Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-21
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
IT,.
ROOSEVELT, TAFT, MORGAN AND
b. WALL STREET.

From the highest authority it may
be stated that President Roosevelt
mad no conference with J. Pierpont
Morgan previous to the latter's de-
parture for Europe, nor was any bar.
gain whatever entered into between
President Roosevelt on the one side
and any representative of the finan.
cial interests on the other by the
terms of which President Roosevelt
agreed to suspend his attacks upon
Objectionable men and measures in
consideration of Wall street giving
support to the movement for the nom
anation Of Secretary of War Taft for
president.
This is an absolutely authoritative
statement, brought out by the reports
which have been given credence in
some quarters of late that Mr.. Nor.
gan visited President Roosevelt sew.
eral times before he sailed. At these
conferences it was claimed that Mr..
Morgan agreed to deliver Wall street
and the support of the financial in
terests generally to Mr.. Taft. Presi.
dent Roosevelts part of the bargain
was to sOothe the uneasiness which
has existed in Wall street and to
Keep quiet as to his policies for the
remainder of his term These stor-
les We're put out without authority.
: and presumably were inspired by
some Interior motive They are de-
clared in the highest quarters to be
false. The situation is just this:
President Roosevelt believes that a
reaetionary andidate-Hughes, Can.
non. Fairbanks, or Knox-if nominal
ed by the republican party would in
eyitably be defeated by the democra.
tic candidate, whether that candidate
be Bryan Or another He believes
that Secretary Taft is the one repub.
tlcan who can be elected, other than
himself. He is certain that Secre-
tary Taft is the one candidate, who
If elected, would carry out the Roose.
gelt policies.
He is entirely sincere in his desire
to obtain the nomination of Secretary
TAFT. He bound himself at the outset
OF his present term not to accent an.
other nomination. He meant that
then, and he means it now. He be.
iieVes the nomination of Mr.. Taft
would be an Endorsement of his po,j.
cies. and therefore compliment
equal in effect to his own renomina-
ton
But he does not propose to see what
ne has done overturned by the nom
anation Of reactionary If it de-
ralops at the Chicago convention that
Taft cannot be nominated then he
will take that nomination himself. He
feels certain that Taft will De nomin.
ated. But if that should fail, he is
sure that he can force through his
nomination.
So far as the reports are concern.
ed that he has made bargain With
Wall street, they are t.ae only to
this extent: In discussing The sitra
ton with various men of nationa,
prominence in financial affairs, ha ilas
frankly stated that he considers Sec
rotary Taft a far more cons crvative
man than himself. He has praIsef
Mr.. Taft's judicial temperance He
gives to Mr.. Taft credit for keeping
him from more than one mistake Fl;
has said that Mr.. Taft is slow to &C
ton and to anger, but
He declared MIR. Taft is as FULLY
committed to his policies as he il
himself. In Taft,s. .hauds he believe.
that what are known as the Roose
welt policies will be carried out with
out falter. The onrT difference may
be that Mr.. Taft may act more eau
tiously, more conservativeiy, than the
president has at tines. There viii
be no step backward.
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