Show SWEARS HELL NEER CONSENT A 0 Chicago paper yesterday published I a dispatch from Washington In which it was waa stated upon the highest authority ty undoubtedly meaning the authority ty of the president himself that Mr r Roosevelt would shortly issue another declaration of his determination not to again a candidate for the presidency presidency presidency dency This Is to be bo the result of the numerous declarations that have been made In favor of Roosevelt recently by federal fed ral officeholders Let it not be bo un understood understood understood though that the president Is not going to take a hand and a power powerful powerful powerful ful hand in the Republican national convention The impression general generally ly that Mr Roosevelt Is behind the thed d Taft candidacy Statements to this ef of effect effect fact have been repeatedly made and they have never been denied by any anyone anyone anyone one In authority Mr Roosevelt has a notion that Taft will make tho the most popular candidate the Republicans can canname canname canname name but If Senator Foraker succeeds In his avowed determination to prevent an endorsement of Taft by the Ohio convention there will fall faU a blighting a frost on the Taft ambition aI I This would not distress the president in fn the least if he could be sure tho the do de defeat feat of Taft Tart would mean the nomination of Root Mr Roosevelt at heart Is for Root if he be Is s sincere In the extraordinary extraordinary kInd things he has bas said about his secretary of state st te In various speeches the president has pronounced Root the ablest abl st man of or his acquaint acquaintance ance with possibly a mental reserva reservation reservation reservation tion In favor of or himself Nor does any anybody body question Mr Roots ability though not many would go as far tar as RS the th president has gone in praising him But before Mr Root became secretary of state he was a corporation lawyer the personal attorney of Thomas F FRyan FRyan FRyan Ryan of New Wew York and of other well known corporation men To the secre tarTs credit It must be ba said that he hI hei i gave up an Income running Into hun hundreds hundreds of thousands of dollars annually arnual y from his law law practice In order to serve his country at a salary of or a n year It was waa only when he first went In fn Root Is out of the running though because of his former corporation c con connections connections connections His nomination would ba bo little lit little little tle short abort of miraculous and his election would even more nearly approach that tha t description Fairbanks will wID make m ke a fight but bur b he ho will lose Jose for the tho very reasons that put pul Mr air Root out Colonel Henry Watter Watterson son figures that the only real Republican Republican lican Is New York He thinks Hughes Is about the one man manthe manthe manthe the Republicans would have a chance to elect and It Is not Improbable that the Republicans will come com around to his way of at thinking |