Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-26
TAFT is NOT ALONE
IN ROOsEvEL1'S EYE
Postmaster Wilcox Says That The
President Is Thinking Of Policies
Rather Than individuals.
IS NOT Ar ALL EAGER TO DICTATE
Behind the Secretary Of War Be,
cause Latter is Defending His Ideas
In ohlo--speaker Cannon Declares
Illinois VIII Not Cross the presl.
dental Stream Before II is Reached

" VIM II. VI, aDTll ED.---~
Thnt President Roosevelt III not be.
hind the Taft boom to tho extent tina.
he secs In the Secretary of War the
only available man for The nomIna.
ilon was the opinions expressed tnday
ny w. r. Wilcox, Postmaster OF New
York, after conference with tho
President,
Several other persons who hnyc
recently visited the White House
nnVe expressed be same opinion.
ne PRESIDENT Is desirous not to
De understood MS trying 10 dictate
.ne nomination of any man for tn,
Presidency ~
40 not 9hink 1t can trlthfully
ne said President Roosevelt is work.
ing Tor the nomination of Mr.. 'rnft
or any other one man." snid Mr.. vii
cox What the President desires
Heiiove. Is tho carrying on of Ills
poilcies; hose policies are being
al'acked In Ohio by Senator Forak.
or. As secreslry Tart will defen;,
mem ana MS the attitude OF Ohio
10 tho Presidency la involved In tho
matter II makes 1t appear of cn,rse
that the President is helpinr the
Taft BOOM '
some other man In some other
part OF the country should develop az
| candidate who supports tho Roose.
Nclt policies think Il would Mainly
DC shown 4hat President Roosevelt
Is thinking of policies and not of in.
dividunl men,"
Docs Not Deny Story
Speaker Cannon arrived in Wash.
lhston today en- route to jamestown.
with Senator Hemenway ana Renro.
sentative Wc4son, OF indiana. Hp
avoided any direct denial OF file
story that there had been n condition
by which he and his friends would
support Vice President Fairbanks FOR
me Presidential nominations After
caiilng on the President. the Speaker
dictated this statement.
did not see nor hear OF tho re.
port until | arrived In Washington.
ana did not suppose anybody took n
seriously. is the dun season ann
suppose the enterprising cores.
ponncnts mad their orders to fill space.
me delegates from Illinois will
De selected the latter part OF next
winter or In the spring, and tie State
rs not In the habit of crossing a
stream before II Is reached. He
woiiid be bold man who would as
! sumo TO deliver Abe State OF I'LL.
nois to anybody"
| Regarding the Presidents letter on
| me Moyer-Haywood incident, Mr.
| Cannon said:
President Roosevelts letter to tho
labor leaders stands on It's merits
and nothing can say can IN any way
| heip or injure 1t. but can say that
| me labor organizations or this COM
Try are not led by the men who are
supposed 10 be leading them--and
| speak from experience. as ! have
mad enough trouble with labor or
CARNATIONS myself"
Joke Was Misunderstood.
Friends Of Mr.. Cannon make II m.
pear that when Speaker Cannon me-.
wee President Fairbanks In Indian
| apolis he found himself surrounded
by Fairbanks boomers" and jokine-
~ rendered the Vice President the IN
dorsemeGt of the Illinois delegation
FOR tho nomination, which was mis-
| interpreted to mean that ht pledged
| himself to the Fairbanks cause.
Representative Watson remarked,
ne did not believe the nomination sf
Secretary Taft possible because Of
the scars the Ohio fight would leave.
| Representative j, s.. Sherman. or
New York. and former Representa-
llVc Litsauer called today on Secre-
-, $3.50 WIZ eAllEsSSeu the opinion
that II was somewhat early for Presi-
DENTAL booms President Rooseyelt
also holds this view. He agrees with
Secretary Taft's decision not to talk
politics in Ohio in the Immediate fu.
ture.
One of the political subjects Sec.
retary Taft will discuss in Ohio later
VIII be the primary law. He will adj
vocate the enactment OF such law
by the next Legislature.