Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-08-05
new PARTY MEN
ARE Baking
Roosevelt's Pronunciamento
Causes Storm to Begin
Brewing
AGAINST LEAVING G. O.P.
Not a Few Leaders Prepared
to Do Some Plain Talk
ing at Chicago
AGAINST LEAVING G. O.P.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 3.-The Wash
ington correspondent Of the Baltimore
Sun writes:
1nsurrection in the ranks of the
Roosevelt third party is imminent.
Many republican progressives who had
made up their minds to follow the
colonel into the middle-of-the.road or.
ganization are reconsidering, and a
big "blOw-up" at the coming Chicago
convention would not be surprise.
The Roosevelt edict against any
and all alliances or compromises with
any organization or fragment of an or
ganization having upon it the repub-
lcan stamp is the cause of the trouble.
This was not directed alone at the
Roosevelt leaders in Maryland and
Pennsylvania. but at the progressives
in many of the western states who are
not merely of but who are the repub-
lican party in their communities.
Have Been Publicly OverruIed.
OF course, the Roosevelt managers
who We're engineering the little deals
whereby they We're to line up for the
regularly named electors in Maryland
and Pennsylvania with the understand
ing that the faction casting the lare-
est vote in November was to have the
ticket feel the force of the ukase more
pointedy just now They have been
overruled publicly by their leaders and
oyerruled without a hearing.
Those prOgressives who have. how
ever. after long and hard fighting, cap
cured Whole state organizations in the
west as IN the case in Kansas. Iowa
ana Nebraska, for Instance. are hard
er hit than the third party leaders
in the two states Immediately affect
ed. They are simply told to get out
OF the old organizations, repudiate the
name and all it carries with il OF cut
loose from the Roosevelt party.
See Parallel in Massachusetts.
Some OF Col R0Osevelt's friends
'ried TO smile at the order issued from
Oyster Bay last week when they read
it, and suggested cautiously tnat it
might be put in the same class with
the famous renunt!ati0n of the vote
of the Massachusetts delegates-at.
large. Col. Roosevelt said when they
We're elected that he could not and
would not accept their support at Chi
cago, but he did and made no effort
after the first statement to shake them
Off.
There We're just a few followers of
the third party leader, however. who
read the colonels statement with eo,la-
nmity. Most of them felt that Mr.
Roosevelt was asking too much when
he insisted that no connection, near
or remote, should be maintained be-
tween his friends and the G. o. p
1t was Unnecessary, of course, for the
third party candidate to include the
democratic party in his pronunciamen-
to.
To Be Made an Issue
The wisdom of the Roosevelt de.
claratiOn is to be made an issue at
the Chicago convention. That much
was settled at informal conferences
several days ago. Western progress
sives who are anxious to aid in the
defeat of President Taft. but who are
not so anxious to to ALLEVIATE them
selves forever from their old part,
are gOila to the convention prepared
to do some plain talking. They mean
to save tAei~ own political future ii
they can.
Also ;ae new type os the political
'bCSsih- INDUCED in by the colonel
IS another thing that will call for
some frank discussion Roosevelt will
be reminded that he is against any
political leadership that smacks of
absolute personal domination. That
is the kind OF leadership that has been
found in the Barn ses. the Penrosos
the Murphys and the Cranes. They
We're outlawed. it will be recalled, be
cause they ruled their followers with
hands of iron; because they permit ed
no individual latitude Of though, or
action.
Big Revolt Looms Up.
The truth is, the third party is
threatened by a big revolt. just how
far this will go remains to be seen
1t will not result in the collapse Of
the Roosevelt movement The col.
onel has said again and again that
he will be a candidate if he has only
a handful OF followers. and nobody
doubts that he will. 1t viii. though.
drive from him some of his ablest
support unless he relents. Some OF
those prCgressives now inclined to 30
with him will drop back in the Old
party for the time Others will quiet
" go to the polls and vote for Viii
son.