The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-25
ROOSEVELTTO
QUIT MOOSE IF
PERKINS GOES
Says Party Must Read Him
Out Along With
Financier.
ATTACKS WILSON ON
COL OMBIA TREATY
Has Submitted to Blackmail
of the Worst Kind,
He Asserts.
/. :. NOW 4 FIGURE
OF FUN IN THE WORLD
Arriving Here on Imperator.
Colonel Fires BrOadside
on Politics.
L. :. NOW 4 FIGURE
OF FUN IN THE WORLD


proved. spirits swinging In an ample arc
arrived at Quarantine last night on
board the Hamburg-American liner I'm
perator and was Immediately transferred
to William II. Childss yacht Joyance.
which took him to Oyster Bay.
With the return Of the Colonel from
his son Kermits wedding In Spain and
from pleasant stay abroad two cues.
tons at least of extraordinary interest
to members OF the Progressive party. a,
we'll as TO the older parties. were an.
swered by the Colonel himself in his most
emphatic fashion.
He stands by Perkins.
VIII he stand by George w. Perkins
even though the Pinchots and other fore.
most Progressives are reading Mr.. Per-
kins out of the party? He will. He said
last night In giving out statement A.
he left the Imperator:
"Mr Perkins has been on the Who'll.
the most useful member of the ProRre.-
sive party. No man has served with
greater zeal and disinterestedne.s He
has striven In absolute good faith for
the principles of the party both as re.
CARDS corporations and business generally
and as regards the group of questions
dealing with the welfare of the wars
worker and his economic and social al.
vance
AS for reading him out of the party,
when that is done they will have to read
me out too"
IL there was any doubt left az TO Col.
Roosevelts position as to being a candl-
date for Governor he did his best to shat.
ter 1t with this laconic statement:
Positive ON GOvernorshIp
"Governors I thought 1 had answered
that fully. I Will not run for Goyernor.-
The Colonel replied TO only few aues-
tions put to him on the Imperator, but
he gave out fairly long statement,
which contains his views on the Colombia
treaty and on other things. He attacked
the Wilson Administration, charging that
President Wilson had submitted to black
mail by Colombia.
The Imperator. delayed by fog, arrived
off Quarantine at 500 p. NJ, too late for
the ship to be cleared by Health OFFICER
OConnell and to be put through the Gus
toms. As matter of courtesy to an ex-
President health and customs had ar
ranged to facilitate Col. Roosevelt's Jour
ney and there was no delay In trans.
ferring him and his companions. Phiiip
Emlen Roosevelt and Raymond b. Eos.
dick. to Mr.. Childs's yacht. which had
been waiting for hours for the arrival Of
the Imperator
Except for Deputy Health Officer Clark.
the first man from the coast of America
TO see the Colonel and shake hands with
him was Charles H. Deuel. Jr., the leader
OF the Whitman movement in the Pro-
gressive party Mr.. Deuel. has been fight
ing for Progressive Endorsement for
Mr. Whitman. and he said before he went
down the bay last evening that he wa.
going In response to n wireless request
from Col. Roosevelt. The episode revived
strongly the talk that Col. Roosevelt
wants his party to indorse Whitman for
Governor.
Beats Them 10 Colonel
Mr.. Deuel. got to the Colonel several
minutes before George w. Perkins and
other Progressves who were on the Childs
yacht. Aboard the Joyance were Collector
Dudley Field Malone. William H. Childs.
Progressive leader In Brooklyn. Mr.,
Roosevelt. DR. and Mrs. Richard Derby
and Archie and Quentin Roosevelt. They
waited on the yacht until the Colonel WAS
In his cabin on the Imperator Col
Roosevelt looked to be in excellent physi.
cal condition.
When came aboard" he said, 81 had
a slight relapse OF fever. and forty-eight
hours later severe relapse. At that
time my temperature was l05. | had
10 keep to my rooms. But am absolutely
all right now, I shall speak In Pittsburg
on June 30. shall be able to make a
certain number Of speeches indoors. bu,
shall not be able to speak in the open
air or to make continuous speaking trips.
My throat had to he examined In Lon.
Ion because, AS is often the case, the after
Effects OF such fever as contracted Ia
Brazil show themselves chiefly in the
throat. My doctor warned me against
much speaking
Col, Roosevelt was obviously delighted
10 he back home. lie said he had en-
Ioyed himself immensely while in Europe.
At 9:l5 L. NJ. the formalities OF health
and customs were al an end and the JOY