The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-11
THE ONLY SALVATION
Roosevelt Says His Personal Interest
is Of No Concern

New York, May 10.-The Roose-
welt committee today gave out the
following copy of letter from Col
Onel Theodore Roosevelt to Hon. X. /
A. Caswell of Minneapolis:
New York, May 10, 1912. !
Hon. R. A. Caswell, chairman of the
Roosevelt Committee and clerk OF
Supreme court, Minneapolis, Mimi.
81 wish it had been possible for
me to go again to Minnesota. I'm
fortunately ii is physically impossi-
BILE. Nine states have now held
presidential primaries, or their equiv
alent-North Dakota, Wisconsin, IL
linois, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Ore
gon, New Hampshire, Massachusetts
and Maryland These states, the
only ones in which there has been a
free chance for the expression of the
popular will, are to be represented
by 256 delegates in the Chicago con-
vention. Forty of these delegates
are instructed for President Taft and
2l6 against him. He has carried but
two of the nine states-New Hamp-
shire and Massachusetts-whi in
Massachusetts the Roosevelt dele
gates at large were elected by over
twice the majority which Mr.. Taft
obtained on the preferential vote. In
Maryland the majority against Mr..
Taft was about the same, proportion
ately, as the majorities for him in
Massachusetts and New Hampshire
In the other seven states the MAORI
hin, from IN
one to twenty to one. In all the
states together about three out of
every four of the Republicans who
voted at the primaries were against
| Mr.. Taft If primaries were held in
all the states there would undoubted-
| ~ be no substantial variation from
| these figures, and Mr.. Taft could by
no possibility have 200 votes in the
| Chicago convention Mr.. Taft's
| chance of denomination lies solely
in securing at Chicago, delegates who
will misrepresent the will of the peo-
pie. He can get the delegates, not
in the primary states, but in the con
vention states, where delegates are
chosen under the old system and
even in these states he can only get
| them where the state is ruled by a
boss
After prolonged experience of
me as president, practically all of the
big bosses in the Republican party
dislike, me so heartily that they
opposed Mr. Tafts nomination be-
cause favored it, They were
afraid that Mr.. Taft would give them
the same kind of trouble that / had
given them After three years and
half experience of Mr. Taft since
he has been elected, these same men
have turned around and heartily IA
vor his denomination. They we're OPP
posed to me four years ago and they
are opposed to me now They were
opposed to Mr. Taft four years age
when they had not tried him as pres
ident and they heartily support him
now. These men include, for in
stance. Mr.. Gallinger in New Hamp
shire. Mr.. Aldrich in Rhode Island
Mr.. Penrose in Pennsylvania, Mr.
Healing in Indiana. Mr.. Lorimer il
Illinois Messrs, Guggenheim and
Evans in Colorado, Mr. Calhoun ant
the Southern Pacific Railway GROVE
in California and the Amalgamate'
Copper crowd in Montana; and il
your own state they include MI
Smith and Mr.. Tawney. The hgh
is a nationwide fight Of the plaii
people against. the bosses.
"There is just one candidate whom
it is possible to nominate against tn
bosses and that is myself Ever,
vote for every other candidate iron
now on is in reality vote for MI