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Show ROOSEVELT OlfRPOKEN He Warned the Party Leaders as to What He Would Do New York. Aug. 17 Former President Pres-ident Theodore Roosevelt issued a statement late yesterday afternoon In reference to the action of the RepuUI- i can state committee. In rejecting his, j name as temporary chairman: , "To the various persons who asked me whether I would accept the position posi-tion of temporary chairman of tho state committee, I said that I would do so only If they were sure, after knowing my attitude that they desired me because my speech would be of such a character that It might help If the committee named the right kind of a man on n clear-cut. progressivo platform, but that It would hurt If neither the rlcht kind of a. man. were named nor the right kind of a plat- , form adopted " ' j |