The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-05
'TAF 7 NOT ALARMED
OVER s|TUA 7 ION
May Have Had Reassrring
Message From
Roosevelt.
LOEB AND ROOT FRIENDS
Both Believed to Have Spoken
for Present Admin
istration.

Washington, D. c., April 4.--There is
good reason to believe that Presiden,
Taft and former President Roosevelt,
nave been exchanging messages and
communications, and there does not
appear to be anything worrying the
present occupant of the White House
as TO the outcome. Neither admissions
nor denials of this are obtainabe at
the White House, but certain things
| said by the President to q caller indi-
cate that the Chief Executive knows
more about what Mr.. Roosevelt thinks
of the existing administration than
some of the correspondents who went
| to Khart cum to meet the returning
| hunter of big game.
| one of the stories sent from abroad
4 Is that Colonel Roosevelt is "souring'
! toward the President. and will do moth
ing either to help or harm the future
! of the Chief Executive. The intima-
| ton from good source is that the
President knows that this story is
inaccurate. Until short time ago it
was positively known that the two
men had not been in communication
with each other, but there are strong
friends of each, acting mutually, who
undertook the responsibility of putting
the two in touch indirectly at least
Loeb and Root Interccde.
One Of these is William Loeb. Jr.,
former private secretary4to Mr.. Roose-
welt, and the other is Senator Root.
The New York Senator, intimate with
both men and in position to advise
closely and confidentially. is known to
have voluntarily written long letter
to the eX-President at Khartoum. tell
ing him of the adverse circumstances
and conditions surrounding the first
r,f Va &c "A ,,,I, t-,,.
ton and praising his course on all
questions that have arisen. Mr.. Roots
Influence with Colonel Roosevelt is
greater than that of any other living
man, and Mr.. Loeb is probably next
If Mr.. Root has received an an
swer TO his letter. and it is believed
nc has had something from his former
chief, he has let no one know of it
outside the White House. Mr.. Loeb,
however, is understood to have had
several cable messages from the ex-
President and to have written him
fully prior TO the receipt of these mes
sages.
The little information obtainable
bears out the idea, heretofore express
ed, that the Taft administration will
have no more cordial supporter than
Mr.. Roosevelt, and that the two men
to both and benefit to their party.
Presidents Train Lutte.
President Taft's train, bringing him
back to Washington this morning from
Massachusetts, where he spent yester-
day. was nearly an hour late. arriving
at the union station at 1920. 1t was
after II o'clock before the President
got into the executive Offices and be-
gan the days grind. He found Secre-
tarics Nagel and Ballinger and POST
master General Hitchcock. with num-
Der of congressman, waiting for him
The visits of the Cabinet officers re
lat ed, it Is. said, to routine affairs |
of the departments, and was not of
widespread Importance.
There was no discussion-oficial or
the deeply interesting
incident affecting Colonel Roosevelt |
and the Pope. Newspaper men around
the White House We're reminded of the |
good old Roosevelt days when sensa-
tional stuff of all sorts was held back
for the Monday morning papers, SO as TO
avoid the advertising rush of sunday,
and when the former President got
there first with the goods"
Public men kept off the subject en-
tirely except to smile at the methods
and manner of the ex-President In put
ting the facts before the country