New-York tribune., 1912-01-27
To WORK FOR ROOSEVELT
Governor GIaSScock Expects to
Have A Solid Delegation.
GIVES personal OPINIONS"
One Is That No One Ever Refused
q Presidential Nomination,
or Will.

Governor Glasscock OF West Virginia
after lunchng with Theodore Roosevelt
yesterday, declared he was going back 10
his home state TO work for an instructor
delegation for Roosevelt to the Chicago
convention. He thought there was no
doubt that West Virginia would send a
solid Roosevelt delegation to Chicago. and
he was especially enthusiastic in declaring
that his state would give Mr. Roosevelt
plurality of upward of $1,000 on Election
Day.
my personal opinion is that Colonel
Roosevelt will accept the nomination. said
the Governor, in answer to questions along
that line; but that opinion Is not based
upon anything that Colonel Roosevelt said
to me- No one has ever refused the nomi-
nation"
The Governor denied fatty that he had
come - New York to demand Of Mr..
Roosevelt that he state his position. He
bore no messages for any other Governors,
he said, and he spoke for himself, and for
himself only, both when talking to Mr..
Roosevelt and later when talking to the
newspaper men.
Also the Governor wanted to emphasize
the fact that in his remarks after leaving
Mr.. Roosevelt he was giving nothing but
his own personal opinions.
Make this clear" he said. 81 am not
authorized to say that Colonel Roosevelt
will either accept or decline the nomna-
tion Personally. ! am for him. | don't see
how he can decline although | don't know
how he will look at it,"
Mr.. Roosevets luncheon, at which he
was host TO the Rev. Samuel NJ Crothers,
of Boston as well as to Governor Glass
cock was served in the Offices OF THE
| Outlook" and II was arranged by Mr..
Roosevelt that reporters should see the
Governor ~ his hotel afterward, rather
than attempt to talk to him Immediately
after he left the contributing editors office.
Governor Glasscock would not be drawn
into any phrase that could convey an inn
preston OF authorization from Mr. Roose-
welt TO speak OF him as a receptive candi-
date for the nomination. lie was frank in
answering any and all questions but those
which sought to elicit any definition Of Dir.
Roosevelts position.
Il don't think that Colonel Roosevelt
will ever be candidate in the sense that
Harmon, Wilson and Clark are candidates,
he explained. "Hc will be a candidate only
after he receives the nomination. feel
personally that regardless of how he may
feel | have a right 10 my preference, and
my preference Is for him ] think the peo-
pie want him and believe I'm him, and be-
lieye he will be nominated. 1 think he
ought TO accept"
Eliminating the possibility Of the nomi-
nation OF Mr.. Roosevelt Governor Glass
cock was asked II he thought the Repub-
liCanS could win
Il certainly hope the party can win he
answered. Il am "A Republican To the
backbone, and / viii work for and support
Tsft IL ne Is the nominee.
"Do you think Mr.. Roosevelt VIII work
for and support President TAFT, II he Is the
nominee he was asked.
II certainly do" replied the Governor
From what I know OF the man | think he
would work for President Taft as hard as
he would for himself"
Governor Giasscock had an answer TO the
third term objection" when that subject
was mentioned, which was based on the
control Of delegates, which. he said, might
go with a man who was IN
There is really more objection, he said
Ito second term than there is TO third
term under the conditions Which would con
could-I don't say would-use patronage to
get o second nomination. Colonel Roosevelt
Is out. Hc can use no patronage. lie mas no
must come from the people themselves
mean no reflection or the President by all
that. but in my mind there can be no OBJ
lection morally or legally, to another term
for Colonel Roosevelt"
His visit 10 Mr.. Roosevelt the Governor
said, was not the purpose Of his trip 10
New York. He came primarily for the an
nual banquet of the West Virginia Society
Of New York. he said, and his call upon the
former President was incidental West
Virginia will have sixteen delegates at the
Republican convention, two from each OF
the ivc Congressional districts and six at
lcrge