Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-06
ROOSEVELT WRITES OHIO MAN
THAT Ne is NOT SEEKING
NOMINATION..
SAYS PERSONAL FORTUNES
ARE SECOND TO NATIONS
II Called TO Lead Party He Wants
Only American votes--D Denies Cali
ing Justice Hughes Hypoeriteo Old
Guard Picks Lodge az Chairman TO
Help Boost Roosevelt.

New York, May ST am not seek
ing the nomination and tell you with
all sincerity that ! am not in the least
interested In my own personal for
tunes"
This Is :he concluding sentence in
a letter which Colonel Roosevelt has
written an Ohio German American
who wrote suggesting that he tone
down" some Of his statements about
Belgium so that he could command the
votes Of Germans and Irishmen. Tae
colonel's inquirer was F. H. Schwan,
Of go East One Hundred Third street.
N. E., Cleveland.
Text Of Roosevelt Letter. ..z
Roosevelt's reply, given to the
United Press today. was as follows:
II thank you for your kind letter.
you say you want Irishmen and Ger
mans to vote for me. II ran should
want all Americans to vote for me and
I don't care whether they were born in
ireland, or. in Germany, or in England,
or in France, or whether their an
cestors came over in the Mayflower.
"But emphatically would not want
any human being to vote for me as an
or as German, or as
Frenchman, or as an Englishman, any
more than I would want him to vote
for me as q Jew or Catholic or
Protestant. am straight United
States and nothing else, and that is
all any man ought to be in this coun-
try. t-,. .r .a e.
Wants Only American Vote.
81 welcome the support OF every
good American, no matter where he
was born.sif he is good American:
but / do not want his support II he
is voting as foreigner in this lano
of ours. Moreover you say that !
had better modify, or qualify what l
wrote about Belgium and say some
thing more or less favorable to the
German side -, -"
envy dear sir, won't modify. or
qualify, in the smallest degree any
thing have said during these eighteen
months upon our duties, and upon the
attitude that this country ous1t to
take. Turn to what I have written
In the book called Fear God and take
your own part and you will find the
position I took and on which stand.
Not Seeking Nomination. ).
=. 1T am not seeking the nomination
and I tell you with all sincerity that
am not in the least interested In my
own, personal fortunes. But ! am
vitality interested in the welfare OF
the United States and In American
homer and national interest. and am
absolutely certain that this Is the
positfon that a self-respecting Ameri-
can ought to take.
The colonel came to New York from
oyster. Bay for additional throat treat
ment and passed the afternoon at the
Metropolitan Magazine offices. Among
his callers were James F. ]. Archibald,
the war correspondent: Victor Huerta,
son OF the late Mexican dictator;
Lemuel Ely Quigg, Hamilton Fish Jr.,
James R. Garfield Of Ohio: e. A. Van
valkenburg. Of Philadelphia.
Denies Calling Hughes "Hypoerite."
Colonel Roosevelt today denied -hs
called Justice Hughes a Baptist hypo-
critic. ~~s5 n.y.
1t was reported that the colonel had
applied this soubriquet to the asso-
ciate justice OF the Supreme court, ano
he issued the following denial OF thai
report The exact phraseology whicn
the colonel was alleged to have made
use of was that Baptist hypocrite."
This" said the colonel. lis Just as
preposterous as II 1t had been said
that Mr. Hughes had called me g
Dutch Reformed dinosaur. One state
ment would be just as true as the
other and Just as ridiculous
In reply to another critic today the
colonel issued a second statement
bearing on what he had said In his
address before the Methodist social
union about the seven and hall
years Of peace during the Roosevelt
administration and making 1t known
to Senator Stone, as well as his news
paper critic. that not an American
was killed by representative OF
mexico or any foreign nation while he
was in the White House. 81.