Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1910 — COL. ROOSEVELT IS SILENT [ARTICLE]

COL. ROOSEVELT IS SILENT

Col. Roosevelt Refuses to Discuss Situation on Receiving News. Oyster Bay, Nov. 9.—Silence, that’s the word; absolute, double riveted. Not a word has Mr. Roosevelt to say. In fact he* refused to be seen. The wires to Oyster Bay' hummed with the news. The colonel at Sagamore Hill did not receive a detailed report of the result, but he heard early that Dix had been elected governor. When the newspaper correspondents climbed the hill, Kermit Roosevelt, who came down from Harvard to cast his first vote, met them. He said that the colonel knew what had happened and that there was nothing for him to give out. Mr. Roosevelt may give out a statement later on. but even that is doubtful. He fought a losing fight, and he went into it with grave fears as to the outcome. As h» left the polling place with Kermit. Noah Seaman and James Amos, the colored butler, he wouldn’t make any predictions. He declared positively that he would not give up, but that he would carry on the battle for progressive Republicanism in this state and everywhere else, because that is the only thing he could do. He thought that he had done all he could.