The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-25
WOULD SEVER ALL RELATIONS FROM REGULAR REPUBLICAN
 PARTY AND REoRGANIzE.
WAS OFFERED NOMINATION
Says He Could Have Been Named by Republicans at Chicago if he Had Agreed to the Terms Offered
 by the Delegates.

Cleveland, OniO, June 24.--A new party from the ground up is the Roose- yelt program. After a series of dis cussions with his lieutenants today before leaving Chicago, in which there were several sharp clashes, Colonel Roosevelt, decided to cut entirely from the party with which his whole public career has been identified His decision was a disappointment to those who favored the organization of what might be considerei an indepen- dent republican party with which var. ious state organizations might CO., operate and still maintain, 1t was hoped, q nominal regularity.
 There must be no compromise, no straddle," Colonel Roosevelt said As an indication of his determination he said that when he returned to Oyster Bay he would communicate with a number Of democrats, who, he though. might wish to join the new party.
 When he had left Chicago with the first plans completed. Colonel Roose- welt expressed himself as pleased with the outcome of the convention week, although 1t was unexpected to him. He said the way in which his action had been received was encouraging and he had a mass of letters anl telegrams from all parts of the country from both republicans and democrats, offering support
 The republican nomination for presi- dent, Colonel Roosevelt asserted to- night was for the asking on the day that president Taft was renominatej. He declined to accept 1t. lie said, on the terms under which the offer was made.
 On his way back to Oyster Bay the former president gave a glimpse into the secret history of the last day Of the convention, when 1t was ap- parent the tide of battle haf turned resistlessly against him. It was plan to siege control of the convention at the last moment by sudden move oyerturn the Taft majority and make Roosevelt the nominee.
 This is the story as he told It.
 Early Saturday morning, a group of delegates from southern states arrang. ed private interview with Colonel Roosevelt. They told him that they had come to offer him dhe nomination They had with them list of the known Roosevelt delegates and stated they were authorized to speak for a block of Taft delegates. who were willing to swing over to Roosevelt to avert a rupture in the party. The number of these delegates. the as sured Colonel Roosevelt. was large enough to nominate him or any other candidate he might name.
 One provision was made, Colonel Roosevelt continued. It was that he must accept the nomination from the convention as then composed and mol insist upon removal of the seventy eight delegates whom he contended were fraudelent before he would re cognize any act of the convention The delegates said their band would stand together on the roll call for the presidential nominee, but that 1t would be hopeless for them to attempt tc combine with the Roosevelt minority to unseat the IS delegates.
 Colonel Roosevelt said he informed these emissaries that if he should be nominated under these conditions he would not accept the nomination. He told them to go to the delegates whom they represented and bring back to him a pledge signed by tlhe thirty delegates agreeing to combine with the Roosevelt delegates and make the attempt to start all over again to or ganize the convention and to unsea' The 7S contested delegates. The at tempt failed. Colonel Roosevelt said a considerable number of signatures 10 the pledge were obtained, but that 1t had proved impossible to hold a sufficiently large part of the delegates h line for the course of action upon which he insisted to give it the chance of success.
 The chief point of interest to Coio enl Rooseyelt's supporters today was whether they would be able to carry With them the strength of the follow Ing which Colonel Roosevelt has nere tofore had within the republican party Some of them saii frankly that the movement was inaugurated on the as sumption that since Colonel Rooseven had been the choice of the party III number of republican states 1t would pc possible to bring these states II ine for the new party.
 No plan has yet been decided uposl ny which it would be possible to el feet such transfer of workable or ganizations from the republican par.N 10 the new enterprises. It IS fecos nlzea there exists danger of so many defections that in some cases. tht minority may be either badly damaseo ln the process or left in the hands of the regular republicans. ..
 Colonel Roosevelt expressed conn dence that a way would be found hs said he ultimately would have tn' support of the substantial part oi tn' Examinations which were with him II Vie campaign of the last four months