St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-03-02
FOLLOWED
THAT HAT Of his
Roosevelt Makes Good His
Promised Early Answer.
Follows His Hat Into the
Ring, as He Declared.
Says He Will Accept Nomi-
nation if rendered.
II:
Has Always Stood for Genu-
inc Rule by the People.

New York, Feb. 25.-"I will. &C
cept the nomination for president
lit is rendered me, and will adher
to- this decision until the conven
ton has expressed it's preference,
lis Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's re
ply to the letter of seven Republi
can governors asking him to stant
for nomination..
+: The eagerly-awaited reply was Civ
en- out tonight at Colonel Roosevelt.
office here during his absence on {
"trip to Boston. It was Unexpectedly
buief, but definite. It follows: II
New York, Feb. Is, 1912.
"Gentlemen:-1 deeply appreciate
your letter and realize to the full
the heavy responsibility 1t puts upon
me, expressing as It does the care
fully considered convictions of the
men elected by popular vote to stand
as the heads Of government in their
several states.
II absolutely agree with you that
this matter is not one to be decided
with any reference to the personal
preferences or interests of any man
but purely from the standpoint of the
interests of the people as a whole.
II will accept the nomination for
president If It is rendered me, and
II will adhere to this decision until
the convention has expressed its pref
ereace:
STANDS FOR PEOPLE.
"Qne of the chief principles for
which l have stood, and for which
now stand, and which l have always
|endeavored and always shall endeay-
or to reduce to action ID the genuine
rule of the people, and therefore /
hope that SO far as possible the peo-
pie may be given the, chance through
direct primaries to express their pref
erence as to who shall be the nomi-
nee of tse Republican presidential
convention.
VERY truly yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "a
1.-The Hon. VIM. E. Glasscock, gov
ernor of the State Of West Virginia,
Charleston, w. Va.
1.-THE Hon. Chester H. Aldrich.
governor Of the State of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Neb.
"The Hon. Robert P, Bass, gov
eruor of the State Of New Hampshire,
Concord, N. H.
The Hon. Joseph M. Carey, gov
ernor of the State Of Wyoming, Chey-
enne, Wyo.
1.-THE Hon. Charles E. Osborn, gov
ernor Of the State of Michigan, Lam
sing, Mich. s.
THE Hon. w. R. Stubs. govern
or of the State of Kansas, Topeka,
1.-THE Hon. Herbert 8. Hadiey, gov
ernor of the State of Missouri, JEFF
ferson City, Mo-"
The above named governors as
sembled at Chicago two weeks ago
and drafted q letter to Colonel Roose-,
welt asserting that there was a pop.
ular demand for him to be PRESIDENT
again and urging him to declare him-I
self tos whether he would accept
the Republican nomination if "it
CAME unsolicited and unsought.''
CONSIDERED LETTER NATURE
LY.
For two weeks Colonel Roosevelt
the letter. indicating
plainly that he had no intention of
hasty reply.
The governors letter follows:
Chicago, Feb. 10, 1912.
We, the undersigned Republican
governors, assembled for the pur-
pose of considering what will best
insure the continuation of the Re
publican party as useful agency of
good government, declare it our be-
lief, after q careful Investigation of
the facts that large majority Of the
voters Of the country fav-