Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-22
President Expected to Make Po-
sition Clear on Recently
Reported Rupture
EXECUTIVE SEEKS HARMONY
Vigorous Effort Will Be Made to
PIacate All Factions
in Party
Associated Press)

BEVERLY, Mass, Aug. 2t.-As time
goes on it becomes more and more ap-
parent that no direct answer will be
made here to the reports of a break
between President Taft and Col. Roose-
welt, and the charges alleged as foun-
dation for the rupture.
Although the silence of the last few
days is still strictly maintained, it is
believed now that President Taft in
tends to make his position clear in the
letter he is preparing for the Republi-
can campaign committee handbook and
the speech he is preparing for the con-
servation congress at st. Paul.
Mr.. Taft has been working on these
documents almost continuously for the
last two days. The letter and the
controversial. The president is said to
recognize no situation calling for a
controversy. Col. Roosevelt has made
no statement in connection with the
reported break.
OPPOSES OPEN CONTROVERSY
With the special work he has in
hand President Taft has evidently
concluded this is not the time to enter
into a newspaper controversy. AS to
his administration, what it has ac-
complished in fulfilling party pledges
and what it intends to do in the future
in the way of recommendations to
congress, President Taft soon will
make clear, and it is said he is willing
to stand or fall by what he has to say.
AS to state fights, there is every
reason to believe Mr.. Taft will restate
what he has said many times: That
he does not believe 1t the province of
the chief executive to interfere in state
fights, and that in dealing with state
situations he has confined himself to
urging upon the various leaders the
Importance to the party of an honest
endeavor to adjust their differences
and of an agreement upon~a a harmon
ious program.
That the president is still intent upon
bringing about as harmonious a situa-
tion in the Republican party as pos
sible, is evinced by the fact that his
campaign committee letter is reported
to contain declaration that there is
no desire on his part, or of any one
clasely identified with the administra-
tion to read any person out of the
party. This is taken to mean the presi-
dent has no fight with the insurgents,
but is glad to welcome them as Repub-
licans.
DUTIES OF REPUBLICANS
During the last session of congress
the president clearly defined his posi-
tion as to what constitutes a Republi-
can. He held that all men who were
willing to support measures clearly
framed in compliance with party
pledges were entitled to be regarded
as members of the party, no matter
what their position might be as to the
house rules or the speakership.
The president will endeavor to pla-
cate all factions of the party. He be-
lieves the party already is moving
ahead and he wants all it's members to
pull at the oars"
Representative McKinlay of Illinois,
chairman of the Republican congress
sional campaign committee, when he
was in Beverly ten days ago an
nounced the congressional committee
was ready to support regulars and in
surgents alike, the only test being sup
port of the president and of the party
platform.
AS to the tariff, President Taft, it is
believed, will lay chief Importance upon
the belief that it's worth will be shown
through the work of the new tariff
commission.