Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-07-03
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4 lRoOsEvELTg DECLARES THAT
s.l THE "lNTEREsTs", SEEK TO n
Il s55 ELIMINATE HIM.
WILL FIGHT TO THE END
AT Conference With Comptroller
i5 Prendergast Of New York Declares
" Sinister Influences" Are Fighting
i5 Him Because They Fear Him.

Y Oyster Bay, N. Y, June %. Colonel
Roosevelt indicated here Wednesday
the issue upon which he is to make
Ibis campaign for the presidency. He;
purposes to base his appeal upon. the
assertion that what he has termed the
t.big, sinister Influences" have deter
mined to eliminate him from public
life because he Is the one man whom
they really fear. To accomplish this
purpose, he believes, they are willing
Ito take up any man who they think
Acan win the presidency over him.
Having defeated him at the Chicago
convention, he says they hope to con-
q troll the Democratic convention to-
this same end. l35 si
They know me, and I know them.
he said. 1T is anything to beat me.
/. Il am lighting a lone hand. and I am
going to fight it out. to the end"
s8 The former president made this re-
mark after a long conference with
William a. Prendergast. comptroller
{tof the city Of New Y ork. Mr.. Prem
dergast came to Oyster Bay to induce
Colonel Roosevelt to say definitely
that under no; circumstances would he
withdraw from the fight. IN 5f
VIII" Has any suggestion been made"
was asked Mr.. Prendergast, that any
man other than Colonel Roosevelt
should lead the fight for the new
$iparty?" "a a. y III 5.
81 will answer that question for
Mr.. Prendergast," said the colonel.
a5l.'In the statement which i made In
Chicago ! said that i would stay In tho
fight to the end. Since then have
received hundreds OF letters and tele-
grams urging me to 60 on with it, and
mot one Of them suggested that; I get
Tout OF 1t. In every case my reply 4
Just what ] said in Chicago" s;,a
q The comptroller said the reason he
Twas anxious to make It clear that
h Colonel Roosevelt would make the
flight was that the interests" which
defeated him at Chicago would do
ianything in their power to keep him
Tout OF. the White House, and for that
purpose would gladly accept any 9TH
Ter progressive. s III *
y In Chicago, he continued, some OF.
1.-THE Taft leaders asked him to go to
Colonel Roosevelt with the offer to
give the nomination to Governor Had
ley or any other man the colonel
might name. They had even offered.
he said, to put the Roosevelt delegates
from Texas and Washington back on
ssthe list II he would consent to this.
Colonel Roosevelt corroborated this
statement and added that the same In
3terests were hard at work ct the Bal.
Sitimore convention. n !5s5
4 Comptroller Prendergast said IN :
statement that he had pointed out
ito Colonel Roosevelt that. the over
8shadowing issue was whether the
nomination for the presidency can be
stolen, and the people given an oppor>-
tunity to pass judgment on the theft. 4
,s5$ The object for which this fraud
was sperpetrated,"" he said. was the
/ defeat OF Mr.. Roosevelt. not the nom.
nation OF anybody else. This con.
spiracy will be successful II any other
man Is elected to the presidency. The
& object OF every honest man should,
therefore, be to elect him. Should
either Mr.. Taft or q Democrat be
elected. the success Of the conspiracy
will bA complete. II the presidency,
or Nomination for 1t, can be stolen,
and and the thieves escape unpublished,
what security can there be for prop
sesty or order y IL + Is Is 4. b