Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-28
WILL NOT ATTACK ADMINISTRATION Roosevelt Refuses to Be Drawn Into a Personal
 Controversy. DENIES STATEMENT Will Give Mere of His Time to Liter
 ature Than to
 Politics.

Boston, Feb. 27 Although Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has declared his inaenticn of making a ''straight-out fight for die presidential nominls,Ii5r., :, h. let 1t be known today he would not be drawn .11to a pe!5olal contro- yc1sy with the prs. ent administra- jon. The colonrl was ang6d by state .Eslts published tlals morning to the oifeca he said Fretslld3IIa Taft was not Sr,greSsliVd He s-ad that in his po~ ,itical conference yesterday, dur ng WI1ich he was reported to have made cEs statement, President TafJs name had lo. been mentioned and that his orirton in regard to the adminiStra tion had not been asked for Icr ex- pressed
 Organization of the Roosevelt movement in Naw England went On today, although Colonel Roosevelt -aid he was going to give more time Q literature than to politics. The ccl5Lel was scheduled to put in 4usy day This n5faing he expected 10 have anothsr talk win Governor 8aa; of New Hampshire and to meet eFerai Massachusetts petite ans.
 
 larva.ld at notn and spend msst of le '-i5Tlainder Of tie day there. He yas -o take lunch with Eis son, Kef it, ard several members of the Har Grd faculty. Tie lunctecc, Colonel oossye1t said, would hav5, pro .ounced literary flavor, with Dickens soba.biy the chcice of the subject et iscUssion. The colonel has pro- .rogmced y.ews upon the subject Of Dickens.
 President A. Lawrence Lowell Of Fla ward was to elle5r9ain CeG2nei Roosevelt at dinner.
 ColeneI Reosevslt's visit to Boston. according to present plans, will come 70 an end yomicGraw.
 He will attend the meeting of the Harvard board of overseers, of which .a is a member, ard will take lunch g:-h Arthur D. Hill, forme-, strict attorney and a leader in the Rose Eslt movement in Massachusetts. The colonel expects to leave fer New Y1rk It 3 D. m. e
 Colonel Roosevelt repeated his statement that he had not itaiken his position or personal reiasons and he iddo Ut ClSdI bIidI l.5 Niu Aoe Pi oP'-3S ( make the issue in any sen1e a per sonal ons
 Colonel Roosevelt Wa,si asked to ex- D., in tkia position he VIII maintain 1u i.lg lhe campaign. In re ply he is- sued the following statement:
 T could not mcire definitely stata my position dn the great issues of the day than I stated in my Colurnloua PCcch, and again yesterday before he Massachusetts legislature. In dd- tion to calling attention to what ] l.'cre said on popular government, also call particular attentEn 70 what I said at Columbus Cn the business iJUatieal and the proper attitude O. the government toward business so 5 to insure conditions that will make or mar thd prosperity Of the su.inasls world and all UT people.
 Tn my Ono speech I dwelt on the two great subjects of immediate me.- n9ant to our people-the need of hay ing a real and not merely Iominal popular rule and the need of secur' ing prosperity fer isIhe business man .4ae wage-earrer lapd the farmer alike. As I then said, I mest emphat.cally bel eve it is necessary tC have an equitable division of prosperity but that t Eehcoves us to keep in mind .h.t we cannot divide sIle prosperity un'osls the p.os,p JT.ty is there to dl- vide. and that to secure the wellbsing of the busine9s world E. n the inter G, 5 uf every. citizen of tsa United SlatS."