New-York tribune., 1910-08-13
BALL|NGER TO Co.
REPORT At BEVERLY
Date of Retirement from Cab.
met, 1t Is Said, Is Set for
September IS.
CANNON MAY BE DROPPED
Programme Framed by Party
Leaders Close to the Presi-
Gert-Aidrich Confirms to
Taft Intention to Retire.

Beverly Mass. Aug 12-Certatr
events of to-day following incidents OF
the LIST week or so. lead inevitably 70
the conclusion that a complete political
readjustrAnt il circles close TO Presi-
dent Taft is IN Jrogress
Senator Nelson W AIdrich. of Rhode
Island. called 70 gee TIE President early
to-day before tho Chief Executive had
finished his morning meal He talked
with the President tn:rty-fve minutes.
He found that Mr. Taft had not had an
opportunity to read the Senator's reply
To Senator Bristow's charges regarding
the rubber tariff.
The President vas gratihed. however,
that Senator Aldrich had consented to
make a statement In doing so IL Is said
that the Senator from Rhode Island per-
formed an act which fitted exactly into
a programme which has been framed
bv partv leaders close To the President
Although he is noI to retire until
March 4. 1911. and Senator Aldrich con-
firrned to President Taft to-day his in
tention to do so. the readjustment plans
which plainly are in progress appar-
emily treat whatever influence Mr.
AIdrich may have had with the Presi-
dent as a thing of the past
5aIIineer Slated to Co.
The elimination Of Mr. A1drich. ac-
cording to close political observers. is
soon to be followed by the retirement
of Secretary BaIlinger from the Cabinet
TIE Republican party is facing one Of
the most crucial campaigns in it's his
tory this fall. and the leaders who have
been coming more and more into in
huence with the President are arriving
daily to do all they can TO bring about
an adjustment of the differences within
the party
Mr.. Ballinger practically has lost all
of his personal fortune in defending him
self from the attacks that have been
made upon him 1t is said that one at
torney fee alone in the Congressional in
vestigatiOn cost him $4,000. If the
Secretary is to recover these losses it is
said he mus1 soon resume the lucrative
practice of law which ne left in his home
state to take up the arduous duties of
head Of the Department of the Interior.
The retirement OF Mr. Ballinger is fixed
for September II. The Congressional
committee will have reported by that
time. and the date Is sufficiently early to
axe tho so-called BalIinger issue out OF
the campaign.
Nay Eliminate Cannon
The third move in contemplation IS
said to be directed against Speaker Can
non. Il is not admitted in Beverly that
NJ. Cannon will even be a candidate for
he Speakership. Representative McKin-
ev. OF Illinois. close friend of Cannon.
and Chairman of the Republican Con-
,ressional campaign committee. was
sked here the other day if he thought
ur. Cannon could be elected to the chair
gain.
II have NOT heard that he viii be a
was the significant reply
The Cannon situation. as a tnlng OF
he future. is a little difficult to handle
Once it is known that the PRESIDENT
would like to see a change. however. 1t Is
believed that all doubt as 70 the result
would be removed
That Beverly is being made the head
quarters of the movement TO set the Re-
,ubliCan House in order IS now gen.
,ralIy admitted. The various moves are
being made quietly. but effectively
Renorts have reached Beverly that the
-ecent results in Kansas and Iowa were
Iue largely 10 the activity OF speaker
cannon in Kansas. TO- the charges
gai,st Senator Aldrich and doubt in the
Vest as to whether he actually intended
n retire The situation developed ID
hese two states evidently has made an
IMPRESSION upon the party leaders thae
las stirred them TO action
AIdrieh Talked Over Statement
Senator Aldrich would not discuss his
all on the President to-day other than
= sav that it was incidental TO a cruise
long the New England coast. which VIII
xtend as far east as Bar Harbor- He
anne on the yacht O-We-Ra- which
rossed from Marblehead early to-day.
nd anchored off the Presidents dock
The Senator talked with the President
egarding his rubber statement. and Mr-
afr listened with great interest Mr.
.ldrich also told Mr. Taft Of his plan TO
make a speech during the fall in one or
no Western states defending the
'avne- Aldrich act as a whole. and par
cuIarlv repIving To the charges made
, reference TO the cotton schedule
Mr. AIdrich had planned visit to
he President as part of his yacht-
,g trip along the northern New Eng
nd shore some time ago The idea
,as scented that he came to get an
~ X" from the President for his
,nb.r statement. The President knew
otb;nr of the contents of the state
vent until it was published. and when
q talked with the Senator had not had
j, onnortunity to do more than scan it,
Senator Crane a Power.
Senator w. Murray Crane. of Massa-
busatts. has been one of the active
,rces In the new political movement
was he who went West TO see Secre-
,rv RaIlfnger and il was also he who
-ert 10 see Senator Aldrich at War
lick r. l.. last Sunday. Hereafter
enator Cranes movements will be
atched with peculiar interest
Postmaster General Frank H. Hitch
,ck former chairman OF the Republican
-ational Committee. has been at Rev-