The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-09
SUMMER CAPITAL THINKS
ROOSEVELT WANTS A SCRAP
President Patiently Bears With GrOwIs From
Oyster Bay, Although Friends ACvisC
Him to Slap Back.
By Ernest g. walker.
fail Special to The Advertiser.l

BY Ernest G. Walker.
(Mail Special to The Advertiser)
BEVERLY, Massachusetts,, August
29.-The summer capital has had an.
other week politically fervid 1t has
been iammed full of party activities.
Persons of note have been coming and
going. Decisions of moment upon the
conduct of the campaign and upon the
administration have been coming thick
and fast. Much of the time the golf
games have been abandoned in the in.
terest of public business, but for the
moment there is little let-up and the
President has gone away to Dublin,
New Hampshire, some eightyfive miles
distant by automobile, to spend the
weekend with his secretary of the
treasury, Hon. Franklin MacVeagh.
The trip to the secretary's beautiful
summer place, ON slightly spot in the
New Hampshire hills, affords the Presi
dent a little surcease. His last long
automobile trip was a little more than
week ago to Milford, Massachusetts,
some fifty odd miles away, when he
was the guest of Governor Draper and
cruised for nearly a day in the rural
country where his ancestors dwelt. Mr..
MacVeagh invited the President into
New Hampshire quite long time ago,
and his acceptance is noted in some
quarters as fresh proof that there is
no brick wall between the mutual
friendship and regard which the Presi'
dent and Secretary MacYeagh have for
each other
Peace in the Family.
The secretary has been spending his
summers at Dublin for quite ten years.
Last summer he iourneyed down to Bev-
erly several times for conference with
the President, and has done so two or
three times this year Often he comes
and goes by motor, for it is very
beautiful ride, all the way up through
Lowell and along the Merrimac River.
Only few days ago the secretary rode
down to the North Shore in his auto
mobile to be present at a dinner which
Mrs. Letter of Chicago and Washington
gave to the President and Mrs. Taft
The secretary tarred a bit at the Presi
dents cottage, and at the President Is
invitation went aboard the Mayflowel
to witness the presentation of the Presi
dent Taft cup, of massive silver, tc
Charles Francis Adams, I'd, who hat
won the sender races off MarbleheaC
from Spanish shippers.
Every little while somebody puts on
the story that the President and Secre
tary MacVeagh, who, like Secretary o.
War Dickinson, is a Democrat, do no
get along well together. The report ha'
been even more persistent than stories
that Secretary of State Knox and thu
President do not drive their horses to
gether very well.
Taft's New York Explanation.
Events have moved so rapidly from
day to day that the VicePresiden
Sherman episode now seems far in the
background. The President 3 letter Il
Chairman Lloyd Griscom of the New
York county committee, declaring that
he had had no hand whatever in the
selection of Vice President Sherman foI
temporary chairman of the Saratoga
convention of New York Republicans
and had favored the nomination of ex
President Roosevelt for that place, CANE
like bolt out of the blue. All in all
it has been the biggest political item a
Beverly of all the summer.
But the heavy party firing that re
suited from that letter has been fa
away in the distance, chiefly in New
York. The President has held hi
silence, both before and after. Hi
pride was touched by the attempts Il
draw him unfavorably into the New
York fractional contention. He KEEP
silence during the issuance of threaten
ing pronunciamentos, anonymously pro
duced at Oyster Bay. And since h
wrote his letter, making it plain tina
he thought Vice President Sherman ha,
not dealt frankly with him, he has con
tributed nothing further to the subject
Vice-President Sherman has been jus
as silent, but ex-President Roosevelt
has been Fastening westward and hav
ing something to say every few hour
directly or indirectly bearing upon tina
subject. He has issued a challenge TO
a finish fight to the upstate leaders
with whom Vice President Sherman i
associated. He went into the Vice
Presidents home town Of Utica, and
while in that vicinity, endorsed can
didate for Office whom the VicePresi
dent was opposing
Looking for a Scrap.
All this has created an unpleasant
impression at the summer capital. Tb
feeling prevails that, after all, Colone
Roosevelt is out for trouble and that n
matter how hard President Taft trie
TO obtain harmony the break is boun
to come sooner or later This feelin
is 80 strong that influential Republiea
congressman, who have been TO Beyerl
in recent days, have advised that tn
President, at the first opportune mt
ment, welcome an issue squarely b,
tween himself aud Colonel Roosevelt
They believe he would find an adyaI
tage in doing so and would have th
sympathy Of many who have bee
Colonel Rooseyelt's admirers, One d
these Republican congressman said her
today that the Colonel would keep III
President writing apologetieal letter
and la the end would refuse any Wa