Evening star., 1912-07-13
TAFT NOT TO STUMP
Will Make No Extended Trips
During Campaign.
THINKS VIEWS ARE KNOWN
Those Speeches to Be Made Will Be
at Nearby Points.
GETS THE DABROWSKI CASE
President Asked to Help American,
Now a Prisoner Of Russia,
in Siberian Wilds.
THINKS VIEWS ARE KNOWN
GETS THE DABRowsKI CASE

lHiS ldlI, ana does not expect TO make
any extended trips. This was the offlcia
| announcement made at the White House
today in q statement that the President
has declined an invitation OF the board OF
managers OF the Minnesota state fair the
first week in September.
In sending his regrets tho President
| said that he would be compelled to de-
cline number Of invitations that were
attractive to him. The telegram Of invi-
tation said: THE people OF Minnesota
and the northwest are eager to see you
and personally listen to your views on
the great issues OF this campaign"
An invitation to attend the meeting of
the General Society of Mayf1ower De-
scendants at Plymouth. Mass. September
g. also was declined by the President,
who is a member Of the society.
VIII Not Go Over Country.
campaign has not been definitely decided
upon, except that he will not go over
the country seeking the support Of
voters. That he will make some speeches,
however, is probable. But they will be
delivered either to visiting delegations
calling at Beverly or Washington or in
points in the east that will be convenient
and the occasions appropriate. Even the
number of speeches Is to be limited. The
President feels that his views on public
questions are already thoroughly well
known and that 1t will not be necessary
to amplify his former utterances to an
extensive degree.
The -at.Qifcance OF no-campaign trip
for Mr.. Tart is that he will permit all
that sort Of thing to be done by Roosevelt
and Wilson The President has never
ceased to regret the circumstances that
compelled him to take the stump against
the attacks Of Roosevelt, and no influence
can induce him to repeat that sort Of
thing. Fighting against bitter and unfair
attacks when he was q candidate for the
nomination does not make 1t necessary,
In his opinion, that he should reply. on
a campaign tour, to similar attacks now
that he is a regular candidate. He thinks
that the country pretty fully understands
the issues and the candidates and he will
adhere to the time-honored custom that a
behalf OF his own reelection.
Feeling Of Managers.
Republican managers feel that there is
big element Of strong men in the
country who deplore the departure al
ready made from dignified precedents as
to what Presidents and ex-Presidents
shall do. in or out Of politics. and who
will be gratified that Mr.. Taft even now
upholds their view. It Is believed in some
quarters that an immense number of
votes will be cast this fall after consider
alton Of the personal conduct and atti-
tude Of the three candidates.
At his summer home at Beverly and
when he returns to Washington this fall
the President will receive visitors and
talk to them in Sesponse to requests.
Just as effective speeches would be let
ters answering correspondents and
friends, a method adopted for a number
Of years by Col. Roosevelt.
Secretary Hilses Is expected to remain
on duty at the White House until Mon
day or early in the coming week before
he retires to take up his political duties
as manager OF the republican campaign.
He had large number Of callers today.
President Taft began his day with a
long conference with Representative Nc
Ktnley and former Gov. Yates Of Illinois
ference lasted more than an hour. the
visitors being guests Of the President at
breakfast Illinois Is one Of the western
states where political conditions although
most chaotic. are presumed to promise
favorable results to President Taft and
the republicans.
Taft to Help American.
President Taft today promised Repre-
sentative Victor Berger, the lone socialist
In the House. that he will at once direct
Secretary Knox to take up with the Rus
sian government the case Of Stefan Da-
browsld. an American citizen serving q
life sentence In Siberia. Mr.. Berger this
morning saw the President and present
ed the case. handing Mr.. Taft q copy OF
the letter he had received from Da-
browski This letter is a. follows:
MY name is Stefan Dabrowsid. / am
naturalized citizen Of the United States
and was convicted to q deportation for
life to Siberia by the Warsaw chamber
OF Justice November a, 1910
My crime was that OF being q member
OF the Polish socialist party After my
arrest had to await tho trial during
about twenty months (April 8. 1909, to
November "a, 1910. and even after being
convicted to deportation, had to spend
about seven months In jail
The United States consul at Warsaw
Thomas E Heenan. visited me several
times in prison and promised me his aid
and protection, yet he evidently consid-
cred that he = not obliged to kaep his
| word, as four days before the trial he
notified my lawyer that he would with
draw from the affair and abandon my
case.
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