Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-11
LOEB, RIGHT HAND
OF ROOSE WELT, ON
MISSION TO TAFT
CoIonePS Former Secretary Ad-
mits That Conference Will
Be on Politics
DENIES ANY BREACH EXISTS
Former Secretary Indicates That
Colonel viii Be Neutral in
Coming Campaign
DENIES ANY BREACH EXISTS
EAssocIated Pressl

ASSOCIATED Pressl
BEVERLY, Mass, July 10-Beverly
was about to tuck itself away to sleep
tonight after dull and sultry Sunday
when William Loeb, jr., right hand Of
Theodore Roosevelt, motored into town.
There had been no warning of his
coming and his arrival caused q flutter
of excitement only second to that when
Mr. Loeb's former chief visited Presl-
dent Taft at Burgess Point. Mr.. Loeb
will see the president tomorrow after
noon and it was frankly admitted that
politics would be the subject of their
interview. 1t will be the first politics,
by the way that Mr.. Taft has talked
since Mr.. Roosevelt was at Beverly.
The president started in on a ten days
vacation last week but there are in
dications that the period of rest is
ended and that a number of important
conferences will take place in the COM
ing seven days. Then Mr.. Taft Is 60
ing to sail "way down east" for a
ten days cruise along the shores of
Maine.
Recent incidents at oyster Bay, Mr..
Loeb declared tonight, had nothing to
do with his visit. In fact, he said
that Mr. Roosevelt probably knew
nothing of his coming to Beverly. It
developed later that Mr.. Loeb was sent
for by Secretary Norton, with the
knowledge of President Taft.
"I came to talk over the general po-
litical situation with the president"
said Mr.. Loeb, when pressed for an
explanation as to his visit.
"As representative of the colonel?"
was asked.
mo, I come as the old friend and
loyal supporter of President Taft"
DENIES ANY SPLIT
During all of Mr.. Tafts term Col
1ector Loeb has been a frequent caller
at the White House and his presence
there, coupled with the general man
ifestations of friendship between him
and the president, has done much to
contradict the stories of strained rela-
tions between Mr.. Taft and Colonel
Roosevelt. During his candidacy for
the Republican nomination and his
campaign for the presidency Mr.. Taft
had no more ardent advocate than Mr.
Loeb.
Mr. Loeb was asked by one of his
interviewers IL there was possibility
that his visit had something to do with
bridging a "chasm between Beverly
and oyster Bay"
There is not any chasm," he replied
with emphasis. "There has been no
break of any sort and relations could
not be more pleasant. Mr.. Roosevelt
told me he had "a perfectly bully time
Wnen he NlSllCu piCoidSAhs
"The president and Col Roosevelt
are acting as independent Americans,
each along his own lines, but to the
same end"
Asked IL he thought Col Roosevelt
would come out with an Endorsement
of the Taft administration, Mr.. Loeb
took the position that the presidents
administration needed no Endorsement
from Col. Roosevelt or any one else.
AS alretdy stated a number of times
in Beverly, the president feels that
he helped his party make a record
during the recent session Of congress
Ia record upon which 1t can well af-
ford to stand in the coming campaign.
The question of individual indorse-
ment has not suggested itself to Mr..
Taft in any way
INDICATES Il. II. NEUTRAL
Mr.. Loeb was asked as to recent
events at oyster Bay. and the seeming
preponderance of insurgents" among
the colonePs visitors.
"Col Roosevelt sees everybody" he
said. "The so-called insurgents were
all friends of his and naturally they
went to see him. Some of them want
him to help them in their campaigns"
Mr.. Loeb left the impression Colonel
Roosevelt might not go so deeply into
the coming campaign as has been gem
orally supposed. The colonel is report
ed as being anxious to avoid anything
that looks like unfairness in his atti-
tude. This fact is said to explain his
consent to Senator Beveridge's request
for a speech in the senator's campaign
for election in Indiana.
Col. Roosevelt already had promised
to speak for Senator Lodge here in
Massachusetts. 1t was put up to him
by friends of Senator Beveridge, it is
stated here, that this would indicate
L. 49, III
vative' wing of the party and would
leave lot of his old friends out in the
cold.
MAY DISCUSS GOVERNORSHIP
Some of the reports current in Bev-
erly tonight connect Mr.. Loeb's visit
with the governorship situation in New
Yoak. The collector of the port has
frequently been mentioned for the Re-
publican nomination. Mr.. Loeb when
questioned. declined to take the matter
seriously. He said he already had
made his plans for months vacation
to be spent in the Rocky mountains,
hunting and fishing This vacation
will be taken about the time the state
conventions meet in New York, so If
the Republican nomination seeks Mr.
Loeb, it will have to cross the Great
Divide to catch up with him.
MIR. Loeb insisted that his talk with
ehO Pi iSS4uSnt "Ouil nave " uo WIN
general politics; not so much with
New York state.
Mr.. Loeb expressed the belief that
the Republicans in New York would
get together on election day and would
be successful "as usual"
Secretary Norton was with Mr. Loeb
until late tonight. He intended, he
said, to get into touch with the polit-
ical situation as seen by Mr.. Loeb. SO
far as the possibility Of Mr. Loeb's can
didacy for the governorship is con-
cerned it was stated here tonight that
II was not necessary for him to come
to MIR. Taft for an Endorsement. for It
had been known all along that Mr.. Taft
has looked with favor upon the re-
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