| Show Roosevelt In Receptive Mood And And Will Take the Presidential I Nomination if Convention Will Give it to HimI HimI HimI Him I I will accept the nomination for president if it JB is tendered me and will adhere to this decision decision decision deci deci- sion until the convention has hus expressed its preference is isCol Col Theodore Th-eodore Roosevelt's reply 3 to the letter of seven even l Republican can governors o askin asking him to stand for a nomination The eagerly a awaited ted rc rep reply ly y was given out tonight at nt Col CoK Roosevelt's offices during i h-i his absence on fl a trip to Boston It J was vas unexpectedly brief but ut definite de de- finite It follows follows- Ne N NeW York Feb 24 1912 Gentlemen I deeply appreciate ate your letter and and aud I realize tri th the full the heavy responsibility rt Y Yit it puts upon me me expressing a ait an as anit asit it does the carefully Convictions of the men elected by br popular vote to st stand nd as the heads leads of government t in their several states I agree e with you 3 cm that this matter is is' not one to tobe tobe tobe be decided with any BIlY reference c r to th the pers personal nul preferences or interests of any man but hut purely purely pure pure- ly from the standpoint of the interests of the p people ople an au a n whole I r will accept the nomi omi- nomination nation for president if it is tendered tendered tendered ten ten- dered to me and I will wili adhere to this d decision until the con convention c has expressed its preference pre pre- ference On One of the chief chit t principles principles prin prin- for which I have ha stood and for which I now Inow now stand nn and which I have ha always ways ways' endeavored endeavor endeavor- ed and aud always shall endeavor tb reduce reduce to actor acton is the genuine genuine e lu- lu ine ine rule of the people and therefore I hope that so far fur as os possible the people may be he given ghen h g en the chance through direct primaries to express their preference pre- pre f ference rence as ns to who shall be the nom nominee a of f the c can 8 n preside presidential convention Very er tru truly yours vours J 0 r THEODORE J 2 |
