The Detroit times., 1910-07-08
FATE OF MANY IN
PUBLIC EYE RESTS
WITH ROOSEVELT
He Will Hear Both Sides at Length
Before Taking Definite Stand,
Will Speak For Senator Bev-
eridge In Indiana.
Former President Will Take Firm
Hold In New York, But Fight
There Will Be Bitter.

OYSTER BAY, N. Y, July S.-Whlle
most OF the visitors to Sycamore Hiil
since Col. Roosevelt re-established Ills
residence there have been Republicans
with insurgent leanings, 1t is intimat
ed there that this has not been be
cause OF prearranged program
Rather, the insurgents have been more
anxious to place their side before the
former president than have the regu
lars and many OF the latter IRE ex
pected TO call there before Roosevelt
sets out on his first speech-making
tour next month.
With the oRosevelt intention To get
all the light possible on political con
ditions before making a public speech,
Il is regarded as certain that the Wis
ting list at Sycamore Hill will in
crease from now on. And until the
first speech IL made both branches OF
the Republican party will doubtless
continue TO claim that the colonel
really favors their cause.
While he has not declared his pur-
poses so far as the west and its prob
lens are concerned. Roosevelt Is
already lined up with Gov. Hughes
to get control OF the party in his own
commonwealth. He plans the naming
OF a candidate for governor, who will
be his own personal choice, and a
platform that will for the first time in
four years emphatically endorse
Charles Z. Hughes and the Hughes
policies. This fact has been communi.
Gated TO the leaders and they are
already lining up.
Roosevelt has the support of the
New York and Erie county organiZa-
tions and OF his own home county, but
most OF the remainder OF the state is
anti Roosevelt and it is expected that
following a conference with Gov.
Hughes early next week. Roosevelt
will take the offensive and issue a
statement outlining the issues on
which the fight for delegates to the
next state convention will be fought
out at the September primaries Be
cause he had learned that this was
so, william Barnes, Jr., the Albany
boss and leader of the ,anti-Roosevelt
movement, refused TO go TO the Out
look Office to confer with Roosevelt
n Wednesday just before he sailed for
Europe
So far as the Ohio situation Is con
cerned. Roosevelt has had chat with
President Taft and a lengthy confer
ence with James X. Garfield, who Is
considered radically antl-Taft and who
is now again being strongly mentioned
for the gubernatorial nomination In
the Buckeye state this fall,
Roosevelt had the Massachusetts
situation outlined to him by Senator
Lodge at Nahant and according TO the
Lodge followers he promised to aid
the senior senator in his fight for re-
election.
This is disputed by the insurgent
wing I'm the Bay state, and Roosevelt
will not take any side just at present
In India he will speak for Beverage
lust what effect this will have on the
fall campaign is uncertain. Some
politicians here argue that former
Vice President Fairbanks and his
friends are anti-Roosevelt anyhow, and
that the colonel's endorsement will be
a stimulant to keep up the fight or
Beverage.
Senator LaFollette told his troubles
in Wisconsin to Roosevelt. and Willie
ne expressed himself as pleased" will
his visit no light was shed on II from
Sycamore Hill. A similar situation re
suited from the visit of Rep. Poindex