The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-11
TAFT AND ROOT TALK IT over
SENtTOR TEILS OF LON DON
MEETING HITH ROOSETTLT.
President known 90 ne wounded deeply
ny the Attitude % tho CsISnei aRsi
mat Their Onrc D~ep Friendship o.
nroken- Ihlef Justlreship Dlscussetl.

mat Thelr Onee Dr~p Friendship o.
Brsken -GhIeG Justireship discussed.
BEVERLY. Mas oct. ~ United States
senator Ehhu Root conferred with the
President Tor five hours to-day IL was
tho fret time the President had talked
with Mr. Root since he returned from The
Hague. where hs was one Of the United
States representatives In the NeWfound.
land fisheries case
II was hack In June when senator Root
sailed for Europe and he hadn't been there
long before he met Col. Roosevelt and had
a long talk with him.
senator Root left Washington believing
as most OF President Taft's close friends
did. that Col. Roosevelt would fully in
dorss the Taft Administration. Il was
accepted "a a fact. however. that Mr.
Root met Col Roosevelt In Lo ndon as q
volunteer advocate Of the Taft Admin
Istration to counteraCt by his words the
reports that had been poured into the
Colonels ear by Clifford PInchot.
To-day was the first opportunity that
President Taft and Senator Root had
had TO view the London nesting together
in the light OF receut events
The President and Mr. Root as they
remlnisced undoubtedly had before them
the latest dispatches from the Roosevelt
train in which the Colonel makes II ap-
parent that he does not intend TO indorse
the Payne Aldrich tariff Law and that he
would have combated any attempt to
indorse Taft for 1912 IN the Saratoga
convention
There IL another feature - the Taft
Root meeting that interests the Preei-
dent friends Tar and Root had served
toge, her in the Roosevelt Cabinet Both
we're strongly attached to the Colonel
personally MIR Roosevelt u said to have
remarked often TO Taft and Root that the
thought that gave HIM the greatest salts
faction was that he could serve under
either of them with the same readiness
and pleasure that they were serving under
ham On tho surface at least this same
warm friendship existed among the three
when senator Root said good-hy Ia Presl-
dent Taft AZ the white House IN June and
left for Europe TO present the merits NJ
the Taft Administration To- Roosevelt.
How changed tn" conditions under
which the President and Mr. Root came
toget her again to-day
Everybody who knows President Taft
AZ all intimately realizes thar the conduct
ofCol Roosevelt toW ard hum has o'Inded
HIM deeply that there can never he he
tween them the same free and easy
f. iendship tha, exist ed IN the DAYS hen
he and Root were serving as Cabinet
followers ~ Roosevelt
The. Presldsnt has purposely refrained
from discussing Mr. Roosevelt attitude
toward him with callers, hut there can b"
no doubt that he opened his mind freely
e. oil 4 Al nsf . and relieved
himself - the burden that has been
We CHING upon HIM ever sine" ne was
accused ~ duplCitv IN the anonymous
Oyster Raw statements following the
Republican state commute" meeting IN
New York
The supreme Court appointments which
the President - soon 10 he called upon ."
make Wa one ~ the subjects taken up ~
conference A. the Taft cottage
The impression 10 growing her" that Gov
Hughes chances for appointment a.
Chief Justice are becoming less bright
senator Roots name - being men
: Ion-d A. u possibility The senator de
chnsd 20 comment today on his supreme
Court talk with IN" President
senator Root ~ - years Old ms
would give him only five wears for -erVic"
before he reached the age - retirement
The Senator'S age. coupled with IN" Tact
hat New York has IrI-t had an appoint
nent To- the bench will. n ~ believed.
outweigh Any personal inclination ihA'
the Pr-sidsn' may have {" confer IN"
honor upun hum The possibility 81
Democrat being elected "a IN" senate
10 succeed Root - another consideration
that would hgurs ~ this cas-" Pr"-id-hi
Taft n IL known. ~ more s"rely lerpieN"d
now IN regard 10 the selection ~ "a hi"t
Justice than h. has been al any time enc"
the vacancy occurred
SENATOR Root doe-n seem 90 he ~ all
optimistic over the New York state sItua p
tion We have a fighting chance. sad
he when questioned in regard 10 IN" ouf
look for the Republicans
The senator added that m" Saratoga
convention had don" tho only logical
thing Tho=. who w.r" m control ~
the Marty had had an opportunity ="
strengthen a. first nv supporting Gov
Hughes and then when that 0ppor'u unity
was rejected Nv cooperating with Col
Roosevelt Both upport mites having
Iaen 70 ieCted " bsCAW" necessary to
d.Clar. new deal at III" convention
senator Root Expressed IN" opinion
that there would n" No NOR" Itrl' 70
visions bv the old method. that IN" re-
visions ~ the futur" would u" pi"""in"dl
schedule 10y -Ched'i"
IN. senator discussed tho RalhuRer-
pInchot investigation with ~" President.
Sena tor Root IL on. % the ma Iority mem
hers 81 the committee "" could no' sty
when the ma Jorlty report would h" ready
Apparently tn|T" - no 'nht,'' ~ - w
ing presented until senator FLINT returns
from Furope. and nobody seems 70 know
who're he i or when he will get :" this
sid"
4 published report that President Iatt
IL going tn Panama 10 thwart u gran
sChsms- was officially denied here to-day
I, wa. -aid that the President has r"-
ceived no information ~ regard To an
alleged scheme 81 capitalists to mon"p"-
live the coal supply on the lzthmu-. ~
which the grating j. said 10 exist "
the President goes o. Panama IN No
vember. which seems likely. u will h" IN
connection with aetna construction
problems.