Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-27
Mr.. ROOT IS ALL RIGHT.
Secretary of State at Peace With
the President Except in Minds
Of Correspondents
PUBLIC LOYAL TO ROOSEVELT
Hope That He Will Consent to Third
Term Prevents Great Enthusiasm
for Other candidates-Anti- Admin.
istration Faction at Sea for suitable
Presidential Candidates. ..E

Presidential Candidates.
Washington, Aug. 27-The news that
Secretary of State Elihu Root is at
William Muldoon's sanitarium, near
B New York, has given rise to a NUMBER
Of wholly unfounded reports to the
effect that Mr.. Root has suffered
nervous breakdown, has quarreled Win
the president, contemplates resigning
from the cabinet, ETC., all OF Whlcn
your correspondent is In a position to
emphatically deny. Mr.. Root mas naa
no quarrel with the president, and he
has no thought Of resigning from the
cabinet. On the contrary, he expects
to start next month for Mexico where
he will be the guest Of President Diaz
for a short time. Neither is Mr.. Root
1 nervous wreck, altho it is fact that
he is worn out with the heavy respon-
abilities of his high position, and the
great amount Of detail work which de-
wolves upon him because he has not
been given competent assistants.
There is another reason, however,
whv Mr.. Root deemed it wise to spend
the few remaining weeks OF his vaca-
ton at Muldoon's, and that is that de-
spite the fact that he went to ms
summer home at Clinton, N. Z. with
the hope OF securing complete rest,
hardly a. day has passed on which
one or more visitors has not arrived
from New York. AS Mr.. Roots place
i. quite distant from the station. it was
necessary to keep most Of these over
night, and the secretary has sat lar
into the night, evening after evening
talking politics, finances, etc, with
his New York friends, many OF whom
were his clients when he practiced
his profession in New York. and whom
he was bound to treat with the utmost
courtesy. Finding his vacation speed
ing to its close without his having
enjoyed the complete rest which ne SO
sorely needed, he determined to retlre
to Muldoon's and now no friend can
yet at him without first encounteNng
M,1ldoon. and even now the ex-prlze-
6phter would not be pleasant gentle
man to tackle. Mr. Root spends much
time in the saddle, practically all his
waking. hours in the open air and Is
thus able to sleep from ten to twelve
hours out Of the twenty -four. He writes
his friends in Washington that he ex-
pects 10, return to Washington rested
and reiuvenated and ready for the hard
winters work that is ahead OF him.
IT is generally agreed among the
politicians that the loyalty OF the peo-
ple to Roosevelt and the desire Of
many that he should accept third
term are preventing that enthusiasm
for other candidates which would be
certain il it were accepted as a fact
that the president would not accept
another nomination. For Mr.. Taft
this situation has many advantages.
For other candidates it Is a detriment
! to their ambitions. It is safe predic-
ton, however, that when the proper
time comes, probably about the end
( of this year, President Roosevelt will
make a final and unequivoca1 state
ment completely and absolutely elm
! mating himself from consideration, and
when he does so he will contrive in
some manner to let the voters know
i that he regards Mr.. Taft as the man
most in sympathy with, most loyal to
and most capable Of carrying the
Roosevelt policies to successful issue.
Just at present the anti Roosevelt
faction in the republican party is
much at sea regarding candidate. The
FIRST of the so-called conservative can
didates put forth was Senator Knox.
Mr.. Knox is a man of ability, he has re-
eeived the endorsement of his state
convention, and it was hoped that he
might be the man to lead the anti
Rooseveltites to victory. Reports of his
strength began to come in from the Ear
west, and for a time the outlook was
favorable. Then his far west adherents
were identified as the men who are
amena BILE to President James j. Hill of
the Great Northern railway and that
hurt the Pennsylvania. In New Eng
land, Senator Murray Crane who
Quarreled with the president over the
railway rate BILL made personal car
vass and was unable to find any Knox
sentiment, and SO reported to Senator
Aldrich when that statesman returned
recently from Europe. The boom Of
Vice President Fairbanks has been so
seriously punctured that the more skill
full politicians no longer take it serious
ly. Speaker Cannon's boom might prove
the most powerful of all, were 1T not
for the speakers great age and the fear
that he would not live thru his term.
AT present, there are many indications
that the anti Roosevelt crowd will UNI
dte on Governor Hughes, not because
they entirely like him, but because they
regard him as the most available can
didate and because before he was
elected governor his associations and
affiliations We're all with the corpora
tions Should there be deadlock in
the convention which prevented the
nomination of Taft, at least by the
third ballot, George B. Cortelyou, sec
rotary of the treasury. would doubtless
stand an excellent chance as the COM