Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-18 | Page 1 | Roosevelt to Stop Talking

ROOSEVELT TO if STOP TALKING ;;; Now York, Jan. IS. Colonel RooEe- ' ffl ' velt hasdecidcd to curtail his speech- I Ml'1 making to the lowest possible limit. i 91 Jj Honceforth he will mako no speeches j that ho can avoid. He makes this 1 I jwi declaration In a letter declining an Jl 4J Invitation (from tho Amerlcan-UrlBh I $ Historical aociety. He says: J "I wish it -were ssible for my J L friends to renlizc m position not ' j ly for my own sake, but because then a they would understand why it Is that , I cannot accept all the invitations ' that come lo me. From now on, I - wish to avoid making any speeches . ' . that I can possibly avoid and, great- U ly though I appreciate an invitation ( ; . . coming from such a body as tho one J - you represent, it really is not possible for me to accept. 1 cannot go into , anything further of any kind or sort J- now." J f ,