, and that, despite the determination of Mayor Magee, State Chairman Henry G. Wasson and County Chairman David B. Johns to be regular and stand by the decision of the Chicago convention, he would throw all his strength and resources into the fight for Roosevelt in Pennsylvania.The statement from Mr. Flinn is prac- 1 tically a declaration of war upon the other party leaders in Pennsylvania who ha.ve announced they would support the candidacy of President Taft. Mr. Flinn said he would be at the head of the Progressive Party fight in this State, and that he would win because the people want Roose- j velt. Mr. Flinn pointed out that in Alle- ! gheny County Taft polled little more than 20,000 votes, while the Roosevelt vote was 70,000. He declared the party leaders who decided to stand by the Chicago convention choice were defying the people, and that nothing but disaster could come out of a battle fought behind a losing candidate.Mr. Flinn’s declaration came as a shock, j His appearance at the ward club meetingwas unheralded and when he arose to talk the crowd in the auditorium of the Margaretta School building moved to the front of the hall. Mr. Flinn was speaking to his neighbors, for he lives in the Eleventh Ward. He declared the Chicago ; Convention was the most disgraceful farce ever witnessed in American politics. J“ There never will be such a convention again, aaid Mr, Flinn. *' And there never ! will be another National Committee meet-! ing such as we had prior to the Chicago Convention. I wish to declare right here that I shall personally go into a battle against permitting any such- shameful proceedings as we saw in the meeting of the National Committee, where a lot of down-and-out, discredited political bossesdefied the will of the people and seated delegates that had no right to sit in theconvention.Mr. Flinn controls several of the mostimportant county offices and will be able to draw some of the strength away from! Mayor Magee’s machine. But the Mayor , controls the County and City Committee,; and probably will have a better organization.
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Tue, Jul 02, 1912
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