New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-11
ROOSEVELT SAYS He
WON'T Be DELEGATE
ChuckIes at Report of Scare in
Taft Camp and Says He'll
STAY Away from Chicago.
REPEATS ATTACK ON BOSSES
Urges Minnesota to Follow Elk.
ample of States Which Have
Already Expressed Pref
erence for Him.


Colonel Roosevelt chuckled last night over
report from Chicago that there was fear
in the Taft camp that lie would sit as
delegate in the convention, and that the
Presidents managers were trying to turn
this report to their own advantage by rails
ii.-. the cry that the Roosevelt forces were
cynfessing defeat and had determined TO
send their leader into the convention in
final effort 10 start stampede that would
end in victory.
Il am not afraid" he cried in falsetto'
"and, what's more, am not COINS TO chi
caSo.'
lie did seem a bit exercised over the pub
location of an alleged interview in THE
Call" the socialist organ OF tho East. the
Interview having been reprinted in The
Hartford Times last Monday with edi-
toria comment. Praise for DebS and inc
Appeal 70 Reason threat TO bolt ana
E.. reference TO himself as d class con-
scous, Marxiar. revolutionary socialist
#pot;od tho interview, which was signed
John t. McMahon.'
Il uevcr saw John r. Mcmahon 20 my
knowledge. and ! never have said word
90 4 representative of Tho Call, said the
colonel 1T must have he,a intended as a
STUPID Joke so obviously intended to be &C
ccptcd as hoax that no human being who
reads il through can fail 10 sec that such
was tho intention. Apparently 1t has been
reproduced in various papers, these papers
pretending 10 believe that 1t was an authen-
tic interview. Tho Hartford Times occu-
pying an infamous position in making pre-
tenCe-the editorial in Tho Hartford Times
being several degrees worse than the aru-
clc In The cam because any ono can SO"
that tho writer i'm Tho Calr never dreamed
that any human being would believe That
lie was giving a real interview and not
hoax. whereas the writer Of tho editorial
in Tho Hartford Times and his proprle-
tor. Of course, know perfectly we'll that the
article is on it's face a hoax and pretend
10 believe it only as an incident in their
campaign Of frank mendacity and SANDER.
"'Th" Socialist writer in The can has
lecu guilty Of auociousIy offonNiv" had
taste in putting out such a hoax, but tho
editorial writer in Tho Hartford Times
who affects to believe it, stands a far
lover plane Of moral turptudo." /
Some one showed him = copy Of Secre-
tsry Krox's Los Angeles speech on Thurs
day night, in which ne said Roosevelt had
to President Taft Il cannot expect Mr..
renrose's Senator in tho Cabinet 10 take
any other attitude the Colonel said, smi
ing complaccrtly
\ good part Of the day the colonel spent
with his secretary getting out the Ohio
speeches, in which he will attack Taft
and tho Ballinger record.
The colonel continued his attacks On the !
bosses in letter to the manager of his !
campaign i'm Minnesota. He urged that |
state 10 follow the example of those which |
have already declared for his candidacy. |
Nh" letter follows:
New York. May 10, 1912.
Hon. !. \. Caswell' Chairman OF the Roose
Welt Committee and Clerk of the Su-
preme court, Minneapolis, MINI.
] wish il had been possible for mo 80
20 again 10 Minnesota. Unfortunately, it is |
physically impossible. Nine states have !
now held Pre- sidential primaries, or their !
equivalent North Dakota. Wisconsin, Illi- !
nois. Pennsylvania, Nebra ska oregon, New |
hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maryland. |
These states, the only ones in which there !
has been free chance for the expression |
OF the popular will. are 20 be represented |
by z56 delegates in the Chicago convention. |
Forty of these delegates are instructed for |
President Taft and 2lb are against him.
Taft Carried Only Two States.
He has carried but two of the nine states |
--.NcW l1dmiS Hlfe ana MISREPRESENTATION I
in Massachusetts the Roosevelt delegates !
at-large were elected by over twice the ma !
jority which Mr.. Taft obtained on preferen- |
iial vote. In Maryland the majority |
against Mr.. Taft was about the same, pro- |
portlonately, as the majoritieS for him in |
Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In the |
other seven states the majorites against |
him range from two TO one 10 twenty to |
one.
In all the states together about three ont !
OF every four OF the Republicans who oted |
primaries could he held IN all the states |
there would undoubtedly be no substantial !
variation from these figures. and Mr.. Taft |
could by no possibility have two hundred !
votes in the Chicago convention. Mr. Taft's |
chance of denomination lies solely in secur- !
ing at Chicago delegates who will misrep |
resent the will of the people. He can get !
these delegates, not in the primary states, |
hut in tho convention states. where dele |
even in these states he can only get them
where the state is ruled by a boss
After prolonged experience of me as
President, practically ali of the big bosses
In the Republican party dislike me 50
heartily that they opposed Mr. Tatts nom-
nstign 5ecag$e favored il: They We're
same kind OF trouble that | had given I
them. After three and half years eX-
elected. these same men have turned around
and heartily favor his reconciliation. They |
we're opposed TO me four years ago, and
they are opposed 10 me now. They We're
they had not tried him as President and
they heartily support him now
These men include for instance MIR. Cal !
liucer I'm New Hampshire; Mr. Aldrich. IN
Rhode island: Mr.. Penrose. in Pennsyl- |
Nsnia Mr. Healing. in Indiana; Mr.. Lori (
ner In Illinois MesSrs. Guggenheim AMI
Evans, in Colorado; Mr.. Calhoun and tie
Southern Pacific Railway crowd. in cali
fornia and tho Amaleamated Copper
crowd. i'm Montana, and in your own state
they include Mr.. Smith ana Mr.. Tawney.
Tho fight is a nation wide fight OF the
plain people against tho bosses. There is
lust one candidate whom II Is possible 10
nominate against the bosses. and that IS
myself Every vote for every other can
d!date from now Oh is in reality vote
for Mr. Taft The fight Is against the
HOSES In Minnesota. as IL Is everywhere
else 4 vote for Mr.. Taft Is a vote for tie
bosses: it L. a vote for t.orimoI, for Pen,
rose for GuGgenheim. for GallinGer ana
FOR all the rest f them; and II Is vote
for these men, whether 1t Is cast IN Mime |
sofia or i'm Massachusetts or in Ohio or IN ,
New Jersey or in California.
Says He Can Be Nominated.
! became a candidate only when | be- |
came convinced that no other progressive !
candidate could by any possibility be nom- ,
natcd against Mr.. Taft. The contest has
gone far to make 4 now evident that !
/ certainly can be dominated against Mr.. !
Taft. and that either | shall he nominated
or else "A reactionarv VIII he nominated. 1
II Is also evident that not only every pro- /
gresslve Republican but every man who
believes I'm decency and honesty In politics, |
who il against boss rule and for the Renu- |