Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-17
WILL NOT TAKE
STUMP This FALL
President Thinks his Views
Are Well k0oW0 and
Trips not Needed
Is asked TO Help American
Who IS Now Prisoner Of
RuSsia

| i dIl Will w uO C0AA p0l6 hlA6 SAAO A0AA
and does not expect to make any ex
tended trips. This was the oficia
announcement made at the White
House today in q statement that thu
President had declined an invitation
of the board of managers Of the Min
nesota state fair the first week II
September.
In sending his regrets the President
said that he would be compelled tC
decline a number Of invitations thai
were attractive to him. The telegram
of invitatio nsaid: "The people o.
| Minnesota and the northwest are
eager to see you and personally lis
! ten to your views on the great issues
of this campaign"
An invitation to attend the meeting
of the General Society Of MayfoWer
| Descendants at Plymouth, Mass, on
September 9Th, also was declined by
| the President, who Is q member Of
the society.
viii Not Go Over Country.
The Presidents program in the
coming campaign has not been def
nitely decided upon, except that ne
will not go over the country seeking
the support of voters. That he will
make some speeches, however, 10
probable. But they will be delivered
either to visiting delegations calling
at Beverly or Washington or in points
in the east that will be convenient
and the occasions appropriate. Even
the number Of speeches is to be linn
tied. The President feels that his
views on public questions are already
thoroughly we'll known and that 1t Will
not be necessary to amplify his for
mer u%tterances to an extensive degree.
The significance of a nO.campalgn
trip for Mr.. Taft is that he will per-
nit all that sort of thing to be done
by Roosevelt and Wilson. The Presi-
dent has never ceased to regret the
circumstances that compelled him to
take the stump against the attacks OF
Roosevelt, and NO influence can In
duce him OF repeat that sort OF thing.
Fighting against bitter and unfair at
tacks when he was a candidate for the
nominatio ndoes not make 1t neces-
sary. in his opinion, that he should re-
ply. on a campaign tour, to similar at
tacks now that he is q regular candi-
date. He thinks that the country
pretty fully understands the issues
and the candidates and he will adhere
to the time-honored custom that q
President shall not 60 on the stump
in behalf of his own reelection.
Feeling Of Managers.
Republican managers feel that there
ia a big element Of strong men In the
country who deplore the departure al
ready made from digniied presidents
as t owhat Presidents and ex-Presi'
dents shall do, in or out of politics,
and who will be gratified that Mr..
Taft even now uphplds their view. 1t
is believed in some quarters that an
immense number of votes will be cast
this fall after consideration OF the
personal conduct and attitude OF the
three candidates.
At his summer home at Beverly and
when he returns to Washington this
fall the president will receive visitors
and talk to them in response to re-
quests. Just as effective speeches
would be letters answering CORE
spOndents and friends, a method
adopted for a numDer of years by Col.
Roosevelt.
Secretary Hilles is expected to re-
main on duty at the White House un-
til Monday or early in the coming
week before he retires to take up his
political duties as manager of the re-
publican campaign. He had a large
number of callers today.
President Taft began his day with
a long conference with Representa-
tive Mckinley and former Governor
Yates of Illinois as to conditions In
Illinois. The conference lasted more
than an hour, the visitors being the
guests Of the President at breakfast.
Illinois Is one of the western states
where political conditions, although
most chaotic are presumed to prom
Use favorable results to President Taft
and the republicans.
Taft to Help American.
President Taft today promised Rep
resentative Victor Berger, the lone
socialist in the House, that he will at
once direct Secretary Knox to take
up with the Russian government the
case Of Stefan Dabrowski, an Ameri-
can citizen serving a life sentence in
Siberia. Mr.. Berger this morning
saw the President and presented the
case, handing Mr.. Taft a copy of the
letter he had received from Dabrow-
ski. This letter is as follows:
"My name is Stefan Dabrowski, |
am a n~aturalized citizen Of the United
States, and / was convicted of a de-
portation for life to Siberia by the
Warsaw chamber Of justice Novem-
Der "a, 1910.
my crime was that Of being q
member of the Polish socialist party.
After my arrest ! had to await the
trial during about twenty months,
april 3, 1909, to November "a, 1910,
and even after being convicted to de-
portation, / had to spend about seven
months in Jail.
1.-THE United States consul at War
saw, Thomas e. Heenan, visited me
several times In prison and promised
me his aid and protection, yet he evil
IDENTIFY considered that he is not oblig-
ed to keep his word, as four days be-
fore the trial he notified my lawyer
that he would withdraw from the at
fair and abandon my case.
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