The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-29
ROOSEVELT
 TALKS AGAIN

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 "I n Philadelphia Senator Platt hay. ing met with an accident. was con fined to his room He sent for me and went to him He told me | must ac cept the nomination as vice president He said if didn't I certainly would not be re-nominated for governor. I said All right, we'll fight it out then next faH'
 Then I went down stairs and tod the New York dlegate if they nominat ed me would consider 1t an assault upon me to get out of the govershlp told them would fight for the re nomination in the fall
 While 1 was talking Senator Plat sent word that he wanted to see me again
 This time Senator Platt said had misunderstood him that he would with draw his decision about the vice pres idency He said l would be re-nomin- ated for governor in the fall and that the New York delegation would put Timothy Woodruff in nomination for vice president"
 Then the colonel nesitated. smiled broadly and said, And the New York delegation did not nominate or second me"
 The colonel did not emotion that Timothy Woodruff was then lieuten. ant governor of New York.
 MT. Bowers then called the attention of the co onel to telegrams that pass. ed between him and Senator Platt re. eardng the exemption from the fran. chise tax bill of grade crossings of steam railroads.
 The New York Genital was inter. ested. the colonel said, in reply 10 a question After a few other questions had been put to nim the colonel said this:
 q sent fo rthe tax commissioners and asked them about 1t. They wero against it, After l received Senator P.atts telegram urging me to favor the exemption wrote him that I would have been glad to listen to any arguments had not his message been received too late.
 Speaking of Senator Platt, the for mer president of the United States said that ne conferred with him on matters of legislative, administrative and political because he consld red the senator's wide experience was valuable and because he realized that the organization controlled in the legislataure and that the senator con. troHed the organization. "I did not want to disrupt the re- | publican party said t'he colonel 'as | long as | did no wrong act in gre l venting it. Then, too, l wanted to l get affirmative action in Albany. could prevent wrong being done if broke with them but l could not get affirmative right done.
 When there was doubt in my | mind l conferred with the senator as head of the organization while at the same time and primarily doing what 1 the interest of the state demanded. | found that when there was apt to be | an issue between me and the state senate it was advisable to go where
 the power lay and not 10 talk to mel who merely carried out the biddinl of Mir Platt. l consulted on all i'm
 portant matters that came up"
 The colonel was asked many ques tons about the correspondence which l passed between him and Senator Platt and which was read during hi' ross-examination. He tried to eX
 plain to the jury statements made in correspondence about the franchise tax; about barren island. about ap pointmeuts; about the architect
 Truwbridge and the chance he wanted to bid upon government work; about the breakfast meetings with the sen ator and about the disagreement oyer the renomination of Governor
 Hughes. He corrected his testimony about his campaign fund of 1904: nc claimed as his own campaign
 speeches in which he said thing. about Mir Barnes
 Tomorrow may be his last day on