The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-08
This Indicated by His Recent
Manoeuvres
HIS WEAKNESS IS REVEALED
In Sending Special ADMINISTRATORS
ton of Bolt Now Becomes Important
Indifference Shown in Rela-
ton to Craftsmanship.

! Chicago, June S.-With the Roosevelt
people lined up in the preliminary fights
Of the Republican national convention,
| it has now come down solely to the
question of whether Roosevelt and they
shall take their medicine" and con-
tinue in the party, or shall bolt.
While Senator Dixon, Ormsby, Me-
! Harg and others in the spotlight at
the Roosevelt headquarters are still max
| ing an effort to keep up some kind OF
front, others close into the inner or
ganization but not so conspicuously
frank, admit in private conversations
that "the show down has come" and
that "the jig is up" The realization
of this by Roosevelt himself was re-
corded yesterday by his hurry-up orders
to Boss" Flynn OF Pennsylvania to get
here. There is promise that the corpse
is going to be made lively one and
that death is to come only after the
greatest prolonged agony in the most
public place that can be selected and
even under the gaze of the moving pic
turc camera, but the Roosevelt men, who
are now admitting defeat, make no eff
fort to conceal the fact that the death
scene is billed.
Side by side with the great question
which now confronts them, whether they
shall remain Republicans or become bolt
ers, is another one. Ii is whether the
third termer can finance a third party
campaign. Some are inclined TO believe
that he can; others that already his
convention campaign, which has
drawn over million dollars from his
supporters, has given them some indica
tioa how expensive a thing six-months
nationwide real campaign would be.
There are undoubtedly, ii is said, some
enthusiasts who would be willing to put
up their money, but the great source OF
supply are wholly material The har
vester and steel trusts have no great
ideals to pursue; they care not fig for
the great question Of the greater demo-
cratzation of the country.
Now that it has been shown that the
campaign claims have been false, the
Roosevelt lines already are breaking.
The break Ia coming in two ways ana
is already markedly apparent here First
great many Roosevelt men" have tied
To him solely because they believed that
he was the only man who could carry
the party to victory. They have, as
rule, been selfish and their attitude has
been solely in the interest Of getting
through our county ticket" or the dis
trict or state ticket. They are face
to face with the fact that a break here
would mean defeat OF those tickets.
Primarily they are still strict party
men wanting success and many of them
have shown that they are in the Roose-
Welt ranks without any great attach
ments, or even belief in the man, but |
solely as opportunists.
Secondly, the "idealists" have been |
very lukewarm on Roosevelt from the |
beginning and who don't to-day like |
the hurry-up call OF such notorious
boss as Finn. They originally lined up !
behind La Toilette and are at heart La !
Toilette men. Some OF them in their |
private conversations admit that they |
marvel how they ever got mixed up" |
with this man, who certainly advocates |
nothing for which they really stand |
They point out very frankly that he |
believes in eliminating com
petition by substitution of government |
regulation, while all idealists in the pro-
gTessive movement, from Louis Bran
dcis to La Toilette, think that COMPETE |
t,on is the only rock of our national sal
walton, and that the great work to be /
done is to restore it by destroying the
very monopoly control that Roosevelt /
proposes to recognize and establish.
They only know that by some process
they We're switched into the Roosevelt
camps and have been held by his mag
netie personality and power to get f.
II is revealed here that they
have lost much respect for him because
he was accepting from the very inter.
ests that are against the rule of the
people the money for the fight for the
appropriated slogan "the rule of the peo-
pie A good many of these men are
Roosevelt delegates, and they would like
to vote for La Toilette if he is found
to have any show. They are not ready
for a bolt.