The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-06-27
All Desert Roosevelt.

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,Adjutant General Charles tDgl Ell.
lott seems to be the only one OF the
West Virginia delegation to the
Chicago convention who Is still
hanging to Theodore Ro6seVelt's
coat tails. .,,'' = ~ e
Governors tGlasstocK is announced
as regular since he came back
home, and in this connection 1t ID
also especially annouHced that he
idldthot attend. the new party CON
Ivehton in Chicago. Various ether
members OF sthe delegation are
shown to be regular and none ii
themgexcept Elliott have strayed out
of the Republican fold HE viii
doubtless be the lost sheep. to come
back little later.
AS has been stated many of the
leading Roosevelt leaders in the
Chicago convention will not bolt.
They say they are RepubMcans and
some of them, Governor Hadiey in
particular, praises the platform
adopted at the Chicago conventions.
The melting away of the Roosevelt
pre-conyention following is very
well sized up as follows by the
Wheeling Intelligencer! ~
|. Like snow before the MONDAY
sum-, the Republican strength which
MI. Roosevelt expected to follow
him in his bolt is melting away.
Governor Stubs, of Kansas, dr1fted
into the Roosevelt meeting at chica4
go after the convention and quietly
drifted out again Governor Had
ley, .ot. Missouri, the most potent
force of the Roosevelt following, re-
fused to attend the meeting, and let
1t fbe known that he would take no
part In the bolt. Governor Deneen,
ofS1llinois, took the same position,
Walter Brown, dthe Roosevelt: leader
in Ohio entered ,theameeting of the
regular national Republican < dom
.mittee. The Hon. William sSey-
mour Edwards, the distinguished
poet, vocalist, songster, and noise
boy" OF West Virginia, also fell
away from the Roosevelt following
and sat with the regular committee.
Even Glasscock and Hubbard, the
great original 5olters, hurried home,
and so far as can. be seen at pres
lent, Colonel Sobieski IG. Smith, of
Ohio county, is alone in his glory,
unfolding, advocating and pushing
the cause of the new third party.
Some significance maybe attached
to-. Colonel Roosevelt's; declaration
that re- expects in the organization
Of a new third party that many
Democrats will take an active part
Ben Lindsay, of colorado, de-
Eclared Democrat. is one of the most
active promoters of the Roosevelt
party movement. 1t is to be ex-
pected, Of course, that such men as
the two Pinch0ts and James r..
Garfield will follow the colonel In
his radical efforts to defeat the Re
publican party; but aside from
them, his following among regular
Republicans VIII be- scant. In 1896
Republican representatives from
four western states marched out oil
the Republican national convention !.
They included in their number more
representatives, pronounced and reg
ular Republicans than are today fol-
lowing Theodore Roosevelt; but in
1885, in spite OF this detection, the
Republican candidate for the presl-
dency won a splendid victory. The
large majority, an Overwhelming
majority, of,the Republican leader
ship and the Republican voters OF
the United States will, support the
regular Republican ticket. They
win stand for and fight for the es-
tablished principles, traditions and
policies OF the Republican party.
IThey will continue to renounce, as
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