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Show he had not made the slightest provision for a retreat, re-treat, or to keep his connection with his own base. Whatever elite he rosy do, he should never seek tc defend bis own mists kes, for he has not within himself a trace of that spirit which makes him able to admit that possibly he may have been mistaken. He proceeds on the theory that with him a mistake is impossible, and if one ha been made or will ever b made, it mnst he by some one else. He has some jjreat attributes. ."Pity be does so love to run amuck. - SHOULD NEVER TRY TO EXPLAIN. Mr. Roosevelt seems to be on the defensive now. ad ays. ' He has tried to make excuses for being Senator Smoot'a most active attorney when some' siteere people who'knew the facts protested against bia having a seat in tha aenate of the United States, and when tha evidence of hia own friends on ihe : hearing before tha committee made it clear that the protest should have been heeded. He is trying now to evade the charge that his butting into the New York ight a year ago gave tha state to the . Democrats; be is Irving to bolster his .wauing political polit-ical fortunes and to gain favor with organized labor by belaboring General Otis of the Los Angeles Timet because in his bitterness toward those who destroyed hia -aupurb newspaper plant and- killed twenty of hia employeea he may be saying imprudent impru-dent thin? ' . Mr. Roosevelt should cease the.t kind of work, bf i an it is altogether foein ta his order.of mind. Were he. a goners in the field, his only butie if success far at Ul be in constant victories- On jefe.it would destroy him, because it would be found that |