New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
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Forgiveness for Traitors Scheme l
 to Get Support, Says McHarg

Y southern delegates for Colonel RoOse- I welt in 1912, made the fight for those I delegates before the committee on credentials and then refused to leave l his party and join the progressives, l declared yesterday that Colonel Rooseyelt's statement forgiving his friends for returning to the republi- l can ranks was nothing more than an equivocal assertion or his intention to I be a candidate in the republican pres- f idential primaries and to have just as many of his friends there to fight for him as he could get. In the opinion of MT. McHarg the ] colonel made his statement we'll know I ing that there is under way a move ment for an informal national con. ference to which representatives of both the republicans and progressiyes have been invited in the hope that i their differences may be smoothed away before the campaign of 1916. This movement, of which MT. McHarg is the general director, is based on the proposition that the most innport- ant thing in the world for both re- publicans and progressives is to de- feat Woodrow Wilson and that the only way to do it is for them to get together again.
 Says Colonel Is Eligible.
 Tt is of little interest said MT. 2 McHarg, whether or not man en- rolls as progressive in this state for the coming election, as the progress sives vote is too small in this state to be of consequence and there is nothing to prevent man voting a progressive ticket this fall and participating as a candidate in the republican presiden- tiaI primaries next spring, Under the republican party call for national convention any native born American of legal age can be voted for for the office of president at the republican presidential primaries without even having declared himself a republican,.
 Interest in Colonel Roosevelt has to do with his possible presidential in- tention The conclusion to be drawn from his equivocaI statement is that he will be candidate Tn the republi-. can presidential primaries and that he believed in having just as many of his friends as possible within the republican party so that they may be able to vote at the presidential pri- maries for delegates for him as can- didate for the presidency. He could become a candidate for the republi- can nomination without even having enrolled as a republican voter under the terms of the republican party call for a national conventions.
 Favors Amalgamation.
 "I personally believe that Colonel Roosevelt is in favor of an amalga- nation of the regular and progressive republicans, judging from an inter- view which he gave at Portland, Ore, recently.
 T believe that 1t is we'll known to Colonel Roosevelt that we'll defined movement is under way for a11 in formal national conference made up of representatives of both wings of the republican party, and that large per cent. of the recognized leaders in the progressive wing of the party have indicated an intention to participate in such conference at which all diff ferences between the regular and pro- gres: ve wings of the party may be reconciled.
 .sRattIing skeleton"
 Going on then to say that this movement has beeh commented upon in such a way as necessarily to have come to the ColoneIs notice. MT. McHarg asserted that certain Progress sive leaders are simply trying to display their trading stock, that IS to say, the appearance of an exteh- sive and cohesive organization Wh1ch can be rattled loudly until som ebodS is scared into believing that th progressives have something worth bargaining for.
 Those who voted the progressive ticket in 1912,' said Mr. McFarg, .are men who think and act TOT themselves, and they are continuing to think and act for themselves. They are coming back to the Republican party on their individual judgment 38
 Not Col. Roosevelt nor any other leader in the party will prevent mon from returning to the republican par- sty who hold the views expressed by one man, who recently wrote to me < as follows iff1sss The democratic sparty's method of cutting the high cost Of living re- sits in cutting out the living; ipsoN facto, the high cost disappears. The method is very eficacious but tough; on our kiddies. ~
 Would Welcome Roosevelt.
 Many of us who supported Col. Roosevelt for the republican nomin-ss ation in 1912 would like to see him back in the republican party agaill.s and we are at q loss to understand why a man of his vigorous style should leave equivocal his attitude toward the republican party