Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-28
TAFT AND
 ROOSEVELT

Taft. We find the following in the San Francisco Argonaut which must have stung the rough rider to the quick:
 Tn tae midst of a con-lseG ana trying situation Presiden. Taft has carried himself with singular self control during the past few weeks. The manifest decline of republican
 party favor has not driven him into
 any act of precipitancy or vexation.
 Mir. Roosevelts ostentatious patron
 age of his open enemies must have
 offended him grievously. likewise the
 failure of Mir. Roosevelt in the course
 of his Western tour to utter one word
 in recognition or approval of Mir
 Taft's achievements. But he has
 taken it all with composure. even to
 the extent of receiving courteously
 Mir. Roosevelt's extraordinary appeal
 for help in the matter of the anti
 machine campaign in New York state
 made in person at New Haven on
 Monday of this week. In the opinion
 of the Argonaut the President would
 have been justified in declining to
 receive MT. Roosevelt at all, and it
 would not have been surprising or fairly subject to criticism if he had signalized the meeting by recalling
 to Mir Roosevelt the derelictions of
 his course and rebuking him as a false friend and a disturber Of party peace We are not certain that we should not have admired the presi- dent more if he had taken 3 tone reflective of the just indignation which doubtless burns within him. But calm courses are usually best, and perhaps Mir. Taft is to be con graduated upon self-control and Q reserve which in themselves mark the contrast between the president and his predecessor. None the less there is. we think. likely to come an open and bitter rupture between these two men. Such a development can only be avoided by 8 practical if not open apology on the part of MT. Roosevelt. That sort of thing is not in his ordinary way of doing, and yet it is not wholly outside the possibil ities. The appeal to Taft in the case of New York was in Itself a comics sion of weakness. a distinct come down" from the high and mighty airs which the ex-president has re- gently given himself Unless his skin is even thicker than it is presumed to be. it mast cost him something to go to a man whom he has notoriously and SC recently treated badly for help. He would hardly have done II if he ha.i not found himself m a hole "a hole of his own digging. He found upon his return from the West ern tour widespread resentment On the score Of his bad treatment Of Taft. In truth, he found himself in the way of being beaten in his fight for the chairmanship at Saratoga It was politics" for him to get in line with Taft-hence the visit to New Haven The incident has taught him a lesson and he is to adroit in the political game not to make the most of it. He will now seek ways of ex- piOiliilS dU CSrcHldllOuS ITieHCSltp TOT Taft He vii seek to correct the prime bIunder of his Western trip by a noisy championship of the president The recognition which he withheld when it might have helped Taft, he will now give with the usual Roose- yeltian yehemence. The ArsonaGt would like to wager something hand some that in the Saratoga convention.
 s he shall succeed in winning .he chairmanship. he will smother Taft all over with fulsome praise and that he will furiously support resolution of endorsement of the administration. He will endeavor to climb aboard the Taft band-wagon, even though he may have carefully sharpened knife in hi bootleg to be used if occasion of fers between now and 1912"
 Special dispafcbes came from Ohio