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Show ROOSEVELT TO MAKE CAMPAIGN ' Lose No Time In Getting Inti Action. Determined to Cover Country Oyster Bay, N. Y., June 25. Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt plunged today Into what he expects to bo tho hardest political campaign he has ever undertaken. under-taken. He lost no time In getting Into In-to action. Nine hours aftor he stepped on shore at Oyster Bay, following fol-lowing his midnight trip from Now York harbor, he was back In hU library lib-rary nt Sagamore Hill, starting Or? machinery. His secretary carao from New York last night to bo on hand early In the day and at 10 o'ch tk Colonel Roosevelt was dictating letters let-ters and telegrams at full speed. The question whether Colonel Roosc velt Is In fit condition physically for a hard spoechmaklng campaign which recently has caused so much roncrn to Progressive lenders, gave tho colonel col-onel no worry1 at all. '1 nover felt better In my life," ho said. Ho added, Jiowevcr, that hla throat had been giving him Borne trouble nnd hero lies the chief danger dan-ger of being Incapacitated for thp cam pnlgn. Ho Intends to make fewer speeches In each stato than In former for-mer years, but to adhere to his plan of covering the country from coast to coast. The first campaign problem taken up by Colonel Roosevelt wbb the tangled tan-gled Now York situation. Lust night ho heard both sldeB of tho" question of endorsing District Attorney Chas. S. Whitman as candidate for govor-nor govor-nor of Now York nnd rofuse-J absolutely abso-lutely to commit himself. |
