The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
Col. Roosevelt Is Reported te
Have Sent Letters
Endorsing the Administration
of the President.
SAYS HE'S OUT OF 1T
Not a Candidate for President
or Other Office.
Wants Loeb to Be Governor of
New York.

Washington. May I'm letters which
Theodore Roosevelt is alleged to have
written to President Taft, Senator Root
and William Loeb, Jr., it Is said by the
washington Post, the former president
thoroughly endorses the Taft admin
istration, favors Mr.. Loeb to succeed
Governor Hughes of New York and in
dicates that his decision to remain in
private life is final and unalterable.
The colonel will not even be a candi-
date to succeed Chauncey M Depew
in the senate and much less would he
desire any other office
1t IS said also the former president
VIII not be candidate for the presi-
dency in 1912. On the contrary, his let
ters are said to indicate that it is his
conviction that the reelection of Presi-
dent Taft Is the Republican party's
duty.
While Col. Roosevelt believes that a
fight within the party, when it is con-
fined to opinions of legislation, may be
healthful, he does not favor a degree
of insurgency that threatens to disrupt
the party at the polls and probably will
deliver some speeches in the congress
S1onal campaign in the west urging the
return of Republicans to congress.
When Col. Roosevelt speaks before the
ational conservation congress in ST.
Paul in September, it is said he will de-
clare himself again for the policies for
which he has always stood, but will in
slst that the work be pressed forward
without making conservation a pivot
for political expedients.
In Wo~d, former President Roose-
welt before seeing Clifford Pinchot in
Europe and after has expressed him
self as convinced that President Taft
has been working hard and conscien-
t1ously to carry out the policies which
We're started during the Roosevelt ad-
ministration and has given to the Taft
administration his whole approval.
Sails for Copenhagen.
Kiel, May 2.-Mr. Roosevelt sailed
this morning for Copenhagen. The
party left Amsterdam at o'clock last
night. When their train arrived at
Hamburg it was boarded by Consul
General Robert P. Skinner and the
American consular staff at Hamburg,
who continued to Altoona, where they
were received by Mr.. Roosevelt during
a 25 minutes wait for the Copenhag-
en- express.
Arriving at KieI the Roosevelts were
received at the railway station by
Paul H. j. Sartori, the American
consular agent and the railway divi
sion superintendent woman in
the crowd presented the former pres
fdent with a bouquet There was a
brief exchange OF greetings after
which the Americans were escorted
to the royal waiting room, where they
rested a few moments before boarding
1t was impossible to find in Wash
ington today a. single person who
would admit having received from Mr..
Roosevelt ary communication on the
subject of politics or of his own plans
for the future. Those who are known
to have been in intimate correspond
ence with the ex-president, made lit
tie secret of their skepticism as to his
having communicated on those subjects
with anybody.
Taft Denies 1T.
Pittsburg, Pa, May 2.-When Presf- |
dent Taft was informed today of the
story published in Washington as to
letters said to have been received by
him and was asked If he had received
any such communication from Mr.. |
Roosevelt he shook his head.
NO." he added.
Loeb just Smiles. |
New York, May 2.-William Loeb, |
jr.,- merely smiled when he was asked |
today about the letters Theodore
Roosevelt is said to have written to |
President Taft, Senator Root and him. |
SELF He was unwilling to say any
thing for publication, but he made it |
clear to his friend that he knew moth |
ing of the letters or of any plans of |
Mr.. Roosevelt, involving his own po-
Iitical future.