Arizona republican., 1912-09-25
Maintains Regular Repub- licans Will Carry Solid East and Enough Gen. tral and Western States to Win the Contest.
ADMITS MAJORITY
 MAY BE REDUCED
Says Thil.d Term Gandi- date Has Done His Own
 Cause Decided Injury and Helped Party in Power By His Speeches.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl


 NEW YORK, Sept 24-President Taft in a prepared interview tonight declared that his recent claims of strength are entitled to respect He repeated the belief that he will be elected. He made an analysis of the situation as he saw it, and maintained that the regular republicans would carry the solid east and hold enough central and western states to win. The president made these statements at the home of his brother Henry w. Taft where he received a number of friends and political associates The interview in part follows:
 When I declared few weeks ago that 1 felt reasonably sure of my own reelection in November. I was re- garded by some as entirely over san- guine and unaware of the situation. Today, however, after number of indications that the republican party is still the dominant party; and that expected growth of the democratic strength has failed to materialize, my original declaration is shown to be entitled to respect.
 Five or six weeks ago it was as serted generally that the republican party would secure the vote of the solid east, including the New England states, with the exception of Maine and Vermont; that the democratic party would maintain it's hold on the solid south. and the third term party would secure the solid west, leaving only the middle west as debatable ground Today with the election still hp V finds itself with a strengthened hold on the solid east, having routed the third term party in Vermont and the democratic party in Maine.
 There is no longer the solid west back of the new party, but more nearly the solid west has united in support of the republican tickets. This strength, added to the indisputable republican hold on the eastern states, constitutes in itself sufficient strength to give success to the party"
 The president added: "The repub- licans necessarily will have reduced majority over that of 1908 because there are three tickets in the field, but the democratic party will suffer also The combined strength of the third term party will not be enough to change the ultimate result.
 The third term leaders recently conceded that we would pick the state of Utah out of the solid west and there is every reason to believe the republican party will carry Michigan, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming. Moreover. if the proper kind of cam paign is Vaged We will carry Oregon, Kansas and Minnesota where the third term strength has rapidly Waned since the recent tour through that section of the party's candidate"
 In his statement he said if the re- publican majority is re- established in the house of representatives, the presi- dent felt confident to be able to place on the statute books a WOrkingmen's compensation law and that proper .ar'ff revision will be speedily effected.
 Tonight he attended a theatre, leav- ing for Altoona, Pa, just before mid night The president explained the visit to Washington of Samuel Un- tcrmeyer, of New York, attorney and counsel for the house money trust Investigating committee, merely to se- cure the information now in the hands of Comptroller of the Currency Mur- ray relating to iona! banks which might be concerned ill the committee inquiry.