The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-08-22

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Taft to Mr.. Sherman to the effect ap-
pears to have been suppressed, for
nothing has been heard of it. | ask
Mr.. Sherman II II is not true that in
spite of knowing that Mr.. Roosevelt
had shown his willingness to act as
Temporary chairman, and in the face
of Mr.. Taft's telegram, he personally
solicited votes for himself as tenn
porary chairman on Monday night in
New York City
"Mr. Sherman, by lending him
self 10 this act of pettiest politics, by
insisting upon holding the appoint
ment as a temorary chairman. If he
can hold II, has allied himself with
,he Woodruff-Barnes element and
has threatened the disruption of the
party in the state. The people al
ready are doubling 1t to be possible
that a misunderstanding between
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft, at least
as to the New York situation, could
take place, and / challenge Mr.. Sher-
man to show any act or word on the
part of President Taft approving his
part in the recent transaction"
So, we have two stories during the
week Of a break between President
Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, and
an ulimatum from the latter; fol-
lowed by his denunciation of the
story "as a lie"-and this is not the
first time the colonel has been COM
PEELED to use the short and ugly"
concerning an associated press re-
port recently-then an explanation
from a politician fresh from a con-
ference with Roosevelt" that there
is no disagreement between old
friends.
Naturally Mr.. Roosevelt iDends TO
keep out of the way and let Mr..
Taft work out his own salvation. BY
sticking his finger into the boiling
pot, he would only spoil the admin
istration's broth and scald himself.
The Chicago-Record Herald cor
respondent, after admitting that
only Colonel Roosevelt knows
where he is at" makes this COM
nent:
insurgency had not developed
thoroughly until Roosevelt was out
and Taft in. Then II came on apaee.
II was directed against the old lead
ership in congress- President Taft
had his heart set on securing certain
things-progressiye policies-and to
him IL appeared he must work
through the organization of the
party in congress as he found II. He
knew the growing intensity of feel
ing between the factions and their
leaders, but he could not see how he
would obtain any record as a chief
magistrate by intrusting his for
tunes to the little group of insur-
gents who were bucking the then
firmly intrenched old guard
"As time went on the president
conceived the notion that certain Of
the insurgent leaders were more
bent on discrediting his administra-
ton than they were on enacting the
policies for which he and. as he be-
LEVIED. the party. stood. He viewed
II as a personal fight. The breach
widened. and it did not help the
popularity OF the president among
the constituencies OF progresslves in
the middle west. At the same time
1T appeared as IL those who had been
taken to the presidents bosom in
tended to throw him down in the
end, and il Is we'll Anown now that
when they started the old guard
leaders never had designed to give
the president all that was done
Eventually in the last session"
Which all goes to sustain Just
what The Evening Sun said Friday:
that there is no split between the
president and Mr.. Roosevelt: that
the Republican party organization is
in the process OF being moulded to
the times; that the president is a
party and not a faction leader: that
there is a perfect understanding be-
tween the old friends, by which
Roosevelt is to keep the insurgent
element well In hand until the Can
non-Aldrich combination is put out
of the way, to hold the party organ
ization together, while Taft perma-
nently secures the progressive
policies for which they both stand.
II IL. OF course, to be expected
that the minority press will be a
ltrifle inconsistent. except In the
policy of hitting the majority where
ever 1t. can, and having abused Taft
roundly for "deserting the Roosevelt
policies" we find the Louisville
Times, giving Taft this grudglng en-
dorsement, in order to bellttle
Roosevelt:
1.-The tariff. the underlying cause OF
the present unrest in the Republ,can