Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Aug. oath, 1907.
From our Regular Correspondent. ]

Gllnu IlOOl, is dU William MuluOOIlS
Sanitarium, near New York, has given
rise to number of wholly unfounded
reports to the effect that Mr.. Root has
suffered a nervous breakdown, has
quarrelled with the President, con-
templates resigning from the cabinet,
etc., all of which your correspondent
is in a position emphatically to deny.
Mr.. Root has had 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 Presidet Diaz for a short time.
Neither is Mr.. Root nervous wreck,
although it is fact that he is worn out
with the heavy responsibilities of his
high position, and the great amount of
detail work which devolves upon him
because he has not been given COM
petent assistants.
There is another reason, however,
why Mr.. Root deemed it wise to spend
the few remaining weeks of his vaca-
tion at Muldoon's, and that is that de-
spite the fact that he went to his sum-
mer home at Clinton, N. Y, with the
hope of securing complete rest, hardly
day has passed on which one or more
visitors has not arrived from New
York. AS Mr.. Roots place is quite
distance from the station, it was neces-
sary to keep most of these over night,
night, evening after evening. talking
politics, finances, etc., with his New
York friends, many of whom were his
clients when he practiced his profess
sion in New York, and whom he was
bound to treat with the utmost cour-
tesy. Finding his vacation speeding
to its close without his having enjoyed
the complete rest which he so sorely
needed, he determined to retire to
Muldoon's and now no friend can get
at him without first encountering Null
doom, and even now the ex- -prizefghter
would not be pleasant gentleman to
tackle. Mr.. Root spends much.time in
the saddle, practically all his walking
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 expects
to return to Washington rested and re-
juvenated and ready for the hard
winters work that is ahead of him.
Secretary Taft's western tripa and the
| speeches in which he is announcing
the platform on which he asks the
| presidential nomination continue to at
tract the attention of the politicians in
Washington, and while the Secretary
has not made any effort to capture his
audiences by bursts of oratory or flights
of fancy, and while his speeches have
been as free from anything savoring OF
| demagoguery as is the man himself, it
is generally conceded that he is daily
becoming better known and a more
difficult candidate for the anti i-Roose-
velt faction to defeat. Mr.. Taft has
amply demonstrated his adherence to
that body of political and economic
propositions which are known as the
Roosevelt policies; he has also display.
ed a judicial temperament and a re.
spect for the constitution which are
very attractive to some Republicans
who have, unwarrantably, no doubt,
feared that President Roosevelt was
going too far in his efforts to correct
all evils through the federal govern.
ment.
1t is generally agreed among the
politicians that the loyalty of the peo
pie to Roosevelt and the desire o.
many that he should accept third
term are preventing that enthusiasm
for other Candidates which would be
certain if it were accepted as fac
that the President would not accept
another.nomination. For Mr.. Taft the
situation has many advantages. Fol
other candidates it is detriment tC
their ambitions. 1t is safe prediction
however, that when the proper time
comes, probably about the end of thii
year. President Roosevelt will make
a final and unequivocal statement com
pletely and absolutely eliminating him
self from consideration, and when h,
does SO he will contrive in soma man
ner to let the voters know that he re
CARDS Mr.. Taft as the man most il
sympathy with, most loyal to, and mos
capable of carrying the Roosevelt
policies to successful issue.
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