The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-08-25
ROOSEVELT WILL
ATTACK SHERMAN
WILL DEMAND BREAK BETWEEN
TAFT AND VICE.PRESl-
DENT.
PRESIDENT MUST MAKE CHOICE
Roosevelt to Declare Himself as an
Insurgent In His Forthcoming
Speeches in the
West

West.
New York, Aug. 2O.-A break b.
tween President William H. Taft an
Vice-President James s. Sherman i
the price demanded by Colonel Thee
| dore Roosevelt for closing the breac
between himself and the president
This was indicated by Colonel Roose
welt and positively stated by his clos
associates. Lloyd G. Griscom is tn
intermediary selected to carry tn
terms of peace between Beverly ant
Sycamore Hill.
Colonel Roosevelt is convinced tina
the vice president led the forces which
were arrayed against him at the recen
meeting of the Republican, state com
mittee, when he was decisively defeat
ed for temporary chairman of the state
convention and Mr.. Sherman elected
Colonel Roosevelt has been positively
informed that Mr.. Sherman not only
planned the coupe d'etat, but kept III
the tagging spirits of some of the half
hearted committeeman when theil
courage began to fail Mr.. Woodruff
Mr.. Barnes, and Mr.. Wadsworth were
only willing tools of Mr.. Sherman, Col
onel Roosevelt believes.
Colonel Roosevolt's friends are in
clined to believe that Mr.. Sherman
'double-crossed" Mr. Taft and led him
to believe that Colonel Roosevelt did
not want to be temporary chairman
OF one thing they are certain: That
Mr.. Sherman did everything in his
power to get the temporary chairman
ship away from Colonel Roosevelt. Be-
lieving this, Colonel Roosevelt is 60
ing to begin war upon Mr.. Sherman
and members of the Old Guard who
carried out his plans.
Roosevelt to Declare For Insurgency.
That Roosevelt in speeches he will
make on his forthcoming Western trip.
and especially in his speeches at Ossa-
watomie, Kan, at Denver and at St.
Paul, will speak out in the most Wig
orous fashion in support of progress
sive policies, is learned from an au-
thOritative source. Colonel Roosevelt
will unreservedly align himself with
the progressive or insurgent movement
by his utterances at these places.
Colonel Roosevelt does not intend
to make any attack on the admins
tration in the speeches he will make
in the West. But he will take adj
vanced enough ground with respect
to the policies he will favor to suit
the insurgents of the country and his
friends predict that what he will say
will arouse insurgent enthusiasm.
Colonel Roosevelt has been working
for weeks on his Western speeches.
He has been guided to large extent
by Clifford Pinchot, the. deposed chief
forester, who was let out of office by
President Taft. It is known that the
speeches were prepared in the light
of the reports made to Roosevelt by
Pinchot, Garfield and others as to SEN
timent in the West, and as to the ex-
tent of the support of the insurgent
policies. AS originally prepared, the
speeches, more especially the one to
be made at Ossawatomie, was a more
Or less general announcement in IA
vor of what are known as the pro.
gressive or insurgent policies. But for
various reasons they have been made
more specific.
Expected Declarations.
Among the policies which Roosevelt
will favor will be the initiative and
referendum and the recall to a limited
extent. He will speak out for the elec-
ton of senators by direct vote. He
will take strong ground on the rail-
road question, going so far as to favor
rate making by the government in case
rate supervision by the interstate com.
merce commission is not found to be
successful. He will favor strict gov
eminent control of railroad capitaliza-
ton, with a physical valuation of the
roads. He will favor government con-
troll of all interstate corporations
whose business ends in the direction
of monopoly. On conservation he will
speak out in the most vigorous fashion.