The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-24
T,R.HERET0-DAY
MOOSE GET BUSY
Cline to Hope Colonel Will
Decide to Run for
Governor.
~ WILL NOT" HE SAYS
Adds 81 Haven't Told a Liv-
inc Soul I'll Run for
Presidency"
UkMLIN JABS WHITMAN
Critici>cs Him for Defeat Of Re-
CORNER in Buffalo Race
-. . for Mayor.
HhMLIN JABS WHITMAN

wireless message from the Hamburg
American liner Imperator AT noon yes
,e-d,y. Nhen she was 66s miles east OF
sardv Hook. announced that Col. Roose-
volt had bccn spending several hours
aolv inv tho imperial suite preparing the
speech hr will deliver at Plttsburg on
June 30.
According to wireless from the ship,
Col Roosevelt said:
"Thcy say | am going to run for Presi-
dent. and ! haven't said SO to a living
soul. and they say I want To be Governor,
but am not going TO lie Governor. and
what's moro. I'm not even going To run
fcr Governor"
Or Roccius. the ships surgeon. who
has been treating the Colonel. says his
dstnguis1cd patient apparently has got
over his fever attacks, Tho wireless says
h. euiertalrs daily large party OF
friends at tea on the private vcranda deck
\ n he suite.
The Tmporator. Capt Kier said. should
reach Quarantine about 4 o'clock this az
,e-noor unless held up by fog. and cx-
rect. 20 dock between and o'clock.
Colonel n he'll run for Governor he will
he fooled The traveller will board W. H.
cAldSs yacht At Quarantine and go
s,raigh, TO oyster Bay, as he did when
he returned from Brazil. The only other
PARTY leaders on the yacht will he Nephew
Theodore Douglas Robinson. state chair
man and George W. Perkins. For the
aeN few days the politicians who want
% get tho Coloners ear must go to Saga
moro nm where lie intends TO mediate
AMI r,s'
~, .ailing day declaration in England
that In will not he q candidate for Gov
ernor has failed to convince the cnthu-
ssst- here that he means II
Until lac tolls me that himself shall
ro' give m hope" Mr.. Robinson said yes
'srday Aud Chauncey i. Iamlu, Fri"
ounty leader. said, after helping to ill
state headquarters safe with primary
petitions bearing the coiouels name and
me guatures Of voters in several parts
o. Inc state, II feel sure that ne will rum"
PruGrcssiyes are telling one another
hat ON shiphoard few minutes before
10 sailed for Spain tho Colonel assured
'wo Of his closest friends In tho party
hat his mind was still open. that he left
his fate in the hands Of the party leaders,
that they must canvass the independent
voters and that II when he came back the
leaders still agreed that he ought TO make
The fight ne would do II. They 20 agree.
and from what they have heard of the
condition of Mr.. Roosevelts throat they
believe il viii not prevent him from maxi
oh IN lsin
TcII Of Demand for Colonel.
HI request that the State he canvassed
was ohcycd by o. H. Phillips. recently
acting state chairman, and Horace s.
Wilkinson of Syracuse. They have been
through the State sounding independents
OF all parties. Yesterday they reported
10 Nj Robinson and Mr.. Perkins at ma
tonsl headquarters. They said that the
Progressive demand for T. r. was vir-
rnally unanimous and that he would get
% pcr cent. of the Republican vote and
10 per cent of the Democratic vote
their basic figures being those of the
'iuhernatorial campaign OF 1912. They
got this impression in personal interviews
and from straw ballots after distributing
blanks on which each signcr indicated for
whom he voted two years ago.
Mr. Hamlin will stay here until Friday
and will talk with the Colonel in Oyster
Ray. Mr. Wilkinson. Frederick NJ. Daven-
port Of Clinton and other leaders will
tell the Colonel about the Irresistible
demand from their parts OF the State,
Necessary they'll open the safe and
snow him IN" petitions.
NJ HdWlin said yesterday that Col.
hooSeNclt could carry Erie county by at
east 5000 or 10000 votes against GOV.
flynn and Charles s. Whitman, indie
pendent Republicans Of that county he
o. "a znt ss.f, fr for
'No principal reasons. One is his ac-
oep'au'o of the Tammany nomination for
District Attorney last fall and his sub
.equont refusal to take the stump for
Jonn Purroy Mitchell and the fusionists.
no other is tho part he took In the
buffalo city campaign last fall which re-
suited IN the reelection OF Mayor Louis
thurman, Democrat.
According to Mr. Hamln. John l..
oBuan, United States Attorney for tho
western district of the State. an able
snd clean Republican, was nominated for
Mavor on citizens ticket supported by
me hest Republicans Of Erie. The Repub-
mean machine nominated Mr. Stoddard.
ThinLs whitman Hurt Reforme-.
When the Republicans behind the citi'
fns ticket heard that Mr.. Whitman was
coming 10 Buffalo to speak for MI. Stod-
adrd they begged him to keep out told
"h mat Mr.. o Brian was leading ths
same sort OF cause that had resulted In
luslon against Tammany here and thai
me Republican machine really wanted
10 nave the Democrats win. But. says
Ny llamln, Mr. Whitman persisted IT
SpodNng for Mr. Stoddard. and thus
aHendted many Republicans and indie
p'haents VINO might otherwise have SUP
ported him for Governor this year. Mayo
thurman got 10000 votes and won, tbs
,iuze0S ticket got 20. 900 and the Rcpub
mean rlndidatc, helped by Mr., Whitman
| received 10000.
Ny. Hamlin said he believed Col Roose
N'u should head a ticket made up Of
SVohs men whom independents woult
| support Being asked whether by tha
no meant the Progresslves should taxi
some OF their candidates from othei
parties ne said:
4 can only remind YOU that I.oui
T"S'i'r, the Rochester Independent
,'n"'ilt said in his paper the other da!
"'' many Democrats would support sucl
Ne' as ! have described"
Us John \. iI"nncssy one Of the mel
won YOU would like 10 see on the Pro
sreSsivc ticket"
Wen Mr.. Hamlin replied. II am toll,
wa, ar henncssy is independent"
~ '"'. Roosevelt does not run 70
'o'@""' Mr., robinson will probabl