Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-18
ROOSEVELT is
NOT GOING FAR
1t Is Denied That He Will
Tour the Country.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, March 1S.-Colonel
Roosevelt will make no country wide
speechmaking tour during his cam
paign. A trip beginning this week and
lasting only a week or less, in which
the colonel will speak in st. Louis, Chi
cage and Minneapolis or st. Paul, will
be the principal trip Of the campaign.
The colonel will start out this week.
On the return he win meet the people
of a number Of states. 1t is expected, In
informal speeches from the rear plat
form of his train. 1t is definitely plan
ned for him to do this In West Vtr-
ginia, Governor Glasseock's state. This
trip will be followed the week after,
beginning April l, by a run into New
England, the colonel speaking at Bos-
ton and Concord. The visit to New
England is regarded Of much tmpor-
lance In view of the new direct prefer
entail presidential primary law that
has just been enacted in Massachu-
sets. The date for this primary is
April 30. The colonel may also be
heard at Portland, Me, although 1t Is
probable hat be will not, as 1t is fear
ed The primaries will have been held
by the time he could reach there.
Following the New England trip
comes a short junket to Philadelphia
and Newark.
There is to be no speechmaking In
the south. Workers In the Roosevelt
cause feel that there Is no call to con.
tend against an organization In states
where they declare the Republican par
ty is nothing but a fifrny structure of
unrealities with a scattering of voters
controlled by patronage and means
other than political arguments; also
the colonel Is not going to Pittsburgh,
which lis construed by some to mean
that the Roosevelt forces feel confident
Of success in western Pennsylvania.
1t Is considered that Colonel Roose-
welt cannot make a broadly extended
tour and will therefore spend the bulk
of his time during the campaign for
the nomination in Oyster Bay. The
aim of the managers is that he appear
before his own people and gather in
support through the local newspapers
In those strategic sections of the coun-
try where are located the people who
believe in progressive Republican
ideas. Therefore it is the eoncentra-
ton on the~west, particularly Missouri
and Kansas and the Illinois and Min
nesota territory, from which the whole
west may be tappeds
Before the c~olOnel,s travelling begins.
however, there is work to be done in
New York. The opening campaign
speech In Carnegie hall on Wednesday
night starts 1t off, but before the colo
mel leaves New York he Is to get to the
people that he considers his strongest
friends In his fight for progressive
IDEAS, the people of the east side. A
big meeting In an east side hall is plan
ned to follow the Carnegie hall speech
on either Thursday, Friday or satur-
day 81 tbs week.
Colonel Roosevelt In reply to a QIes-
ton as to whether he would expect
of the national committee said
that he did not. He did ask them, he
said, for a square deal In seating dele
gates, but would ask nothing as to
their position on President Taft or
himself.
The colonel tomorrow win go to New
York to meet Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss
Ethel on their return from Panama,
coming back to Oyster Bay with them
the same day.