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Show But He Refuses to Say a Word on the Election New York, Nov. 17. 'Not a word rot a word." tald Colonel Roosevelt I In answer to a question is to what he-thought of the recent election, when he returned to his magazine labors today for tho first, time since November S "They are saying you can't come beck." ventured a reporter. ' Not a word," said the Colonel as hi bounded out of his automobile I which brought him in from Oyster Lay and hurried into his office. i One of the Colonel's visitors was Colonel W. R. Nelson, owner of the Kansas City Star. Tho Evening Post quoted Mr. Nelson as follows: "The West understands Roosevelt." said Colonel Nelson, "and it understands under-stands that he is pot merely the leader lead-er of the Republican party. he Is leader of the American people. The t parties are breaking up. and, under I the influence of tho old oaitv. it mav take two years, it may take six years for the people to come together In I the fight for their own rights, but when thev do, there won't ho any- 1 thing to It. "1912 for Roosevelt? It's too early to decide that, and there are too many cross currents in the political stream. The trouble Is people don t reali70 that Is the last thing Roosevelt Roose-velt Is worrying about. Only those who know him well roally appreciate the thing which concerns him least when he Is In action is what may happen hap-pen to him "And this is true, whether he is going go-ing up in an aeroplane, going Into the heart of Africa, or fighting to helt) his party out of a nolo." |