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Show 1 velt though the west." said tho mayor, ' "I rail to see anything or Importance beyond political plans and designs. Ah ! such, of course, it 1b of no special I service t.. the present city admlnistra-tlon. admlnistra-tlon. The problems that now confront con-front the city are of much te same nature as those the nation races.' On bdng shown this statement. Colonel Roosevelt promptly said: "On this trip I have niado.no partisan parti-san political 6perches. and of course shall not break through the rule now by discussing either state party tnras. urea or municipal matters. At present, of course, the dominant party in Milwaukee Mil-waukee is the Socialist party". If any one wishes to know my views on what is usually called Socialism, they will find them ret out in such a fashion that it Is impossible to misinterpret them or misunderstand them, in the magazine articles to which the mayor In Ms letter refers, and I advi.-e them to rend the articles themselves and not what the mayor says of them." The Press club's special publication, the "Big Stick, practically disavowed responsibility for the mayors utterances, utter-ances, saying that "Mr. Roosevelt will understand that Mllwaukeoa welcome is none Ibo loss whole-hearted hardly hard-ly the less unanimous because too mayor has seen fit to voice a Socialls-tic Socialls-tic dislike for the former head of the nation." In spite of the failure of the mayor to Join in the welcome of Mr Roose-elt, Roose-elt, the Tress club ha prepared a most strenuous program, Including half a dozen speeches between breakfast break-fast and luncheon time. SocialistMayor Fxplains Why He Would Not Receive Roosevelt Milwaukee. Sept. 7. Shortly after , Colonel Roosevelt arrived here today and be fore he sat down to breakfast at I the Hotel Blister, be found himself involved in-volved In a controversy with Kmll Seidel, the Socialist mayor, who had declined to act on the reception com. mlttc which welcomed the colonel to Milwaukee. In -a contribution to the Big Stick, a ncspapi-r published by the Milwau-I Milwau-I kee Press club for the occasion, the mayor i clared : "Mr. Roosevelt comes here holding the same views he expressed in his article of March. llm'J, In which he declared de-clared that Socialism cannot serve the cause of honesty and decency In American political life." "It Is Msslble that I misunderstood the arti b-," cald Mr. Seidel. "hut inasmuch in-asmuch as I am a Socialist and ho has de.vlgnate-d Socialism as a thing which is against morals and rdiglon, abhorrent, abhor-rent, revolting, which would 'replace the family and home life by a glorious Mate of free lunch counter and state foundling asvlum I am turo that he will be pleased that I am not person- . ally called with .his reception to the j city " Charging the colond with a "enn- mils' and deliberate pun.-- to create I 1 a r.tl-e Impreion. he declared that I the vI'Mor "could liv no claim to the j rlirht of preaching either nioralitv. r- ( ' ligion it civic righteousness." "lu the fcia'aUcg tour of Mr. Iloose- |