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Show M PUSS OVER "PEACE DIIIER NEW YORK, Dec. 26, Close on the heels of one great peace meeting which was broken up bv disturbers opposed to the ratification of the treaties with England and France, disagreements dis-agreements have arlsei) oxer what Is being planned as one of the greatest peace dinners the country has ever seen, to bo held here Saturday night. According to a member of the committee com-mittee in charge of the dinner, it developed de-veloped today, that former President Roosevelt had replied to n semi-official Invitation to attend the functiou, at which President Taft will be tho principal speaker, with a letter declaring de-claring that his sentiments wholly are at variance with those to be expressed ex-pressed at the affair and censuring as 'traitorous" to their principles a.11 thoso who accopt the Invitation to the dinner without agreeing with its purposes To arrange a harmonious program, the executive committee of tho National Na-tional Citizens' committee. In charge of the dinner, met and discussed the situation. At a meeting of the executive committee com-mittee of the National Citizens' committee com-mittee in chargo of the dinner held last Wednesday, a resolution was adopted authorizing an ofTlclal Invitation Invi-tation to Mr. Roosevelt, but the secretary, sec-retary, who was told lo send tho Invitation In-vitation did not do so In a formal way, but first wrote to Mr. Roosevelt to learn his views. A member of the committee, who would not have his name printed, said that Mr. Roosevelt replied with a seven-page letter, leaving no doubt whatever that ho would not attend. In another Interview Mr. Roosevelt implied today his intention not to attend, at-tend, John Temple Graves was selected as toastmaster. A letter from President Pres-ident Taft was read. He agreed to be present and to make a 30-mlnutc speech as well as to remain throughout through-out the dlnnor, If it did not continue for more than three hours and a half. |