Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-04-29
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Correspondence of the Alexandria GaSett'


lieved, preparing to resign from the
Cabinet. Just when be will retire is
not known. Probably he has not even
set the exact date himself but that the
end OF his term OF Office is question OF
only few months is regarded 10 official
circles as reasonably certain. For the
last six weeks the Secretary has been
gradually divesting himself OF the cares
Of Office, pushing Assistant Secretary
Bacon forward in his place. He left
the recently concluded negotiations for
peace in Central America almost entire
" in the charge of Bacon, only OCCASION
ally offering advice or suggestion. Here
tofore it has always been the custom for
the Secretary of State, when in town,
personally to receive the foreign am
bassadors and ministers at the diplo-
matte receptions on Thursdays of each
week. Recently Mr.. Root has had Mr..
Bacon present at these functions, 80
that he coull become familiar with
the questions brought up by each of
the diplomats. The official explana-
ton offered is that Mr.. Root is pre-
pairing to spend long vacation this
summer at his Utica, N. Y. home
and is anxious that he should be dis
turbed as little as possible by business.
There are other indications, however,
which lead to the belief that the Secre-
tary's retirement may become permanent
in the near future The personal re-
lations between the President and Mr.
Root, it is noticed, are not as intimate
as they used to be. Whereas they for
merly took daily horseback rides to-
gether, now Mr. Root rides alone and the
President has others in this company.
| In the Cabinet meeting it is stated that
Secretaries Taft and COrtelyou are DOW
the Presidents closet advisers. The
arrangement, if such it be, is believed to
date from the time when the President
| first advocated the nomination OF Taft
as his successor. Prior to that, Root
had every reason to expect that he would
receive the Roosevelt influence, and 1t
was a great disappointment to him to
see the big man pressed forward as the
administration candidate. Then, too,
| il is Understood, Mr.. Root has not
been in sympathy with the Presi-
dents attack on Odell and WadswOrth
in New York.
Third term sentiment was very pro-
nounced in the vicinity of the White
House today. The President can have
a walkover for the election, his visitors
Secretary in FSfcIh chorus; if he wont take il
secure The nomination and si lsinGa8'kRil }idIy
chance of winning as the personal rep
resentative of the President and the man
most in sympathy with his ideals. al
the President will only run he can be
nominated and elected" said Represen-
tative woodward, of West Virginia. "lI
he wont run Secretary Taft will be the
choice of my State" eff the President
will run he'll get all the votes of his
own party and those of great many
democrats" said u. s. Marshal Frank
H. Tyree, of West Virginia. "I've
been told by good many prominent
democrats that they'll vote for Roosevelt
if he is nominated, no matter who is the
candidate on the democratic ticket. |
find the Roosevelt third term sentiment
very strong all along the Ohio border
and throughout the northern part of
Kentucky. A. j. Miller, of Belleionte,
an Ohio politician, believes the Presi-
dent will not run and that Mr.. TAFT will
be the nominee. He also believes that
the primaries that are to decide the
supremacy of either Taft or Foraker,
will demonstrate the Secretary of Wars
popularity.
| United States Minister Fox at Ecuador
has telegraphed the State Department
regarding the election riots that have
taken place in that country to the effect
that the President of the the republic
has been given authority to declare mar
tial law and 10 increase the army to its
war strength. He further says that r
large number of civilian employees are
resigning their positions, indicating the
disturbed condition OF the country.
Neither the State Department nor the
Mexican Embassy has any confirmation
today of the reports that mobs in Guat-
emsls City have been stonjng the Amer
lean and Mexican cOnsulates. That
there has been some kind of trouble is
regarded as certain. The cause seems to
have been a demand by Mexico upon
Guatemala for the extradition of Gen.
Jose Lima who has been charged with
having instigsted the recent murder in
Mexico City Of Gen. Barillas. Gen.
Lima is said 10 be the right-hand man of
President Cabrera, of Guatemala, and
as such popular with the people. Gen.
Barillas, who was shot On stree. car at
the Mexican capital, was perhaps the
most prominent of Guatemalan exiles and
was regarded as the most formidable pres
pective opponent to President Csbrera's
administration and his most likely
successor. The two men who were ar
rested as Barillas's assassins implicated
Gen. Lima in the plot and the Mexican
government has demanded that he should
be required to face his accusers. APP
parently the Gustemalan people have re-
scented their demand and have been
making demonstrations to prevent their
government from acceding to it. There
is no extraditiOn treaty between Mexico
and Guatemala and I there was the case
of Gen. Lima would hardly come within
its scope. Mexico, however, ii is said
insists that unless Gen. Lima Is surrend
ed TO confront his sccusers diplomatic
relations between the two countries will
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