The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-05-20
ROOSEVELT AND
HIS POLICIES
Announcement of Support for
Taft Came Through News
paper Correspondents.
BY Ernest G. Walker.
(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)

MIL 1DtGAUA 10 lut hQNGINlhHIsJ
WASHINGTON. May s.-Announoe,
ment, that has the earmarks of author.
ity, is made here regarding ex.President
Roosevelt Is political plans.
There is much more detail to the an.
nouncement, including statement that
the ex-President is folly determined to
remain in private life ard to devote
his efforts to literary work and lectures.
He will not accept an election to either
the senate or the house and he will not
accept the governorship of New York
State, preferring that his former secre-
tary, William Loeb, Jr., should be the
Republican nominee therefor.
All this first appears with great -four
ish in Washington newspaper, the
morning after the return here of John
Oallan o 'Laughlin, former assistant sec
rotary of state and now correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune. While the
statement could have come from some
of President Taft's friends, it is gen.
eerally believed to have come from Mr..
O'Laughlin and to have been put out
here in accord with directions given by
ex.President Roosevelt himself. In all
essentials the article follows the opin-
ions expressed by the friends in Wash
ington of the exPresident that he was
always regular Republican and would
not now express disapproval of the Taft
administration, for which he, in large
measure, was responsible to the Amer.
lean people.
1t is Indicated that Mr.. Roosevelt
will not give the administration a full.
some endorsement but that he will
stand by it to the extent of making one
or two speeches in the West advocat-
ing the return of Republicans to the
Sixty second Congress. This is interest
ing in connection with assertions from q
confidential source that the ex-President
intends giving only sufficient endorse
ment to show which side he is on. For
instance he puts his o. X. upon the
conservation work that ex-Forester Gift
ford Pinchot has done without making
any criticism of the removal of Mr..
Pinchot from office for INSTRUMENTATION.
The newspaper article purports to he
based on letters which the eX-President
has written of late to 'President Taft
and others to Senator Root and Collec-
!
one person in this Country could have
had the information in all those letters
other than Mr.. OLaughlin, who is the
ex-President's personal friend and who
acted as the ex-President' secretary
E.during most of the time ON the journey
, from Khartum to Vienna. Those fam
liar with Mr.. Roosevelt's methods of
! obtaining publicity understand that he
would naturally have the news put out
J at Washington. He is known to have
] resented statements cabled from Europe
few weeks ago that his disposition
was to refuse endorsement to President
Taft. There is reason for believing that
the present statement is in considerable
} part intended to correct the impression
which that previous article may have
; made upon the politicians.
| Incidentally it is learned that the ex-
} President did not cable to Washington
for ex-Forester Pinchot, although that
was claimed to have been the case. Mr..
Pinchot wrote inquiring where he could
meet Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. O'Laugh-
|. lin, answering for the ex-President,
cabled when and where they could meet.
He did want to meet Senator Elihu
Root but it was more for the purpose
of obtaining inside information about
aaffirs in the TInited States generally
than for getting new sidelight upon
the Taft administration.
, To New Workers the announcement
that the ex-President win have VIII.
| iion I,oeh Nominated for Governor of
New York Is almost of first interest
There is some qualification about the
ex.President' q attitude. the purpose un.
, doTbtedlv heing To fstrv out, the sug.
/. gestion. Bv the time Mr.. Roosevelt
Z srrives in New York next month public
. sentiment regarding Loeb q nomination
+ will have deyeloned nrettv thoroughly
: and then M Roosevelt can determine
whether il is wise to press the matter
. further.
4 AZ he seems willing to have nominal
!, lean absolutely of his own school, there
I, is likely to be revival OF efforts tt
have such men nominated for governor