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Show WILL BUILD NEW PARTY. Colonel Roosevelt to Cut Entirely Away From Party With Which His Career Has Been Identified. Cleveland, O. A new party from the ground up is the Roosevelt program. pro-gram. After a series of discussions with his lieutenants on Monday before leaving Chicago, in which there were several sharp clashes, Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt decided to cut entirely away from the party with which his whole public pub-lic career has been identified. His decision was a disappointment to those who favored the organization of what might be considered an Independent Inde-pendent Republican party with which various state organizations might cooperate co-operate and still maintain, It was hoped, a nominal regularity. "There must be no compromise, no straddle," Colonel Roosevelt said. As an indication of his determination, determina-tion, he said that when he returned to Oyster Bay he would communicate with a number of Democrats wno, he thought, might wish to join the new party. |