The National tribune., 1910-07-28
The PRESIDENTS
PARTY PRIMARY.
He is Taking an Active Interest in
Every Political Move.
special to The National Tribune.

Iy since the PreSlUenJ Stcdiiltu away
on board the Mayflower, but there is
still some flow The Presidents secre-
taries have tarried here, and the vol
ume of mail has been piling higher
and higher as the Mayfower coursed
farther and farther east. Secretary
Norton made a belated departure TO
join the President at Bar Harbor, tax
ing with him some letters of more
pressing character. The President Will
dispose of those as he finds opportunity
between his games of golf.
The politicians virtually followed the
President right down to the shore as
he started to board the Mayfiower for
his cruise to Maine, and they viii be
ready for him on the shore when he
returns. That is still several days dis
tant, for it is the Presidents purpose
to round out the full 10 days, and not
to arrive here till Thursday, July %,
at 3 p. m. More State Conventions and
primaries will then be coming on, and
there will be more politicians wanting
to see the President and whom he Will
want to see.
The Ohio Riddle.
The Ohio State political riddle will
probably be solved by the time the
President is again in the waters of this
vicinity. He has preserved secrecy eff
ficaciously about his part in the Ohio
preliminaries; in short, has maintained
thruout that he was taking no part in
shaping the platform or selecting the
candidates for the Columbus Conven-
tisn.
Just before the President sailed away
Judge Reynold Kindade, of Toledo, was
an unexpected visitor at Burgess Point,
and remained with the President for
nearly two hours This visit was fol-
lowed by one to Oyster Bay, and soon
it developed that Judge Kinkade had
come to Beverly in large part for the
purpose of getting letter of introduc
ton to Col. Roosevelt from President
Taft. He got the latter all right altho
Judge Kinkade's particular reason for
wanting such letter from President
Taft has not been made altogether
plain. Some think Judge Kinkade was
pulling hard for the Gubernatorial
nomination and was trying to obtain
the Endorsement of both President Taft
and Col. Roosevelt. But all that will
probably clear up after the Ohio Con-
vention has adjourned. There is little
doubt that the President has had some
sort of an understanding with his par
ticular friends in Ohio about the work
ahead of the convention.
Soon after he returns here the pri-
maries in a number of States will be
coming to a head. Some of the big
States of the Middle West, like Illinois
and Kansas, where insurgency is a fac
Office pretty soon, and these primaries
will be important in shaping up the
prospects of the campaign. With the
gains of the regulars in States like Iowa
and Wisconsin the regulars have been
boldly preaching their doctrines in 9TH
er States. Speaker Cannon has been
lifting up his voice in a most outspok-
en- way in Kansas, and it is undoubted-
ly the belief of the regulars that they
are likely to get away" with the pri-
maries in those and other States.
Cabinet. Meetings at Beverly.
The members of the Cabinet, who are
not too far away, will be coming into
Beverly soon. This means Secretary of
State Knox and Secretary of the Treas
ury MacVeagh. The rest of the Cabinet
are scattered over nearly the whole of
the known world Postmaster-General
Hitchcock is now in Europe, Secretary
of War Dickinson is in Asia, Secretary
of the Navy Meyer is in Canada killing
salmon, and at this particular time Sec
retary of Commerce and Labor Nagel
and Attorney-GeneraI Wickersham are
somewhere in Alaska
All this means that Cabinet meetings
at Beverly this Summer are to be few
and far between. The President will
be unable to get more than three or
four of his Cabinet together at one
time till well along into September The
erly depends much upon his disposition
of certain invitations now before him.
One is the invitation to attend the Con-
servation Congress at st. Paul. A dele
CATION of influential conservationists
came to him just before he left Beverly,
and urged him to accept an invitation
to speak there in early September along
with Roosevelt. Clifford Pinchot and ex-
Secretary Garfield. The President has
not yet decided.
The Roosevelt campaign problem Is
not yet altogether made clear. It has
kept both Oyster Bay and Beverly
guessing. But IL should not be over
looked that President Taft continues to
assume q far more independent attitude
and also a far more confident attitude
! than he had along in Midwinter Then
| he was often in despair. The wars of
| insurgents and regulars in Congress and
4 the prospects of failure for his legfsla-
| tive program filled him with political
| forebodings.
! According to the word brought here
many people in the insurgent States
claim the legislation that Congress en-
acted came about because of the ap-
! proach of Congressional election.
! Much that was good in it, according to
! these same insurgent authorities, was
! wrought by the insurgents and Demo-
! Gratis. None the less the President
claims a good share of the credit II
enabled him to start his conservation
! policy on an extensive scale, and his
| friends will cite it as something quite
as good and quite as sane as the con-
servation policy of eX-Forester Pinchot
The President, therefore, is now much
| heartened, and he started off on his 10
days cruise TO Maine feeling that Re-
publican prospects had waxed in many
States, and that he is in a better posi-
tion than ever to stand in an independ-
ent attitude toward the Roosevelt prop
aganda- The utterances of ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, following long series
! OF representations about his attitude
| with reference to various men, afforded
great encouragement to the President
from all appearances, and this was en-
hanced by the talks he had and is hav-
ing with his regular callers from many
quarters.
The Presidents Interest in Politics.
President Taft's purpose to bear an
| active hand in State and National poli-
tics is made clear every few DAYS The
latest example is his course this week
in Maine. The Democrats are kicking
up great dust in every nook and cor
ner Of that old Republican stronghold.
They may or may not win, but they are
keeping the Republicans on the iump
/ and the campaign will be fast up to
the date of the State and Congressional
I elections Sept. u. 1t was originally
! President Tafts plan 10 cruise along
! the Maine coast for 10 days but not to
! land except at Bar Harbor, where there
! is fine golf course, and at Biddeford
Pool. where Prof. and Mrs. Louis T.