Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1912 — ROOSEVELT A CANDIDATE; WILL SEEK NOMINATION. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT A CANDIDATE; WILL SEEK NOMINATION.

Replies to Governors That He Will A Ak&Mo 4a fliwtlalnw TTmtfl r*AUVMI>Atllierfy w Hvwwß vIHK vWnt»* • fion Meets in Jane, fr 7 —*? As many had thought probable for some time Theodore Roosevelt has announced himself as an avowed candidate for the Republican nomination for President ’• I _V i . Some time ago seven Republican governors met and started a boom for Roosevelt. They informed him of their action and Asked him to reply, staling his position. He gave out the following letter for publication Monady: New York, Feb. 24, 1912. “Gentlemen: I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me, expressing as it does the carefully considered convictions of the men elected by popular vote to stand as the heads of government in their several states. “I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not for one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole. “1 will accept the nomination for President if. it in tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference. “One of the chief principles for which I have stood and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people, and, therefore, I hope that, so far as possible, the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican presidential convention. Very truly yours, “THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The governors who started the boom and to whom he addressed his reply are Glasscock, of West Virgina; Aidrich, of Nebraska; Bass, of New Hampshire; Carey, of Wyoming; Osborne, of Michigan; tubbs, of Kansas; and Hadley, of Missouri.