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Show I THE DEFEAT OF ROOSEVELT. Theodore Roosevelt was defeated for temporary chairman of the New York state Republican convention when the Republican state committee met Tuesday in New York City. Soon thereafter, the former president, in a public statement, said he had made it known that if he were named as temporary chairman and made a speech, that speech would do the party no good if the convention . failed to adopt a clean-cut, progressive platform. This challenge of the "old guard," as the regulars are called in New York, will be accepted by Roosevelt and it will force that I fighter to openly declare himself with the Insurgents, for all of j which the Insurgents should be thankfuL J Roosevelt will lead the contest now being fought out within the ' Republican party and there is no doubt as to the outcome. The regulars will be made irregular by being completely overwhelmed and Roosevelt will be the next president of the United States. There is no compromise possible now that the gauntlet has been thrown down. The conflict will wage until the last of the men who have proved untrue to the trust reposed in them by the people through the Republican party has been deprived of political power. |