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Show THERE 11 Col. Roosevelt Will Be a Delegate to the Convention New York, Aue. J? There was a marked calm today over the troubled waters of the Republican political nea followng tho storm yesterday, when tho "Old Guard" In the Republican slate committee voted down Theodore Roosevelt's name for temporary chairman chair-man of the coming state convention. No one was prepared to say how things would shape themselves during the days preliminary to tho state convention, con-vention, where the delegates, after all, will determine finally who t-hall be the temporary presiding officer. Now York County Chairman Orls-com, Orls-com, who presented Colonel Roosevelt's Roose-velt's name to tho committee, says the fight will be carried to the primaries pri-maries and to the convention. That Colonel Roorieveu. as a delogato to tho state convention from Nassau couuty, Intends to urge a progressive platform and candidate for governor. Is clearly Indicated, politic. ana say this morn-, lng, In that portion of the colonel's statement issued last night, which says that a speech by him "would be of such character that It might help If the convention named tho right kind of a man on a clean-cut. progressive progres-sive platform, but that it would hurt If neither the right kind of R man was nominated nor tile right kind of platform plat-form adopted." |