Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-24
Teddy and Leaders Go Over
Details for New Or
ganization.
G. w. PERKINS, FlNANcIER,
CONSULTS WITH COLONEL
Start Campaign to Get Signatures
Pledging Allegiance to
ii Cause.

CHICAGO, June Z4.-COioHei lneo-
6ore Roosevelt worked all day yester-
day on the details of the plans for the
third party which has made him its
candidate for President of the United
States.
Although there was a great scatter
ing of his followers after the adjourn
ment of the Republican national con-
vention Saturday night. a sufficient
number of his lie%utenants to give a
Bemblance of enthusiasm for the
lost cause" fingered on the scene.
With several of these the colonel
held numerous and prolonged confer
ences in his suite at the Congress
hotel during the afternoon and even
ing. Little or nothing was made pub
lie as to the details of the meetings.
In a few cases the callers gave an
inkIing of the conversations with the
leader of the prospective third party.
Governor Stubs, of Kansas, who
was one of the early callers of the
day. remained a long time with the
colonel.
~ am for Colonel Roosevelt to the
last ditch said the Governor. as he
left the c~olonel's presence. IF the
colonel runs there will be no stopping
him."
After which enigmatieal ~utterance
the Kansan disappeared In he motel
corridors.
Senator Dixon stayed over TO mold
a final conference with the colonel.
"There is nothing to say except that
Colonel Roosevelt is putting in hard
licks on the work. of organizing ms
new party" said the Senator.
Medill Mccormick appeared TO be
the chief of the days pro-
gram. He was conspicuous in the
Roosevelt suite and assisted the
colonel in receiving the callers.
what is the official name of the
new party? Will it be the Progress
siye Republican party, the Progress
siye party or what?" was asked of
Mr.. Mccormick.
II must say | don't know. The mat
ter has not yet been decided" was
the reply.
Have sufficient pledges to assure
the finances for the new party been
received, and, If so, who gave the
pledges"
THAT is q matter | cannot discuss"
when Is the colonel going to leave
chicago?"
THAT is uncertain. except he won't
leave today" Mr.. Mccormick an
swered.
George w Perkins, reputed finan-
cier of the Roosevelt campaign, was
m consultation with the colonel in the
forenoon. 1t was said Mr.. Perkins
had been asked to guarantee that the
Morgan-United States Steel-Harvest-
err Trust interests in Wall Street
would supply the sinews of war for
the third party and the campaign,
hut he was not oversanguine as to
the outlook, and cautiously refrained
from making any actual negotiable
promises.
Thomas K. Neidringhaus, Republic
ran national committeeman from Mis-
souri, and a Roosevelt boomer at the
convention, said tonight;
Though it has not been settled,
and cannot be settled just yet, what
line of action will be taken by Mis-
souri,, the delegation from our state
made "A record in refusing to quit the
Republican party. Just what Gov
ernor Hadley will do as between the
old party and the new party Is pretty
well understood. and 1t Is to be ex-
pected that the bulk of the Repub-
liean voters In the State Will follow
whatever cause is best for Missouri
and the nation"
Richard Barthold, for the last
twenty years the representative in
Congress from the banner Congress
elonal district in st. Louis, said:
colonel Roosevelt can run for
President, but he viii not be sup
ported by the rank and file of the Re
publican party. He will draw more
voters from the Socialists and Dem
ocrats than from the Republicans. ]
believe he would poll about one-half
oil the Socialist vote, and Mr.. Debs,
the Socialist candidate for President,
ought to withdraw from the race and
support the colonel"
A campaign to get signatures to
pledges of allegiance to the Roose-
welt party was under way all Sy at
the Congress Hotel. The pledge was
printed at the head of documents Of
fered for signature. Because of its
~phraseology and the fiat statement
that Theodore Roosevelt would be
the next President of the United
States the pledge evoked much
comment. The pledge was as follows;
I'VE, the undersigned, denouncine
the action of the Republican national
convention at the Coliseum, dedicate
ourselves to the progressive policies
and principles advocated by Theodore
Roosevelt, the next President of the
United States"
Many who intended to sign this
pledge were a~lienated when they read
IT.
II am as progressive as the mos
progressive said a tall, scholarly
man who had signed his first name
James," when his eye fell on the
word dedicate on the sheet before
him. "but think this pledge asks me
to become a sort of fanatic for the
success of one mans political fortunes
and | will not become a fanatic fol
anybody. not even my old leader
Colonel Roosevelt"
There was no rush of signers ano
fully nine out of every ten visitor:
who were asked to affiX their names
declined with thanks.