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Show -oo MR. ROOSEVELT'S POSITION. (Butte Miner). It is too soon yet for Mr. Roosevelt of Oyster Bay to announce any of his definite plans for the future. The colonel, however, need not be expected to remain quiet during the ensuing years until the time for na-again! na-again! pollUcal conventions arrives part? ta wES?1! .thQ0 RPuMtean tWh wth0?t definke leaderahlp, Mr. Hughos was never accredited with being the Republican party's leader nor Is he apt to have any such status in future. The friends of the colonel urge that in four years from now sufficient time will have elapsed to have made up for any action the colonel took in leaving the Republican ranks at one time, and that he will be in position to claim the right of leadership. But will he? There yet are thousands of stand-pat stand-pat Republicans in this nation who will not like the idea of any former bull mooser, claiming directorship of their party since they cannot bring themselves to approve of bull moose ideas. Also it is only logical to suppose sup-pose that the colonel had not abandoned aban-doned any of his reasons for having become a bull moose organizer, but rather would hope to introduce his progressive party ideas into the Republican Re-publican organization and have them adopted by the Republican party. However that might be, the fact is that if the real Republican delegates to any future Republican national convention have anything to say about it, Mr. Roosevelt is no more apt then to be accredited with Republican Re-publican leadership than he was at the last Republican national convention. conven-tion. And when it comes to the question of a presidential candidate, the Republicans Re-publicans seem emphatic In wanting it understood they are not worrying at all The coming four years are very apt to develop some now and very forceful force-ful national candidates. Those years also will afford a period peri-od of vast opportunity for both the Democratic and Republican parties |