The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-18
4 EPV JBLlCA ANS NO L A 4
WINNERS At THE POLLS
TEDDY UNLIKELY
TO SPEAK IN STA TE
Announcement That He Will is
Not Based on Any Word
from Him.
[By Charles Brooks Smith,

WASHINGTON Mar. Theodore
Roosevelt Coming 70 West Virginia
VIII Tour the State from End to End. .
That was a headline in a number of
Democratic newspapers in the Noun
tain state Over the same article in
other partisan journals the headlines
were similar. Careful inquiry of the
officials of the Progressive party's ma
tional congressional headquarters in
this city developed the fact that they
did not know anything about the re-
doubtable colonel planning to invade
the Mountain state in the Forthcoming
campaign. 1t developed furthermore
that the headquarters people did not
know anything about what the plans
of T. r. for the congressional cam
paign next fall What he may do, or
may not do, was all guess with
them. 1t is also guess with every
body else
And that is the truth. Nobody
knows what part If any Roosevelt IS
going to play in this years campaign.
He has not told anybody what his
plans are, if he has formulated any.
Nobody is authorized to speak for him.
Nothing will be known for certain
until he gets back and takes survey
of the situation. 1t is just as good
guess as any other that he has not
made any definite plans as yet, but
will formulate his program after he
gets hack and has time to. size up
the politics of the country and press
his fngers on the public pulse.
So far as anybody knows 1t is just
as good q guess to make right now
that It. r. will not mix overly much
in this years campaign as 1t is to
guess that he will. He has not said
ANYTHING to lead anybody to think
either one way or the other. He has
not said, therefore, that he isS going
to West Virginia and spellbind IT
from endn tho end, any more than
he has stated that he is going to take
the hustings in any other state. He
probably does not know any more
about political conditions in West Viz
girfa than the Duke of Swat, and for
the present is just about as much con :
cerned.
But there are good many polite
ians in West Virginia who wish 1t
were true thEts the colonel is going to
visit their commonwealth, and the
Democratic politicians among them
make up very respectable sized
crowd, indeed. There are also quite
a number of very anxious politicians
at Progressive party headquarters
both here and in New York who are
lust as anxious that he take hand
in not only the politics of West Vtr-
einia but of every other state. In fact
and in truth, they would perk up con-
siderably if they knew it for dead
sure thing that Roosevelt is going to
take any particularly active and con-
spicuous part at all in the forthcom-
ing canvass for votes. They have
large hope that he will accompanied
by very large doubt that he will
not. They are doing some tall prom
ising that he will and that everything
will be all right, and the third party
project is not to be abandoned by
him. But they admit privately that
they do not know a thing for certain
about it. They can not count for Ger
tain on his help in West Virginia or
any place else. In fact, they do not
know that they can count on his help
at all.
Teddy comes. He will speak for him
self. If he has 1916 in mind and dis
astrou sresults of the various elect
ions held in widely distant sections OF
the country since he and Taft and
Wilson raced the presidential track in
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