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Show Former President Will Not Try H Spectacular Journey Across H Continent. H WOULD MAKE SMOOTH B THE PATH OF REPUBLICANS H Believes That He, Bettor Than H Any Other Man,.Can Straight- B en Out. Kinks. H Special Cable to The Tribune. 1 PAJtIS, Keb. 10. Former President Roosevelt will not go homo via the-Philippine the-Philippine islands and San Francisco, according ac-cording to a dispatch received licre today to-day by a news agency from Gondokoro. Mr. Itoosevolt Is quoted as saying:, ' "I am very sorry 1 will not be abic to change my programme. I should llltc very much to see my western friends again, but personal and other reasons make it necessary for nie to follow out 'the original programme. I hope' ln tbc .near future to lie ablo to make a trip through the west, 'but it will be. impossible impos-sible to do so at this time." Mr. Roosevelt will bo In Paris the latter lat-ter part of April and will be moat enthusiastically en-thusiastically received. . I Views of a Diplomat. J A diplomat who is woll acquainted with i conditions in the United States said today to-day : 1 . "There arc good reasons why Mr. 1 Roosevelt wishes to get home according ! Jo bis original schedule. Not the doaaL s the marriage of his oldest son. It Is Important for business reasons that voting ' Roosevelt should be married in June, and 1 his father naturally wishes lo b'o present ; on thai occasion. j "Thon there are compelling political reasons for bis desire to get baclc to the I I. nlted States without loss of time. Mr. I Roosevelt has succeeded In keeping- ir. ' close touch witli affairs at home and It 1 not at nil satisfied with tblngH as tbcv arc going. He Is anxious to have a hand In the big things which are happening n$ In a political way and is convinced that , la, he. bettor than any other man, car Kj: straighten out some of the tangles whict H! arc worrying the Republican lender. H "To change bis plans and return home ' by way of the Philippines, Japan nndSni m Francisco, as suggested in the cables from the Tnlted States, would mean thai Bj Instead of getting- back home 'early In flr June, he .would not reach New York tin- n; til -late in July or perhaps later. J lni- ! aglne the Republican leaders are sis Hi anxious to have Mr. Roosevelt get home as quickly as possible as be ia himself I to gel there."' |