Show ROOSEVELT'S FINESSE . ' Roosevelt is engaged in the most deh cate political gam wh eh has occup ed i lis attention for jears It must be extremely wearing on his nerves to 1 abandon the h gh vays of streDuos ty s for the tortuous j ngles of hnesse Not Iiat he is lacking m adroitness for one of our modern politic ans has had lore cunning but the swashbuckling lethods are more to his taste The roadswjird and not the rapier g his avorite weapon of offense and de All his political resources are be ng axed by the effort to transfer himself rom the Progressive party to the Be nbhcan parjy without offending either ide. He will not permit his name to o on the Jliohigan primary ballot as Progressive or as a Republican If 9 were placed on the ballot as a regressive it would remind the Re ublicans of the treachery that lost kern the battle of 191' If he were laced on the ballot as a Republican Lvrould alienate the affections of many iho still chug o the Progressive myth lthough ultimately they will go over j the Republican party It requires the most expert balancing n -the part of Roosevelt to negotiate unself into the Republican nomination nd at the same time keep the Fro ressxves m line not for their pun tples but for their principal. Thus 'are told that Roosevelt like Hughes i not scrambling for a nomination on ny ticket but would accept a nonuna ion of it were offered him. That means oiefty the Republican nomination al bjjugh he will accept the Progressive arty nomination as a subsidiary nomi abxm should the Progressives maintain aemselves aa a party at the next elec |