New-York tribune., 1912-04-15
ROOSEVELT HAPPY OVER
PENNSYLVANIA VICTORY
"We Hit Them MiddIing Hard" "
He Says, on Return from
New Hampshire.
tRy Telegraph 70 The Tribune J


oyster Bay. Long Island, April l4-lhe
proverbia clam bursting with happiness
Al flood tide had nothing on Theodore
Roosevelt when he got back to Sagamore
HilI TODAY. He received more than q hun
dred tclegrams first hand from his en-
thusiastic admirers. Congratulating him
on the result Of the PENNSYLVANIA primaries.
we hit them middling hard, didn't we?
the Colonel said. I've Just heard from
MIR Finn. al Pittsburgh, that | get sixty
four out Of the seventy-siX delegates, IN
Guiding the twelve 10 the state convention
which | VIII control by Z two-thrds ma
joritv"
1T looks as though Penrose was pretty
badly beaten" some one interpolated.
"I shouldn't say that Mr.. Penrose had
exactly won a glorious victory he repHed'
shaking all over with laughter
The third-termer got into the Grand
Central Station from New Hampshire at
; b this morning. He left his sleeping car
at $50 and took breakfast at the Harvard
club. starting for oyster Bay at o'clock
He had luncheon with his family and in
the early afternoon he donned his heaVE
walking suit of brown knickerbockers and
short coat and started with Mrs. Roose-
yelt for a long cross country walk over "a
the north shores Of Green Bay.
T, was nearly $50 o'clock in the even
ING and very raw and foEGy when they
got back The colonel was in his best OF
moods as he greeted the reporters on his
return.
Colonel. a morning paper to-day quotes
Henry ". Taft as saying that your cam
paign to date has cost 100000 and that
william Flinn spent S250ooo IN Pitts
burpb alone. Is II true?" some one asked
Doesn't Believe Taft Said IT,
Mr. Roosevelt looked a trine serious
| See here" he said Il don't know any
thing at all about Pennsylvania but you
may say-put II this way boys. | don
| believe that Henry w. Taft has been cor
rectlv quoted But if he has that state
ment is deliberate misrepresentation OF
his part
| Colonel ROOSEVELT said he was consider
ing the advisability Of issuing persona
statement regarding the actual standini
Of tho present national delegations. Th'
newspapers. he says, persstently misrep
resent the facts.
| AT present" he declared, Mr.. Taf
and each have about $50 delegates
Many contests have to he settled, how
ever. In Mississippi for instance, Ny
Taft claims all Of the delegates. In Mis-
souri, I will baye two-thirds of the entir
delegation. They have credited me wit
only two delegates I'm Vermont / know
the other unnstructed delegates, how
ever. and I'm sure of three more.
| II is known that Roosevelts manager
! feel sure Of ten delegates from New Hor
already. and they say they are certain o
ten more as soon as the heSitatng dele
gates are convinced that the Roosevelt
boom is looking up" The prospect i
New York Is getting brighter, the colonel
managers declare, for the reason that twen
~ more delegates are ready 10 flop
Roosevelt can show that he has ono hal
Of the total delegation OF tho country n
Chicago. This. according to Senator DiXor
makes forty Roosevelt delegates from Me-
York State.
The colonel is pleased with the Me-
Uampshire outlook. There Is an undercW
rent Of feeling there. The big employer
are for Taft perhaps. but the employees ar
for mo-" he said. And by the way, Massa
chusetts is looking more hopeful than ha
supposed
New Hampshlre primaries will be hel
on April % and those Of Massachusett
Will be held on April 80.
Still Has Much to Say.
Asked for his opinion on the situation
general Colonel Roosevelt said IT was "nne
He promised that the country would hear
lot more from him on the initiative, O.
referendum and the recall, as well as tf
recall of Judicial decisions"
He was told that Alton r Parker, spea}
ing before the New York Bar Associatio
an the advisabllity of Investigating u
"damand for the recall Of decisions ha
said that the trouble all lay in the fa'
that some people had tried TO set asid
court decisions by declaring the laws III
constitutional" Judge Parker added th'
for that reason attacks have been mad
upon the United states supreme Court an
the Court of Appeals in New York state |
"a great leader Of men
II lust love that Delphic reference
porker's to me" exclaimed the colonel, h
face wreathed with smiles.
Here is the colonel's estlmat" OF Il
| PENNSYLVANIA primaries.
They we're particularly gratifying to n
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