Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-08
MehARc QUITS ROOSEVELT.
Says Colonel Was "SWampsd by the
Emotional People,"

New York Times: Ormsby McHarg
told a Times reporter that he had quit
Col. R~o0sevelt's third party move
ment because business which Is per.
sonal and far more important makes
the step Imperative"
81 shall support Col. Roosevelt in
this state" said Mr.. McHarg yester.
day afternoon, IF l may do SO through
duly qualified electors. consider
that he was legally nominated at Chi.
cagO, of course, but that is another
story now. Taft got the nomination,
and If Col. Roosevelt Is not regularly
nominated by a third party convention
in due form I shall vote, as a Repub-
lican for Taft. am in some import
ant business deals which make 1t nee
essary for me to keep myself free
from politics just now. am out OF
1t l wish to stay out of 1t, and l am
going to stay out of 1t from now on.
| shall merely be a voter.
"Col. Roosevelt has been surround
ed by a lot of emotional people, who
swamped the true movement he rep
resented. His great personal strength
saved him a break in Chicago at the
last moment, but it was a failure, In
deed, to have had some Of the men
about him that he had. II he had
fired about fifty Of the men he had
around him in the last hours he would
have won everything in sight. In
those last hours, when it was win or
lose in a minutes time, he was sur
rounded by q lot of men who kept the
real, true-hearted fellows, who wish.
ed to help him, from getting to him
to deliver the goods. His friends have
talked for him and hurt him. They
have talked too much.
"Now the situation is just this.
Bryan has sent word that he will not
come in with Roosevelt, no matter
how it went at Baltimore. Wilson
is Roosevelt's only danger. He
beat Clark and Underwood. If Col.
Roosevelt will put his work into the
hands Of some level-headed, cold
blooded, calculating manager like Geo.
Perkins. who will work without senti-
ment, he will win the country. II
he tries emotionalism he will lose
everything he tries. consider Per
kins the greatest organizer In this
country today, and II he is put in
charge of this work he will carry the
country.
Mr.. McHarg paid his respects to
the newspapers which have attacked
the Roosevelt policies. His position IS
that of a man who has been person.
ally offended. II feel that some or
the papers which have attacked the
movement represented by Col. Roose-
yeIt have aroused a lot of hard feel
ing and a lot of bitter feeling through
out the country. I know the papers
are powerful, but they are not always
fair, and l am sure that they have not
been fair to him. The main error
with; the Roosevelt movement is that
it has been handled as a sentimental
and emotional matter and not as q
great political movement"
"Are you out Of the active Roose.
Welt campaign, then, Mr.. McHarg!
he was asked.
81 am, most decidedly, and I am
going to stay out of It." he said, with
emphasis.
sDoes this mean that you have
withdrawn your support from the Col
onel altogether?
"No: but it means that he viii have
to make the fight from now on with
others, for / am too busy to Keep IN
politics. If he gets a nomination in
a regular way, / shall vote for him
If he does not I shall vote for TAFT"
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