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Show COL, ROOSEVELT WOULDN'T DEGLINE To Take Nomination for President Any More Than Would Decline De-cline to Enlist. Troiiion, N J , Jan. 30. That Col Theodore Roosevelt would no moio decline to tn'ke tho nomination for tho piesldciicj than he would decline lo enllBt, If needed, In time ot war, Is tho opinion of I,) mini 11 Abbqtt, ono of the edltois of The Outlook, contained con-tained in n letter received hero lo dny b LMwuid C. Stokes, former governor gov-ernor or New Jersey. "Ijim coin Inced ho does not desire the nomination and will enter no con test for It,' writes Mr. Abbott, how ever, Mr Stokes visited Tho Outlook of flee last week, had an Interview with Col. Hoosove't and suggested he wilto a lettei defining his position lelntlve to the incsldency. The letter from Mr. Abbott given out bj Mr Stokes today Is prefaced with u statement that Mr Abbott has no nutlioilty to speak for Col. Roose veil but that during tho past two yeurs he hns had nn exceptional op portunlty to Icain Col. Roosevelt's views and tho workings of his mind. |