And by the way, was Teddy Roosevelt a conservative? In some ways yes, in other ways, no. Quite frankly, in some ways he was extremely conservative.
But that is a whole other discussion, and one that I am not inclined to enjoin here and now, for many reasons, including the fact that you seem inclined to mistakenly take any such statements by me as indicating approval of his policies.
All that really matters is he did not govern as a conservative when he was President and he did not campaign as a 'conservative' in 1912.
He supported every progressive contemporary issue of the day, and was a large reason not only Wilson, but the nineteen-teen governments unleashed the destructive power of the central government.