The Sentinel=record., 1912-02-28
ROOSEVELT
 GETS ANGRY
PHOTOGRAPHERS AND REPORT FRS FOLLOW HIM ON TRIP TO
 SPEAK AT HARVARD.
Colonel Is Looking About for a Suit able Campaign Manager--eays He Has Not Time to Look After
 His Campaign.


 Boston. Fsb. 27.-The political sit uation in New England WAS c1nvassed al length today by Colonel Roosevelt and the men who are lending the Roosevelt movement in ths aortheas.. ern states Governor Bass ot New Hampshire, Fred P. Hale O. pcf'land Maine, son of former United Stat's Senator Hale, and a score of other men active in politics. attended conference at the home ol ur;lfton F. Cushing. speaker ef the Massaehl- setts house. After Colonel Roosevelt had received reports of the probable lineup of New Englands SS ccle- gates to the Chicago convention. no put politics aside for the time and went to Cambridge to talk literature with men of Harvard.
 It developed today that the Roose- welt movement is at present withort national leader to take active per- sonal charge. Those who hays con- suited with Colonel Roosevelt since he has declared his readiness to ac- cept the nomination, say he has sFat- ed he cannot take personal charge of the movement. Colonel Roosevelt said today it was his present inten- ton to return home and spend as much of his time as possible at Oys- ter Bay, with occasional visits to his editorial office in New York.
 Colonel Roosevelt was asked as to the truth of a report that Senator Dixon of Montana, would be the man at the helm. He replied sanater Dix on would be acceptabie fo him and fl had been expected the senator would take charge. Illness in his family. however. had made it necessary, Coll onel Roosevelt said. for the senator to abandon his plan for an indefinite
 
 suggested to Mir. Roosevelt. but he said he had no idea as 10 who would be selected.
 Reports published today that he tad made an attack upon President Taft, brought forth a heated denial from Colonel Roosevelt, who declared that were rnequivocally false. He also issued a statement in which he defined the platform upon whlch lie will make his fight in which ne pont- ed to his recent speeches as the Test expressions of his opinions.
 Colonel Roosevelts visit to Hat yard today was not entirety pcace:ul Since the moment of his arrival in Boston last Saturday he has heen followed about by taxicabs flied with reporters and photographers. when ever his pursuers were able to keep track of his movements. The pursuit led today to two clubs at Harvard. Once the colonel walked up to an nii- tomobile that followed hm. orened the door, and said he lid not wish to be followed, as his visit to Har- yard was of purely social nature. But the taxicabs still pursued him.
 Then the colonel became angry. As he alighted from a motor ear as the Nasty Pudding club, the camera men drove up and aimed their machines at him. The colonel waved his arms in protest. but it was useless. Again he went to the automobile and de. manded that the pursuit stop. He was met with polite but firln re- fusal. The colonel turned sharply about and fled into the club house.
 "Yes." he confessed later. T was angry. It isn't right. My picture has been taken several thousand times since came to Boston. and have not even changed my hat
 Colonel Roosevelt took lunch with his son, Kermit. and some of his friends. talked books and came back to Boaton to spend the night with Sturgis Bigelow. He returned to Cam bridge early in the evening. long enough to take dinner with President A Lawrence Lowell of Harvard.
 Tomorrow he is to attend the meet ing of the Harvard bard of oversesrs take lunch with Arthur Hill. leader of the Roosevelt movement here. and start for New York at pm.