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Show DEFENDS ROOSEVELT OW TUTJST LITIGATION". BOSTON, April 21 Grant night was observed by the Middlesex club, a Republican body, last night at the Brunswick. Among the guests and speakers were Gov. John L. Bates and Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody. Secretary Moody, who responded respond-ed for the administration, reviewed the Northern Securities merger case. "There are people," he said, - "who bitterly denounce the President for his action In this case. These same people are claiming that the President Is not a' safe man. : These same men are searching the country over for a man to take President Roosevelt's place. The Republican party," declared Mr. Moody, ''has tnany men who could take the presidency, tut, they will not. X pity the man who is befalled into fce coming the candidate of those who are opposed to the President, because when the national convention and election are over there will not be enough of that candidate left, even with the proper admixture of wind and water, to be Incorporated In-corporated under the laws of New Jer- |