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Show ROOSEVELT Is Misquoted in Regard to Taf t's Political Position Boston Feb. 27. -Theodoro Roosevelt, Roose-velt, angered by a published report that he hcl said President Taft was not progressive, said today he would not bo drawn Into a personal con-troersy con-troersy with the administration, although al-though ho has declared his lntontion of making a "straight out fight," for the Republican presidential nomination nomina-tion Ho said that In. his political conference con-ference estcrday, during which ho was reported to have mado the stato-pienl, stato-pienl, President Tafts name Had not been mentioned" nnd that his opinion In regard to the administration had not been asked or expressed. Col. Roosovelt repeated that he had not taken his present position for personal reasons and he mado it clear that ho did not purpose to make tho Issuo In any sense a personal one. Mr. Roopevelt spent last night with Grafton D. dishing, speaker of the Massachusetts house. This morning he expected to have another talk with Governor Bass of New Hampshire and to meet several Massachusetts politicians. Pie was to go to Harvard Har-vard at noon, and spend most of the remainder of tho day there. He was to take luncheon with his son Kor-mil Kor-mil and several members of the Harvard Har-vard faculty. I The luncheon, :Mr. Roosevelt said, would have a pronounced literary flavor. 1 President A, Lawrence Lowell of Harvard was to entertain tho cx-President cx-President at dinner. Roocevelt'a Attitude Col. RobBevelt was asked tq explain ex-plain the postion ho will maintain during the campaign, In reply, ho Is- . sued the following statement: 'T could r"t more definitely state I my position on the great Jsues of the day thnn I stated it In my Columbus speech and again yesterday before the Massachusetts legislature", fn addition ad-dition to calling attention to what I said on the subject of popular government, gov-ernment, I also call particular attention atten-tion to what I said at Columbus on the huslness situation and the proper altitude of the government toward business so as to insure conditions JjaL&'UlcgalSSc'fir &S- propusrli-rf. 1 trift nna(tiAC vnil 1 twl of nil 011 rnn pie j "In my Ohio speech, 1 flealt with l emphasis ou the two great subjects of Immediate moment to our people, the need of having a leal, and nt merely nominal, popular rule, and the need of securing prosperity for the business man. the wage earner and the farmer alike. As I then said, T most emphatically hollced that, it is necessary to have an equitable dlls-ion dlls-ion of prosperity, but that it behooves us to keep In mind that we cannot divide di-vide the prosperity unless tho prosperity pros-perity is here to divide, and that to secure tho well being of tho business world is emphatically in the interest of every citizen of the United States "' Why Taft Is Disappointed Washington, Feb 27 The Washington Wash-ington Evening Star today displays prominently on Its first page a bo containing the following statepient: "From sources entirely independent indepen-dent of tho White House, it is ascertained as-certained that the confidence enter- tained hy the administration and others oth-ers that Col. Roosevelt would NOT be n candidate against Taft was based j on definite and repeated statements by Col. Roosevelt, made within a year, that he would not bo a candidate in 1912 and did not Intend to oppose President Taft for renominatlon." Son-ln-Lav Inactive Washington. Feb 27 Represcnta-I Represcnta-I tlvo Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, son-in-law of Theodoro Roosevelt, returned re-turned to Washington today after a Islt with the Colonel in Boston and announced that he would not take anv part in the campaign for selection of delogates to the Chicago convention from his district in Ohio ' Mr. Longworth several weeks ago announced himself In favor of the r-nojnlnatlon r-nojnlnatlon of President Taft. "I shall take no part in tho selection selec-tion of delegates to the Republican national convention from my district," said Mr Longworth. ' "Had you thought' of being a dple-gate?" dple-gate?" he was asked "I had not," ho roDlied. ftf) |