Arizona republican., 1912-06-22
Will There Be a Bolt?

Notwithstanding the announced and varied program of MT. Roosevelt and some of his followers, we do not be Iicve that there will be a bolt, that is to the extent of the nomination of d rival republican candidate for from the convention or non partici- patton in it will, of course, not con stitute a bolt. That is probably as far as the Roosevelt faction will go toward organized opposition to the regular republican party
 No doubt, a more or less desultory more rabid of the Roosevelt followers against the regular party and it is equally doubtless that this warfare will receive the encouragement of the colonel himself. What effect it will have upon the fortunes of the party, it is too carly to predict Nor are we likely to know before the night of the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November.
 We believe it is not seriously in- tended to make MT Roosevelt the candidate of any faction of the repub lican party and we are equally skep- tical regarding his expressed wish to head a new and progressive" party We interpret all the boasting and threatening of the insurgents at Chi cago to mean that under the cover of the dust they are trying to raise they expect to conceal the extent of their rout: withdraw quietly from Chicago leaving the impression that the fight has just begun" and that will be the end of it.
 There is an impression among the minimizing and the unobserving that Mir Roosevelt has never been beaten. He has always fostered such an inn pression. But. on the contrary, du ring his term as president, his inn pulsiveness involved him in many con- fIicts with congress in which he gen orally suffered humiliating defeats which his active press bureau sought to obscure It has been said of MT. Roosevelt. that he is an adept in the art of changing the subject" that is, in diverting public attention from his retreat from a position that has grown too warm.
 We believe that all this talk about third party or an independent can didacy is only an attempted change of the subject" But the subject is such a gripping one that we believe it will be impossible to divert the at tentiOn of the American people and the whole world from the disastrous Roosevelt overthrow, to a shadowy Roosevelt leadership of a tenuous new party.
 There is. of course, the possibility that the obsession of Mir. Roosevelt is so great that he really believes that he might lead a plurality of all the parties after him and that he really wants to head a third party He would have in such an enterprise the support of such diminutive fig ures as Governor Johnson. Heney, the Pinchots, Garfield. Finn and many others still less we'll known. But il has already been made plain to MT Roosevelt that not single recog- nzcd republican leader will follow him out of the door of the Chicago Coli scum.
 These leaders have been loyal tC him and more. Such able and honest men as Governor Hadley have sup ported his untenable proposition tha the membership of a great nationa convention may be determined bN regulations formulated by the mob As long as he remains in the con lican he will have the faithful sup port of these men but when he leave it he will leave attended only by rffraff of demagogues or small dis credited politicians. The republican party has been too great and too use ful to be broken up to satisfy tn Der of it.
 The action of those leaders wh have refused to accompany Nh Roosevelt out of the republican fol- we believe to be an expression of tn sentiment of the great majority O republicans of the country. If thei