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Show IJJfT Roosevelt Writes Letters Approving Present Administration i Washington, May 2. Theodore Koosevelt, according to a local paper, has written letters to President Taft endorsing the present administration. The letters alno show he will not be a presidential candidate in 1912 nor fir any other office in the meantime. It is said he wants Wlllium Loeb, Jr, ! to be governor of New York. It was impossible to find iu Washington Wash-ington today a single . person w ho would admit having received from Mr. Roosevelt any communication on tho Administration's policies or his plans fcr tho future. Many were skeptical as to his having hav-ing communicated on these subjecls with anybody. New York, May 2. William Loeb, Jr., merely smiled when he was asked ask-ed tday nbout the letter Theodore Roosevelt Is said to have written to President Taft, Secretary Root and himself. He was unwilling to say anything for publication, hut he made it clear to his friends that he knew nothing of the letter, or of any plan3 of Mr. Roosevelt involving his own i political future. Pittsburg. May 2 When President ' Taft was Informed today of the story published In Washington as to letters let-ters said to have been received by ' lilra, and was asked If he had received receiv-ed any such communication from Mr. Roosevelt, he shook bis head. "No." lie said. Washington, May 2. In letters which Theodore Roosevelt is alleged to have written to President Toft, Sen- j ator Root and William Ioeb. Jr., It la aa'd by the Washington Post, that the i former president thoroughly endorses , the T-aft administration. - favors Mr. j Loeb to "succeed Governor Hughes of New York and indicates that his J decision to remain In private life Id j final and unalterable The colonel ! will rot even be a candidate to sue- I ced Chauncey N. Depew in the senate sen-ate and much less would be desire any other ofllce. t It is also said the former president . will not be a candidate for the presl- j uimilv in Jul-. yji uie tuuiriry, ins letters are said to indicate that it is I his conlctlon that tho reelection of President Taft 13 the Republican party's duty. In a word, former President Roosp-"vclt. Roosp-"vclt. before seeing Glfford Plnchot in Europe, and after, has expressed himself him-self as convinced that President Taft has bepu working hard and conscientiously conscien-tiously for the policies which were started during the Roosevelt admln-j admln-j Istrstl'ui, and has plven to the Taft ! administration his whole approval. |