The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-06-08
WILL ROOSEVELT
ENDORSE TAFT?
Knowing Ones Say That
He Will Not.
He CAN HARDLY AFFORD TO
Judging FrOmCertain Circum-
StanceS-Snappy News
From Washington.

(By Clyde II. Tavenner, Staff Wash
ington Correspondent of The Herald)
Washington, June 4.-Those who be-
lieve Theodore Roosevelt will not in
dorse the Taft administration are in
creasing in number.
There is much new circumstantial
evidence to sustain this view. In the
first place, the ex-President has ac-
cepted an invitation to be the guest
of honor at a dinner to be given in
New York on June % by Robert Col
lier, the publisher of the magazine
which has been carrying on such re-
lentless warfare against Ballinger and
the TaiL administration. It is con-
tended by the insurgents that Mr..
Roosevelts action in agreeing to be
the guest of the publisher was equiv
alent to putting the mark of his APP
prevail on the campaign against the
Taft cabinet member
Roosevelt has signified his intention
of meeting Representatives Fish, OF
Massachusetts, and Murdoch, of Kan
sas, soon after his arrival on Ameri-
can soil. Both are insurgents.
But the regulars persist Roosevelt
is with them. Vice President Sher-
man, in his recent address before the
Citizens Industrial Association at st.
Louis, said: Roosevelt will undoubt-
eddy make several speeches during the
campaign, and in these speeches he
will indorse the tariff law and will
indorse Mr.. Taft in every particular.
The Republican Congressional COM
mittee is sending this view of the
situation to papers in all parts OF
the country, although there is moth
ing to justify it.
To the writer, the signs of the
times read that Roosevelt can not af-
ford to indorse the Taft administra-
ton. The price the ex-President
would be compelled TO pay for such
an indiscretion would be large por-
tion of his present popularity. From
the standpoint of the historian, such 6
| finale to his career would do great
damage.
President Taft has worked hand In
hand with Aldrich, Cannon and the
exposed and discredlted Ballinger
Rooseeelt can not indorse Taft with
out indorsing Taft's associates in
government. Endorsement Of this
crowd would be even more than the
great popularity of Theodore Roose-
welt could stand.
The Taft administration is discred-
itEd with the country, at least to the
extent that it is dominated by men like
Aldrich, who In turn are dominated
BY the greedy corporate interests
President Taft has made Aldrichs
cause his own.
The President is undoubtedly being
fooled.
Just keep cool and stick by Aid
RICH" he is being advised by men
like Guggenheim, Stephenson of Wis
consin, and Lodge of Massachusetts.
"The feeling against Aldrich will soon
blow over. and then the grumbling
against the administration will turn
to hearty commentator"
The President apparently believes
this brand of philosophy. He is
sticking to Aldrich. He is waiting,
hoping that the tide of adverse public
sentiment will change.
But he will not abandon Boss Aid
rich; indeed, he could not if he
would. Therefore the cause of the
President is as much a lost cause as
is that of Aldrich.
Ex-President Roosevelt has never
made 1t practice to champion
causes that are lost, and it is al
most impossible for the insurgents to
believe that he will begin at this
late day