Evening star., 1912-06-30
Quits Col. Roosevelt and the
Third Party Movement.
BUSINESS TAKES HIS Time
Ear More Important and Makes
Step Imperative" He Says.
MAY EVEN VOTE FOR TAFT
Depends on Whether Colonel Is Reg
ularly Nominated at Third
Party Convention.
Snecial Dfspatc to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. June 29.-Ormsby Nc
Harg said today that he had quit Col.
Roosevelt and the third party movement
because business which is personal and
far more important makes the step i'm
perative.''
Il shall support the colonel in this
state" said Mr.. McHarg this afternoon.
If ! may do so through duly qualified
electors. / consider that he was legally
nominated at Chicago, Of course, but
that is another story now. Taft got the
nomination, and If Col Roosevelt Is not
regularly nominated by third party
convention in due form l shall vote, as
a republican, for Taft. / am in some
important business deals which make it
necessary for me to keep myself free
from politics just now. l am out Of 1t.
j wish to stay out of 1t, and I am going
to stay out of it from now on. 1 shall
merely be voter.
"Col. Roosevelt has been surrounded by
a lot of emotional people, who swamped
the true movement he represented. His
great personal strength saved him q
break in Chicago al the last moment.
but it was failure, indeed, to have had
some of the men about him that he
had. If he had fired about fifty of the
men he had around him in the last
hours he would have won everything in
sight. In those last hours, when 1t was
win or lose in minutes time, he was
surrounded by lot of men who kept the
real true hearted fellows who wished
to help him from getting him to deliver
the goods.
Says Friends Have Hurt Him.
His friends have talked for him and
H.
Now, the situation is just this Bryan
has sent word that he will not come in
with Roosevelt, no matter how it goes
at Baltimore. Wilson is Roosevelt's only
danger He can beat Clark or Under
wood. If Col. Roosevelt will put his work
into the hands of some level-headed. cold
blooded, calculating man, a man like
George Perkins. who will work withou,
sentiment. he will win the country. II he
tries emotionalism he will lose everything
he tries I consider Perkins the great
est organizer in this country today, and
II he is put in charge of this work he
will carry the country.
Mr.. McHarg paid his respects to the
newspapers which have attacked the
Roosevelt policies. His position is tina,
of man who has been personally Of
Tended.
Calls Newspapers Unfair.
Il feel that some of the papers which
have attacked the movement represented
by Col. Roosevelt have aroused a lot OF
hard feeling and a lot of bitter feeling
throughout the country. I know the
papers are powerful. but they are no,
always fair, but ] am sure they have
not been fair to him. The main error
with the Roosevelt movement is that II
has been handled sentimental and
emotional matter and "a great
litical movement"
''Are you out of the Roosevelt cam
paign. then. Mr. McHarg?' was asked.
Il am. most decidedly, and l am going
to stay out of it," he said with emphasis
Does this mean that you have with
drawn your support from the Nonel al
together?'
mo. but it means that he wi have tc
make the fight from now on with others
for j am too busy to keep in politics. II
he gets nomination in q regular way
/ shall vote for him. If he does not
shall vote for Taft