The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-08
KNOX IS WITH TAFT
MAY MAKE ANNoUNCEMENTs TO- DAy IN REFERENCE TO CABINET.
Fiasl Dseisis. May Net Be Made as N Aeeettaness wIll First Have
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 Augusta. oa.S Jan. 7.--President- elect Taft today took counsel with Phiiander c. Knox, His Secretary of State. on the subject of Cabinet ap- pointments Mir. Taft. has heretofore announced that the judgment of sena- tor Knox is to have, great weight with him in selecting the men who are to be In his Cabinet. With this in mind. 1t may be stated that the preliminary and formative periods of this import ant work have merged into that of making definite decisions and offers and seeeptances of places.
 Mr. Taft would not discuss for pub lication or otherwise what. he said was the long and most Satisfactory talk ie had this afternoon with his premier. The two men are to be together prac- tically the entire day tomorrow, ae the result. of which, they President elect indicated that 1t might be pos sible to make a partial report for pulp 1ication. but Ne was mot positive. Mr. Knox was very frank to say that with his chief accessible. 1t would obviously be undesirabIe for him to give the public information. Besides, he added. the final decision on, matters talked over rested with Mir. Taft, and these decisions may not have been made.
 object of Visit. 1f It Is understood that MT. Knox is being, asked, to give his Judgment re- gerdinK men whom MT. Taft has ten- tativeiy. selected. after extended con- sideration and consolidation with party leaders, rather than to go into the ini- tiai stages of the subject MT. Taft has said recently that no cabinet of- fers were outstanding, and unaccepted, from which 1t may readily be seen that should the conferences with MT. Knox bring the questions to finality in the mind of the President-elect, he will, | afterwards have to negotiate the of- fers and acceptances. with the men he has decided on. This will take time. and win leave open the seemingly all turing field of speculation relative to 1 the personnel of the Taft Cabinet. | Senator Knox arrived from wash | ington at noon today. He went at once to the Bon Air Hotel, and after lunch to the Taft cottage. After a | lengthy conference there with Mir. Taft, the two went for an automobile | which Mir. and Mrs. Taft had for this evening precluded further talk with | Mir. Knox.
 The Pennsylvania Senator is an en. thusiastfc golfer and will begin the day with q game with the President elect tomorrow.
 MT Knox Is chairman of the Inaugu- ral Committee of the Senate and House I of Representatives and with a pleas ant smile he said tonight that he had told Mir Taft today that he intended to see him properly inaugurated as Pres- ident of the United States, and his | own appointment as Secretary of State may be confirmed before he ceased to be the junior Senator from Pennsyl- vania. All Of which indicates clearly that there will be no vacancy In the Senate caused by Mir. Knox's retire. | ment, until after the 4th of Marin. l Favor HerrIck.
 1 That the organization pf- railroad employees favored the selection of Myron I T. Herrick of Ohio for Cabinet place was indicated to Mir. Taft today by | Warren s. stone. Grand Chief Of the | Brotherhood ofs Locomotfva Engineers
 Mir. Taft will partake of a barbecue Saturday afternoon as, the guest of the organization. of .Sduth Carotina farm CTS. formed more than fifty years
 The barbecue will be given about seven miles from this city on the Car olina side of the savanneh River
 Cancels EnEagement.
 Acting under information and advise Mir. raft today wrote letter to Mir Asa c. Candler, chairman of the At ianta Chamber of Commerce. withdraw Ing his engagement to address the ne- | groes of the city on his forthcoming visit A lively. row is in progress among the Atlanta negroes, 1t is. uI1. derBtood here, over the question of where MT. Taft should make his ad- dress. Continued consideration In- creased the bitterness, so it Is reported and the advice which decided Mir. Taft to decline to make any address. came from prominent members of that race 1 Not Flat-FoOt.
 It became publicly known for the first time today that the President elect is no 'fiat-foot.". This interest ing piece of information was brought to light by the arrival here of Dr Anson G. Cook of Hartford, Conn, an expert orthopedist.
 The story. as told by Mr. Taft, has It's beginning way back in the cam paign. He has prominent personal I friend in Connecticut This friend came to him with. protestations that | he did not want a single thing in the way of Presidential appointments, and had no favors to ask--except one. Then he related to Mir. Taft that in his town was an expert orthopedlst, who wal much interested in MT. Tafts feet, and declared that on account of his great weight he must be q "fat-foot," wh ich interpreted was said to mean that the cords of his instep were taxed by the great strain on them. pr. Cook made a plaster cast of each foot of the Pres ident- -elect while he was in New York during the campaign. and, as 6 result he has informed Mir. Taft that his feet are perfect in form.