Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-09
TAFT 70 S|A19 ALONE
President Roosevelt Will Not
Attempt to Dictate in New
Administration.
RESULTS FROM CONGRESS-
S FROM CONGRESS
Diplomacy of President Elect Expected
to Secure Enactment of Progressive
Legislation Roosevelt Could Not Get
Cannon Must Get in Line or Retire
From Power.

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Washington Nov 9-One man was
absent from the first post-election
meeting of President Roosevelt's cabi-
net whose presence was needed to
make the gathering all that the presi-
dent might have wished. That was the
man who after March next, will sit
at the head Of the cabinet council and
will be addressed as Mr. President
He isn't member of the cabinet just
now. but his temporary absences from
the meetings will not continue long
enough to allow him to be forgotten as
one who belongs to the circle.
Mr.. Taft by all accounts is going to
have tho right of way from this time
forth. The remainder of this admins
tration is to be sort or period OF
preparation for the one that will follow
President Roosevelt in his rejoicing at
Taft's election, and in the fullness of
his loyalty to his successor, is anxious
that the president-elect shall be rec
ognized henceforth as the man of the
hour. He will not be kept in the shad-
ow Of the Roosevelt personality, and
he will not have any advice forced
upon him. He will get it when he asks.
and not otherwise. That he will ask
it good many times, nobody doubts.
But the president isn't going to try to
impress his personality or his methods
on the Taft administration. He has
complete confidence that MIR. Taft will
develop methods of his own that will
be effective and satisfactory, and will
produce results.
Reason for Tiger Hunt.
Manifestly, under all the circum-
stances. it would be hard for President
Taft to refuse anything his predecessor
should ask. Equally apparent is the
fact that people wanting things in the
way Of appointments will be anxious
for the Roosevelt Endorsement. The
president doesn't want to be subjected
to any more opportunities than may
prove unavoidable, and so he will take
himself out OF the way and hunt tigers
while Mr.. Taft organizes his admin
istration to suit himself. Letters of in
dorsement from Mr.. Roosevelt will be
about as scarce as Carnegie libraries
in Senagambia.
The president and the men who have
advised with him In fixing the policies
reioiced at the Endorsement given to
them by the people. They feel that the
Endorsement is vastly significant as
meaning that the country wants the
Roosevelt program to go forward.
Taft Election Roosevelt Endorsement.
There has been a powerful opposi-
ton in congress and among the politi-
cal machines of the country to the
Roosevelt ideas. Many of the state Or
CARNATIONS have been hostile to the
president, and have been used at every
opportunity to enlbarrass him and OBJ
struct his work The old national COM
mittee turned up at one time in the
control Of the anti Roosevelt faction,
and carried the national convention Off
to Chicago when the Roosevelt people
would have preferred another place.
It. is not necessary to enumerate the
states in which the enginery of politi-
cal management has been opposed to
the president The point is that in the
future not SO many Of them will be
against the policies for which the name
of Roosevelt has stood.
Results From Congress.
!. With the political powers more
friendly Of disposition, it is going to
be easier to get results out of con-
gress. This is what the progressives
expect, and they feel confident that
their expectation will be justified by
results. Speaker Cannon has not been
friendly to the president; indeed, it is
we'll known that he has in the last
couple of years come to entertain
sentiment of decided hostility to the
president. But that sentiment. it is
thought, will not be directed with any,
thing like SO much bitterness against
the Roosevelt policies in future, as 1t
has been against the Roosevelt person.
ality in the past. It is not too late to
make a fight against the speakers re-
election to the house leadership. I'm
less he shows q willingness to accept
the popular verdict as to program and
policies, there may yet be serious op-