Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
ROOSEVELT FOLLOWING SOME WHAT DAzED BY TAFT's SHOW.
 ING HIS BROAD BACK
DOUBT OF HIS INTENTIONS
MORE COMFORT GIVEN TO REAc- TIoNARIEs THAN PROGRESS
 IVES BY HIS FIRST STEPS

mined to make a clean sweep of the Roosevelt cabinet, and to surround him self with new advisers, is news which Is just beginning to be believed in the inner circles of Washington. For g while astonishment was overbalaneed by incredulity. But now such is found to be the fact.
 All members of the Roosevelt cabi. net have received orders to walk the plank; and will go overheard with one exception-Geo. Won l.. Meyer. And the case of Meyer stands by itself. It is this way:
 | When Henry Cabot Lodge heard that Meyer was included in the wholesale doom of the Roosevelt advisers, he has. tened to Augusta, Ga., and addressed Taft in this wise:
 "I insist that Meyer be member of your cabinet. I am not asking or rec ommending. I am insisting. Under stand me perfectly. I don't care any thing about the Roosevelt proteges as a whole; but l do care about my own political standing and fortunes in Mass. achusetts. Both arc at stake. In the fight to secure for you your nomination l cast my lot on your side. was bit. terly opposed by Senator Crane and all who were opposed to you and Roose. welt. Now l don t care whether you throw Roosevelt, but you can t throw me. o
 General Cleaning Out | There are no other exceptions. Jas. R. Garfield, faithful yeoman of Roose. veltism, is te go into private life. He says he. will return and practice law in Cleveland. Jas. Wilson, father of the department of agriculture, and veteran of the Mckinley and two Roosevelt ad- ministrations, goes. with the others. Frank Kellogg, prosecutor of the Stan dard Oil cases, and slated by Roose- welt as Bonaparte s successor is to give place to lawyer from Brother Hen. " 's' office in New York--a man named Wickersham straus aud Newberry-Jew and Gentile--have received their walk ing papers.
 No more radical change could have followed the election of man of hos tile political faith.
 The friends of Roosevelt are dunn. | founded. They see in this wholesale sweep of the heads of departments an inevitable era of deeapitation among l the smaller fry.
 And, 7" they are asking, eff Taft IS going to fire all his own old associates Tn the Roosevelt administration how is he going to make good to carry on the Roosevelt policies! Why, if he in tends to finish tho Roosevelt program does he get rid of all the men trained in the Roosevelt schooll"
 Taft's Own Administration
 Judge Taft has been quoted as say. ing to his own friends:
 "I will be, judged by the men by whom I surround myself. INhave my own record to make and my own place ! to secure in the confidence of this coun- try. At the end of my administration l might promote faithful servants to honorable places. But I can t be ex. pected to take the young men who have come up under my predecessor
 But this does not dispel the dark gloom in places where the president 's friends congregate. As the full horror of the Taft sweep dawns upon them, they lament and feel that the new pres ident is indeed ungrateful.
 "Taft,' they lament, twas chosen to carry out the Roosevelt policies. Be- ] cause the people supposed he would do 1 so they put him in the White House. 1 Without Roosevelt s backing he would ! have had neither the nomination nor | the election. It is true he has his place to win in the confidence of tho country. { He has still to prove by his official 1 acts that he is worthy of the confidence | of the friends of Roosevelt
 ''And when he begins by sweeping ! all the president s associates aside he | IS not making strong bid for that ! confidence
 Doubt and Incredulity
 The friends of Roosevelt have been ! slow to wrath. Indeed, it has seemed | too impossible for belief that Taft could | be guilty of such sheer ingratitude that has seemed to mark his course.
 They have hesitated to believe that | Taft has gone over bag and baggage | 70 those interests which controlled the | executive branch of tho government be. fore Roosevelt came and which have