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Show 1 00 ROOSEVELT AGAIN CROSS-EXAMINED Barnes-Roosevelt-Parsons Letters Let-ters Put Into Record or" Libel Suit. HUGHES IS DISCUSSED Colonel Promises to Stand by His Political Friends in Albany, Al-bany, Including Barnes. Syracuse. N. Y.. April 20 A series of confidential letters taken from the files kept by the late Thomas c Hatt while he was representing the state of Xew York In the United States sen-1 sen-1 nte. were today read to the jur try-; try-; ing William Barnes' suit for alleged libel against Theodore Roosevelt in the supreme court here Some of the letters were signed by Colonel Roose velt. In nearly all of them th- writers writ-ers discussed the candidates lor office of-fice in the state government and in reply to a question by Mr Haiti' s counscel the former president said without the slightest hesitation that he consulted with Senator Piatt about affairs at Albany, knowing and realizing real-izing at all times that he was the "boss" of the Republican party in this state. One of the letters read during dur-ing the forenoon session contained a lK)stscript which read. "All right. I'll change the whole board of tax assessors.'" The colonel denied emphatically that such conferences constituted invisible invisi-ble government." "My action." the witness asserted, "were as visible as they could be. |