Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — ROOSEVELT JUST WON’T CONVERSE [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT JUST WON’T CONVERSE

Has Full Discussion With Progressive Leaders, But It Is Not for Publication. Oyster Bay, N. Y., June 13. —Col. Theodore Roosevelt was visited at his home at Sagamore Hill today by James R. Garfield and Dean William Draper Lewis. According to his secretary, John W, McGrath, who returned from Chicago, the colonel “had a full and frank discussion” with Mr. Garfield and Dean Lewis “as to what he intends to say” with regard to the political situation and “the time he would say it.” Neither of the visitors would make any statement after their interview with Col. Roosevelt. Both have been prominent In Progressive party circles, Dean Lewis having drafted the platform adopted by the Chicago convention.