Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-02-29
TEDDY IS
IN RACE
Col. Roosevelt Answers Letter 81
the Governors Sent Him a
from Chicago.
WOULD ACCEPT NOMINATION
Former President Says He VIII
Adhre to This Decision Until
3 Convention is Held.

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70 New York, Feb. "a Gentlemen: o
10 deeply appreciate your letter and o
o realize TO the full the heavy 0
o responsibility it puts upon me, ex- 0
o pressing as it does the carefully o
o considered convictions of the men D
0 elected by popular vote to stand o
0 as the heads of government in d
o their several states. also agree 0
10 with you that this matter is not o
@ one to be decided with any refer o
10 ence to the personal preference o
0 or interests Of any man, but pure o
0 ly from the standpoint of the in y
o terests of the people as whole. o
10 l will accept the nomination for o
o president if it is rendered to me 0
0 and / will adhere to this decision o
until the convention has express 0
o sed its preference. One of the o
o chief principles for which have o
o stood and for which now stand, o
o and which have always endea. 0
o vored and always shall endeavor o
o to reduce to action, Is the genu- o
inc rule Of the people and there o
o fore I hope that so far as possi- o
o BILE, the people may be given Q
o chance, through direct primaries o
o to express their preference as o
o to who shall be the nominee of o
o the republican national conven- o
O ton. Very truly, o
O Theodore Roosevelt o
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New York, N. Y, Feb. 26.-The
above is the answer given out this
morning by Colonel Roosevelt in re-
ply to the letter sent him some time
ago by eight governors asking him to
be a candidate for the presidential
ton today where he held number of
political conferences this morning.
After luncheon, he goes to the home
of Grafton Gushing, speaker of the
Massachusetts house. While in Bos-
ton. Col. Roosevelt expects to meet
Governor Bass Of New Hampshire
and representatives of the militant
progressive republican league of Mas
sachusetts.
Permanent offices from which the
supporters of Roosevelt will wage a
fight for the republican presidential
nomination for him opened here today
in charge of Oliver Clinton Carpenter,
a lawyer.
Boston, Feb. 26.--"We are in the
fight. That's ALL said Roosevelt to-
day. 1t was his only comment upon
the statement issued that he would
accept the presidential nomination iS
offered to him. kilograms from sew
eral parts of the country poured in,
and many men active in politics, cal
led on Roosevelt. These visitors as
well as the messages urged Roosevelt
to roll up his sleeves and throw him
self into the fray.
Roosevelt is expected in, New York
Wednesday, and is expected to take
the field in person. He will soon
leave for Phoenix, Arizona. to see his
son and he may make speech en-
route.
While he will keep in touch with the
political situation in all parts of the
country, Roosevelt expressed the de.
Termination not to identity himself
with any organization, and said he
would reiterate from time to time his
belief in the political principles which
he set forth in his speech at Colum.
bus, o It is upon this platform that
Roosevelt's campaign is to be fought.
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