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Show uu - WILL NOT FUSE WITH TAFT CROWD St. Louis, Sept. 3 The possibility of fusion between the regular Republican Repub-lican and the Progressive forces in this state were said today at the headquarters of the latter here to have entirely disappeared and that the cry among the delegates to the Progressive state convention, which opens this afternoon was "No fusion." fu-sion." It was said the Progressives were fully determined to place their own candidates In the field. It was said to have been the hope of Governor Hadlev and some of his followers that fusion with the Progressives Pro-gressives might be affected and that the latter would be induced to support sup-port lite stale ticket of the regular organization. Colonol Theodore Roosevelt will be, the chief attraction at the convention this afternoon. He is to arrive here at 3 o'clock and after a tour of the city is scheduled to hcgln his address to the delegates about G o'clock. |