Roosevelt Going On Stump.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 12, 1912:
Expects North Carolina Electors— Pettigrew His Latest Recruit.
Special to The New York Times.
    OYSTER BAY. N. Y., July 11.—Col. Roosevelt is likely to go on the stump again within the next ten days or two weeks to blaze the way of the third party. He has been asked by the leaders in three States—Kansas, Michigan, and Iowa—to appear before the voters prior to the primaries, which are to be held to name Presidential Electors.
    "I have not definitely decided," said Col. Roosevelt. "but I told the leaders that I had much ground to cover before Nov. 7, and that if I made a campaign at the primaries in any of the States it would probably be the only campaign that I could make there. A funny thing about these primaries, by the way, is that my opponents in the Republican Party have decided that, while they will take part in them, they will not abide by the decision of the voters."
    Col. Roosevelt also announced that, after a conference with Senator Butler of North Carolina, primaries to choose Presidential Electors are to be held in that State, but it is unlikely that he will go there now. In speaking of Butler's visit he suggested that the Democratic Electors might be placed on the Progressive ticket.
    "Butler says that the primaries in North Carolina will be carried for me 5 or 6 to 1," declared the Colonel, "and that there may be some of the Democratic Electors on the Roosevelt ticket where these Electors are for honest, progressive government."
    Ex-Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, one of the strongest supporters of Champ Clark at the Democratic National Convention, also was in conference, with Col. Roosevelt to-day. He is for Roosevelt the Colonel let it be known.
    Replying to editorial comments to the effect that, while making an issue of the commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," the Colonel was himself attempting to steal the Republican Electors, the Colonel declared:
    "There is always something refreshing about the pickpocket who seeks to detract attention from himself by calling, 'Stop thief:' with reference to the man whose pocket he has just picked.
    "I am immensely amused at the upholders of fraud in the Republican Convention speaking about stolen Presidential Electors, Mr. Taft is not the nominee of the rank and file of the Republican Party. Mr. Taft was honestly beaten. He is the fraudulent nominee of the Barnes-Penrose-Guggenheim machine, which nullified the wish of the great majority of the Republican Party.
    "Mr. Taft is entitled to any Elector nominated by Barnes-Penrose-Guggenheim. He is not entitled to any Elector nominated by the majority of the Republican Party at any primary, and it is a flagrant act of dishonesty to ask any such Elector to vote for Mr. Taft."