The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
New York State Politics viii
Come Up for Discussion
WESTERN TRIP TO BEGIN
Roosevelt VIII Start for the West
and VIII Make Third Trip
Beginning in March of
of Next Year

Oyster Bay August 14.--Ex- President
Roosevelt announced today that Lloyd
c. Griscom, chairman of the New York
republican county committee, will come
to Sycamore Hill tmorrow morning for
a conference. Mr.. Griscom spent last
night with President Taft at Beverly,
and although Colonel Roosevelt would
not say so 1t is known that Mr.. Girls
com will come to Sycamore Hill as the
bearer of an important message from
President Taft. The conference there
fore will be of more than usual i'm
portance.
Mr. Griscom took luncheon with Colonel
Roosevelt in New York on Friday be-
fore going to Beverly. AS soon as Mr..
Griscom returned today from the summer
capitol he telephoned to Colonel Roose-
velt an urgent request for conference
with him as soon as possible. Colonel
Roosevelt asked him to come to Saga
more Hill tomorrow morning.
The colonel would add nothing to the
bare announcement that Mr.. Griscom
was to come, except to say that he had
read with great interest the dispatches
from Beverly intimating that the Pres
ident Is expecting Secretary Ballinger to
resign and that Senator Aldrich and
Speaker Cannon, in the future, are to
be in less direct contact with the ad-
ministration. He refused to give his
views this subject, or to say wheth-
er the message which Mr.. Griscom bears
constitutes another step in the admin
istration's programme for readjusting
conditions within the party. 1t is be-
lieved here, however, that as result of
NJ Gr-fc IS xrtctf fl,a of
between the President and the EXPIRES
ident will be more clearly defined, even
though no public announcement be made.
Since Colonel Roeseyelts return from
Africa he has resolutely avoided plac-
ing himself on record on the Taft ad-
ministration. He has seen the President
only once and then for comparatively
short time during his visit to Boston for
the Harvard commencement. SO far as
is known no message has passed between
them since that time and II Is believed
that President Taft desires to ascertain
where his predecessor stands, particu-
larly in view of the national campaign
which Is soon to get under nay.ls
Colonel Roosevelt's western trip is
to start on Tuesday of next week.
During the trip 1t Is expected he will
place himself on record in regard to a
number of matters of great interest to
the country and to the republican
party. One of them will be the conser-
vation of national resources which has
been the subject of so much discussion
during the months which President
Taft has been in the White House. 1t
is believed that Colonel Roosevelt will
not have one word of criticism of the
administration in any of these speeches,
but there Is good ground for the as
sumption that he will not depart from
the stand for conservation which he
assumed while he was President. What
ever the tenor of Mr.. Griscom's mes
sage from the President, 1T may be said
that Colonel Roosevelt Will proceed
with the programme which it is known
he has mapped out for himself
Colonel Roosevelt also announced to-
day that he had decided on third
long trip. Starting some time In March
he will go from coast to coast on
trip which will occupy about one
month. The colonel said today that
while he was In Africa eight months
ago he had accepted an invitation from
Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president
of the University of California, to
speak at the University of California,
on Charter Day next March. He will
go by the southern route. Only one 9TH
er speech has been definitely settled
on--at the Southern Commercial con-
gress in Atlanta, which will be made In
March on the westward trip.
From Atlanta Colonel Roosevelt will
travel through the south, making one
speech in each state he traverses. He
will make a short stop at the Texas
ranch of Cecil Lyon, republican nation
al committeeman, who is an old friend.
The return from California in all prob
ability will be via the northern route.
The exact time of the trip and the
places at which speeches will be made
have not been decided upon.