The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-07-15
WHAT A HANDY MAN is LOEB.

Loeb used to bear the burdens Of
Roosevelt whenever occasions reouir-
ed that scapegoat he brought upon
the stage. Now, it seems, he is to be
both pack horse for the Colonel ana
carrier pigeon fer the President
Loeb is always within call of Oyster
Bay, and recently he has been called
to Beverly. OF course, he will do,
and within certain limits, he must do
what the President tells him to do.
Just at present it seems that the
Colonel wants Loeb to run for Gov
ernor of New York, and, though Loeb
says he has no idea of doing such a
thing, still he has left his address in
the Rocky Mountains, where he is 60
ing to fish, so they can get him by
telegraph if they determine that he
really must take up the running. 1t
is out of the question that he should
refuse to do a little thing like this for
his former boss, especially when the
Colonel will promise that he himself,
that is to say that the Colonel, that
Theodore Roosevelt--think what that
means-will go out and tell the people
of New York that they just must put
Loeb in the Governors chair at AL
bany, or he will see them afterward.
Of course, that would be like taking
candy from a baby as far as Loeb is
concerned He needn't even come
back from his fishing trip until he is
ready to be inaugurated, for the Col.
will carry through the election part
of the compact.
But President Taft has use for Loeb
too. He sent for him the other day
to come up to Beverly, and they do
say that what he wanted of him was
that he go to Oyster Bay and tell the
Colonel just what a fine tariff bill
that was that Aldrich framed up,
and Mr.. Taft accepted with such de-
light. Mr.. Taft is a little bit afraid,
it is said, that the Colonel might be
led to take harsh view of the tariff
act after he has talked with so many
of thOes Western insurgents, and he
wants Loeb to tell the Colonel not
to be too hasty, but to consider the
fine points of the law carefully. The
President evidently thinks that the
Colonel is apt to consier this thing
upon it's merits AS a halter of
fact, the Colonel never did have the
nerve to tackle the tariff during all
the seven years he was in the White
House. Once he started to promise
Congress that he would write them
abcut it, but he thought better of it
at least he thought differently
and he went into the jungle without
Fever indicating just what he did think
about the tariff But then he didn't
know it was such a live issue before
the people as it has proved to e
since the Republican party went back
upon list solemn pledges to revise the
tariff downward, and Mr.. Taft signed
bill that was utterly i'll conflict
with his campaign promises. If the
Colcnel thinks there is good capital
in taking the insurgent end OF this
tariff business he Will take it, how
ever impressive a administration of
the practical utility of the law Loeb
may be able to make to him. That
is a point Mr.. Taft wants to remem-
err, before he humDles himself to the
Colonel.
But whatever is done in the mat
ter. NJ better person could be found
to do it--or not to do it-than Loeb,
who ought to le a permanent institu-
ton of The government, during the
natural lifetime OF the Colonel, at
any rate.