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Show ROOSEVELT WILL MAKE NO COMMENT, Oyster Bay, Aug. 13. E-President Roosevelt has no comment t make today on the dispatches from Beverly, Maas., that President Taft had decided de-cided on a readustment of conditions with the inner sphere of the parly. He was greatly Interested in the reprt that Senator Aldrieb and Speaker Cannon would be relegated to lesser positions in the councils of the parly; that Secretary Ballinger would retire on September 15, and that Senator Crane would assume an important role in his relations with the administration. Danville 111.. Aug. 1.1. Speaker Cannon Can-non smiled today when asked to comment com-ment on rumors that ho. Senator Aid-rich Aid-rich and Secretary Ballinger were to be placed In less prominent positions in Republican national politics. He said: "Acting in concert with tho Republican Repub-lican majority in congress, I contributed contrib-uted toward the enactment of the legislation leg-islation and the president approved It. Tbe Democratic minority In con-gres con-gres pis a group of men under the leadership of La Follette, Cummins, Brlstow and others, opposed to tho legislation. That Is the privilege of the Democratic party and its allien, but I am quite willing to abide by the vote of the majority of the people In November." |