Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-06-24

: ing to make any defnlte declaration
on this point, said the committee OF
seven as proposed would be partly
] made OF democrats.
While some leaders of the move
ment in public statements said they
! were confident of victory. in private
| conversation they explained that II
would be impossible for them to have
any idea of the prospects for several
weeks. They made no secret OF the
| fact that in their opinion the out
come Of the democratic national con-
vention would be of high Importance.
Should conservative democrat be
named they believed they would be in
| position to appeal strongly to pro-
gressive democrats.
| 1t was admitted that much de-
pends upon adopting plan of action
that will make IT possible to preserve
the strength of the republican organ
| ization in the states in which Colonel
Roosevelt won at the presidential pri-
maries. 1t was upon this point that
| today's conference hung and they de-
! yeloped a number of discussions.
Colonel Roosevelt's idea is under
stood to be that in some cases it will
he ,IIfpossiDbe TO G-'a4.sler THE Roose-
welt republican organization bodily
| into the fold of the new party. This
can be done, he believes in cases in
which the Roosevelt element is so
strong that the bulk of the party
workers and office holders will get in
line.
In such cases no third ticket would
be placed In the 1ield.
In states like New York, in which
the republican machinery is in con-
trol of Colonel Roosevelt's opponents
it is planned to place complete
ticket in the field including candidates
for electors.
In southern states it is planned to
effect coalition with some demo-
cratic organization if possible.
Colonel Roosevelt believes there
are cases where this can be done.
1t is suggested that progressHe
democrat be- named for vice presi-
dent on the Roosevelt ticket
1.-The prospects for financing the
campaign are good. There Is no
question that we shall have funds
enough to carry us through. There
is nothing which can block the or
ganization of this movement or pre-
vent the holding of a national con-
vention. our ticket will be presented
in every state this fall said Mr.. Gar
field.
Mr.. Garfield said the 344 delegates
who did not vote, the 107 who voted
for Roosevelt, the ten for Cummins
and the rs whom he contended, were
unseated fraudulently in the republi-
can national convention, represented
the true Roosevelt strength In the
convention and that the great major
ity OF these men were behind the
movement.
I'm "a number of states where Col
onel Roosevelt won the presidential
PRIMARIES he said, our organiza-
tion is complete. In these states we
shall have little to do as the regular
republican candidates for electors Will
vote for Roosevelt In the other states
We will form our organization from
the bottom up"
the leaders of the new party were
unanimous in saying that the exist
ing party machinery in states control
ed by Roosevelt republicans would
form the nucleus OF the new organi-
zation. They admitted that there
We're serious difficulties in the way OF
transferring these organizations 10 an
other party or of breaking away from
the republican national ticket while
still preserving party regularity. I'll
developed that some of Colonel
RooseveIts advisers wished to break
away csmgletely from the repubii-
can parry, erect new machinery and
adopt d distinctive name in each state,
but this view was not shared py
others. 1t was pointed out to Coz
onel Roosevelt that should this be at
tempted there might be serious de-
fections from Roosevelt supporters
who did not wish to leave the repub-
lican party.
Colonel Roosevelt was supported in
his recent campaign by governors.
United States senators, congressman
and other officials from a large num- !
Der of republican states. One of these |
men told Colonel Roosevelt that
while he would continue to support
him he could not leave his party and
imperil his political future to do SO
and that he considered II imperative
to adopt plan under which he and
others could maintain their connec-
tion with the party.
This is one of the problems which |
It is expected will be solved within
the next few weeks.
From what could be learned II was
the opinion of those in close touch
with the situation that the hght
would be made along entirely ne"
lines by means of a distinctive party :