Arizona republican., 1912-06-28
FRIDAY, JUNE 2S, 1912.
MT. Roosevelt's Misfortune

tended MT Roosevelt through his | pre-cOnvention campaign and through | the convention fight, fingers with him and urges him on to fresh humilia- 1 tiOn,-the fool advice of incompetent | friends and their fool methods. Now here is MT. William Prendergast who 1 comes to comfort the colonel at Oys- ter Bay and to intercept and turn aside any ray of good sense which i may be projected in the direction of MT, Roosevelt.
 He encourages the colonel to be- lieve what he is too willing to believe, that he is the sole issue; that the republican voters care nothing for the splendid record of achievement of the republican party; that they care nothing for principles that have long stood fast or that have lately been put forward; that only they want Teddy and are filled with hatred against those who do not want him.
 It is noticeable that not repub- lican of prominence however pro- strongly he has opposed MT. Taft. as the embodiment of standpatism, is taking any part in this Oyster Bay folly. On the contrary, they are en- deavoring to discourage it and to keep it out of their states and their congressional districts. Teddy has had his fling and his day. There are other weightier matters of inn mediate concern.
 But returning to the small bore Prendergast we may say that an ac- complished liar, wicked and despicable as lying is, challenges a sort of ad- miratiOn for his skill and ingenuity But liar of the Prendergast type brings lying into even greater dis repute. His utterances of Wednes- day included a statement that the convention at Chicago had only one object in view. the defeat of Roose- welt. It did not care who else was nominated. He said that he himself had been approached on the subject of the nomination of Governor Hadley and that he had told MT. Roosevelt of this at the time.
 We do recall that following the spontaneous demonstration in the convention in favor of Governor Had ley, started and maintained by Roose- welt sympathizers in the galleries and on the floor. a story emanated from the Roosevelt headquarters that the Taft people were at the bottom of it and thereafter immediately there was circulated a report that Taft emis- saries had made overtures. Prender- gast now discloses that he was the man to whom the overtures were made.
 Governor HadIey himself at that time was reported to say that he knew of no movement for his nom inatiOn, though according to the dis patches of yesterday he appears to confirm Prendergast. Though when we examine it more closely, the con- firmation is very much like the con- firmation given the story the night before by MT. Roosevelt. who could only say he had heard Prendergast tell it before.
 It is altogether unlikely if there was such a proposition to be made that it would have been preached to the obscure Prendergast who cut a very small figure as an adviser of MT Roosevelt during the convention. Beside, at that stage, the forces which had been supporting MT. Taft. with the consent of MT. Hadley could have nominated him without consult ing the Roosevelt element at all
 While many believed that it was the purpose of d considerable ele- ment of those opposed to MT. Roose- welt to nominate some other candi- date than MT. Taft, and undoubtedly many did prefer Justice Hughes, cir cumstances have made it clear, that from the beginning it was Taft ma jority and that there was never a moment when dark horse was pos sible.
 We have devoted so much space to this matter only to show the futility of Prendergast as an adviser, his