Connecticut western news., 1907-08-15
TAFT AT OYSTER BAY
President Confers With Three Members of His Cabinet.
TO ANSWER CRITICS MONDAY

Expression Will Be Given to Polic,
 and Views of Administration by Taf
 at Columbus and Political Atmos
 phere Will Be Cleared.
 dent Roosevelt will speak to the Amer ican people on Rext Monday in Colum bus, O., and what he says will be tho most important political declaration oi the year. The speech will be by proxy It will be delivered by William H Taft, secretary of war, who will cover all live subjects now before the public will forecast the policy of the admins tration in the months to come and will to large extent define what the vot CTS may look for should they elect a Republican president next year.
 Taft as the residuary legatee has views of his own as to future legisla. tion. Mir. Roosevelt as the dominant man of today has message to the peo. pie. The views of Taft and Roosevelt modified, clarified and made smooth by Elihu Root here, will be made known in Columbus on Monday. MT Taft was not able to depart from Oys. ter Bay on schedule time because the draft of his speech had not been per. fected by Roosevelt and Root, but when finally he scooted away in an automobile. having lost the train. he carried with him the concentrated thought of the president and the secre. tary of state.
 The entire national programme will not be made known in Columbus. big section of the speech will be held over until Thursday of next week, when MT. Taft will invade Kentucky and inform the constituents of "Marse" Watterson that the national no desire to evade the discussion of any vital questions, whether they af- feet Kentucky or any other state.
 The Presidents Policy.
 It was a strenuous day at Oyster Bay. Taft can run a dead heat with work in a given time. Root Is only a shade behind them, and much was accomplished after luncheon by these three men. while Postmaster General Meyer entertained Mrs. Roosevelt and other members of the presidents fami- ly. MT. Meyers chief interest In visit ing Oyster Bay was in obtaining the appointment of MT. Morgan as post. master In New York city, and, having accomplished that, he cut himself away from the heavy lines of national state craft
 It can be said authoritatively that Messrs. Roosevelt, Taft and Root lost little time in discussing Wall street ''panics" or In considering the attacks of Standard oil men, who are now looking for sympathy to people per. sistently robbed by the Rockefellet trust. Certain insidious attacks on the administration that have appeared In newspapers were discussed, and 1t was decided that MT. Taft should fully an swer them In the speeches he will make on his way to the Pacific coast
 Taft and Rockefeller.
 MT. Taft's attention was called to the interview with John D. Rockefel- Ter in which the oil 'king prophesied disaster to the country because of President Roosevelt's policy.
 "That prediction of MT. Rockefeller's Is awful. isn't it?' he said. ''I must be excused from discussing anything that has reference to the administration. I'll say this much, however. 1t does seem strange that the administration, which up to very short time ago. when I left for the woods in Canada. was heralded around the world as the most prosperous in the history of the American republic, should now be on the brink of ruin"
 Reference was made to that part of Mir. Rockefeller's interview in which he attacked inferentially the president and described MT. Taft as safe and sane man."
 "I can't help what Mir. Rockefeller says" Secretary Taft replied. 'rhe president and I understand one an other. As far as the confidence of the American people in President Roose- welt is concerned their support of his administration is the best answer. Any action taken by MT. Roosevelt or his officials is not the result of an hour s l,ItI