The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-02
ROOSEVELT OFF TO-DAY
WITH new SPEECHES
Goes TO Louisville and Parkers-
burg and Will Make Car
End Talks.
co INFERENCE WITH DIXON
Senator Laughs at Taft Mems Claims
Regarding Delegates In the
North and West.
CONFERENCE WITH DIXON

OISIEH DAN, ~. L., hPh L. WI lsSo'V
welt worked to-day on the speeches he Is
going TO make in I.ouisville. KY. on
Wednesday night and In Parkersburs.
W. Va. on Thursday. He is TO start on his
kentucky-West Virginia trip o-morrow.
1T will be- rather positive speech.
said Senator Dixon OF the coming Louis
vile speech after his conference with the
Colonel to-day, and the Senator winted a
knowing eye and smiled a wise smile.
No one would say what the speech is to be
about, but whack at the Administration
Oh the rotten boroughs" In the South.
steam roller methods and patronage
bought graveyard" convention delegates
are thought by the Roosevelt followers
to be included among the topics.
The Colonel will leave the Pennsylvania
railroad station in Manhattan on Tuesday
at SOS =. VI. over the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad he will arrive al
Charlestown. W Va. AZ about noon on
Wednesday and will probably speak from
his train. He will make his speech in
Louisville in the evening Tn Thursday.
arriving in Cincinnati at A. NJ, he
will travel through eastern Kentucky
| in the forenoon and in West Virginia in
! the afternoon. making car end speeches.
and in the evening he viii! make hiS
Parkersbnrg speech. He will leave Park
ersburg AT / A. NJ. on Friday and arrive
in New York at p. NJ.
| Col. Roosevelt will 20 later TO Maryland
| to get his claims before the voters in the
preferential primaries for which the
Legislature has provided. He is -x-
pect..d to remain quiet for two days
then start out for al appearance Gt
Pittsburg on Monday or Tuesday Of
next week. followed by n speech at Phila-
delphia the next night. Some time
! later he is going to New Hampshire,
senator Dixon breezed into Oyster
BAY TODAY and then brsezed out again
after u conference with the Colonel. with
| a claim to all the delegates to the Chica 70
convention necessary for the Colonel =
nomination sticking out Of one pocket
and another claim for the national
committee en- bloc for the Colonel bull gin z
| out Oi another.
! But. Senator. il il true that you have
twenty -nine national committeeman all
signed up for the Colonel" he was asked
! The senator laughed.
Il haven't thu. least idea how many
there are" he replied. but We are per
fectly confident that the national COM
Inittee will be for Roosevelt when the
time comes Why. the great Republican
party couldn't do -" and the big limou-
sine carrying the Senator and others
back to New York started of.
Before Senator DIXON left he had said
more things about the Roosevelt alum
dance Of delegates.
In all sincerity. now. this msrepres-
sentation Of the Roosevelt strength
! in the New York papers in ridiculous" he
had said Really, the only fair and
. | rf tho sif inn ", 4
that in THE SuN Of yesterday. and that e
absolutely right Cut out all your grave
yard delegates from the skeleton Southern
States. where there is no Republican
party. and you'll find Roosevelt with
sixty-four delegates and Taft With thirty
six. In the Northern and Western
states that have 80 far elected delegates
Mckindiey's figures; Why. compare his
claims as chairman Of the Congressional
committee two years ago. when he re-
ported to President Taft that grea,
victory awaited the party in the Con
grcsslonal elections compare this with
what happened at those elections. That
wha; will happen to his claims now
Senator Dixon went on to say that the
Roosevelt forces had carried Mississippi
ito !. misstatements To the contrary not
wi;hstanding. and that the twenty dele.
gates were for Roosevelt
West virginia. II hardly amounts 10
the dignity Of Il real fight and wherever
there are Presidential preferential pri
maries we'll carry everything" said
senator Dixon. We'll get everything il
illinois except I.orimers district. Az fol
the contested delegates from virginia tn,
national committee will not seat any but
the Roosevelt convention delegates
Regis II. Post. formerly Governor ol
Porto Rico; Bainbridge Colgate ant
George Henry Payne were with the Sena
tor. He is going next to Vermont.