Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-08-25
PRESIDENT ISSUES STATEMENT
DECLARING HE HAD NO HAND
IN BRINGING ABOUT RUPTURE
IN NEW YORK STATE.
COMMENT MADE
BY The COLONEL
SAYS TAFT LETTER
CARRIES NEW YORK SITUATION
AND iNTIMATEs HE WILL BE At
CONVENTION.

New York, Aug. 23.-"I am
very much pleased with Taft's
statement. 1t makes the situation
perfectly clear. II Nassau county
wishes me to go to the state con.
vention shall go. | regard the
issue as clear cut and az far as
am concerned there will be ahso-
Iutely no compromise
This declaration was made to-
day by Theodore Roosevelt a few
minutes before his departure on
his western speaking tour regard.
ing the presidents statement
made public last night and fol-
lowed conference with County
Chairman Griscom in the former
presidents private car Republic.
The declaration Of Roosevelt
that there would be no compro-
mise as the issues we're clear, was
quickly taken to mean by polite
ians today that he now proposes
to go to the convention at Sarato-
ga and make his fight against the
"oId guard" for the platform and
candidates he thinks most desir-
able. The colonel made Il clear
that he meant every word he said
for he punctured the CLOSING Of
each sentence with a clap of his
hands. But beyond the statement
he said he had nothing to say on
politics. On his way to the station
this morning Roosevelt branded as
false. The story printed recently
that he had sent Chairman Girls
fom to Beverly with an uItimatum
TO Taft.
New York, Aug. 23.-President Taft
and ex-President Roosevelt are again
fellow workers in the same political
field. The threat that they might pull
apart has been forefended by a full
on one side and an un-
reserved acceptance on the other
The president made 1t plain in let.
ter given out here last night by Lloyd
c. Griscom. president of the New
York republican county committee,
how the misunderstanding arose. He
that he never took any part
in a committee cabal to defeat Colonel
Roosevelt for temporary chairman OF
the coming republican state convell-
ion.
On the contrary, he explicitly de.
olores the result Of the committee
meeting which chose Vice President
Sherman; he rebukes the party
leaders who have permitted it to go
abroad uncontradicted that the presi.
lent of the United States was behind
he factional preferences; he insists
hat at every opportunity he advised
he fullest conference with Colonel
Roosevelt, and he explains that he has
)een panied by the columns of I'M
,ounded assertions in the newspapers
my attitude in respect to
he New York situation"
For his part, Colonel Roosevelt,
when he read President Taft's letter
as communicated to him at Oyster
Bay, said:
Il am very glad to see President
raft's letter and am pleased with it.
Griscom Was Blunt.
The presidents letter comes in re-
ply to Mr.. Griscoms blunt assertion
~ telegraph that the absence of any
information as to your
attitude is seriously misleading many
republicans
He tells how. when he first learned
rom Vice President Sherman of the
,lan to oppose Roosevelt. he per
declined to be drawn into a
light with Mr. Roosevelt and again re-
lewed my urgent advice that there be
ull personal conference with him.
Finally, he asserts that "the solution
" the direct primary issue can be
ound in provisions similar to those OF
he Cobb bill" defeated by the last
legislature in direct rebuke to Mr..
Roosevelt and Governor Hughes.
The presidents letter throughout is
through positive Mr.. Girls
'om, in his comment on it was much
more outspoken. He did not hesitate
O charge that the republican organi-
alton Of the state had played politics
With the presidents name and had
his attitude
Flags Some Of Old Guard.
He asserted in so many words that
some of the old guard are not seek
ng republican success at the coming
election; they wish to perpetuate their
ontrol Of the republican oreaniza
ion at any cost to the party" And he
oes on to particularize that in such
vent they would have been glad to
nload defeat on the shoulders Of the
resident on the ground that he had
gDored the nOlicieS of Hughes and