Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-05
ISSUES STRONG DENIAL OF
STORY THAT sEcoNp.TERM
AID WAS OFFERED.
NOTIFIES cIRcuLAToRs
THEY WERE MIsIkFoRMED
Colonel Declares Hs Promised No One
His Support in 1e12-says Stories
Are Pure Fabrication = Reiteratss
Early Determination to Not Be
Candidate in 1912.


ington Star prints today under New
York date what purports to be the full
text of the letter written by Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt saying that he
Dental nomination in 1912. The letter,
addressed to E. A. Van Valkenburg,
president and editor Of the Philadelphia
North American, reads as follows:
June "a. 1911. My Dear MIR. Van
Valkenburg: am really obliged to
you. Now will you not give Mr.. Nc
| CATCHY from me copy Of this letter
that 1 am writing to you. and also
send copy Of the letter to Mr. Frank
B. Noyes? Mr.. McClatchy states that
Mr. Soyes informed him, anent the
story sent out by the Associated Press,
that MIR. Roosevelt had pledged himself
to support Taft for second term: that
he (Mr. Noyes) had the same informa-
ton from sources entirely Independent
of those from which the Associated
Press received the story.
Raps Mr.. Moves.
"Mr. NQyes states that he understood
that l did so express myself to MEM
Der OF the cabinet and also to an In
surgent senator. and says that he be-
lieves that President Taft thinks that
he has assurances of support from me.
Mr.. Moves adds that he explains my
denial on the theory that l had ex-
planned my attitude confdentially and
felt entitled to deny it when it was
given publicity.
will you tell MIR. McClatchy and
Mr.. Noyes from me Cor send them
copies of this letter. that Mr.. Noyes is
absolutely and completely nisinformed
and that there ts not one particle Of
truth in the statements made to him
which he thus repeated to Mr.. Nc
CATCHY. The only two members of the
ca binet to whom 1 have recently spok-
en- are Messrs. Meyer and Stimson.
THE former wrote me and the latter
informed me verbally what in each case
knew already that neither OF them
had made any such statement to MI.
Taft, or to any one else, and that ooth
Of them understand perfectly clearly
that was not going to support any
man for the nomination in 1912. neither
Mr.. Taft nor any one else. The IN
surgent senator Of whom Mr.. Noyes
speaks is as wholly mythical char
acter as the cabinet minister Of whom
he speaks.
He can not give the name Of that
insurgent senator or find it out. FOR ne
will find that his information will not
give it. made no such statement TO
any insurgent or to any cabinet min
lister, or to any other human being.
Stories Are Fabrieations.
"The simple fact is that these stories
are not misunderstands, they are de-
liberate inventions. Mr.. Noyes is EN-.
tirely In error in stating President Taft
thinks he has assurance Of support
from me-
"Mr Taft thinks nothing of the kind.
He knows he has no assurance Of sup
port from me; and neither Mr.. Noyes
nor any one else has one least little
particle Of ground for the opinion thus
expressed. I at first thought that the
story in question was given out from
the White House but am now assured
that II was gotten up and given out
by the Associated Press representative
at the White House. and from MT.
Noyes statement should gather that
this was true I wish Mr.. Noyes, as
president of the Associated Press, to-
know that the story was not mis-
understanding, was not based upon
misinformation, but was a deliberate
invention. made out Of whole cloth,
without one particle Of basis beyond the
Imagination OF the man who made 1t.
II have expressed myself perfectly
freely to a large number Of men in this
matter, always to the same effect: tell
ing you, for instance, personally, and
those who were with you at lunch at
my house and telling Clifford Pinchot.
Jim Garfield and Representative Madi-
son, and Billy Loeb and Secretary Mey-
err and Secretary Stimson, all alike,
just exactly what I have said always,
that / would not be candidate IN
1912, myself, and that had no inten-
ton Of taking any part in the nomina-
ton for Or against any candidate. Sim
cerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"