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Show AdaTtl Dewey nd Politic . : Admiral Dewey was questioned by a New York reporter recently as to" the political situation; but! the grizzled old hero fought shy of it Baid he: "I have had about all the excitement I wish for in life. Politics is a game for the young fellows : anyway. There is sound sense in what the Admiral says. He haahad.nWre exdtemfint" as he calls it . than politics could give him and honors greater than those that go with most offices. He is a splendid naval officer and were he to attempt to be anything else it would only do him injury. ; Some of his over-fcnthnsiastic over-fcnthnsiastic friends once tried to get the Admiral to mix up m politics, but he did not go very far In the game. His jjood sense told him he had no business in it ; . -' "V..' ;' . '. . . But he Is mistaken, we think, in asserting that politics is a game for none but the young,, Men of ripe experience and mature judgment are needed in politics and many who are no longer even middle-aged middle-aged are found in the highest party councils. Politics Poli-tics conducted by young men or by old men exclusively, exclu-sively, would be a queer kind, but when both work i n harmony the result is usually for good. - .- . - |