Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-27

Oyster Bay, N. r., June 26-The is- sue upon which Colonel Roosevelt IS to make his campaign for the presi- dency was indicated by him today. He proposes to base his appeal upon the assertion that what he has termed the "big sinister influences" have de- termined to eliminate him from pubic fife because he Is the one man whom theW. really fear To accomplish thls purpose, he believes they are willing to take up any man whom they think can win the presidency over him Having defeated him at the Chicago conYen- tion he says they hope to control the democratic convention to this same end.
 "It Is An,trnb To Beat Me"
 "They know ne and l know them, he said. Tt IS anything to seat me. l am fighting a lone hand and l am go- ing to fight it out 70 the end"
 The former president made this re- mark after a long conference with William A. Prendergast. comptroller of the city of New York MT. Prendergast came to Oyster Bay to induce Colonel Roosevelt to announce definitely that under no circumstances would he with draw from the fight
 Has any suggestion been made" was asked of MT Prendergast, that any man other than Colonel Roosevelt should lead the fight for the new party?"
 Being Urged to Keep in Fight.
 q will answer that question for MT. | Prendergast," said the colonel. Tn ! the statement which | made in Chica- go or Monday I said thatI would stay l in the fight to the end. Since then i have received hundreds of letters and | telegrams urging me to go on with It, l and not one of them suggested that l 1 get out of it. In every case my reply is just what I said in Chicago"
 Money Sent to Colonel.
 Many of the letters contained money | to be used in the work of organization. l One man, whose name was not dis i closed, sent his check for Sl 800; but most of the donations were of small amounts from persons who wrote that they were giving all they could.
 Interests Preferred Hadley to Colonel,
 The comptroller said the reason he | was anxious to make it clear that l Colonel Roosevelt would make the 1 fight was that the interests which de- feated him at Chicago would do any ] thing in their power to keep him out 1 of the White House, and for that pur- l pose would gladly accept any other | progressive. In Chicago he continued, some of the Taft leaders asked him to | go to Colonel Roosevelt with the of 1 fer to give the nomination to Gov i ernor Hadley or any other man the | colonel might name. They had even l offered, he said. to put the Roose- l welt delegates from Texas and Wash ! gf hn l consent to this. Colonel Roosevelt cor roborated this statement and adds that the same interests were hard at work at the Baltimore convention and were willing to take up any of the demo- cratic progressives if they thought | they could thus defeat him.
 Conspiracy to Beat Roosevelt.
 Comptroller Prendergast said in a statement that he had pointed out to | Colonel Roosevelt that the over shadowing Issue was Whether the nomination Tor the presidency can be stolen and the people given no oppor tunity to pass judgment on the theft"
 "The object for which thls fraud was perpetrated," he said, "was the i defeat of MT. Roosevelt" not the nom ination of anybody else This con- spiracy will be successful if any oth CT man is elected to the presidency The object of every honest man should therefore be to elect him. Should eith CT Mir Taft or a democrat be elect ed, the success of the conspiracy will be complete If the presidency, or a | nomination for it. can be stolen and the thieves escape punishment. what 1 security can there be for property or order?"