The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-01-09
ROOSEVELT NOT 4 CANDIDATE.
Statement Made by President of Out.
look Company-Meeting With
Taft.

Cornwall-on-Hudson, n. Y, Jan. A.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt is not can
didale for the presidency, according tc
Lawrence F. Abbott, president of the
Outlook, of New York, with which Mr.
Roosevelt is actively associated. Tbs
statement is made today in the Local
Press, weekly newspaper puDhsheo
here, the home of Mr.. Abbott.
The statement reviews Mr.. Roose-
velt's connection with national poll
tics the last three years. 1t was
~brought out, so the editor of the Local
Press saws, when he asked Mr.. Abbott
whether Mr.. Roosevelt is a candidate
for the presidency.
Won't Take Active Part
"You must understand to begin
with" Mr.. Abbott says in what is
termed a. dictated statement, that
whatever I say in answer to your
question, say solely on my own re-
sponsibility and without any consulta-
ton of Mr.. Roosevelt.
"You ask me whether Mr.. Roosevelt
is a candidate for the presidency.
answer no. He is not candldate:
he does not desire to be candidate
He has discouraged and is discourag-
ing in every possible way all talk OF
his candidacy and be will take no ac-
tive share of any kind in the contests
Of various candidates, contests Wnlcn
are always in evidence for two or
three months preceding any national
convention
Mr.. Abbott then reviews at length
Mr.. Roosevelt's connection with ma
tional politics during the last three
wears, "in order to understand the
present political situation with re-
gard to the presidential nomination
next summer" He then tells how Mr..
Roosevelt declined the Republican
nomination in 1908, (which he very
easily could have had" and how Mr..
Tafts nomination and election were
brought about
Credited With Taft's Election.
"His (Roosevelt's) political expert
ence contributed so largely to the
successful result Of the election that
his critics have said that he alone
nominated and elected Taft" Mr.. Abb
bott says, and continues:
asUnfortunately, some Of Mr.. Tatts
advisers took this mistaken view of
the case and urged him to separate
himself So thoroughly from any Roose-
welt associations that his administra-
ton could create its own policies, and
that thus he might be renominated and
reelected in 1912 on his own indivi-
dual merits without any taint of
Rooseveltism."
Mr.. Roosevelt has never failed, Mr..
Abbott declares, to respond quickly
and cordially to the slightest wish
expressed by Mr.. Taft for his company
or his views and he instances the pri-
waite interview, at New Haven in 1910,
between Mr.. Taft and MT. Roosevelt.
That meeting, he says, it has been un-
fortunately announced, was sought by
Mr.. Roosevelt to get some help in his
contest with the '@Old Guard" of the
State. He adds:
How it Came About.
<'The facts are-and I have learned
them not from Mr. Roosevelt, but from
a friend Of Mr.. Taft-that Mr.. Taft
sent word to Mr.. Roosevelt, asking to
come in order that he (Mr. Taft)
might get the benefits Of Mr.. Roose-
velt's advice regarding the serious
split in the national affairs of the
Republican party which resulted from
the fight of the progressives against
so called 'Cannonism.
Mr.. Abbott declares that whatever
Mr.. Roosevelt does or says will be in
terpreted by some critics to his dis
advantage, and he instances an article
of Mr.. Roosevelt's on the trust ques-
ton, published several weeks ago. 1t
was held by some, Mr., Abbott says, to
be an indication that Roosevelt was
seeking the presidency and that the
appearance of the article was timed
by him at just the psychological
moment to produce the greatest ef-