The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-25
COL. ROOSEVELT BACK
HAPPY AND Confident
Medill Mccormick, Speaking for
Him, Says That New Eng
land Is Already Won.
MAINE SEEMS A SURE THING
Ben Lindsay May Get the Colonel to
Do Some Talking Out in
Nebraska.
MAINE SEEMS A SURE THING

OYSTER BAY. March ~ Col Roosevelt
got back home from his Maine jaunt at
o O'Clock tonight. pleased and confident
that the speech at Portland is going to
bear fruit in Maine and will produce a
practical result at the polls. The Colonel
came out from New York with Kermit
Roosevelt. who had met him there. and
the two drove direct to Sycamore Hill
in the park wagon on arrival.
The Colonel was in his usual exuberant
mood on the return journey from Portland
despite the O'Clock inIthe morning start
he had made both going and returning
and notwithstanding the loss of his
pajamas EN- route. Medill Mccormick.
the Roosevelt chief Of staff at Washing
ton. who came down from Portland with
the Colonel and who is to be with him
from now on in his travels. did most of
the talking Of gleanings from the Maine
trip. The Colonel's welcome to Portland
was an ovation, he said. He told OF
applauding crowds lining the street.
"The older men told the Colonel's friends
that in the State for more than genera
tiou there had not been an audience which
for size. intelligence and for the enthusi-
asm eaualled that which listened 10 Col.
Roosevelt Saturday night" he said
Mr.. Mccormick said that statewide
Roosevelt organization had been formed
after the meeting to campaign in all towns
and counties, where delegates to the
state convention have.not yet been elected
The State convention will meet on April
10. He said cne-half Of those delegates
to the State convention already elected
are instructed for Roosevelt and the other
half are unnstructed.
"On Saturday night the Taft leaders
privately conceded the State to Roose-
velt." was one OF Mr.. McCormicks dis
coveries. The Roosevelt leaders in New
Hampshire. Massachusetts and Maine
had told Mr.. Mccormick. he said. that
the Republican rank and file in those
States are from two to one to six to one
for the Colonel.
The Taft managers in New Hampshire
are blocking the demand that the voters in
the town caucuses shall also he permitted
to express their preference as between
Presidential candidates. continued MIR.
Mccormick. There is a growing feel
ing among Republicans in New England
that Col. Roosevelt's nomination is the
only guarantee of victory in November
The campaign in New England for the
Colonel's nomination really began only
last week. He is being opposed by such
reactionary leaders as Senators Crane
and Gallinger. He will carry the three
#, Northeastern States if the Federal and
| local machines do not prove strong enough
to smother popular sentiment. The
people are with him. but the bosses are
against him"
Col. Roosevelt arrived in Boston short "
after ) O'Clock this morning. He had
breakfast at the home Of Matthew Hale
and left at 10 A. NJ. for New York where
he arrived at O'Clock in the afternoon
Judge Ben Lindsey was with him on the
return 10 New York. Az the result of
| what Judge Lindsey told the Colonel
and his friends Mr.. Roosevelt, who will
start West on Tuesday. may go to Ne
braska and speak. The La Toilette fCrces
have been crowding on full steam in their
campaign in that State. and it is thought
that u word from the Colonel to the Ne
hraskans in person will be all sufficient
to gather up his strength there.
The Colonel will leave Oyster Bay early
tomorrow morning for his whirl OF speech
making in Harlem and The Bronx in the
evening,
Mr. Roosevelt made very emphatic
his denial Of story in New York news
paper that he had been receiving threat
ening letters. He said that such thing
was preposterous and ridiculed it a.
4 "consummate nonsense"