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Show ROOSEVELT FACES BIG LIBEL SUIT Syracuse. N Y , April 18 The greatest political battle ever fought In a court room will begin here tomorrow tomor-row when Theodore Roosevelt facets William Barnes in a $50.nno libel action ac-tion brought by the latter. The two belligerents reached here at 11 o'clock toulght. both full of fight. They met face to face at the station Barnes, alighting from the train, turned to see the colonel glaring at him through the window of his compartment. He scowled and turned away The talk of compromise ended tonight. to-night. Roosevelt went at once to the Onondaga hotel and mapped out a plan of battle to his counsel John O Bowers and W H Yan Benschoten From there he went for the night to the home of his old-time supporter, Horace S Wilkinson, once of Syracuse's Syra-cuse's few Progressives Barnes went to the same hotel with W M. Ivers who accompanied him from New York "My counsel will talk for me, " he said. Barnes Confident. Barnes was confident and cheerful. His is to be a waiting game and he has abandoned all his old-time sav ageness of attack The first move m the trial will be the filing of a motion by Roosevelt's lawyer to dismiss the complaint on the prounil that the statement In question Is not libelous. It will he urged I hat no charge of personal corruption is made. This, however is not a retraction, and will not be construed as such by Barnes, unless the colonels lawyers specifically specific-ally so state which they say tonight they do not intend to do After the motion Is filed and passed on. the jury will be drawn As the trial will involve almost every ev-ery politician who has figured In state politics since Mr. Roosevelt was governor, the "o'd guard" of both parties par-ties will be here in force. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, In going himself on trial for libel li-bel will put the state organization on trial on all the charges he has ever made against them in speeches and printed articles. No man who has figured in state politics feels that he Is safe from attack. Sensations Promised. The week promises some of the biggest big-gest political sensations ever sprung in New York, and two masters of sen satlon will boss the springing. At midnight both camps were still preparing for the shock of the biggest battle outside of the war zone, and both as determined as any of the European Eu-ropean belligerents August Belmont will figure conspicuously, conspic-uously, if involuntarily, as a witness for the colonel. Roosevelt s lawyer will ask Bel mont all about race-track legislation and try to show through him that Barnes and the Demo rats worked hand and glove against the Hughes bills. Also Belmont will be asked what hr knows about a possible understanding between Barnes and the late Anthony X Brady when Brady was behind the Alban county Democrats and Barnes was barking the Republicans. The colonel himself ill be an early witness Under the rules of the le gal game he must prove, or try to 1 provp. all his charges before the Barnes side need say a word in court Must Make Good. The colonel will first cheerfully admit ad-mit that he made the statement quoted quo-ted by Mr. Barnes. Then he rjiUBt out of his own mouth and out of tip-mouths tip-mouths of his witnesses "make good " Ii he cannot do that he loses the case. The advance guard came in squads through the day. John D. Bowors. i Roosevelt's chief counsel, arrived In the afternoon and held a council with W. H. Van Benschoten. his associate, associ-ate, who had preceded him The Jury panel of eighty, from which will be drawn the twelve men who are to deride the biggest political po-litical battle ever fought out in court, are divided by parties as follows: Republicans. Re-publicans. 41; Democrats, 14; Progressives, Progres-sives, 11; Prohibitionists, 1. Politics of remainder not given The panel includes farmers clerks, manufacturers, insurance men, salesmen, sales-men, laborers engineers, bankers, li brarians. gardeners, merchants and aplari6ts. Justice William S Andrews, a Re publican, who has been on the bench ! for sixteen years, w ill preside Court will open at 10 o rlock and sessions J w ill be protracted at the discretion I of the court |