The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
Promises TO Give Taft Many
SIeep|ess Nights
FIGHT UPON BALL|NGER
Iowa Governor Says Taft Made Great
Mistake in lndorsing AIdrich and
People Would Welcome
RooseveIt's Return.
BY WATTERsoN sTEALEY.

Washington, November 10.-(Special.)-
That the country will be flooded during
the next three years with Roosevelt pres
idehtial gossip is Inevitable. The person
alty of the ex-President is such as TO
keep him In the limelight much to his
delight" and whatever may be the mo-
tive there is going to be following in
the republican party to insist that pollt-
ical conditions are such that Roosevelt is
the only man who can be elected on the
republican ticket In 1912. The suggestion
necessarily reflects seriously upon the ad-
mnistratioa of President Taft and implies
that 1t lacks the success to secure an in
dorsement at the polls.
The discussion of the subject is pro-
voked now by the row In the interior de-
partment. The suspicious ones sees in ii
nothing but an effort of the old Roose-
welt crowd to undermine the Taft regime.
CLAWS himself. who brings the charges
aga nst Taft's secretary, Bailinger, is
entirely overlooked. Only the figure OF
Clifford Pinchot, the chief forester, and
member of the Roosevelt defunct tennis
cabinet, appears behind the conspiracy.
The result is that the President will be
at his wits ends to prevail upon Ballin-
ger to remain in the cabinet If Pinchot is
to retain his official position. There are
some who are inclined to believe that
,Finchot's attitude is very much like that
of the small hoy with the chip on his
shoulder, and that he would welcome be-
ing fred out TO become the first martyr of
the Roosevelt policies. In the interior de-
partnieut, as everywhere else. the Roose-
veit policies constitute a patent on the
Ten Commandments.
There is no room for more than one
interpretation on any one subject
It..-
is said TO be such that he would resent
with right much indignation a suggestion
by even his closest advisers that Mr..
Roosevelt is willing to obey a "country-
wide CALL" as the Rooseveltian boomers
call it. Whatever may be the result it
is certain that President Taft. in spite of
his confidence in Roosevelt, has many
sleepless nights ahead of him. 1t Is en-
barrassing enough to have it constantly
pounded into man of self-respect that
he has got to follow Roosevelt Policies
to secure denomination. President Taft
will be assured by Mr. Roosecelt without
solicitation that ANe Is not candidate and
will not accept nomination, but just
the same there will be a continual crop
ping out of little things that will not
make for the comfort of the executive.
AS result. former Governor Larabee of
Iowa is in the city. Here is what he
said:
I'VE are beginning to miss Roosevelt
and wish he were back President Taft's
Endorsement of Aldrich's tariff views has
lost him much of his popularity out our
way. We all think he made a big mis-
take.
Colonel Roosevelt Is moro popular to-
day than he ever was; people are Begin
ming to miss him and his rugged, thor
oughly American and patriotic views ex-
pressed on every subject concerning the
welfare of the country. II he were to
land today at San Francisco and travel
across the continent to his Oyster Bay
home he would receive a reception the
like of which no American ever expert
enced
"He is bound to come to the front again
before many years, and the country will
be the gamer thereby"
1t is interviews OF this nature that will
hurt at the White House. Mr.. Roosevelt
cannot help from secretly enjoying it. If
nothing else it will remind him Of the
terrific sweating he went through during
the last year OF the life of the late SEN
ator Hanna of Ohio. Death relieved
Roosevelt of Hanna, but Roosevelt Is
liable to live a century.