Arizona republican., 1912-07-19
The Colonel Apparently Cannot Get the Dose Ad- ministered to Him at Chicago Out of His Sys- tenn
DOUBLE EDITORIAL
 IN CURRENT OUTLOOK
Deals Not Only With Last National Convention But Says That He Never Heard of Steam Roller Methods Before
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIspArcRl

ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHJ NEW YORK, July 1S.-Two phases
 of the republican national convention at Chicago were discussed by Roose- welt in editorial articles in the cur-
 rent issue of the Outlook. '"The steam roller" and Men Who Live Softly"
 are the headings of the coloners ar-
 ticles. In the first the writer answers
 the charges that steam roller meth
 ods were used to nominate him in
 1904, and again to secure the nom- ination of Taft in 1908.
 There was no contest over my
 nomination in 1904 when the conven-
 tion assembled he says. Every
 delegate was for me; this was true
 on both sides of every contest. In
 1908 when Taft was fairly nominated
 there were no steam roller methods
 as far as 1 know and if anything
 dishonest or improper was done ill
 the effort to nominate him it was
 without my knowledge, and if it
 had been brought to my attention
 and l had any power in the matter l
 would have interfered with it.' In the second article the colonel
 alludes to the respectable men who-
 with discomfort, stood behind their
 leaders in securing triumph over
 fraud and political theft at Chi cagO" and he scores other "respecta- ble men who felt no discomfort in thus supporting rascality but who on the contrary gloried in their actions" Some of the men responsible for the steam roller work in this con- vention," says Roosevelt in his first editorial, have sought to excuse
 themselves by saying they were only doing what always had been done, and specifically what was done for me at the time of my nomination.
 and what was done for Taft himself four years ago AS regards myself
 the statement has not the slightest foundation in fact. In 1900 I was nominated for vice president against the wish of the most powerful po1i- ticians who then had control of the republican party, purely because the popular demand was too insistent to be denied.
 In 1904 the national committee contained a majority of men who were hostile to me. and as in 1900.
 the leading politicians of the party would have liked to upset me. never used patronage, not to the ex- l tent of single appointment, to se- | cure my nomination. and never ap- pealed to a single politician, but stood squarely on my record, and so | overwhelmingly were the people for
 me that the machine politicians aban- doned all thought of a contest against | me before the convention met" Roose rclt goes into details as to 1 how, he says steam roller methods were used to create a majority for 1 Taft in the recent convention. He re- l views the history of the primary cam paign in the various states and con- l tracts his action Waiving technicali- l ties in the Massachusetts primary as against the action taken by the Taft managers as to the delegates at large 1 in the Ohio primaries.
 l Furthe' on Roosevelt says in the 1 Ohio case Taft was not ashamed to accept without protest the delegates at large elected for the colonel by | 5000 majority but they were given l him because he had received about 4.00O preference majority yet at the same time Roosevelt insisted that | Taft's representative by trickery and sharp practice. secured for him six | delegates at large in Ohio, which in ! the primaries, had gone 47,000 against l him
 | Contrasting the wo conventions l Roosevelt writes: There is one es- sential, instructive difference between | the attitude of the big republican 1 bosses in Chicago, and the big dem l ocratic political bosses at Baltimore. 1 The former greatly preferred certain party defeat to my nominations; the l latter was willing to accept any nom- | ina ton rather than face certain party defeat
 l Roosevelt says that in his case an appeal was made straight to the peo pie against bosses and the fight will | be won on that issue. The case at ! Baltimore was wholly different, he
 says In the primaries Clark had carried more states than Wilson Tn but one or two states had Will | sons cause been triumphant in a square fight with the bosses indeed ] there had been hardly any fight made | along these lines. The fight at Bal timore was not. as at Chicago, to elim- | mate the bosses, and, incidentally to | nominate certain candidate; 1t was l to persuade the bosses into themselves nominating Wilson, thus securing the | /@on+iruo1 Oy, pa pe n