Arizona republican., 1912-07-15
Who Killed Cock Robin?

Tt was my fight and it is my victory"
 Some years ago the New York Sun pronounced Theodore Roosevelt in sane, a diagnosis concurred ill since and frequently by Henry Watterson and accepted by a considerable part of the population of this country. It was the belief of those alienists that MT. Roosevelts insanity consisted of an abnormal egotism and vanity by which he was in a large measure rendered irresponsible.
 MT. Roosevelt has done and said many things to warrant the views of the Sun and MT. Watterson as to his mental state but we can think of nothing he had ever said, so fully confirmatory of their views as his foregoing comment last Saturday on the action of the United States sen ate in declaring invalid the election of Mir Lorimer.
 
 tributed in the slightest measure to that judgment of the senate, his ut terance would have been indecently boastfui. but Mir Roosevelt was no more influential in that respect than any one of millions of other Ameri- cans who had no influence at all. The fate of Lorimer was sealed with the disclosures of Clarence Funk of the Harvester Trust and that dis welt had manifested any interest in the Lorimer case.
 During the pre- convention cam paign last spring. Mir. Taft. moved by Roosevelt's attacks upon him involv- ing the Lorimer matter, made public 2 letter he had written Roosevelt long before urging him to exert any in- fluence he might for the expulsion of Lorimer. The president believed that the good of the party and the prestige of the senate demanded his removal MT. Roosevelt then took no action but he resented the publica- ton by the president of the cor respondence. showing MT. Roosevelt s apathy at time when an active ln- terest might have been of some avail.
 Whether or not MT Roosevelt had al that time any convictions as to the guilt or innocence If MT. Lorimer, the stage had not yet been set for his dramatic entrance. The galleries were not yet full; the country had not vet begun to take an acute in- terest in the controversy. What he might quietly do would not be heard of
 Later. came what he conceived to be his opportunity and then he put m to q Chicago club which had in vited him to be it's guest at ban ouet and of which club Mir. Lorimer was member. the astounding, ln- pertinent condition of his presence, That Mir. Lorimer must not be pres ent In this way MT. Roosevelt launched himself into the anti-Lori- mer campaign. This condition was ,clcgraphed to the club late in the afternoon of the night of the ban ouet. The club managers would have preferred a quiet adjustment of the strange matter but quietude was not what Mir Roosevelt wanted lie violated the rules of etiquette and de- cency by making public the condition he had imposed upon the club.
 Whatever the character of MT Lorimer. in this incident he acted the part of considerate gentleman and quietly withdrew. thus relieving the club. so far as he could, Of the 5embarra ssment in which MT. Roose- ,elt had involved it.
 That act of Roosevelt. if it was oi effect at all, hindered rather than helped the fight against MT. Lorimel by creating sympathy with him Moreover. the insincerity of Roosevelt vas evidenced by another incident of the same trip when without pro- test he sat at a banquet in Cincin- nati with George E. Cox, a notori- ousIv crooked political boss and then charged with crime against property
 Tn his subsequent attacks upor Lorimer. MT. Roosevelt never ols' closed that he was at all familiar with the evidence in the case; at any