Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
Roosevelt to Work for Repub-
Iican Party in New York.
MAY URGE HUGHES TO RUN
Likely to Regard Governors With.
drawal as Disastrous.
TALKS TO NEWSPAPER MEN
Politics Barred at Interview-Thou-
sands of Letters From All
Over Country.

Over Country.
dore Roosevelt may never make another
political speech. as he told the newspa-
per men the other day. but he is going
to roll up his sleeves and plunge into
tho thick Of the political fight that will
be waged this fall for the control of New
York state.
The colonel persists in his refusal to
| talk politics for publication. nevertheless
it may be said with authority that ne
| will devote every effort to save the repub
lican party from the defeat which he
thinks menaces 1T in this state, and that
he will not shirk the responsibilities
which have been placed on his shoulders
by those who look to him as the one
man who can command the situation.
Out of the coming conference between
Col Roosevelt and Gov. Hughes will come
an articulated policy. The governor and
the former governor will go over the
| entire political situation in New York
state as 1t is today. Mr.. Roosevelt Will
indicate his belief that If Gov. Hughes
accepts a place on the United States
Supreme Court bench, as the governor
already has signified he will do, and thus
withdraws entirely from active politics.
the result may be disastrous to his party
Will Present Situation.
Mr.. Roosevelt may not, and probably
will not. request the governor in so
many words to become a candidate for
a third term. He will present the sit
uation as it is. leaving 1t to the gov
ernor to decide. after he has learned
Col Roosevelt's views. whether or not
ne should retract his positive state
nomination. sacrifice his place on the
bench of the Supreme Court, and go
back into harness for two years more
at Albany. Such decision would carry
with 1T full understanding that in
the event Of a republican defeat Gov.
Hughes would md himself with neither
a seat on the bench nor In the executive
chamber.
As a sidelight on the situation it Is
know that Col. Roosevelt favOrs some
sort of primary reform legislation, al
though he has not had an opportunity
to study the various plans that have been
proposed. and therefore has not decided
which of them, or if any of them, meets
with his approval.
Reticent as to Hughes.
Col. Roosevelt gave the newspaper men
today his first interview of any length
since his return from abroad. Politics
was barred. He refused to discuss his
coming visit from Gov. Hughes, further
than to repeat that no final day for
the visit had been set. He was asked
IL he had not invited number of po-
litical leaders both regulars and I'm
surgents," to accept his hospitality.
he answered. IT have invited no one
here except to make social visits
Shall you see President Taft at Bever-
ly when you go to Cambridge for the
Harvard commencement next week."
II don't know" was his reply.
The colonel was at luncheon when the
newspaper men arrived. He had at
table the largest number of visitors since
his return from abroad. There were
thirteen guests, ten of whom came all
the way from Peoria. ILL.,. with an invi-
tation from Archbishop Spalding asking
Col. Roosevelt to speak to the Knights
of Columbus at Peoria on Columbus day,
October IL The colonel promised to take
the matter under consideration. and
hoped he might find it possible to accept.
Henry Z. stimson a Guest.
The other guests were DR.. Hart Mer-
rian, an old friend of the family; Henry
L. Stimson, prosecutor for the govern
ment in the sugar fraud trials, and a Mr..
Sheldon. a hunter of big game in Alaska.
The newspapermen were ushered into
the library and oCl. Roosevelt left the ia
BILE to follow them. They found the room
in confusion, Uttered with thousands of
unopened letters and hundreds of books
sent by publishers and friends. with still
other hundreds of magazines, all unread.
There were letters on the table, on a set
tee and on the floor.
Il want you newSpapermen to make
1t clear that il is utterly impossible for
one man to cope with all this mail"
said the colonel.
If every man, woman and child In
the United States who has been writing
to me were to stop writing today" he
continued. lit would take me six
months. with clerical assistance. to an
swer them all. Probably there many
letters here from close personal friends.
but II is impossible for me to separate
the important from the unimportant.
7 am getting the mail of the White
House. and 1 have not the White House
staff to dispose of it,.
Wanted Speech Criticised.
The colonel began at the top of the
pile and picked up ten or twelve letters.
The first he opened was from a prom-
nent member of Congress. inclosing a