Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1914 — ROOSEVELT APPROVES NEW YORK COALITION [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT APPROVES NEW YORK COALITION

District Attorney Whitman May Bun For Governor on RepubL „ liean-Progressive Ticket. The , Indianapolis Star usually maintains a very careful censorship over its columns' to prevent any item being published that has the possibility of aiding the republican cause. The Stair as clearly as any other paper, however, can see the hand writing bn the wall aind realizes that the progressive movement is at a praetical.end and that men who voted for Roosevelt are flocking back to the old party. The Star, under a New York date line, publishes the following dispatch in its issue of June 2nd, and peculiarly the article appeared on the front page. It Shows the (trend in New York and that Colonel Roosevelt is shrewd enough to know that the defeat of democracy can only be secured through a united party. The dispatch reads: “New York, June I.—District Attorney Charles 8. Whitman, of New York, announced! his candidacy for the republican nomination for governor? “ ‘I expect to be a candidate for the nomination for governor in the republican primaries;” he said. “It was learned also that a movement had been launched with the design of procuring Mr. Whitman’s nomination on both the republican and .progressive tickets. For this purpose it is planned to hold a nonpartisan mass meeting in Syracuse in the last week of July to name a ticket headed 'by Mr. Whitman for presentation at both therepublican and progressive primaries.

“■Some time before he sailed for Spain, on Saturday, Col. Roosevelt whs made acquainted with the plan for a nonpartisan Whitman movement, according to its principal sponsor, Charles H. •“Duell, Jr., a New York lawyer, who was active in the progressive campaign of 1912. Mr. Duell said that Roosevelt had given him positive assurance that he. would support the plan.”