Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — ROOSEVELT WILL STICK [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT WILL STICK

Says He Is with Progressives to the Finish* ’ .' i ■ Editor of Pittsburg Leader, Original 1912 Boomer, Gets Statement from the Colonel. New York, Feb. 9.—Theodore Roosevelt told A. P. Moore, editor of the Pittsburg Leader, that he would stick to the Progressives to the finish. Mr. Moore is the original “Roosevelt for 1912” boomer. He started in on the job early last fall, quit foT a time after the colonel wrote to him that in his opinion . his nomination would be a “calamity,” and began again with renewed vigor after a talk with Colonel Rooseevlt not long ago. According to Mr. Moore, the colonel said: /" ■ ' , ' "I don’t believe that even my bitterest enemies will say that I was ever a deserter. You san say to the Progressives that I will not desert the cause and they will find me fighting side by side with them to the finish.” He made this statement. Editor Moore said, after hearing from him that the “money trust” was trying to scare off Roosevelt delegates to the convention. When Mr. Moore received the reporters at the Hotel Knickerbocker following his talk with Rooselelt he had a written statement ready