Show TEDDY REALLY EtLY IS ISAN ISAN AN INDEPENDENT OYSTER BAY July 28 Those Those who heard hearel Theodore Roosevelt talk at Sagamore Saga Saga- moro more Hill yesterday esterday came away with witha a sharply etched shadow picture of or what his attitude will bo bl in state and national politics Primarily he hc wishes to keep in the tho background in tho the approaching campaign for ho he feels that by taking too prominent a lL part in it ho may be accused of ot assuming a dictatorship Broadly speaking ho will as he has hassaM said saM on several eral occasions do all aU in his power to help the tho men who stood by him and hl his policies but is non committal as to whether ho expects to curry carry this to the tho point of at coming comins out openly in favor of tho the Republicans all aU over tho the country whom he considers to bo be standing for tor his ideas Ho does say however that he lie must for forget et factional differences and oven party lines and support tho men and the tho things ho believes stan stand for tOl the best in interests In- In of ot the country as aa a whole The Tho Republican situation in this s state ate i Is 18 shifting so rapidly tho the colonel said he ho was having h trouble keeping pace with it In his Interview there thoro were mentioned men men- to him tho the names of ot Representative tive tivo Hamilton Fish and William H. H Hotchkiss state superintendent of ot In Insurance Insurance Insurance In- In us as having been spoken of ot in- in in connection with the gubernatorial gubernatorial gubernatorial nomination Ho He replied by naming nam nam- ing Ins over o the whole list of ot mon who havo have been mentioned adding that he ho had no Idea whatever as to who the tho best man would be Colonel Roosevelt said he had not b been en read reading Ins Ins- up on Nebraska politics lately and had not heard hean how William J. J Bryan had fared in ht the tho Democratic convention in that state stale The Tho interviewers broke the tho news of ot the tho setback of ot the tho Nebraskan kan and the tho colonel asked whether the tho differences of ot opinion had arisen because Mr Bryan went too far tar or not far tar enough in his proposed temperance legislation After ho he was told that the tho former seemed to tit fit the case there was nothing which h ho he cared to add in comment on Dir Mr r. r Bryan A letter caused great reat amusement to Mr 1 Roosevelt When Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt elt was as in Now New York last Friday he ho told interviewers after aCter a conference with several several several sev sev- eral politicians ho he had had an Interesting discussion on literature The newspapers printed his little Joke Joko which brought ht forth tho the letter received today The writer accused the tho president ex-president of trying to make people think that t ho he had be been n discussing literature instead of ot politics politics poli poli- politics tics and wound up by saying Maybe you can ron fool tool tho the minded feeble reporters but lt you cant can't fool tool tho the public like that I know knew all tho the time |