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Show PRESIDENT NOT TO BE 1912 CANDIDATE HEVEULY. Sept. K. The pul'llcntlnn of a story In certain newspaper news-paper purporting to come from loverly lov-erly and announcing that President Taft has decided to stop aildt as i(. presidential candidate In U'12 to make way (or Colonel Theodore Kc-osevelt brought many lnqulrlen to the summer capital today. Jt was dert.JVd not to dignity the story, which a reported io he without any foundation whatever with a statement. state-ment. It ran he stated that there hat been no change In President Taft'a attitude toward a second term since he told a number of" friends n few month ago that he would accept a second nomination If his party de-tired de-tired It. Not Considering His Chances. The president. It Is jld, Is not considering con-sidering his chances for a second term one way cr the other at this time. From th. flm he has sail that he would devote himself to carrying car-rying out as nearly as possible the pie iges of the platform on which he was ek-rtHd. Mr. Taft. It M polnt-d em. does not know how to play politics, poli-tics, and he ha been quoted as saying say-ing lhat he would not do so If he- I could. I |