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Show ROOSEVELT PUNS WFC1PI1 Intends to Invade Louisiana j to Attack Sugar and Cot-j Cot-j ton Schedules. By International News Service. ' OYSTER BAT, N. Y., July 5. The I Progressive party's fight In the state ! campaign this fall will focus upon two vital issues: 1 The bosses. 2 The Wilson administration policies with the tariff as the dominant feature. Within the next few days Colonel Roosevelt will hold important conferences with his leaders in the Bull Moose camp in which the lines for the state campaign cam-paign will be mapped out. While the i plan for the state tight Is being formulated, formu-lated, the nominee to head the ticket . will be picked. The ex-president is to stump the state In a hard battle to overthrow the Barnes and Tan. many machines, the while attacking at-tacking the Wilson r.'gime for its failure fail-ure to pass adequate remedial legislation. legisla-tion. The colonel thinks the tariff Issue Is tantamount to that of the bosses in all the state fights. In his stump speeches In this state and In others he intends to visit lie w-ill put It forward as his strong card. The ex-pmsfdent Is to confer with George W. Perkins, his national committee commit-tee chairman, early this week to outline out-line the battle for the state campaign , He still insists that he wants to dodtre running for governor himself, but the chances are he may be induced to change his mind. A lingering hope which saw the light in the campaign two years ago to break I the solid south possesses Colonel Roose-I Roose-I velt. John M. Parker, cotton merchant of New Orleans, national committeeman from Louisiana, informs the ex-president that the Progressive party is on the way toward turning the state over from the Democracy. Roosevelt will make a trip to Louisiana Louis-iana the latter end of August. He will take into the state his attack on the new tariff with' particular reference to the sugar and cotton schedules. |