$1000 To See Roosevelt.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 19, 1912:
One of the Colonel's Followers Buys Fifty Convention Tickets.
    CHICAGO, July 18.— The sale of tickets to the third party National convention in Chicago on Aug. 5 was opened at headquarters to-day. Within a few hours it was announced that $1,500 had been received, $1,000 of this amount being for fifty tickets for one man, whose name was not made public. Medill McCormick said it was planned to have the receipts from the tickets pay most of the convention expenses, estimated at $25,000.
    A general Committee of Arrangements, with various sub-committees, was appointed to-day. Ralph C. Otis, who has been at Oyster Bay consulting Col, Roosevelt, was made Chairman. The committee is to have charge of all details, including disposal of tickets and finances.
    Gov. Deneen was asked by telegram to-day when he would receive a committee appointed to ask him and other candidates for State offices whether he would support Col. Roosevelt or President Taft.
    Mr. McCormick to-day gave out the
substance of a telegram from Senator Joseph M. Dixon in which the Senator was quoted as recommending that a ticket be put out in Illinois upon which a candidate for Governor favorable to Col. Roosevelt might run.
    The mass meeting which recently issued a call for the State Convention on Aug. 3 did not provide specifically for a State ticket.
    National control of the building through any State of a lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterway and the use of the Panama Canal machinery in guarding the Mississippi River against floods were favored by Col. Roosevelt in a letter made public to-day by La Verne W. Noyes.
    "Only by a new party, in which all join on equal terms, can the needed social and industrial tasks demanded by our people be successfully undertaken," says the letter, "and one of the greatest of these tasks is the development of the Mississippi."
    Mr. Noyes had asked Col. Roosevelt whether Illinois should expend $20,000,000 for building its part of the deep waterway. Col. Roosevelt's reply said there was no need for Illinois to pay $20,000,000 or any part of it in an individual attempt to build a deep waterway from the Lakes to the gulf, that being a task for the Nation, since the Nation alone could properly do it. It was an inter-State matter.
    Alexander H. Revell, Chairman of the Roosevelt National Committee, has issued a statement denying the repeated allegations in French and English newspapers that Col. Roosevelt's campaign was unsportsmanlike, according to a Paris cable to The Chicago Dally News.  Mr. Revell predicts that Mr. Taft will run a weak third in the November Presidential election.
    "I have seen," said Mr. Revell. "some criticisms in English and French papers of Col. Roosevelt's sportsmanship or lack thereof in not accepting the result of the Chicago convention and in not congratulating the victor. Thank goodness, Roosevelt is an American first and then a sportsman.
    "Let me ask is it customary in England or France after a test of strength to extend the glad hand to the man still up when the spectators saw the blow beneath the belt?"