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Show SHERMAN ADVISES I STRAIGHT FIGHT i BEVERLY. Mass., Aug. 17. For nearly, tare hours this afternoon President Pres-ident Tait and Vice Piesident Sherman Sher-man talked over the defeat of Colonel Roosevelt by the New York state Republican Re-publican committee yesterday and the selection of Sherman over Roosevelt as temporary ch ilrman of the Saratoga Sarato-ga convention Mr. Sherman said be had no intent in-tent loo of withdrawing In favor of Roosevelt and he treated lightly the stories that there might be a fight In ihe convention to repudiate tho action ac-tion of the stale committee. The vice president also talked with the president regarding the consres slonel campaign He wants the fight to be waged along the old lines. A straight out Republican fight on the Republican platfoim and the record rec-ord of the party, including the tariff, he put It At Mr, Sherman's solicitation Presi dent Taft agreed to point the way In ihe campaign by writing a letter which Is to be a part of the campaign let book of the Republican committee. commit-tee. While the light apoarently Is to be directed alonp the lines of the past it can be said authoritatively that the feature of the party re-organization plans .vhlch call for (he retirement of Speaker Cannon will be strictly adhered ad-hered to. It Is even said that Sherman, Sher-man, one of the stpunchpst supporters support-ers the speaker ever had, has become reconciled to the decision that Cannon Can-non must go statement is beint? prepared in quarters close to the administration in which the attitude recently liken by Cannon In public Interviews will be deplored und In which It will be made plain that there s no thought on the part of many of his former supporters sup-porters aeain to name Cannon for speaker I Representative Longworth of Ohio, who has been called into nearly all recent conferences at the President's borne 'was at the Interview with Mr. Sherman today Representative Anthony An-thony of Knnsas, one oT the sool'.ed 'standpatters" in the Kansas delegation dele-gation who succee'led In staving off defeat by ho Insui gents in the, recent re-cent primaries also snw the president. presi-dent. Mr Anthony al?o supposed Cannon, but he. too. said todav that he doolored th" stand Mr, Cannon Is takfnc Mr. Anthony raid that Speaker Canuon hod almost been forgotten for-gotten as an Issue In Kansas until he came into the campaign and made himself one. President Taft will begm work al once on the Iette- which is expected expect-ed to be the keynote of th congressional congres-sional campaign. He will address the communication to Representative Win. R. McKlnlev of Illinois, chair roan of the Republican camnalgn committee com-mittee It. is nc.f decided whether the letter will be siven out in advance ad-vance of its appearance in the textbook. text-book. There Is every likelihood that, it will, however. |