The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-11
LOEB DROPS IN.
Arrives Suddenly ct the Summer
Capital OF the Country

Beverly, July 11.-Beverly was
ABOUT to tuck itself away to sleep last
night after a dull and sultry Sunday,
when William Loeb. ir., right hand
man OF Theodore Roosevelt. motored
into town.
There had been no warning of his
coming and his arrival caused a fiut-
ter of excitement only second TO that
on the day that Mr.. Loebs former
chief in the White House visited
President Taft at Burgess Point Mr..
Loeb will see the president anG 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 Roose-
Welt was at Beverly. The president
started in on ten days vacation last
week, but there are indications that
the period of rest is ended and that a
number of important conferences will
mark the coming seven days period.
Then Mr.. Taft is going to sail way
down east" for a ten days cruise
along the shores of Maine.
II came to talk over the general po-
litical situation with the president"
said Mr.. Loeb when pressed for an ex-
PLANTATION as to his visit.
"As a representative of the colo
nel?' was asked.
mo, 1 come as the old friend and
loyal supporter of President Taft"
Mr.. Loeb was asked by one OF his
that his visit had something to do
with bridging a chasm between Bev-
erly and Oyster Bay.
There is not any chasm,'' he re-
piled, with emphasis. There never
has been a break of any sort and re-
lations could not be more pleasant.
"Mr. Roosevelt told me he had "a
perfectly bully time when he visited
the president.
1.-THE president and Colonel Roose-
T. =
cans, each along his own lines. but to
the same end"
Asked If he thought Colonel Roose-
welt would come out with an endorse
ment for Taft's administration, Mr..
Loeb took the position that the presi-
dents administration needed no en-
dorsements from Colonel Roosevelt or
anyone else. AS already stated a num-
Der of times in Beverly, the president
feels that he helped his party make
record during the recent session Of
congress- record upon which it can
well AFFORD to stand in the coming
campaign. The question of individual
endorsement has not suggested itself
to Mr.. Taft in any way. Mr.. Loeb was
asked as to recent events at oyster
Bay and the seeming preponderance
of insurgents" among the colonel's
visitors
"Colonel Roosevelt sees everybody
he said. THE so-called insurgents
we're all friends of his and naturally
they want to see him. Some of them
want him to help them in their cam
paign."
Mr.. Loeb left the impression that
Colonel Roosevelt might not go 50
deeply into the coming campaign as
has been generally supposed. The
colonel Is reported as being anxious to
avoid anything that looks like unfair
ness in his attitude. This fact is said
to explain his consent to Senator Bev-
eridge's request for a speech in the
senator's campaign for reelection in
Indiana.
Colonel Roosevelt already has prom
iSed 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 indi-
cate that he favored the so-calIed
conservative" wing of the party and
would leave a lot of his friends out
in the cold