Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-08-10
A NEGRO ISSUE
ALMOST SPLIT
.MO)SES
THE COLONEL DECLARES THAT HAD He
NOT HAD HIS OWN WAY ABOUT
THINGS There WOULD HAVE BEEN
REAL TROUBLE
HIS FOLLOWERS NOW
KNOW He WAS right

Oyster Bay, n. Y, Aug. 10-How
near the Progressive party came to a
break at it's first national convention
was told today by Colonel Roosevelt.
The negro question, he said created
breach which threatened to make
serious trouble.
The disagreement, said Colonel
Roosevelt, was largely due to the tact
that some of the porthern delegates
who were genuinely anxious to help
the negro in the south did not under
stand how to do it. They told the
Colonel that by refusing to give the
southern blacks representation he
was treating them unfairly and that
they could not consent to such action.
Colonel Roosevet's reply, he said, was
to point out to them the attitude OF
the negro delegation in the repuDll-
can convention and say that if they
wished to create the condition within
the Progressive party, they must DO
it without him.
In the face of this ultimatum, the
Co'onel had his way and he believed
he succeeded in convincing those
who at first opposed him, that it was
the right way.
NEW HAMPSHIRE IN LINE.
Manchester, n H, Aug. 1O.-A state
ticket including besides presidential
electors, candidates for governor and
.congressmen will be nominated by the
progressive party Of New Hampshire
according to a decision of the eXecu
tive committee today The progres
sives will make their nominations by
petition.
DIXON URGES A TICKET.
Seattle, Wash, Aug. 1o.-A teie
gram from Senator Joseph M. DiXor
received last night, advised Washing
ton progressives to call state con
yention September TO-
THE national committee earnestl,
recommends that all progressive Vot
ers in the state of Washington unit
and cooperate in support of the cal
for a state convention on Septembe
10. to be issued by the campaign con
mittee appointed at. Aburdeen, tn
message said.
TAFT MEN PUZZLED.
Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 10.-Witl
nearly all of the twenty-one member
o. the republican state committee her
and with Taft and Roosevelt leader
today that nothing like complete az
cord had been reached concerning tn
selection of candidate for governo
in succession to Judge Z. B. Dlilol
who refused to accept the nomin;
ton.
The decision of the Roosevelt leat
ers to give their support to forme
Attorney General Grant Denman too
the Taft leaders by surprise in a
much as Denman has been classed 9
Taft man and the Taft people al
making efforts to discover as the
said, Whether there was mouse
the meal" The committee was sche
uled to meet this afternoon.
NEW ROOSEVELT VOTES.
Joliet, H., Aug. 10.-James H. Fe
ris, chairman of the national commi
tee of the people party, today di
cussed the possibility of the populi
vote being thrown to the progressiy
party.
1T is all a guess as yet said NJ
Ferris. II am in favor of the pr
gressive party, but l shall make n
attempt to sway the delegates to tt
convention. There will be no stea
roller in operation when the nation
convention of the peoples party co
vene August 13 in st. Louis. Pop
lists favor the progressive party ca
didates and others lean toward diffe
ent candidates.
in my judgment the conventit
probably will not select PRESIDENT
candidate but will adopt a platfor
and select a new committee, leavil
the individual voters free to vote f
the man of the ir choice