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Show Smtioeji ! Slip EAST 1 Penrose, Crane and Barnes Believe That Bull Moose I Leader Will Be Repub- lican Candidate. LOOKING TO COLONEL ' I TO UNITE THE PARTY 1 Senator ReeH Smoot Says: I "Nothing in It;" Has Not I Read Sutherland Interview. j Senator Boies Penrose of Ponnsylva- IK nia, former Senator Murray Crane of "w Massachusetts and William Barnes of J Now York share the belief of Senator George Sutherland that Colonel Theo- n dore Iioosevolt will be a candidate for IIS tho Republican nomination for prcsi- BlS dent, according to a press dispatch re- V ' coived by The Tribune last night from Jj Philadelphia. 1 The confirmation of Senator Suthor- Jjj land's statements as contained in The i Tribune interview gives rise to tho 18 belief that at tho conclusion of the re- u I cent tariff fight in tho United States Jm Bonate, a coterie of prominent "Repub- 119 lican senators classified as "the old Eli guard" discussed available candidates mm tfor the presidency on the "Republican U ticket and decided upon Roosevelt. Ifl View in the East. H Tho dispatch from Philadelphia Hi received last night by -iThe Tribune, -A which would seora to justify this con- all elusion, follows: 'BI PHILAX)ELPHL. Pa., Sept. 20. S Friends of Senator Ponroso, today Jgjf today camo forward wth tlio state- i ment that the Pennsylvania senator. 4g who has been flayed so unmercifully -MR by former President Roosevelt, Is H willing to accept Roosevelt as a can- BB dldate for tho presidency In 1915. mi The announcement also is made that OR not only Ponrose, but Barnes of New Wfi York, Crane of Massachusetts and IU others of the Republican leaders MM favor such a plan, as In Roosevelt 1 they think they seo the candidate jD able to bring tho Republican party fll back into power. II In his Interview with Tho Trlbunn 'jig Senator Sutherland eald that his belief S that Roosovelt would be a candidate for ttjv the Republican presidential nomination lj was shared by a number of other promt- Hf nent Republicans. Senator Pjed Smoot, fh how over, appeara not to haVo boon iji among the prominent .Republicans to fil share this view. He disclaimed all Mi knowledge of tho subject vhen inter- gt viewed by long distance telephone at hla homo at Provo last night. ' He said: II Smoot to the Contrary. 1 Tour dispatch about Penrose and Wt - Crane Is apparently a fake. There's I nothing to It. Of course, any candl- H date named by the Republican party nj woud bo acceptable to both PonroB9 flj and Crane, but they are not consider- Ijj Ing the llkollhood of Colonel Booce- iSgj vclt's candldaoy. SI I hae not read Senator Suthor- M land's Interview on tho subject, and I did not know that he had expressed himself about Boosevelt- I have m heard nothing about Roosevelt being S! a candidate for president. I did hear ffi some talk about his keeping qulot J until ho saw how things wero going m and I heard that he -was going to -h South America for a while, but noth- 9 ' ing about his being a Republican ft j ' candidate for president. S f |