The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-04
AM NOT SEEKING
/ NOMINATION IS
/. 7. RS DICTUM
Simply Has Welfare of Nation
( at Heart, He Says.
Refuses TO PussyfOOt to Gain
German Vote.
WANTS AMERICAN VOTES ONLY
Wants All "Hyphenated" Con-
trOYersieS Eliminated.
Colonel Absolutely Sure His
Position Is Popular One.

New York, May Al am not seek
ang the nomination and 1 tell you with
au sincerity that 1 am not in the least
INTERESTED in my own personal for
7unes'
z This is the concluding sentence IN
q 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 count on the
Votes of Germans ard Irishmen.
4 The coloners inquirer was f. h
sSchwan of $40 East 1913 street. n. E.,
cleveland. Roosevelts reply, given out
today, was as follows:
Gets German Americans Letter.
ct thank you for your kind letter.
You say you want IriShmen and Ger
lmans to vote for me. If L ran,
should want all Americans to vote for
hme and 1 don't care whether they were
Born in Ireland, IN Germany, in Eng
land Tor in France. or whether their
ancestors came over in the MayfloWer-
But ] enphatically would not want
amy human being to vote for me as an
f1rishman, or as a German or as a
tFrenchman. or an Englishman any
s1nore, than I would want him to vote
flor me as a Jew, a Catholic or a
protestant. 1 am straight United States
and nothing else and that is all any
sman ought to be in this country
81 welcome the support of every
good American, no matter where he
ewas born, if he is a good American;
rbut L do not want his support if he is
voting as a foreigner in this land of
ours. Moreover, you say L had better
1nodify or qualify what [ wrote about
TBelgium,' and say something more or
less favorable to the German side My
dear sir, 1 won't modify, or qualify, in
-the smallest degree, anything l have
said during these eighteen months
tupon duties and upon the attitude that
.this country ought to take. Turn to
what I have written in the book called
Fear God and Take Your Own Part,
sand you will find the position that I
took, and on which I stand.
Not Interested Personally.
81 am not seeking the nomination
and 1 tell you with all sincerity that 1
am not in the least interested in my
own personal fortunes But 1 am
vitality interested in the welfare of the
united States and in American honor
sand national interest and 1 am abso-
Stately certain that this is the position
shat self-respecting American ought
tn take 8
S54The colonel came to New York from
sOyster Bay to obtain throat treatment
fand spent the forenoon in the Metro
zpolitan magazine offices.
Among his callers were James F.
archibald, the war correspondent;
ENictOriano Huerta, son of the late
Mexican dictator; Lemuel Ely Quigg;
Hamilton Fish, jr., James r. Garfield
of Ohio. and E. A. Van Valkenberg of
sRailadelphia.s
- sCalffornia Ballot Complicated.
The colonel had no comment to
make on the primary fight in Cali
Afornia. His callers explained that.
under the California ballot system
without the use of the coloneTs name
Asuch action having been forbidden by
fRoosevefO it was necessary for voters
yto mark the ballot in twenty-six places
Opposite the names of twenty-six
limited Republican delegates to regis
ter any sort of a vote which could be
.called favorable to johnson and
Roosevelt.