PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 June 1912, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

WME DELEGATES FAVOR A NEW PARTY.

MR ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE.

WILL FIGHT THE CAMPAIGN

THROUGH.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT CHICAGO, June 21,

A meeting of the "Wisconsin and •Californian delegates favored a new party.

It is evident that Roosevelt is badly desirous of a rest, and is training his more ardent adherent's to precipitate action, threatening financial danger. To secure the Presidency on iihe in-^ dependent ticket Roosevelt would require a million sterling, and it is doubtful if his friends could stand the strain. Apart from the Rooseveltite protest the Credentials Committee has -given a most definite indication of its probable action.

Roosevelt, addressing his supporters, including two delegates from each of his States, said: "If I am honestly ■elected and a majority of the convention nominates me as the Republican ■candidate, I will accent it. If they Tear to do so, and the remainder nominates me as a progressive on the progressive platform, and the general feeling among the progressives favors my nomination, I shall accept it. In ■either case I shall appeal to every lonest citizen to fight the campaign through, win or lose.

Owing to the certainty of their losing office, it is unlikely that more than "500 Rooseveltites will participate in the bolt. The Illinois delegation, by 56 votes to two, decided not to participate. "The Ohio and lowa delegates are of the -same opinion.