New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-27
COLONEL DECLARES
HE'LL NOT WITHDRAW
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colonel. mo. didn't know hey were
! in Baltimore. At Chicago they told me
| that they were going cut after Demo
Gratis to amalgamate with the new party.
but had no idea that they were g)!ng
! to Baltimore"
/ When asked if he had entertained
other callers besides Controller Premier
CAST to-day Colonel Roosevelt said his
other visitors were merely of SOCIAL
order"
Anything to Beat Roosevelt
Il came here for the purpose" said
Mr. Prendergast, "of having it made
clear and unmistakable that Mr.. Roose-
Welt will make this fight himself
! pointed out to him that the capital issue
overshadOwing all others is whether the
nomination for the Presidency can b"
| stolen and the people given no opportu-
nifty to pass judgment on the theft. The
object for which this fraud was perpe.
/ trated was the defeat of Mr.. Roosevelt
not the nomination of anybody else.
| The conspiracy will be successful If any
other man is elected TO the Presidency.
The object of every honest man
| should therefore. be 10 elect him. Should
either Mr.. Taft or a Democrat be elect
| cd the success of the conspirators will
be complete. They can be defeated by
! the election of Theodore Roosevelt and
no one else. | am glad to say that Mr.
! Roosevelt at once took the position that
| he recognized that conditions had made
| him the champion of the people in this
| contest and that he would remain in
| the fight to the end
This issue is not personal 10 Mr..
| Roosevelt or to the convention or to
| the Republican party. 1t touches the
very vitals Of the government itself. II
the Presidency or a nomination TO II
can be stolen and the thieves escape
unpublished, what security can there De
for property or order The security OF
property and life depends, not Oh force,
| but on the sense that protection III them
would be the task Of every citizen
wherever they are assailed. But If the
government itself can b. stolen with
| impunity, what moral force is there TO
| invoke in defence of property or liberty?
With what moral force can judge i'm
pose long penalty upon a counterfeit
or or some other violator OF property
rights. when the government by whose
authority the penalty is imposed Is IT.
| self the prize of successful fraud? l
an glad to say that This issue will be
| fully presented to the American people.
May Get a Live Bull Moose.
A report in oyster Bay to-day was
that Matthew Hale or some lively Pro-
gressive up in the Maine woods was
sending real live bull moose by freight
to Sycamore Hill The matter was re
| ferred TO Colonel Roosevelt ana
prompted this reply:
IF Matthew Hale or any other per
| son from down in Maine sends a live
| bull moose to me I'll turn the crittcr
! loose I'm oyster Bay
! The third term candidate neglected TO
! terminate his threat in his well known
! falsetto. which conveyed the impression
! that he spoke more In earnest than in
Jest. This, however. may have arisen
| from the fact that newspaper CORE
spondent at the time was seeking per
mission from the colonel to have the
moose photographed on it's arrival at
Sycamore Hill, for swapping Cameras on
his private grounds isn't rclished by the
! colonel
| Colonel Roosevelt went into the saddlc
early to-day and cantercd around oyster
Bay with his son Archie. ON his return
he declared that the reception which his
fellow townsmcn gave him was touch
ing" From Or. shoulder, the German
apothecary, down 10 the humblest ad-
mirer they all expressed regret AT the
way he had been treated at Chicago
The colonel told them that where he lost
one man at Chicago by deliberate
fraud" he gained two with the people
Il am going TO make them good deal
more trouble from now on than they
think" he told them.