New-York tribune., 1912-08-12
7. R. SK|PS TRUST ISSUE
Smiles and Taps Forehead as
Answer to Challenge.
JOYFUL OVER OHIO BOLT
Says It's Very Gratifying to
Know He'll Have Out and Out
Third Farty Ticket There.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune

| Oyster Bay. Long Island, Aug. IL
Theodore Roosevelt just smiled TODAY
, when he read What Representative Gard.
ner, of Massachusetts said about him in
the House debat,e last week
Talking about proposed remedies for
corporate abuses, Representative Gardner
declared he purposed to settle the ques.
! ton Of Colonel Rousevelt's attitude tow-
! ard the Harvester trust by publicly ask.
! ing him whether be recommended i,s
recognition as a l,.galized monopoly or
its dissolution.
Nothing to say; nothing 10 say" the
third party candidate observed smilingly.
and at the same time tapping his fore
head with his foreinger.
The colonel seemed equally amused bv
! the intelligence that William Jennings
| Bryan was, after ALL not TO camp on
his traiR' during the fall speaking cam-y
paign. Congressman Burleson. Of Texas
chairman Of the spes J1ers committee Of
the Democratic National Committee, an
nounced yesterday in New York that Il
would be "a waste of time" to send Mr..
Bryan chasing through the country after
Roosevelt
"At last 1 shall slesp o. nights ejsc-
| ulated Colonel Roosevelt mschievously,
MY, oh my isn't that perfectly lovely
he added.
Ohio News Gratifying.
Affairs as they ard shaping In Ohio
where the Roosevelt m en-, headed by Wa.'
ter F. Brown, the former state chair
man, bogted the meeting Of the Republi-
can State Central Committee yesterday
and announced that they would nominated
third party ticket with those OF thsl
Republican ticket WHO were FOR Roose-
welt on it. ELECTED expressions OF genuine
satisfaction from Mr.. Roosevelt. Hs
said he heard the 900 d news last night p
1T is very gratifying TO me-" he rs~i
marked 1T means, as you know, that
there is 10 be a straight out-and-out;
third party ticket In Ohio, as IN all tha,
other states where the Progressives harai
| control"
Among the states that win have such
a ticket Colonel Roosevelt mentioned.
| Massachusetts.
The candidate listened very attentively
10 an account of the iyisit Of +. w. Hin
richs. of the Brooklyn Democratic Club
10 Sea. Girt yesterday. Mr.. Hinrichs con-
fessed to Governor Wilson his pristine
attachment to Colonel Roosevelt, and
added that the Roosevelt speech at Chi
cago fascinated him greatly. He warned
| Governor Wilson thegt Colonel Roosevelt
had come out strongly against machines
and he said he bell eyed that in few
weeks the Chicago candidate would come
out with all organization free from bosses
THAT IS very gratifying" Coione.
Roosevelt kept repea ting
| Another reference to the Ohio Prcgres-
siva Congress- fight was made, and tAs
reply il brought from the colonel was not
SO enthusiastic
Nothing About Son: :in-law.
"The papers report that Dr. 4. O.
Zwick Of Cincinnati. will he nominated
TO run against Congressman LonsVorth
he was told.
Yes. so l hear. but I've noth.ns at all
| to say about IT," was the colonel rather
sober reply.
| The candidate shows every sisn that he
! is enioy1ng his brief respite from politics.
Next Friday ne goes 10 Providence 10
sneak. and on the following day he VIII
( he AT the Point OF Pines. near Boston
He announced with considerable decAAoH
that ne would make every attempt TO get
back TO Sycamore Hill by next sunday
morning Four days later he viii 60 20
wilkes Barre 10 attend the golden jubilee
of Father Curran, the Catsolic clergyman
who has participated i'm the settlement oi
coal strikes in the mining regions.