The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-02-26

ne SfaDer CALCULATING MaCnlne To-,
1A2 O.. SOth street
certair,s he said. sNot only would Col,
Roosevelt be much easier to- beat than
President left but the whole situation
created by this sudden inter lection of
Mr.. Roosevelt's candidacy will 20 far to
assure the success of the Democratic
party al the polls The Republican
party, II seems to me, will he split wide
open. with President Taft reading the
conservatives End Coz. Roosevelt the So
called progressive wing
mo matter who is nominal ed. the Roose-
welt candidacy will make more certain
the defeat Of the nominee
Mr. Mack was not surprised by the
letter to the Governors. In fact. he said.
he had predicted a declaration of Col
Roosevelt's candidacy year ago and
had repeated his prediction less than
six months ago
As Democrat genuinely interested
in the party's success" Chairman Mack
concluded, Il am glad that Col Roose-
welt has written this letter"
Alton r. Parker made only brief
comment;
Il hardly think said he. that any
one will be surprised when they read
this letter from Mr. Roosevelt. I felt
confident two years ago that he was a
candidate. | have felt sure of il aver
since then. And | think that this 10
n good time to have the country make
a test of the ideas set forth by Mr.. Roose-
welt in his Columbus speech a very good
time"
Horace White. Justice Hughes's sue
cessor a. Governor of New York. re-
marked that he was torn by conflicting
emotions. but would not elucidate
When Samuel Koenig. chairman OF the
New York county Republican committee.
was told that Col. Roosevelt had followed
his hat into the ring he said he guessed
he had better make no comment. and
added that he had known for some time
-on inside information" that the announce
ment was coming.
What do you think Col. Roosevelt =
strength will be in the national conven-
tion?" asked SIN reporter. Mr.. Koenig
replied:
Il can only speak for my own county.
Col. Roosevelt will not get our delegat ion
II will go to Mr.. Taft
-Wha. about Col. Roosevelt's strength
il he is nominatedf"
Il cannot discuss something that will
not happen. said the county chairman.
Herbert Parsons said ha was sorry to
hear that Mr.. Roosevelt had announced
his candidacy.
IF Mr.. Roosevelt should be nominated.
which I can scarcely believe will happen.
said Mr.. Parsons, Il am OF the opinion
that any strong Democrat nominated
against him will overwhelmingly carry
New ork State and city. Astrong Demo-
cratic candidate would. believe. carry
the State and city by 100000 votes.
Il have been friend OF Mr.. Roosevelt
and | am distinctly sorry to learn that he
has written this letter don't believe he
could get either the city or State dele
cation for the nomination. There are very
few upstate Republican Assembly dis
tricts which he could control. There are
none in New York city"
MIR. Parsons was asked whether he
thought the fact that there was almost
no chance of Mr. Roosevelt's nomination
and none at all of his election was because
of the Feeling against the third term
idea or owing TO the Columbus speech.
Both the third term notion and the CO.
lnmbus speech" Mr.. Parsons answered.
are against his nomination and election
in my opinion. Both have hurt and will
continue TO hurt MIR. Roosevelt very
much. | am especially sorry to hear OF
| his determination because feeling that
| il nominated he would he overwhelmingly
defeated. feel also that his future use
fulness to the country will he sadly in
terfered with. He has very little strength
left in the Fast. In the West he is not near
80 strong as may appear"
Abe Gruber remarked that Roosevelt
had no more chance of carrying New
York State than Presbyterian minister
has OF becoming the next Pope Of Rome.
Roosevelt didn't think Taft was going
to be nominated four years ago." he said
Roosevelt expected the nomination him.
self. From the day Taft was inaugurated
Roosevelt has been working against him
Roosevelt wouldn't have lookin in this
State if il were not for the financial in
terests-if it were not for the Wall Street
interests that are behind him"
Several men who are well known uL
State were sounded at the Waldorf. Al
of them were for Taft and thought
he would be renominated despite Col.
| Roosevelt's temperance. They said
that although Col. Roosevelt had many
warm friends up the State the rank and
| file hoped to see Mr.. Taft President again.
IL was the opinion of these Waldorf OBJ
servers that the speech of Col. Roosevelt
at Columbus. with his advocacy OF the
initiative, referendum and recall OF court
decisions had alienated many Of his for
mer supporters.