The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-03
Aroused by the Daring Dash Of
The Explorer Promises the
Alaskan Governor to Visit
Him in 1910.
POLAR TERRITORY TO
BE Annexed BY u. S.
Statement Made by Secretary
OF State Knox, But, Like
The President, He Waits
For Complete Details.


Beverly. Mass, September 3.-Nei-
ther President Taft nor Secretary
Knox, who paid another visit to the
Summer White House yesterday,
would make any comment on the re-
ported discovery of the North Pole by
Dr. Cook.
II is known that privately both are
deeply interested in the news from the
far North. but until DR.. Cook reaches
civilization again and more of the de-
tails are furnished, there will be no
statement of any kind made. Then.
II the detailed information bears out
the reports already made, 1t Is alto
gether likely that some official recog'
milton will be made of DR.. Cooks
achievement In the shape of tele-
gram or letter Of congratulation from
the president.
The attention of the secretary OF
state was called to the 10000 square
miles of territory to which DR.. Cook
J claim when he planted the stars
.r'res on top of the world. Mr.
as asked what would be done
by the United States with regard to
this. With twinkling eye the secre-
tary of state replied:
why, we shall annex 1t, of course"
Taft viii Visit Alaska.
With the subject of the North IN
mind, it Is interesting to note that
President Taft assured Walter Ely
Clark, the new governor of Alaska,
that he will visit that territory nsxt
year II he can arrange his plans to that
end. That territory is the only por-
ton of the United States soil upon
which the president has never set foot.
A bare-faced attempt, by the way,
to drag the president into befuddled
political situation in Minnesota was
nipped in the bud yesterday by the
president. With the exception of
Representative Tawney, of that state,
the entire Minnesota delegation op-
posed the Payne tariff bill. Tawney
Is In trc''>'e with his constituents be-
cause r. ~.ood by the president and
voted for the bill.
Yesterday the president was inform
ed that telegram had been published
in the st. Paul Pioneer Press and Dis
patch of the following tenor:
II assure you of my complete sym
patty with the plan to favor the Min.
nesota congressional delegation by a
public ratification meeting"
Put In False Position.
The presidents name was signed tc
this alleged dispatch. Manifestly,. II
was intended to put him in position
of favoring the revolt in Minnesota
against the Payne bill.
Just how the president feels with re-
gard to the new tariff law was outlin
ed in the statement which he issued
following his approval Of the bill. HI
will probably add to that In his speech
es during the forthcoming visit to thu
West
And that the president has a pur
pose contrary to this is indicated b.
the fact that he will make a specia
stop at Tawney's home, Winona, Mich
during this Western trip and make ;
speech.
It Is a curious fact that Tawney Il
not only opposed because he stoo'
by Taft in the tariff tight, out De
cause he opposed Roosevelt in the clos
ing weeks of the latter's administra
ton on the fight over the secret ser
vice, which again recalls curious fac
that In almost every political tangl
that the president becomes involves
there Is Roosevelt end to turtle
complicate matters.
Issued Flat Denial.
However. Immediately upon the dis
covery OF this false Minnesota telt
gram, Secretary Carpenter issued thi
flat reputation, which ought to set
tie the matter:
1.-THE president requests the pres
associations to announce that no sue
telegram was sent by him to the Pic
neer Press or to anybody else"
The presidents golf plan Will D
broken today for the first time. bar
ing Sundays, since he reached Beverl.
A slight touch of sciatica. coupled wit
an engagement to witness the Sonde
yacht races, brings about this chang
in the daily routine.
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