The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-25
IN PUBLIC STATEMENT SAYS HE IS CERTAIN OF HIS ELEc.
 TON IN NOVEMBER.
COUNTS ON THE MIDDLE WEST
Says He Will Control the East and Enough Western States to Place Him in the Presidents Chair
 for Four More Years.


 New York, Sept. 24.--President Taft in prepared interview issued tonight declarei that his recent claims of strength were entitled to respect. X He repeated he believed he would 7kDe elected and gave his reasons for denying he had been oversanguine. He analyzed the political situation as he saw 1t. maintaining that the regular re- publicans would carry the solid east and hold enough of the central and western states to win.
 The president male these state ments at the home of his brother, Henry W. Taft, where he went on his arrival from Washington late to- day, and received number of his friends and political associates. The presidents interview follows:
 When I declared few weeks ago that I felt reasonably sure of my own reelection in November and of the success of the republican party, 1 was regarded by some as entirely over sanguine and unaware of the situa- rion, Today, however, after mum. Der of indications that the republican party is still the dominant party and that the expected growth of dem ocratic strength has failed to mater ialize, my declaration is shown to be entitled to respect. The republicans necessarily will have reduced ma. jority over 1908, because of the pres ence of three tickets in the field, but the democratic party will suffer also. The combined strength of the third party will not be enough to change the nlfimata resnlt
 Five or six weeks ago it was as sured generally that the republican party would secure the vote of the solid east. including all of the New England states with the exception of Maine and Vermont; that the dem ocratic party would maintain Its hold on the solid south and that the third term party would secure the solid west, leaving only the middle west as debatable ground. To-Day. with the election still one month away, the re publican party finds itself with a strengthened hold on the solid east, having routed the third term party in Vermont and the democratic party in Maine. The third term leaders re gently conceded that we would pick the state of Utah out of the solid west and after comforting with Chairman fHilles and others recently in the west, nfhere is every reason to believe that the republican party will carry Mich igan, Washington, Idaho and Wyom- Ing. Moreover. if the proper kind or
 campaign Is waged, we will carry Oregon, Kansas and Minnesota. where s(he third term strength has reduced nince the recent visit of the party Candidate through that section.
 "It is scarcely necessary for me to point to the necessity of reestablish- ing republican majority in the house of representatives. If this is done, l feel confidently that will be able to have placed on the statute books the workmen's compensation law which l urgd upon the fast session but which was sent to oblivion by the democratic house. If the country will give the republican party complete victory in it's congressional as well as it's pres idential ticket. proper tariff revis- ion will be speedily enacted with facts ascertained by tariff commission which will harm no one and remove its present defects"
 Tonight the president attended the theater leaving for Altoona, Pa, shortly before midnight.
 The president made it clear that he has not changed his position annunced from Beverly of keeping hands off the New York state political situation.
 The president explained to visitors tonight that the visit to him in Wash ington of Samuel Untermeyer, the New York attorney who is counsel foi the house money trust investigating committee. was merely to obtain in