AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 206, 28 February 1912, Page 5

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

ME. ROOSEVELT WILL ACCEPT NOMINATION. B>y Cable —Press Association—Copyright. New York, February 2ti. Mr. Roosevelt announces that he will accept a nomination for the Presidency if it is tendered to him. He will adhere to this decision until the Republican Convention expresses its preference. As to the principle involved in the contest, he believes in a genuine rule vi the people, and therefore believes that the law should be able \to indicate their choice through direct prim.arie's. ROOSEVELT'S HAT. EX-PRESIDENT'S THREATS. Received 28, 12.10 a.m. New York, February 27. Mr. Roosevelt again reiterates the dteadful threat, "My hat "is in the ring. Ji is going to stay there." The Times' Washington correspondent states that the declaration caused excitement and heralds the bitterest contest since the Civil War. Mr. Taft'a lack of political experience has alienated the extreme Republicans. Mr. Roosevelt's enemies accuse him of treachery and inability to subordinate political decency to personal dignity, his actions being dictated by a spiteful, intolerant nature. His friends urge that Mr. Roosevelt's Radical bark is worse than his bite. The outlook is obscure. Mr. Roosevelt will be helped by his •kifl as a political press agent, but the Republican machinery is in Mr. Taft's bands. Mr. Roosevelt appeals mainly to the West, while the Eastern States are Republican.