Arizona republican., 1912-06-22
Two Pictures H Herewith Presented of the Ex-Pres ident; One Flushed With Belief of Victory; Other Abandoned in Defeat
HIS CHIEF LEADERS
 REFUSE TO FOLLOW
Crowds Which Besieged His Quarters Daily, Find No Interest in the Colonel in His Hour of Humilia- tion
CBv Hugh S. Miner.)

CHICAGO, June 21.-"And he gath cred them together in a place called, m the Heprew tongue, Armageddon." Rev. elation XVI. 16.
 It was last Monday night that TheO- ,1ore Roosevelt stood before a vast crowd in the auditorium and gave mo- tice that he would not abide by the de cision of the republican national con vention unless it purged it's roll of seventy-six fraudently seated Taft delegates. And it was at the cOnclus- ion of his speech that he said, as one who delivers a message: We stand at Armageddon and We battle for the Lord"
 Today Theodore Roosevelt stood at Armageddon. Those who he had as sembled had fallen away from him and he was standing alone. He was fac ing defeat and humiliation and he knew it The enemy had made it plain that the roll would not be purge1. Roo5e- welt was left with nothing but a hope of taking the field at the head of a third or bull moose" party. It was poor consolation.
 Roosevelt in victory and Roosevelt in defeat are vastly different pictures to contemplate. Only d few hours before his rooms were OVercrOWded with men anxious to get a glimpse him. hailing him as the leader of an undying move ment and the greatest man in the world
 The shouting and the tumult was terrific The surging mob at his door paid a tribute to his greatness. The air was charged with RoOseVeltism. It came in through the windows, was breathed and rebreathed again by men and women who believed Teddy the Terrible" would smash the reaction aries hip and thigh.
 His defeat is dire and utter. It is terrible and the Terrible Teddy has failed The bull moose" is wounded into political death. The shouting and the tumult has ceased. The crowds no longer flock to his doors. There is gloom everywhere. Roosevelt has been deserted and deserted by the very men who had led him up to great heights and showed him tn new prom ised land His elder brethren, the Pen roses and the Cranes and others, once his chosen friends of the Terrible one have made him the laughing stock of the entire country.
 To prevent walkout or bolt, the leaders it is said were prepared to de- sert and unite behind Senator Albert C. Cummins with sufficient of the pro- pressive to appeal to these on whom Roosevelt might expect to call. One by one the leaders on whose support Roosevelt had been told he could rely until the end had told him they would not go with him. Senator BOrah of Idaho, Senator BristOw of Kansas, Governor Stubbs of Kansas, Governor Deneen Of Illinois. Governor Hadley of Missouri and George w. Perkins the financial manager of his campaign, all had served notice they would not join him in q bolt or a third party move ment.
 And Roosevelt stood at ArmageddOn. For the first time since Colonel Roo5e- welt arrived in Chicago just week ago, the day passed with hardly a demonstration in his honor. Until late in the afternoon the hall outside his headquarters was bare of the crowd that has daily stood there. There were none of the enthusiaSts-men, women and children-whO, tired and hungry had been in evidence on the previous days waiting patiently for the hours to snatch a glimpse of the great leader as eh passed throuhg the corridors.
 The score of police who formerly have been kept continually engaged in fighting back the crush yawned and dozed in their places. Where before there had been confusion now was loneliness approaching solitude.
 The colonel left his living rooms at 9:30 this morning prepared for the days work.
 He went direct to his headquarters on the floor below. meeting no one on the way Shortly thereafter, men who had been his inner circle ad- Visers made their appearance. Those who called were Governor Deneen of Illinois, Senator Bristow Governor Stubbs. Senator Dixon, Wm. Allen White, Francis J. Heney, Judge Ben E. Lindsey, and former Senator Al bert J Beveridge Of those the only one who gave the colonel assurance of support to whatever lengths he might choose to go was Heney. The coiOneIs leaders left their conferences with nothing to say All but Senator BristoW He said, simply, Well.
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