Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-07
OFFICE HOLDERS BUSY.
And the President is Becoming Very
 Impatient.

Washington, Dec 7.-President Roosevelt is showing decided i'm patience with Frank H. Hitchcock and other federal office holders who are alleged to be conveying the impression that the administration is winking one eye at the Cortelyou candidacy for the republican presidential nomina- tion.
 The president realizes, from infor- nation he has received, that he is fast being placed in the position of dis loyalty to Secretary Taft and conni- vance at the COrtelyou campaign. He is flatly determined that this shall not continue, and in the last few days he has spoken unmistakably. Federal officeholders who are supporting Cor telyou and talking against Taft now understand that they can not any longed do this at the expense of the presidents strong regard for and loy- atty to Taft. If they do not cease at tacks upon Secretary Taft the presi- dent strongly intimates that there will be trouble.
 The information taken to the presi- dent is that MT Hitchcock, who is the acknowledged manager of the Cortel- you campaign, has been telling vari- Ous republicans, especially those from the south, that the bottom has been knocked out of the Taft boom and that the president is perfectly willing that southern republicans shall give their backing to Mir Cortelyou. The straight facts are that the president is by no means satisfied that Secre- tary Taft has lost any strength; has no idea of deserting him for Mir Cor telyou or anyone else believes that he will be nominated and elected, and will stand by him to the last.
 Because of his personal relations with Secretary Eortelyou and his re- gard for him, th&president has thrown nothing in the way of the movement for the secretary of the treasury. He has let it run along, Automatically sidestepping matters that would place him in the position of deliberately sit ting down on the whole thing. But he did not mean that his diplomacy and his regard for Mir Cortelyou should be mistaken by the Cortelyou boomers holding federal offices and used by them to do harm to Secretary Taft. That is just what has followed. however. Some of the CortelyOu peo- pie have told the president that they can do nothing for Secretary Taft in the south and that Corteiyou is the only man who can carry the dele gations of certain states. But the president is dubious about all that. He has an idea that the whole thing is done to secure delegations that may later be thrown to Hughes, Foraker or Fairbanks. He will not attempt to put the screws on the OfficehOlders who are outspoken against Taft un- less he reaches the conclusion that their whole aim is to take delegations to the national convention ostensibly for one man. but really ready to spring another in whom the president does not have confidence. The presi- dent knows that he can not afford to give instructions that federal office holders anywhere shall support Sec retary Taft. but he does know that he has the power to prevent them using what he considers unfair and imprOp- CT means to injure his friend and political favorite.
 That he has now passed down the line his determination that his ap- pOintees shall not go out of their way to injure Taft. especially by misrep- resenting his own position. is expected to create something of q sensation politically. To many minds it further foreshadows possible unfriendly rela- tions between the president and his secretary of the treasury. who Is cog nizant of the latest stand taken by the chief executive That there will be III feeling between Secretary Taft and Mir Cortelyou when the former returns and has reported to him some of the manipulations of the COrtelyou boomers is also predicted in well in- formed circles.