Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-19
CALLS ROOSEVELT
CHOICE Of PARTY
John Temple Graves Says COL
onel's Vote at Primaries
Shows 1t.
THINKS HIM OUT OF
RUNNING AS NOMINEE
Believes, However, 1t Would Suit
His Temper to Bolt. as
Well as to Win.
ny JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.

CHICAGO. June 19.-The vote re-
corded upon the temporary chairman
ship is as fair a test of the reiatiVe
strength of candidates as could Dc
given. If there was any
q was ON Mr.. Roosevelt's side. me
appeal was made, and 1t was very
strong. to vote for an impartial tenn
porarv chairman, like Governor NC
Govern. as a preliminary step TOWARD
harmony and a possible healing OF inc
factions of the convention. lnere
were a number of delegates,
from several States, who voted with
the Roosevelt forces on this propo-
sition. and for this reason, they PROB
ably will not vote for him IN the
direct test between Mr.. Tart aho MN
self.
Moreover, Elihr Root if not a man
of general popularity among the RANK
and file of the Republican delegates
. ecaus of the corporate rumors anu
suggestions which wrap about MS
name and the repute In when ne ID
unfavorably held by many Repuoh-
cans throughout the
Taft Strength Unexpected.
And vet in a. square, fair teIt OF
strength before the entire body OF the
convention, as organized unoer the
roll, the Taft forces IN the
person of their temporary chairman
Elihu Root, have triumphed over the
Roosevelt forces by a clear majority
of So votes.
Whatever changes the Roosevelt
forces were to have made mi might
; have made on Monday n on tues
day. with the colonel himself in per-
sonal charge of his campaign, nave
utterly failed under the temporary
roll of delegates made by the national
committee to diminish the estimated
Taft majority by eve ten votes. and
In point of fact the Taft vote, in the
temporary organization, is twenty
six more thar his conservative lead
ers estimated that 1t would be.
These are the simple, impartial facts
of the situation. They indicate that
Colonel Roosevelt has failed to break
the Taft column, that the Taft claim
as to his convention vote has been
justified in the first fair. definite test
and that 1t is stronger than the con-
! servative men on either side have ex-
pected that it would be.
Popular Choice of Party"
Colonel Roosevelt was, by the evil
dence of the primaries. the popular
choice of his party throughout the
country. His majorities were large
and definite, and by all he evidences
he probably has five times as many
. friends In the rank and file of his
party as President Taft. But measured
by the cold, remorseless logic of the
situation as ii stands he is absolutely
out of the running in this convention
and has not a chance on earth to be
nominated when it comes to a general
vote.
Now. then, what is Colonel Roose-
welt to do?
With the convention Just adj
Journed / have not been able to con-
fer with Senator Borah OF Mr.. Finn,
or Colonel Roosevelt himself, and
therefore find it impossible to speak
by authority. But. on the common
sense of the situation 1 should say.
unhesitatingly, that the vote for
F, Root leaves Roosevelt Just where
he was when the convention began.
His argument and excuse for boiling
The convention and for running indie
pendently, npon a third ticket, is lust
as good and just as definite as it was
before the convention opened.
The colonel's whole complaint has
been upon the illegal tenure of the
delegates who hold their seats from
several States by the grace of the
"remorseless" steam roller of the
Taft machine.
The delegates that were Illegal and
We're fraudulently seated, If they We're
Illegal and were fraudulently seated
are just as much so after the vote
for temporary chairman as they were
before.
The principles which Colonel Roose-
welt and his friends felt to be at
stake before his party and the coun-
try in this convention are just as
much at stake now as they ever were.
Details Planned In Advance.
And If Colonel Roosevelt feels that
those principles are as important ae
he has professed to feel. and he feels
as strongly as he did yesterday
that he is a responsible custodian and
advocate of those principles before
the country, then Colonel Roosevelt
cannot, in simple honesty, fail to full