New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-03
HOPES TO GET MARYLAND
Fiqht to Finish from Now On,
Declares Roosevelt.
mo COMPROMISE" HE SAYS
Massachusetts Men at Sycamore
Hill Insist They Will Stick
to Colonel.

Theodore Roosevelt waved his campaign
hat Goodby last evening as he was leav-
| ing the Pennsylvania Station for Mary
land. A group OF the faithful saw him or
You'll be singing Maryland. My Mary
land when you return" shouted Balm
bridge Colby. one of the colonel's merry
men Of New York
| II hope So" the third tcrmer yelled back.
But, boys" he added, with the Roosevelt
ian snap OF the jaw. whatever luck we
have. it's going to he fight 10 the finish
| from now on, wlth-with no compromise.
The colonel got tho mo compromise" off in
his effective falsetto
| The Maryland district preferential pri-
mary comes of on Monday. This after
! noon Colonel Roosevelt will speak at
iiavrc de Grace and at Baltimore this
evening. Tomorrow night lie will go into
Cumberland. where he spoke three weeks
ago. The itinerary brings him back TO New
| York Sunday morning, and Senator Dixon
his manager. who went az far as Phladel-
! phia with him last night declares that he
will keep the colonel I'm oyster Bay for a
weeks good rcst"
Ther" was lot Of fuss when tho canli-
| dat" stopped In tho station IN talk with
Senator Dixon. Mr. Colby and Billy" Hal
! hin. More than a hundred men and women
who recognized the campaign hat and tho
! smile beneath II formed big circle around
the group that pretty effectually blocked
navigation trsinwsrd. Suddenly a tall.
we'll built man. with a silk hat. elhowed
his WAY through and clspped Colonel
! Roosevelt on he shoulder
"Why-hello, jack the colonel cried. I'm
dc"-lighted.'
Boys" faIsettocd the third -termcr tu-n.
ing 10 the reporters. IT'S my old Rough
| Rider. Captain Jack Greenway. of Ari-
IONA" And Captain Grcenway dotted the
silk hat The captain hopes TO go as a
delegat" for me from Arizona the colonel
added besming on tho old Yale man
| Colonel Roosevelt came IN from Oyster
| Bsv IN his automobile arriving at the
| Pennsylvania Station about $40 o'clock last
! night His private car was attached to the
! . o'clock Washington express. He is ac-
companied on the Maryland trip by Regis
| II Post, former Governor Of Porto Rico,
and Frank Harper. his private secretary.
Matthew Halo, Rooseyelt's Massachusetts,
! lieutenant. with three Of his cohorts, went
1up ssgamore Hin YESTERDAY afternoon 10
7 thrash out the veXatious Bay state situa-
, ton. They came back three hours later
! With nothing to say.
This isn't official" said Charles ~.
| Thompson one Il tho visitors before he
went up the hill. But IS the thing stands
! now IN" Massachusetts delegates are going
n Chicago and vote individually. not as a
delegation, for Colonel Roosevelt. They are
all Roosevelt men through and through,
and they think they were elected 20 vote
, for him We hope 10 bring the colonel
around 10 our way OF thinking.
Here's another thing. The Taft men
had thousands Of ballots cast out because
nine delegates were voted for instead OF
eight. but they counted every one of these
ballots in as preferential vote for Taft.
II they We're void In one particular, why
weren't they void in another