Arizona republican., 1912-07-08
The CoIonePs Party

Colonel Roosevelt must begin to SuS- pcct by this time that if he forms a new party it will not include any considerable part of the republican progressive element which shows no signs of being attracted by the mere sound of the word progressive" now so frequently used by the colonel in his manifestoes.
 The progressive republicans of Min ncsota on Saturday declared in favor of Governor Wilson. The same thing was done by the South Dakota pro- gressive republicans on the announce ment of Wilson's nomination and Gov eror Osborn of Michigan stated that the nomination of Wilson afforded all honest and earnest progressives a sufficient vehicle for the expression of their sentiments.
 All the leaders in the progressive movement that is, all who have con- tributed to the strength and respecta- bility of it. have declared that the reforms they are seeking are more likely to be secured by the progress sive element, working as q leaven within the republican party
 Thus. the party of Colonel Roose- welt would not in any sense be a con tinuation of the progressive move ment It would be only q new so- called progressive party headed by a man who when in power less than four years ago was hand in glove with Aldrich and Cannon, those arch standpatters.
 No doubt many of the progressives of the rank and file who only think that they are progressives would join the Roosevelt movement but il would be made up for the most part of the personal admirers of fhc colonel, in cIuding many eminent and respect able gentlemen; it would have back of it the steel trust and the harvester trust but it would have to depend for numbers. essential to the success of any political party, upon the rabble and that large class of the dissatis fled which prefers anarchy to order To such it would appear that the coloners course is in the direction of anarchy.
 A professor of progressivism, MT. Roosevelt would now evidently be con- tent with no other scheme for putting his loudly avowed though lately adopt ed principles in force, than new party of which he should go down into history as the founder. The new party has become an Obsession and the news agencies seem to be actively engaged in making d joke of it by giv ing publicity to the daily happenings at Oyster Bay. The colonel would rather name it the Roosevelt party desire But he will see to it that 1t will be so named and so born that the world will know until the world shall be no more, that it was Roose- velt's party whatever the name may be.
 But we are not so sure of that: the fame of founders ofpolitical parties has not been long lived in this cOun try We cannot recall now who was responsible for populism Consider ing the great number of parties that have come and gone in American po- Iitical history and considering the number vet lingering in anaemic ex- istence. We fear that the colonefs party would be lost in the shuffle, so to speak Any one of the follow ing had as promising a beginning and we cannot think of one which did not have an equally good excuse for be- ing: The Know Nothing party, the American, the Constitutional Union, Prohibition, the Socialist, the Socialist Labor, the Labor Reform, the Whig. the Greenback or Independent, the Peoples party, the Liberal Republican party. the Native American. the anti Masonic and many others too numer- ous to mention.
 1-he inventor of a new kind of finch pin or carpet sweeper would have a stronger claim upon fame than the founder of an American political party.