New-York tribune., 1912-03-14
COLONEL TO SPEAK HERE
Will Make Address at Carnegie
Hall Next Wednesday.
REPLY TO TAFT EXPECTED
Vermonters Bring Reinsurance
Ward To Be Away Until
After Primary.
tBy Telegraph TO The Tribune. J


Oyster Bay, March 13.-Five Nermonters
visited Sagamore Hill tonight to tell Colo
| mel Roosevelt their state could be turned
over to him IL a fight was made from the
ground up" The entire state machine, with
the two Senators, they told him, was Tor
Taft. but there was a chance to beat the
machine if the right sort of a fight was
made The Vermonters would not give
their names, because, as they said, 1t might
do more harm than good to the Roosevelt
| cause.
The first Roosevelt speech In New York
City will be made next Wednesday night
before the Civic Forum in Carnegie Hall on
| The Right of the People to Rule There
is suspicion that Mr.. Roosevelt will give
expression in this speech TO his opinions OF
President Taft's Toledo speech of last week
in which he said that the principles set
forth in the Columbus address laid the axe
at the foot Of the tree Of liberty" Instead
of taking the defensive. he will come out
even more aggressively than he did at Co.
lumbus.
The report that the colonel would hurry
into North Dakota to reply TO the speeches
of La Toilette denouncng both Taft and
| Roosevelt is untrue he said.
One Of the coonel's callers to-day was
| c. J. Owens. secretary to the Southern
| Commercial Congress- which will convene la
! Nashville April g. He invited the colonel
TO speak before the body. Mr.. Roosevelt
! had practically excluded Tennessee from
| his national tour, but Senator Dixon his
| commander in chief, was convinced last
week that il would be better after all for
| his candidate to show himself in that sec
| tion so he sent Mr.. Owens up with the in
vitation. The colonel told him he would
! think il over
! The first gun OF the Roosevelt campaign
! will really be fired next Monday night at
! Huntington, Long Island, when the colonel
will be the guest Of the parish OF ST
| Patrick's Church.
There was a conference to-day between
! William l.. Ward, OF Westthester, and the
! contributing editor in the latter's sanctum.
/ While the colonel did not openly announce
| that Ward would enter the fight for his
nomination. he did say that he would see
! him again on Friday. The fact that the
! Carnegie Hall speech was announced right
! after the colonel saw Ward is regarded as
| significant.
I The remarks Of JOHN F. Wallace, former
|
made before the Canadian club Tuesday
night, that President Roosevelt, aided by
! William Nelson Cromwell, put through the
Canal Zcne grab were handed 10 the
| colonel this morning. He smiled good nat
urediy and said:
They have tried every imaginable lie on
/ the Panama incident. This sounds like an
! old one. The fellow who can get any news
| out Of that story deserves a gold medal.
was the way he dismissed it. After that
he went out for a long horseback ride.
To-morrow morning the colonel will go to
/ Mineola again to report for jury duty.
/ william L. Ward whom the Roosevelt
| committee has loudly claimed as one Of
| its workers and man who would he
! in daily attendance" at the headquarters
! in the Metropolitan Tower. slipped into
| the Roosevelt Offices in the tower yester-
day. turned around and slipped right out
again.
The Roosevelt committee thereupon is
sued a statement conteying the informa-
| ton that Mr. Ward would start South
! to-day in order 10 recuperate from the
sickness that has confined him 10 his
| home for the last three weeks" The
! statement further asserted that Mr.. Ward
/ would return in about two weeks" and
| that he would then take M his daily work
| in the Roosevelt city headquarters.
! The little Joker" Of the statement lies
! in the fact that the two weeks men
! toned will bring things IN the date Of
! March o. which happens 10 he Just one
! day after the primary election at which
| the enrolled Republican voters will desig-
nate the national convention delegates.
Colonel Roosevelts headquarters staff
| asserted Yesterday that the colonel had not
vet decided whether To speak in New York
County before primary day, although
positive statement was given out at Oys-
ter Bay that Mr.. Roosevelt would nuke
an address at Carnegie Hall next Wednes-
day. The colcnels boomers seemed 10 douat
the accuracy Of the oyster Bay story.