The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
Third Party Movement Not Re-
ceiving Support.
That Is Report President Taft
Has Received.
SEC'Y M'HARG is OUT OF IT
Man Who Had Charge of Con-
tests Quits.
Raps Governor Stubs as One
of Roosevelt Advisers.

i Washington, July 4.-Colonel Roose
velt's third party movement has made
| no progress if the reports which have
reached President Taft in the last few
| days indicate anything. He has receiv-
| ed word from several sources that the
many sections of the country, and that
many of the men who supported Roose-
welt at Chicago will support the presi-
dent in the coming campaign.
Governors Deneen, of Illinois, and
Hadley of Missouri. will support the
regular Republican ticket this fall
| Senator Borah, one of Roosevelt's chief
floor leaders at Chicago, will also sup
port the president
President Taft today. received word
from New York the published inter-
view, with ex-Representative Law, OF
Brooklyn who was elected sheriff of
that borough last fall and who was a
Roosevelt supporter, to the effect that
Mr.. Law will support Taft, was cor
rect. The report that National COM
mitteeman Ward, of New York, will
support the president has been received
at the White House.
President Taft and his advisers are
claiming that before the campaign gets
fully underway the reflections from
Roosevelt will be large and that when
the campaign reaches it's crux Roose-
veIt will be a bad, trailing third can
didate. The president believes Roose-
welt will run even if he has no other
followers than Clifford Pinchot. James
Garfield, Francis ]. Reney and Cover
nor Hiram Johnson Of California.
The progressive senators here viii
soon confer to determine their course
in the coming campaign. They are
waiting to hear the sentiment of their
constituents. Some of them favor try
ing to support Roosevelt while others
favor supporting President Taft with
- AL ~
in the way of progressive legislation
with the new congress.
MeHarg Also Quits.
Ormsby McHarg, former assistant
secretary of the department OF com
merce and labor. and the man who
had charge of the contests at Chicago
for Taft in 1908 and this year served
the last man to desert the third party.
II am out of it, said Mr.. McHarg.
81 wish to stay out of 1t, and L am
going to stay out of it from now on.
shall merely be a voter.
"Col. Roosevelt has been surrounded
by a lot of emotional people, who
swamped the true movement he repre-
Sented. among them Governor Stubbs,
OF Kansas. His great personal strength
saved him a break in Chicago at the
last moment, but it was a failure, in
deed, 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 it was win or lose in a
minutes time, he was surrounded by a
lot of men who kept the real true
hearted fellows who wished to help him
from getting him to deliver the goods.
His friends have talked for him and
hurt him. They have talked too much
Are you out of the Roosevelt cam
paign then, Mr.. McHarg?" was asked.
4 81 am most decidedly, and am going
to stay out of it," he said with en-
phasis.
docs this mean that you will with
draw your support from the colonel al
together"
mo, but it means that he will have
to make the fight from now on with
others, for am too busy to keep in
politics. If he gets the nomination in
a regular way shall vote for him. If
he does not shall vote for Taft
Kansans in Washington: ]. c. Mil
burn, Merriam; Charles NJ. Norris
Olathe; d. ]. Moore, Fort Scott.
James A. Peck was appointed post