The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-12-24
G. 0. P. LEADERS
AGAINST TEDDY
But Would Accept Another
Progressive
FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Colonel Is Expected To RejOin
Old Flock Upon His
Return.
A FINE SCHEME is FIXED UP

Washington, Dec. 22.-Not all or
the interesting features of the Re-
publican National Committee meet
ing held here last week appeared on
the surface. There was more under
the-current good stuff" than it was
possible to chronicle along with the
open accomplishments that had to
be reported while they were fresh.
1t is necessary to remark that the
future relations of Theodore Roose-
welt to national politics as result
of the Republican rehabilitation
work inaugurated By the Republican
National Committee came in for
much consideration in the talk
which the party leaders carried on
when not in formal session.
The conservatives regard Roose-
welt somewhat in the light of little
Bo Peep and her lost sheep.
Ii has been figured out to a nice
ty. Roosevelt, it is declared, may
allow his Progressive followers to go
it alone, as the sub-leaders have pro-
claimed they will, to await the psy-
Geological moment for reversing the
lever. He will arrive home from
South America next summer in a
blaze of glory, as when he returned
from association with the lions OF
Africa.
He will be met at the dock in New
York by Clifford Pinchot, James r.
Garfield and others of his devoted
followers. There will be much re-
joicing and cheering. The Progress
sives will take on new enthusiasm.
Then Roosevelt will receive call
to depart suddenly for Europe, or
some other part of the globe to in
stall the doctrines of democracy into
benighted monarchies, and perhaps
daily with Kings and other poten-
tates. He will be absent when the
fighting is on over the election of a
new Congress in 1914, and harken
to returns by cable. it is said.
The Progressives, without his per-
sonal leadership, will be licked to a
FRAGILE" in the congressional cleo
lions, thus showing that the perma-
nent conflict. minus the individual
element in the equation, still rests.
between the two old parties. Then
the Colonel will come home in an
other blaze of glory. The psyche
logical moment will be nearer.
And then at the actual psychology
ical moment there will be a declara-
ton from the commander in chief,
that under the new dispensation in
the matter of electing delegates to
national conventions the Republican
party has been purged of its boss
control; that it now presents itself
in light where decent and respect
able man can afford to assume it's
leadership and guide it along the old
paths of it's early history. And here
endeth this chapter.
One thing is said to be settled as
fully as anything can be this far in
advance. All the old Republicans
are resigned to the nomination of a
man of Progressive qualifications in
the next Presidential campaign; all
/ that they will not stand for is the
return of Mr.. Roosevelt II they can
prevent ii. With this idea in mind,
some of the conservative leaders
noted the influence and the activi-
ties of men like Borah and Hadley
I'm the recent committee gathering.
and INDUCED in expressions like
this
"If you folks are playing this
game for yourselves. all well and
good; We will stand for IL and We
will be with you. But If you arc
playing the game for Roosevelt, We
are going TO trim you, If We have to
break up the party all over again"
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