Colonel Will Avoid Specials.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 17, 1912:
Talks with Perkins and Decides to Travel Mostly on Regular Trains.
Special to The New York Times.
    OYSTER BAY, N. Y., July 16.— If any progress was made toward smoothing over the threatened breach between Col. Roosevelt and some of his leaders because of the compromise proposals in Pennsylvania and Maryland, there was no indication of it to-day. To-night Col. Roosevelt still clung to the position he took yesterday in his statement, in which he said that he would not agree to anything bordering on a compromise with the Taft forces.
    The Colonel was in conference to-night with George W. Perkins to arrange the details of his Western primary campaign, which he is planning to make before the convention of the Progressives in Chicago on Aug. 5. Senator Dixon wants the Colonel to start out early next week, so that he can be in Iowa next Wednesday, when the third party is organized there.
    One of the things discussed by Col. Roosevelt and Mr. Perkins was the advisability of having a special train for the Colonel, but afterward the Colonel said specials would be used only when absolutely necessary. Criticism had been leveled at the Colonel by Senator La Follette and others because he traveled on specials on some of his trips, and wonder was expressed as to where the money came from.
    Col. Roosevelt was elated to-night over the situation in New York State. He had a conference with Chairman Hotchkiss, and Hotchkiss told him there was a good chance, of winning out this Fall.
    "I was astounded by the situation in New York," remarked the Colonel.
    "Hotchkiss told me that he went into the Progressive movement in New York State as a crusader, considering it a fight for principle, but that now he is fighting for victory. He thinks now that there I is a good chance to win out."
    Following word to-day that Roosevelt had resigned from the Republican Club, he was asked if a report that he had also deserted the Union League Club were true. He replied:
    "No, I am an honorary member of that organization."
    Col. Roosevelt motored into New York this morning and spent several hours at The Outlook office.
    There was a steady stream of visitors who came to discuss the campaign with him. Including Senator Dixon, his campaign manager; Paul Kellogg, Owen Lovejoy, and J. A. Kingsbury, social workers; Meyer Schoenfeld of the Producers and Consumers' League; Julian Harris, signer of the call from Georgia, and Mr. McClure of that State; Dr. W. J. Stewart, President of the Democratic Union; J. J. Fitzgerald, a Democrat and former Brooklyn Assemblyman; Col. Baldwin, a Roosevelt worker from Maryland, and Prof. Jenks, Professor of Economics of the New York University.
    Dr. Stewart told him that the union was organized in every district in Manhattan and would work for him.