Arizona republican., 1912-05-11
Wants to Know Whether He Will Head Third Party if Defeated
 in Convention
ROOSEVELT HAS
 SAID NOTHING
Received Telegram Friday But So Far Has Not
 Deigned to Make
 Any Reply s

one of the most interesting phases or the republican race for the presi- dental nomination is involved in the question whether Theodore Roosevelt in the event of his defeat at the Chicago convention will accept that defeat, or will head a third party with the object of defeating the reg ular republican nominee In other words, the question is whether MT. Roosevelt regards the success of the republican party or the attainment of his personal ambition as of the great CT importance. In view of this uues- ton the following from Tuesdays San Francisco's Call one of the lead ing republican journals of the west. is of interest:
 Here is serious charge which we hope Governor Johnson, Mir. Heney and the other Roosevelt delegate candidates will hasten to deny in authoritative and unmistakable terms They are re- publlcans seeking further honors at the hands of the republican party. If they fail to make denial, then the re- publican voters must understand that these men do not represent merely the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt. but represent movement intended to de- stroy the republican party if Roosevelt fails to control. Surely such honor able men as these must hotly deny any imputatiOn of treachery
 For weeks it has been repeatedly de- | clared. without denial. that Roosevelt proposed to attempt to destroy the re- 1 publican party if he could not control l if Chico Cn nfx x-1o ,,.l ! falsehood have followed close upon each other from the Roosevelt side. and | Mir. Taft has been so obviously mis- 1 represented as to give color to the charge that they did not propose to 1 have a united party unless that party l united on Roosevelt
 | This question is bigger than the ann 1 bitions of any man. It involves the 1 integrity of the party that has made l this nation great-the party that made l Colonel Roosevelt president. Upon that | score the republican men and women of California have right to direct and | explicit information before they pre- pare their primary ballots.
 1 Acting on behalf of the republican 1 party, for which it has ever fought, and with the belief that Colonel Roose- welt would be glad to ;lispei any doubts about his loyalty to his party, The Call dispatched the following telegram last Friday night to Colonel Roosevelt, who was then at Baltimore:
 San Francisco May 3. 1912. 1 To Hon Theodore Roosevelt:
 The San Francisco Call. while not supporting your candidacy. has done SD ! heretofore In 1908, when the Chicago ! Tribune declared it would oppose you for a third term, even though you were nominated, The Call announced it's will lingness to support you in the event | you considered it wise or necessary to run. We have letters from your friends here thanking us for the liberal and unbiased manner in which we have re- ported the speeches of yourself and your supporters. We have consistently given fair representation to your side. California is about to hold a primary election to express the peoples presi- dential preference. Republicans on each side are claiming California at this election It is being announced here that if not nominated at Chicago. you will seek some excuse to bolt the convention will refuse to abide by the | fraud. and will not support the nom inee of that convention and that your purpose viii then be to wreck the par ty. We do not wish to give credence to such statement without first re ferring the question to you. On behalf of this journal, as well as on behalf of the party and the people of this state. The Call asks you squarely Will you, over your own signature, tel egraph The Call stating whether or | not you will abide by the decision of the regular republican national con vention at Chicago and support the nominee of that convention? A straightforward, unequivocal answer Is respectfully solicited It may result III helping or hurting your candidacy. Si- lence surely will work injury to youi cause, and so, too, will a reply that does not carry an unequiyocal T will or T will not abide by the decision oi the convention and T wilf' or I will
 not support the nominee of that con yention if I be defeated" The Call re- quests the courtesy of an immediate reply by telegraph.
 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.
 This telegram was delivered to O. lonel Roosevelt on Friday. It was re- ceipted for at the Emerson hotel. Bal timore, by his secretary. It remains unanswered Colonel Roosevelt has failed to assure the republicans of Cal ifornia and of the nation that he is g
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