Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — COLONEL AND FOLLOWERS WILL NOT BOLT. [ARTICLE]

COLONEL AND FOLLOWERS WILL NOT BOLT.

With Series of Losses and In Face of Defeat' Colonel May Organize Jiew Party. V : & - 1 ’ V?.» ; • i^ Col." Theodore Roosevelt last night indicated that under certain condi-. tions he might withdraw from the Republican party to take the lead in the formation of a. progressive partjr.^ Some of the . coloners supporters urged their associates last night to precipitate the crisis in the republican national convention at the earliest opportunity today. More conservative counsels- finally prevailed and it was decided there should be no “bolt” from the regular convention. It was the, plan of the Roosevelt delegates last night to make their last stand on the report of the-credentials' committee. _lf the seventy-eight delegates claimed by them to be fraudulent are seated, 9bi"HooseVeirT6fcdi will remain in the convention until the end, but will not vote. -It is their plan then to proceed to the nomination of the colonel in the Coliseum and claim regularity for him. Col. Roosevelt has not definitely committed himself to the latter part of this. jilan. He 4s considering the advisability of delaying action for several weeks anil then to summon an entirely new convention. This weald not be held until after the democrats have acted in Baltimore. - ’ 1 { • 7-7 ftjtf’as predicted yesterday that the nominating stage of the convention might not be. reached until late Saturday. A wide latitude of debate was allowed in the convention. Col Roosevelt said emphatically last ni£ht that be would make the inde* pendent fight for the presidency if he was convinced there was a popular demand for him. :rr~ ~ “I shall have to see* if there is a popular demand for me to run,” he

said. He added that the situation was such a kaleidoscopic one that it would be impossible for him to outline wbat he would do. It might take some time, he said, to ascertain, the sentiment of the people, and learn whether there was a reasonable basis for the formation of what he termed a "progressive party.”