The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-04
Governor oddie sent two

and eddie. Governor oddie sent two
kilograms:
Carson City, Nev.-In reply to a tel
egram from Senator Dixon, asking me
! to define my position, I wired him on
February % as follows:
g In conversation with President Taft
last fall at that time with no anticipa-
ton Colonel Roosevelt would enter the
fight for president, assured President
Taft that I personally was for him.
consider that the announcement of
Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy has alb
solutely changed the situation. I was
elected on q progressive platform on
state matters and I have been waging
the best fight I know how to effect
beneficial changes in our state govern
ment that viii aid our aterial and
moral progress and awakening. With
Colonel Roosevelt as the Republican
nominee, am convinced that the poll
cies am striving to attain here will be
better understood by the people of this
state, that Nevada will again. as in
1904, be put nationally in the Republi-
can column and a legislature elected
which will support my administration.
tTASKER L. ODDIE,
Governor of Nevada"
Carson City, Nev.-NationaI Roose
welt committee. Washington, D. c.:
VIII be highly pleased to have my
name added as member of committee
Roosevelt for the presidential nominal
ton.
"TASKER L. ODDIE,
Governor of Nevada"
Governor Hooper's telegram follows:
Nashville, Tenn.-You are correct in
assuming that my policy is hands Off
in the contest for delegates from Ten
nessee to the Republican national con-
Vention which has been my position
from the outset and will be adhered TO
now seems prOba Bile. I owe 1t to my
friends to pursue course that will not
weaken the ticket whatever my personal
preference may be as to the presiden-
tlal nominee 1t would not conduce to
strengthen the state ticket for me to
inject myself into this contest for dele
gates for the national convention
BEN W. HOOPER,
Governor of Tennessee
Governor Deneen," the statement
says, has announced himself in favor
OF a presidential primary
The statement also declares that Gov
ernor Pothier, of Rhode Island, from
whom telegram of endorsement was
given out at the Taft bureau, has not
committed himself to the candidacy of
the president"
A Roosevelt Letter.
Washington, March 4-CoIonel Roose-
velts denial of stories sent from wash
ington that the Taft administration had
reason to believe he would not be a can
dldate for the Republican nomination
against the president and his statement
at Oyster Bay that Secretary of the Navy
Meyer and Secretary of War Stimson
could not have said'' he would not be a
candidate, has caused to be made public
here letter written by Colonel Roosevelt
June q, 1911, denying reports that he
would support Mr.. Taft This letter
ended as follows:
Il have expressed mystelf perfectly
freely to large number of men in this
matter, always to the same effect; tell
ing you, for instance, personally, and
those who were with you at lunch at my
house and telling Clifford Pinchot Jim
Garfield and Congressman Madison and
rotary Stimson, all alike. just exactly
what I have said always. that I would
not be a candidate in 1912 myself and
that I had no intention of taking any
part in the nomination for, or against
any candidate.
Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The CoIoneI's Denial.
Oyster Bay, n. Y, March 4-CoIonel
Roosevelt, when shown dispatches from
Washington containing a letter of the
as having no intention of being a presi-
dental candidate in 1912, made the fol-
lowing statement:
Il will say nothing unless the name of
the recipient of the letter is given and
the letter published in full. Probably the
language is not correctly given. Certain
ly all the context, in which said would
not refuse the nomination is suppressed |
The letter published in a Chicago even
ing paper one month ago contains sub
stantially all I said in these letters
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The letter referred to as published in a |
Chicago newspaper was copy of letter
which Colonel Roosevelt sent to Frank A.
Munsey explaining his position.
Roosevelt Men Claim Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City, Okla, March 4.-Roose- ;
welt thirty-two counties with 232 dele
gates to the state conventions Taft 10
with 127 delegates; uninstructed
or equally divided eight counties, with Sc
votes; unreported, nine counties; to hold
caucuses or conventions this week, eight
counties.
This sums up the situation in Oklahoma
as regards the choice for presidential
nominee of the Republican party as gath |
cred from returns of precinct conven-
lions. The state convention will meet in
Guthrie March a. There will be 543 in |
the state convention; necessary to in |
struct 272.
In addition to the 232 instructed dele |
gates managers of the Roosevelt cam
paign claim Sc of the 66 uninstructed or
divided votes heard from. Taft support |
ers make no claims