The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-12
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No Compromise Candidate for
IIim-Of to New England
To-day.

Col Roosevelt got back 10 New York
late yesterday afternoon. went straight
to Oyster Bay for the night and will be
OF again this afternoon at o'clock for
"A two days jaunt in Massachusetts and
New Hampshire, returning Sunday. He
speaks at Springfield. Mass. tonight.
and tomorrow goes campaigning through
New Hampshire. making addresses at
Nashua. Concord. and three speeches in
Manchester AT night
The Massachusetts primaries are on
April ~. and those in New Hampshire
toward the end Of the month The
Colonel's third Western trip begins next
Tuesday or Wednesday. when he turns
his guns on Nebraska and possibly other
Western States that his managers have
not definitely fixed upon
The Colonel returned from his Western
fight expressing confidence that mes going
to win He regards the Illinois victory
az the turning point for him. The solid
backing Of the Maine delegation and the
Vermont Roosevelt votes convince the
Roosevelt supporters that sentiment is
swinging Roosevelt ward Three weeks
ago they say. Mr. Roosevelt did not expect
a delegate from New England.
He has high hopes that the Roosev welt
cause will get another stalwart boost
| in Pennsylvania on Saturday His fol-
lowers are confident Of majority
| Talk of compromise candidate AT
Chicago was put up to the Colonel II
got a speedy and vigorous snufting out
from him So far as lac is concerned
He snapped of the talk with this:
Nobody must suggest any such word
AZ 'compr romise' to me"
Then the Colonel ran into questions
about the talk of a dicker between the
Roosevelt managers and the Republican
State machine for the New York State
delegation.
The Colonel laughed and spoke with
emphasis. replying: But have no
offers to make"
The Colonel has put in two days of his
heaviest gunnery on Pennsylvania. The
big crowds continued on his trip throu gl
Reading. Allentown and t.aston on his
way from Philadelphia to New York over
the Philadelphia and Reading road in a
special train. The Colonel urged the
crowds to vote for Roosevelt and the plain
people against the bosses on SATURDAY.
He was in the heart of the Berks and LIE.
high county Pennsylvania Dutch
hope you'll vote the way you should,
he told the throngS.
Reading seemed 10 have gathered its
whole population into one big mass and
thrown il at the Colonel Ii swallowed
him up in his automobile, until he battered
his way up into the Mansion House Hote
balcony and aimed a whack at the loca
postmaster, the Taft leader, for tryinl
to tell the people how to vote. The whol'
town shut up shop for his call The troll
leys quit And after his speech th'
Colonel didn't mind a bit parading up anc
down Readings main streets. envelopec
in a blaze of red. white and blue, siren
uously waving that hat of his.
A nightshirt turpout of the Lafayette
: freshmen let loose Oh the Colonel at East on
They dog trotted after his machine
! bolted into the mob in tho town squar
and had such gloriously noisy tim
! rough h-hOusing, out -Rooseyelting Roose
. welt, that the Colonel couldn't get any
thing over to the crowd except som
Roosevelt smiles and lip motions Tn
, Colonel thought II bully, even at the cost o
whack at the bosses and the interests.