The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29
FIRST TAFT GUN.
Republican State Executive
Committee of North Carolina
Endorses the President for a
Second Term.
HE is In THE RACE.
Is Said to Have Won the Support
Of Roosevelt.
This the Colonel Has PROMPTLY
and Emphatically Denied.

Greensboro, N. c.. Dec. 29.-The
Republican state executive committee
in session here adopted resolutions en-
dorsing President Taft as a national
and not a sectional president" and
pledged support for his denomination
and reelection.
The resolutions invite recognition
by the south of the presidents atti-
tude toward the south, and call atten-
ton to his wisdom and justice in re-
gard to abrogating the referee system
and the emancipation of the party in
the south from conditions and policies
which have tended to retard it's
growth.
Taft in the Race.
Washington, Dec. 2s.-As plainly as
president may. Mr.. Taft has indi-
Gated that he is a candidate for re-
nomination and expects to receive it.
That is the statement of the presi-
dents friends who gave out the in
formation regarding the correspond
ence that they say has been passing
between the president and Colonel
Roosevelt, but which Colonel Roose-
velt says in an interview in New York
does not exist.
The administrations stand on the
question of a denomination has not
been reached without some wobbling.
The president is said to have suffered
a change of mind when he went to
election he was convinced that the tide
against his party could not be turned
and that it was doomed to lose the
presidency Charles P. Taft. the
presidents brother, who accompanied
him on the trip, is credited with hav-
ing changed the presidents views, and
he came back to the White House to
begin a course of conciliation toward
| the insurgents of his party and to
sound the old chords that used to bind
70 M- ROnGau0lf fo n,
| could be retuned.
The statement is now made by the
| presidents friends that the strings re-
| sound as harmoniously as ever and that
nothing stands in the way of the presi-
dents denomination.
State leaders such as Lloyd C. Girls
com. president of the New York county
Republican committee, Collector Loeb
and Otto T. Barnard have informed the
| president that he is the only man who
can count on united delegation to the
| 1912 convention from New York. Sena-
! tor Penrose and Senator Oliver of Penn
| sylvania have reported the same senti-
| ment to exist in the Keystone state.
From Ohio, Maine, Massachusetts,
| and other states the same reports have
| come.
That is one side Of it. Friends of
Mr.. Roosevelt, however, are not ready
i to believe that he has given any as
| surance of his position to the presi-
l
| the insurgents, the followers of Cum
Minis and LaFollette, either one OF
whom they believe could line up the
west are not ready to believe de-
/ feated party will allow the nomination
| to be dictated by the east, which they
hold responsible for it's rebuke, or by
| the south. where the party is a "mere
she'll
I Roosevelt Denies 1t.
| New York, Dec. 29.-Theodore Roose-
ve1t has not declared for the renomina-
| ton of President Taft by the RepubH-
can party in 1912. Colonel Roosevelt
made this fact most emphatic at his
Office in The Outlook.
"All this talk about my supporting
| Mr.. Taft in 1912 is utterly absurd" he
| said. There was nothing like that dis
| cussed by me with anyone at any time
| And SO far as the statements are
| concerned that Collector Loeb has be-
| come Taft dispenser of patronage in
1 New York in order to secure the state
delegation for the presidents renomi-