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desire him to speak in Illinois, Indiana.
Mic hlgan, Kansas, Pennsylvania and
the New England states They want
| nm TO start on his western alnt with
IN ten days, so AS to appear Mt the
most critical time in the primary tur.
| mo1l, " Is likely that Colonel Roose-
yelt Will leave on the western swing
by March 90, and that he will devote at
least week To 1T.
The ey. president will not overlook
ONO in his trip but will take occasion
to reply IN more than one speech there
to President Taft $ attack Yesterday
upon the Roosevelt campaign issues.
Will Answer Taft,
No comment could he drawn from
Colonel Roose gelt on the Taft speech
lie merely remarked that be would
answer the Taft assault on tho recall
OF Judicial decisions in his own way''
| later on.
The colonel will devote much energy
IN his speechmaking trip TO the direct
primary proposition.
| believe that if We had the di.
! rect primaries We would without cues
ton win this fight he said tonight
with preferential primaries we would
heat the other side out at the conyen-
| I'oh 1--WE 70 Tour lf we don get the
primaries 1T may be a different thing
may win out.
Let me show you how The prefer
entlal primary works ont the colonel
went on. Take Oklahoma. for in
! STANCE, In one of the congressional
districts down there, the machine put
down all opposition and elected their
own delegates Early tlrs week, on the
other hand. In the statewide primaries
Tor election of delegates at large. we
won out two to one, 1t was the same
way IN Kansas City. In the primaries
our side was way ahead, They are
/ fighting hard in Illinois and Michigan
to prevent the passage Of the direct
primary legislation. / don Z know how
1t IS going to come out
@ If the people had their wav the
! legislatures would have to pass primary
| legislation and then they would have
straight chance to express their pref
erence for the nomination. That is
what / am fighting for right now The
other side is fighting against it,"
Carnegie S Gift.
| Roosevelt had no political visitors to-
day, but he had an enormous stack OF
kilograms to read telling OF the prog
ress of the race.
$50 they have caught me with the
good,s.' exclaimed the colonel when
asked about a published statement Of
Robert A. Franks. dispenser Of chari
lies for Andrew Carnegie, that the iron
master gave $4,000 to the colonel for
his African hunting trip of 1910.
Yes, it is very true; Mr.. Carnegie
did MD in that expedition, the ex
president went on. "Ill show you
something
The colonel. who had been seated in
h's, library. at Sycamore Hill, got up
and drew from d shelf volume Of his
african Game Trails. -
'Here's the book that Will give the
evidence observed the fauual natu-
raiish, as he turned to the back pages
''.lnst down there, and Roosevelt
pointed to q paragraph half way down
a page in what is styled S'Appendixa. +"
1t read
"The scientific department. Of the OK
petition could net have been undertak-
en- save for the generous assistance of
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, Mr.. Oscar
| Straus.- Mr.. Leigh Hunt and certain
others. TO all OF whom lovers Of natural
history are therefore deeply indebted. !"
"Mr. Carnegie did help, AS J. was so
| pleased TO acknowledge Mr.. Roose
welt explained. ''No. don L care TO
say how much he offered, nor how
much the others helped. If they de
sire to tell I am perfectly willing.
"But you will observe from what |
wrote in the book, - said the colonel,
with q laugh, ''thai there was no ct-
fort at coucealmcnt,
Letter to Taft.
NEW YORK, March "a letter ad
I &. a
welt Republican league Of New lIamp
shire was made public by the Roosevelt
Organization here today. 1t follows:
"In view of The situation of the
Republican party in the country today
we believe a full and direct expression
Of the voters should be taken as to
their choice for n candidate for pres
ident Wa ask that you lend your aid
TO this and, II such z vote Is taken, 1t
will go far toward healing the differ
cnces now existing IN the party.
1'It is clear that q majority Of Re
publicaus in thig- country feel that the
salvation Of the party in the forth
coming election rests Fundamentally on
a. bons fide expression Of majority
of the Republican voters as TO whom
they waut rs candidate.
Taft Men Win,
SANTA FE. y. NJ, March 9.-Sup-
porters Of President Taft in the state
Republican convention here today
named eight delegates TO the national
convention in Chicago. Resolutions in
dorsing the Taft administration were
adopted. although the delegates were
not instructed, III. o. Burton, Repub'
licau candidate for governor Mt the
| last election, who recently declared for
| Theodore Roosevelt for president, was
| given place on the delegation by ac-
| clamaticD
The convention adjourned without
reaching any agreement between the
| Taft and Roosevelt factions for party
unity.
r they were satisfied with the result, as
the convention did not instruct for
Taft and two Of the eight delegates
have stated that the colonel WAS their
first choice,