The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-03-19

iotcer that big stick be brandishec
against them II they did net give al
iegiance to Mr.. Taft. The assertion
Is not wholly without some plausibil,
ity. Here In Washington II Is a mat
ter OF notoriety that the method Of
coercion first adopted BY the presi.
dent are now being employed by the
Taft boomers. have In my posses
Sion the name OF the detective agency
employed by him for this purpose,
and should any question be raised as
TO the accuracy OF this charge that
name can be made public. The very
man who charged Taft with unwar-
rantable methods In pressing his
campaign refused to attact Roosevelt,
although none Of them TO whom ]
have talked has been Roosevelt
man. As a senator said to me today !:
II don't think Roosevelt would be
party to the Taft private detective
plan. He might adopt almost any
device TO press bis own cause. or to
advance some cause 10 which he Is
vitality interested. Yet | do not be-
lieve that for Taft alone he would
adopt such methods.
What the senator said seems 10
suggest that the cause Of Taft Is not
one In which Mr.. Roosevelt Is vitality
Interested, ana indeed from other
public men learn that the general
feeling is that the president has
used Taft as stalking horse and is
now about ready to discharge him.
One OF the men closest TO Speaker
Cannon said to me In the house cloak.
room only few hours ago that In his
belief Mr.. Roosevelt was not merely
playing fora stampede OF the con-
vention TO him, but that Taft was a
party to the plan. Perhaps the 10y
atty Of my information to Speaker
Cannon may have affected his judg.
ment. But only few moments after
wards at the other end OF the cap
itol, man who enjoys the conf
dences OF more United States senators
than pussibly any other one man, re-
iterated the same statement and said
that the senatorial combine expected
the stampede, was prepared to resist
1t and believed absolutely that Roose-
welt was planning to have II occur.
It was noticed that two weeks ago
Secetary Taft was decrying any pos
sibility OF war. Last Saturday he
made speech in which he reversed
his former position, and said that
there were grave dangers Of interna-
tional complications, and that
strong man was needed In the White
House to meet them. That sounds
very Rooseveltian. Today in the
United States senate there are at
least three men openly for Roosevelt,
while some of the men supposed to
be close to Roosevelt and who have
been posing as Taft men, hayedesert-
ed Taft. Even the long serving
Lodge OF Massachusetts, has given up
Taft as bad job, bat he will never
give up Roosevelt, and suspicious
people think that be did not desert
Taft without a hint from the White
House. What is to be done at the
Chicago convention Is very far from
present determination. 1t Is fair
guess, however, that whatever may
happen there, 1t will not he the nom
ination Of William II. Taft for the
presidency.
The call upon the national bank
repositories by Secretary Cortelyou
for twenty-five per cent of all public
moneys deposited with them create
a little discussion In Washington to-
day. and has awakened some appre-
hension In other financial centers.
Compliance with that call, and of
course 1t will be complied with.
means that twenty-five million dol
lars now In the banks must be put in
the treasury vaults. 10 the banks
it serves to swell their reserve and
enables them to lend money which
other wise'they would have TO hold.
Its withdrawal therefore might seem
to threaten contraction Of all loans
and to increase the monetary string.
ency from which the country has for
some months been suffering. But In
conversation today with a former
comptroller OF the currency and a
former assistant secretary OF the
treasury, neither one OF whom has at
the present time any material inter
est In politics, was assured that
the time was very propiticus for the
recall to the treasury OF these depos-
its. They both insisted that the
banks at the present moment were
overlooking with money, and that
there bad been no time within the
last year when they could better at.
ford to give back TO the treasury the
money which has been deposited
With them. 1t seems curious to me
for IL has been only little time
since banks were not merely refusing
tn loan money, but were declining 10
pay back the money of their deposit
ors loaned TO them. And indeed 81
far as the average business man Is
concerned, am sure that be finds
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