The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
A PARTING/
 OF THFNAYS Taft and Roosevelt at
 outs. END RAPIDLY APPROACHING President-sIect Unloading All h. heritances of Rooseveltism.
 --s Roosevelt !. sa,a to Hsve, Been ser,- ou.iy Piaued Because Taft Re-
 fused to Include Loeb
 in His Cabinet.
END RAPIDLY APPROACHING

Washington, Jan. 17.-(Special. --It is being declared consistently in many quarters here in Washington that The odoref Roosevelt and William H. Taft are rapidly approaching . parting of the ways.
 The report in high places is that the President -elect is unloading all tho personnel, appurtenances and inherit ances of Rooseveltisn, and Iss getting ready to emancipate himself entirely from relation or obligation to the Roosevelt regime.
 Such an approaching crisis cannot be stated as a fact at this time. The ru- nor is persistent, however, and wheth- CT or not a break occurs. 1t cannot be denied that at the present moment black, ominous clouds are lowering over the political firm of Roosevelt & Taft. Time alone will tell whether the storm will break.
 President Roosevelt is said to have been seriously plqued because the President-elect refused to include in his cabinet William Loeb. Jr. It is generally understood MT. Taft practI- cally promised the President Loeb would be given cabinet portfolio. It is declared hIs reason for changing his mind was that Loeb had too much Rooseveltism about him.
 
 the President has, it Is said, for hold ing any animus against the man ho placed In the executive chair to suc- ceed, himself.
 Reasons given for Taft's alleged de- sire to break away from Roosevelt are:
 That the President has made scape- goat of the Republican party by. mak- ing ugly intimations against certain House leaders For instance in his re- cant uouy fan, o,ve Roosevelt charged congressmen Taw- ney and Smith were practically wholly responsible for the .'action against the interests of of-aaw-abiding people, and in its effect of benefit only to lawbreak- CTS" TawneR and Smith dominate the Appropriations Committee, and are the ones the Republican party selected to spend more than billion dollars of the peoples money annually, all of which makes out a pretty clear-cut case against the C.. O.. P.
 That II serl0kiB reaction of public sentiment is Impending against T. R. a a result of alleged questiona bl c grounds for his charges against Sena- tor Tlllman.
 That unless Taft disclaims. allegiance to the President he must sh builder part of the responsibility for the latter's acts. and a certain proportion of ad- FSA SS RoNAAS SOAhANAStAA WAASAA- may EG- suit.
 Hostile to Roosevelt.
 It is matter of public knowledge Congress and the majority of the lead CTS of the Republican. party are now hostile to the President. The attitude of these forces toward Taft Is most friendly Roosevelts enemies are no doubt urging Taft to cut loose from the President, and if the latter should An an FraFfsa afn0k uvntY1d cent in the eyes of Congress and poll- ticians.
 A breach between Roosevelt and Taft would place the former in a ae1i- cate position with the people. He would no doubt be charged with stand ing sponsor for @ man he had not weighed as. carefully as he should have.
 In the meantime Mir. Taft Is going ahead with the organization of his anti Roosevelt cabinet. His whole ten dency | in cabinet construction, 1t is broadly declared among persons in touch with the great political and per- sonal interests involved, Is toward min imizing Roosevelt ideas. And this ten- dency, 1t is averred, has displeased the President quite as much as has the disregard of his personal preferences in the matter of Mir. Loeb's presence in the cabinet.
 On behalf of the President elect the explanation is made that he wants all his official family to be. a body of men who will stand on their own merits, in- dependent of any reputation that. may have accrued to them incident to con nection with the Roosevelt administra- ton.
 Connection with the Roosevelt ad- mInistration is not a bar to prospec- tive members of the cabinet-to-be, however. Only the Loeb and New berrys and Cortelyous, who were heav- fly tarred with the Roosevelt stick. will be barred.
 A slight exception must necessarily be made in the case of Frank H. Hitch cock. however. even though he is a strong Roosevelt man, or was the last time he expressed himself. He is to be in the Taft cabinet, but must not continue as National Chairman, and his position will be a modest and minor @-=---=-- -