Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-06
ABBOTT SAYS ROOSEVELT
is NOT A CANDIDATE

CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON, N. Y,
jan Cool. Theodore Roosevelt is not
a candidate for president, according %
Lawrence F. Abbott, president of the
Outlook Company of New York, with
whom Mr.. Roosevelt is actively asso-
ciated. This statement was made to-
day in the Local Press, a weekly news
paper published here, where Mr.. Alb
bott lives.
The statement was brought out, the
editor of the Local Press says, when
he asked Mr. Abbott whether or NOT
Mr. Roosevelt was & candidate.
"Ycu must understand, to begin
WITH" MI. Abbott says in what is
termed "disinterested statement
chat whatever | say in answer 20
your question, | say solely on .uy own
responsibility and without any coz.
suitation With Nj. Roosevelt.
You ask ne whether Mr.. l.C0sc.
welt is a candidate for the presidency
| answer ne. He Is net a candidate ,
lie doeds not desire to be a candidate; !;
he has discouraged and is .scouTagin2 g
in every possible way all talk Of his
/ candidacy, and he will take no active
share OF any kind in the contests Of
various candidates - contests which
are always in evidence for two or three
months preceding any national con
vention.'
I NJ Abbott then reviews Mr. R0o6e-
vets connection with national politics
during the last three years, in order
! to Gnde' stand the present political sit
uation with regard to the presidential
/ nomination next sumner, and then
! tells how NJ Roosevelt declined the
Republican nomination II 1908, which
! he very easily could have had, and
how Nj. Taft's nomination and c!cc-
I ton were brought about
| His (Roosevelts political expert
ence contributed 50 largely TO the sue
cessful result CT the election that his
| critics have said that he alone nomi-
mated and elected TAFT" Mr., Abbott
says, and continues:
unfortunately. some OF Mr.. Taft 5
advisers took this mistaken view OF
the case and urged him to separate
himself so thoroughly from any RoOse-
welt associations, that his adminiStra-
tiCn could create its own policies, and
that thus he might be renOminated and
reelected in 1912 on his own individ-
ual merits, without any taint OF
RooseveltiSm. "
Mr.. Roosevelt has never failed, Mr..
Abbott declared, to respond quickly
and cordially to the slightest wish by
Mr. Taft for his company or his views,
and he instances the private interview
between Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Roosevelt
10, : I,D -
That meeting, he says, as has be'n un-
fortunately announced, was sought by
Mr.. Roosevelt for the purpose of get
ting some help in his contest with the
old guard OF the state. He adds:
The facts are-and | have learned
them, not from Mr.. Roosevelt, but from
a friend of Mr.. Taft, who knows all
the circumstances-that Mr.. Taft sent
word to Nh Roosevelt asking him TO
come in order that he (Mr. TafD might
get the benefit OF Mr. Roosevelt's ad-
vice Regarding the serious split in the
national affairs of the Republican par
ty which resulted from the fight
against so-calleG 'CanrOnism.
Mr. Abbott declares that whatever
Mr.. Roosevelt does or says will be
interpreted by some CRITICS to his dis
advantage, and he instances an article
of Mr.. Roosevelt's on the trust Ques-
tion published several weeks ago. It's
publication was held by some, Mr.. Alb
bott says, to be an indication that
Roosevelt was seeking the presidency
and that the appearance of the article
was timed by him at jus: the psyche
logical moment to produce great eff
feet.
If there was any political astute-
ness in its appearance, according to
Mr.. Abbott, it should go to the editors
OF his publication who suggested the
article and fixed the date for its pub
lication.
If Mr.. Roosevelt is ever elected pres
ident asain, according to Mr, Abbott,
it will not he because he seeks or
wants Office, but because the country
wants him to perform a certain job,
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