The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-06-27
COLONEL SAYS HE WILL CON.
TINUE ORGANIZING PROG
RESSIVE PARTY
Proiiers Of Help
Are SO Many That Acknowledgements
Can Not be Made to all for Some
Tima and Leaders OF the New
Movement to Purge G. O. p. ara
Encouraged.


sue upon which Colonel Roosevelt is
TO make his campaign for the presi-
dency was indicated by him today.
He purposes to base his appeal up-
on the assertion that what he has
termed the "big sinister influences,
nave determined to eliminate him
from public life because he is the one
man. whom they really fear. To ac-
complish, this purpose. he believes.
>~<;isey are willing to take up any man
who they think can win the presidency
over him. ...-.. -
Having defeated him at the Chicago
convention, he says, they hope to
control the Democratic convention 20
this same end.
They know me and know them"
he said. 1T is anything g to beat me.
am fighting a lone hand and | am
going to fight it out to the end"
Confers With Prspdergast.
The former President made this re-
marks after a long conference with
William A. Prendergast. Comptroller
of the City of New York. Mr.. Prem
dergast came to Oyster Bay 10 in
duce Colonel Roosevelt to say def
nitely that under no circumstances
would he withdraw from the fight.
Has any other suggestion been
made was asked of Mr.. Prendergast
that any other than Colonel Roose-
welt should lead the light for the new
party2,,, :,~ r.
"Ir,-wlffs aflswer that question for
Mr.. Prendergast, said the Colonel
I'm the statemdht, which I made in
Chicago On Monday I said / would
stay in the fight to the end. Since
then Il have" received hundreds of
letters and kilograms urging me to
20 on with it, and not one of them
suggested that get, out of 1t. In
every case my reply is just what
I said in Chicago
The Comptroller said the reason he
was anxious to make it clear that
Colonel Roosevelt would make the
fight was that the "interests" which
debated him at Chicago would do
anything In their power to keep him
out Of the White House, and for that
purpose would gladly accept any
other progressive. y ----.--.-
In Chicago, he continued some of
the Taft leaders asked him to go to
Colonel Roosevelt with the offer to
give the nomination to Governor Had
ley or any other man the Colonel
might name.
Corroborates the Statement.
They have even offered, he said,
to put the Roosevelt delegates from
Texas and Washington back on the
list If he would consent to this.
y Colonel Roosevelt coSroborated this
statement, and added that the same
interests were hard at work at the
Baltimore convention and were will
ing to take up any of the Democrat
ic progressives, If they thought they
could thus defeat him.
Comptroller Prendergast said in
statement that he had pointed out
to Colonel Roosevelt that the over
shadowing Issue was whether the
nomination for. the Presidency can
be stolen and the people given an
opportunity to pass Judgment on the
theft"
The object for which this fraud
was perpertrated," he said, was the
defeat Of Mr.. Roosevelt, not the nom
ination Of anybody else. This con-
spiracy will be successful II any other
man Is elected to the Presidency"
"The object Of every honest man
should, therefore, be to elect him
Should either Mr.. Taft or Democrat
be elected the success Of the conspir-
acy will be complete. If the Pres
idency, or a nomination for 1t, can
be stolen and the thieves escape un-
punished what security can there be
1or property or order?"
Offers 0f Assistancce.
Oners Of assistance in the forma-
ton Of tho new progressive party are
reaching Colonel Roosevelt by mail
and telegraph, he said today, at such
rate that he will be unable to
acknowledge most Of them for some
time. -
whefi he reaehsd home from Chica-
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