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Show IfELT WILL ET PROF. TAFT , Sept. 29. No campaign ectively bearing pictures i Roosevelt, William H. Iiarles E. Hughes will bo ests at the "Union League fon in honor of the Re-esidential Re-esidential candidate next Tuesday evening, it was learned tonight. to-night. Friends of Mr. Roosevelt have Intimated Inti-mated to Chairman W. R. Wlllcox that undue emphasis has been placed upon the fact that the colonel and Professor Profes-sor Taft will me,et at the reception for the first time in the field of poll-tics poll-tics since the Progressive party was born in 1912. The suggestion has been made to the committee arranging the reception recep-tion that the real purpose of the gathering gath-ering is to permit Republicans to pay their respects to the party's standard bearer in the present campaign and not to provide occasion for a reconciliation recon-ciliation .between Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Taft. The colonel is an honorary member of the Union League clubhand accepted accept-ed the invitation to the reception because be-cause It is to be given in honor of Mr. Hughes, It ivas explained. "While ho will shake hands with Professor Taft, it will be tlte same manner of greeting as was Extended when the I two met a year ago at the funeral of j Professor Lounsberry at Now Haven. Mr. Roosevelt declared today that "five-sixths of the Progressives are for Mr. Hughes," "and predicted the election of the Republican candidate. oo |