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Show DEWEY'S POLITICS. Says He is a Sailor and the Administration is His Party. New York, April 11. Admiral Pewey has given to the Manila correspondent of Leslie's Weekly an interview regarding regard-ing the suggestion that the admiral be made a candidate for the presidency next year. The admiral said as to his politics: "I am a sailor. A sailor has no politics. The administration is his party, and Republican or Democrat, it makes no difference. Then, again, I come from Vermont, and you know what that means. To be anything but a Republican in Vermont is to be a man without a party. My flag lieutenant lieu-tenant comes from Georgia. He tells me to be anything but a Democrat in the south is to be a nobody. If I lived south I would probably be a Democrat. Demo-crat. " Admiral Dewey said that neither by vocation, disposition, education nor training was he capacitated to fill the presidency. He said that he was too well along in life to consider such a possibility. His health would not admit ad-mit of it. All his life's work was in different lines of effort and that, whils the kindness and enthusiasm of hia friends were grateful to him and the generous tributes of the American people were dear to him. he could not and would not be a candidate for the presidency of the United States under any conditions. |