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New York Times 100 years ago today, July 15, 1912:
Cochems and Van Hise Discuss Campaign Issues with Him.
Special to The New York Times.
    OYSTER BAY, July 14.— Col. Roosevelt conferred to-day with Charles R. Van Hise, President of Wisconsin University, and Harry Cochems, who led the Wisconsin delegation at the Republican National Convention at Chicago, and resigned because, he said, Senator La Follette was determined to beat Roosevelt at all costs. Mr. Cochems and Col. Roosevelt went over the situation in Wisconsin in detail, but Mr. Van Hise, Col. Roosevelt said, simply came to discuss the issues of the day, such as the industrial and trust questions.
    "I cannot say that Mr. Van Hise is for me," declared the Colonel. "In fact, I did not ask him whether he was or not. He said that the university was much interested in the economic questions confronting the country, and he wanted to talk them over with me."
    Col, Roosevelt was asked if he had heard that Mr. Van Hise had called upon Gov. Wilson, the Democratic nominee, yesterday.
    "Yes, I know all about that," replied the Colonel, with a smile. "I don't think Van Hise is interested in the men so much as he is in the issues."
    The situation in Wisconsin and in other States where Senator La Follette has some strength has worried the Colonel and he and his supporters are bending every effort to swing the La Follette following to his side.  Mr. Cochems, who put Gov. McGovern of Wisconsin in nomination as Temporary Chairman at the Chicago Convention, carried fifteen of the La Follette delegates with him then, but it was declared that he resigned because he found that he could not hold the La Follette delegates in line when the question of the test vote on the nomination for a President confronted them.
    Mr. Cochems, it was said, told Col. Roosevelt to-day that the situation was more favorable at present and that he expected the Progressives from Wisconsin to stand firmly with the Colonel, now that Mr. La Follette was no longer a factor.
    Most of his time to-day Mr. Roosevelt devoted to the preparation of the addresses he is to deliver in his campaign before the primaries in some of the Western States, including Kansas, Iowa and Michigan. He said to-day that it would be impossible for him to speak at the meeting at Jackson, Mich., next week when the new Progressive Party of that State would be formed.