Roosevelt Gives Up Trip.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 18, 1912:
Induced by Managers Not to Stump Till After Convention.
Special to The New York Times.
    OYSTER BAY, N. Y., July 17.— Col. Roosevelt has decided to abandon his Western primary campaign, which he had planned to make before the convention of Progressives at Chicago on Aug. 5. This announcement was made late to-night by O. K. Davis, head of the Roosevelt Publicity Bureau, after a long conference at Sagamore Hill, attended by Senator Dixon and George W. Perkins.
    "So many questions have come up at headquarters which require consultation with Col. Roosevelt that it is a physical impossibility for him to leave at this time," he said.
    The trip has really been given up, it is said, because the third party leaders have come to the conclusion that some of the Roosevelt utterances might complicate matters in States where situations are already tangled. He wanted to go ahead with the trip despite their protestations, but was finally dissuaded.
    The impending break between Roosevelt and his leaders in Pennsylvania over the attempt to save the party ticket by effecting a compromise was one of the things which decided the Roosevelt managers to hold him in check, it is said. His reply to ex-Senator Flinn's proposal caused some consternation, and it was feared that he might stir up more trouble on his stumping tour.
    In getting Col. Roosevelt to remain at home his managers had no easy task, for even as late as this evening he declared that he would have to make a few speeches in the West before the convention. The Colonel will leave here for Chicago Aug. 3.
    About 100 of the third party advocates of Oyster Bay held a meeting in the Board of Trade Hall to-night, and formed a local organization. Resolutions were adopted condemning the Republican National Committee for stealing the nomination at Chicago.
    Smith Cox and Dr. William Carey, the local delegates to the Republican National Convention, were upbraided for supporting Taft.
    The Rev. Dr. George B. Farrar, pastor of the Methodist Church, was elected President; H. G. Vail, Andrew Snouder, and Thomas J. Ellison, Vice Presidents; Tames H. Ludlam, Treasurer: Robert W. Duvall, Secretary, and A. D. Marsh Chairman of the Executive Committee.
    It was decided to call the organization Roosevelt Progressive Club of Oyster Bay. Lucien Bonheur, Chairman of the Nassau County Progressive Committee, spoke at the meeting.

DIXON HAS ROSEATE VIEWS.
Says Roosevelt Will Beat Wilson and Taft Won't Get an Electoral Vote.
    Senator Joseph M, Dixon, National campaign manager for Col. Theodore Roosevelt and his National Progressive Party, was most optimistic yesterday. That the Colonel would overcome Gov. Wilson in November was one of his predictions. That President Taft would not get a single Electoral vote was another.
    Everything seemed quiet yesterday, both at the National headquarters and at the State headquarters in the Metropolitan Tower, where William H. Hotchkiss has direction.
    George W. Perkins was at the National headquarters all afternoon in preparation for the National Convention, which will be held in Chicago on Aug. 5, and the various State Conventions, which will be held prior to that time for the purpose of electing National delegates. These affairs, it is understood, are being financed from this city. In this State the delegates will be named by the individual Congressional districts.
    The most notable of the State Conventions will be that of Michigan. It will be held at Jackson on Saturday "under the oaks" where the Republican Party was born on July 6, 1854. The Colonel's followers in Michigan were anxious to have him attend that auspicious event, but it was learned from Senator Dixon yesterday that the Colonel would send his regrets.
    Senator Dixon had cheering intelligence from below Mason and Dixon's line yesterday, when C. W. McClure, President of the McClure Ten-Cent-Company of Atlanta, Ga., brought word that the State of Georgia was aflame for Roosevelt. Julian Harris, son of Joe Chandler Harris, the humorist, and Harry W. Grady, Jr., son of one of the late editors of The Atlanta Constitution and one of the foremost publicists of the South, were said to be out for the Colonel.
    "Both these men are sterling Democrats," said Mr. McClure. "There are hundreds of others less prominent, but equally sincere, to my knowledge who will vote for the Colonel in November down our way."
    Senator Dixon said last night that a full attendance of delegates from all the States of the Union was assured at the Bull Moose Convention in Chicago.
    "It will be such a great gathering," said Senator Dixon, "that we have found it necessary to get the Coliseum, where we had expected to get along with merely a large hall. It is sure going to be some convention, believe me."
    State Conventions of the new party to be held are:
    Nevada, at Reno, on July 23; Maryland, at Baltimore, on July 25; Georgia, at Atlanta, on July 25; Oregon, at Portland, on July 25; Montana, at Helena, on July 29; New Mexico, at Albuquerque, on July 29, and Louisiana, at New Orleans, on Aug. 2.
    Florida will send a double delegation to Chicago, giving each delegate half a vote.
    Staten island Progressives effected a temporary organization of the Roosevelt party in Richmond County last night at the law offices of Charles J. D. Noble in Stapleton. Representatives of all sections of the island were present and signed the articles of organization.