New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-02
No REPLY FROM COLONEL
,ooseveIt Says He Will Answer
Taft at Convention.
NEGRO STATEMENT READY
,.lsoations from the South Are
To Be Property Of the
Lily Whites"
rev Telegraph 10 The Trihun. )

tor Bav. y. V. Aug. II prefer TO
~ President Taft in my Chicago
ST. - said Colonel Roosevelt tonight,
assn asked TO comment on the Presi-
.s speech Of acceptance. The OK
.sdsnt appeared to be more amused
nan ANYTHING else by the yelled, anony-
20" references made to him by Mr.. Taft,
~.o,auv the one in which the President
,r,,d that the leader of those who had
49, 49,. the Republican party was headed
award socialism.
7, was pretty evident to-day that Colo
=, poosevelts solution of the negro
ah,nr, as outlined in his promised state
~, will be the absolute exclusion OF all
o., delegates from the Southern states.
tsu negroes will be admitted 10 the
~,,oso convention from such states as
ns,o Pennsylvania, Indiana and New
,.,av The new party candidate is GER
y. that no man or party would ever
=. ~ take the attitude which he and
4. National Progressive party are about
,ota toward the negro and his consti-
,utional rights.
ua has completed his statement" ole-
,.,,r his attitude toward the race ques-
-, as II affects the campaign Of the
y,,lonal Progressive party In the South.
"a would not discuss ii freely. because
8. intends to nave the statement pub
pshed the last of the week.
Negro Problem Ignored.
I. his opinion the out-and-out evasion
- ,bs negro by the Democrats in the
,rcs slave-holding states is only equalled,
\. said. BY the conduct of the Republican
norty which. since the days of the car
ne, baggers." has. he said, schemed mere
" 10 use the negro vote to further its
avn political advancement. In Colonel
Roosevelt's opinion, both courses can be
avoided. and II is evident that the new
party candidate. actuated by a desire to
build Up his own party in the South, Will
attempt to steer a middle course.
81 shall deal with facts, not with the
ories." he said to-day. The policy or
the Progressive party must be made clear
upon this and all other points.
According to his custom. Colonel Roose-
rslt went back to the Chicago convention
for an illustration of the evils of the Re
,bljcan domination of the negro vote
The rotten borough" system, he de-
CARED. was responsible for the renomina-
ton Of President Taft. Had II not been
for the negro delegates from the southern
States, he said he could easily nave de-
tsated President Taft's denomination with
The majority Of Republican delegates from
the great Republican states of the North.
The negro delegates who helped 10 defeat
Inn. Colonel Roosevelt said, were boss
,eked" and machine controlled, and rep
,.sented little more than the aspirations
ia mere handful Of men out for patron
,ge Not TO do away with this would
sRenate the support Of the Southern white
voters.
No Answer for Wilson.
The candidate declined 10 come back
q, Governor Wilson's statement that he
was in favor OF a gradual reduction Of
the tariff. Colonel Roosevelt said he
wanted to save his tariff talk for the
Chicago convention. lie declined also 20
talk about the Progressive candidacy Of
District Attorney Whitman OF New York
although he indicated that the Idea
Pleased him.
About noon to-day Cononel Roosevelt
ard his family went out for an all day
picnic.
few days after his return from CHI
eago he is to go TO New England. TO
speak IN Massachusetts and Vermont
The remainder of August he hopes TO
spend al home. and early in September he
viii begin what probably will be the
angest campaign trip ever made by a
nndidate for the Presidency, which will
AXE him into almost every state in the
country, if not into every one.