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Show 4 ALONE Di SjEiJ IS icaiit His Declination jjifflicr Nomination to plight Editor. .... Jarst AS ipOCKATIC CHOICE fifties Ave Quiet, and Ps Are Oil' on Their !!.5flVacafions. t Ke' Tribune. fljjtk. Aug. 10. The White I Rpvernor's mansion at Al-city Al-city hall of Now York Kfwcll deserted on account ftnnmer vacation a.nd l.hc "Rtlic ordinary centers of 2' ln0 President, the Gov-C'' Gov-C'' Mayor. And it is only jicn returning from a visit I Jay, the summer home of TV&jiud the present summer pjflnalion, open their mouths wars anything apparently Kg to in the political line. 8S giondaclts, where Governor L as at times, and from the HIS: pro Mayor McClellau is 'wc hears nothing that is iWUg. 'SCIifffi; Oyster Bay there is a .illness that must at times JMto the strenuous person-gTor person-gTor it is almost impossible , interview with r.hc Presi-Vijthese Presi-Vijthese latter days. Of '!'! J?faited Stales Senator who tJ.BI5-tkc President's private f cafeiEecuro Hn admission, but E whether the ordinary IfliLower House would find fec' at Oyster Bay. True, 1f .Jnyi or some of the real Re-jJflngrB Re-jJflngrB of the House would not o difficulty in securing au jjjjj-Tthc sacred portals than ' "tied Stales Senator, but the """"jper of Congress thoroughly 8wHlat the President is in a .-He is anxious to be "let gstfae." And most of them OtIh alone. As a result the " ...'iMthe.f United States is en-cn en-cn joying his vacation. It SMffldDgest vacation that he fin his life certainly the " , pet retired vacation which ihco ho entered upon tho executive mansion as the "e. martyred President Mc- llghis old-time friends in jtore is always "an open Sgreo little transpires dur-irsonal dur-irsonal visits except fish-growing fish-growing aud riding. But (the visitors carry away Qfj, the things the Presi-Bng Presi-Bng about. And these im-Konned im-Konned by his friends and mot the Roosevelt family Mps numerous aud all arc JPSjBtcr Bay, more as the rics of questions than as Series of statements. lit Le2ks Out. - ""fose who have spout, cou-gin cou-gin the vicinity of Oyster fffhayo as good an oppor-jpoming oppor-jpoming tho uioods of the fpny persons in this coun-jfitly coun-jfitly been talking in Roose-V3jrclcs. Roose-V3jrclcs. Aud some of this ved out and reached tho , .Of course the President Wlv disinherit; 3113- of his r-Uaarcd ,0 talli about his J$te but Iho following, fglenned from the moods voided man, may be said lUMto the truth ns anything 3lviM'rcsent time. soobovelt would not turn in, E obtain a runominu-Bfl runominu-Bfl iftnt every word of. tho IV It' he wrote on tho night ' (hen he declared that he ebjja, candidate for a rononi-.Mfhy rononi-.Mfhy is not a candidate Jgr l0M ore, ho meant Wiy&sjiH when ho indicated .jijjlliot the election that een-jjhardly een-jjhardly arise which could fH(,-cept. There is appar-acondition appar-acondition of alTairs which iothim to lead his party in rd:'&?.ul he in the event of by the Independence 7Mj'i; Democrats of the counts, coun-ts, Hearst and tho ex--.ii5Vel on the part; of the jg .ti3ders that Judge 'J'aft or ;'viftics,,or even !l Republican i-isf Senator La Folk-ttc could Jjupon tn beat Hearst. In jictHrency the President vould ta, JVAharups.H :,nd make the filR 'Republican against the 9Kpjjrncy. but as a ' patriot ' ' rces of " anarch v." This oiiduion of affairs which ' 8oy.-lt, back into tho fight. Vfilt should i-oiiio buck in AW. Mich a ..'iumo he would j ltW'Uul roPgii sm-h aa ! llfMs ne or soin. jyr&W With Things. ! Jn,01,,jW" people would him for writing that ..eJj&ght uf election declar-Kftifef, declar-Kftifef, Uo circumstances would kVSi" tc event of the noiu- V0111'1 l,y 1,10 1:CI"0-,t;i 1:CI"0-,t;i fUuc ludoponrionco Leacnic &Vy' hPiicd in this llr"'1l"alioii of Ilo.-,ri Ml rhr IilIif!s ol- ,hp DlMIKl. j "htffi, '""Pendonci? League, i gui'alo coinention Hearst ap-Wnaking ap-Wnaking vast inroads on e? ruiors and working-'tai-f Hghcs ;it that time (,rrnown 10 tbe voters of Cgn'oeti Hi's were not large-,''pi'v"'yon large-,''pi'v"'yon 1,1(1 l!c'iiblicau ;rr5T0 (1 tl,cni to be of the MffFrosL ' 0,1 tlu; 0,ber haV0'b0U fr0,n f t motives of curiosit3' the Hearst meetings meet-ings were crowdod. At; that crisis in the campaign the President sent Secretary Sec-retary JJoorinto tho State with instructions instruc-tions to make a stunip speech denouncing. denounc-ing. Hearst with all of the influence, all of the force and all of the power of the Itooscvelt administration. Up to this time Hearst had been denouncing denounc-ing cprporution rulo and had been Having Hav-ing his own way. But after Boot's speech and the Booscvelt interference tho tide turned and tho issues were changed in the twinkling of an eye from Republican- corporation rule to Hearst and anarchy. Even shrewd Republican politicians wero afraid that Roosevelt had "overdone "over-done the thiug." They remembered that it was the interference of another Republican administration in a New York State election that resulted in Grover Cleveland being elected Governor Gov-ernor of the Slato of New York bv 192,000 majority. The interference o'f Chester A. Arthur in New York State politics and a New York Stalo election to help Judge Folger had furnished the Democracy with the first successful candidate can-didate for the Presidency sinco the war. Would the thing react upon Hughes and the Republicans? That was the question. Aa it transpired. Roosevelt Roose-velt was able to "get away with it.'' Hearst was defeated and Juighes elected. elect-ed. Public opinion forgave in Roosc-velt Roosc-velt fhe very thing that it would not forgive in Arthur. Conditions were, of course, radically different, but Roosevelt Roose-velt can "get away with things" that the public would never forgive in another an-other man For instance, the American Ameri-can people would never have forgiven sober, serious-miuded men like Grover Cleveland or Benjamin Harrison for writings letters like "My dear Maria" Storrer letter concerning the elevation of Archbishop Ireland to the post of cardinal, or the "Wo are both practical prac-tical men" loiter to Ilarriman. But of Roosevelt they say: "Oh, it's only Teddy; aud he really don 't mean it." " Not Losing Sleep. Friends of the Roosevelt family arc certain that the President is losing no sleep worrying over the question as to whether the nomination is coming to him next year or not. He would make the race against Hearst as a "patriot" to save the country from "anarchy." But in tho event of't.hc Democrats nominating nom-inating a conservative candidate, or even Bryan, he would figure that tho country would be "safe' The Wall street expression. "Bryan barks; Hearst bites." applies hero. In the event of the Republicans nominating conservative conserva-tive candidates liko Hughes or T3l"t. or even Fairbanks, or oven a radical liko La Folloltc, Roosevelt figures, " U. can make little difference." But Hearst That is a horse of another color, especially if there was the slighl-ost slighl-ost chanco that; the radical editor might be elected. Those who know the President's bent of mind and way of thinking best sav that he ligures that the ne:it four .year's will be stormy yours for i.lio country j at best. Arid Bryan or any Jiepublioa'u 1 would go out of office badly discredited because of the rniCKtiotis" arising bp-twoen bp-twoen cnpiial and labor. And if Koose- 1 veil can retain that wonderful persona J popularity which enables him to "gel I away with things" iio figures that ln ! can mnko a tour round tho world or dir ' the Panama cnnal and come back again in lt12 with his popularitv undiminished. undimin-ished. But if he in elected 'in 190S ho figures ho must either climb down on tin side of labor or tho side of capital; and no matter which fide ho climbs down on he innuot retain his personal popularity- ho will bo a "vellow dojr President1 ' in the minds or' the other side. Tf he can only retain as an asset that marvelous "popularity with the American people he wilj have -a brilliant future before him, no mutter what he does. But the "butting in" of Hearst has upset manv things, and rhe President figures that" he may have to run willy-nilly |