Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-24
Break SEEMS
NEAR At HAND
Leaders FOresee Fight For the
Presidency In 1912
ROOSEVELT MAY ENTER FIELD

Friends Say He Will Not. See His
Policies Sidetracked-Doee Not In
tend to Engage In Fight In Empire
State but Will slump In" If He
Believes Occasion Requires-open
Rupture May Not Be Long Delayed
New York, Aug 21.-Mr. Roose-
Welt will in all probability run for pres
ident in 1912. President Taft will
fight him for the nomination.
While a break in the personal rela-
lions between the president and his
predecessor has not yet developed, at
least on the surface, it is not seen
how it can be deferred long in the in
evitable course of events.
No prospects of truce between the
republican factions in the approaching
campaign is in sight.
These are the developments which
political leaders say stand out af-
ter the smoke of the preliminary
skirmish, in which the Roosevelt sup
porters were routed by the "Old
Guard.
In the Beverly dispatches which re-
port that President Taft is ready to
fight for denomination against Roose-
welt should the latter enter the lists
against him, it is asserted that Taft
is willing to submit his record in Of
fee against that of Roosevelt and let
the people of the United State arbi-
trate the issue.
Mr.. Roosevelt, personally, is giving
out no statements. He came to The
Outlook office in this city, but an
nounced that he would have nothing
to say on the situation. He received
a number of visitors at Sycamore Hill
and held a threehour conference Will
a number of close friends. Anon;
them were William Loeb. Jr., Rep
resentative Cocks, of Roosevelt
home district, Lloyd c. Grlscom
Representative Calder of Brooklyn
and Naval Officer Kracke, who ha
been one of Roosevelt's closet politi
cal advisers for years.
1t is learned that the eX-presideT
and his friends have agreed on pla
of action which will hold until the sit
, uation shapes itself more clearly
: Briefly stated, it is this: Rooseve
is to stand aside in the New Yor
: state campaign, and let the 90
n Guard" fight its own fight, and thu
9 shoulder all the responsibility for tt
conduct and result of the campaign
II He is neither to indorse nor critlcl:
g the Taft administration.
8 One important proviso was emph;
i sized at the conference. Those Wi
u whom he talked we're made to unde
~ stand clearly that Roosevelt reserV
to himself the right to jump into Il
% thick of the fight at any time If
70 believes that the policies of which
r. is the exponent are in serious Jeo
~ ardv. But he let it be known tn
- he would do so with extreme -feluc
20 ance. for he feels that in such co
10 tingency he might be led inevltat
le into a controversy with the Taft a
ministratiOn.
D. From what was said after the co
r, ference. it was gathered that Roos
lie Welt believes the present attitude
men who are influential in the nat1o
i'd al administration are hostile to hi
IS, and that an open rupture may
ID suit. In such case Roosevelt fe
that he may be compelled at so
q iuncture to exert his influence agail
HI the administration.
" Those who are closest to the
president believe that he will
- everything in his power to avert 81
a crisis during the fall campaign.
ed is their opini90 that If he should
nd eide to fight, he prefers to postp'
the struggle until the 1912 campai'
no when the question Of the natio
W. policy for the next four years Is
It be brought before the entire count
k and when a successor to Taft Is
10 be elected.
Should such an issue betw
"A Roosevelt and the administration ?
ays sent itself at that time, 1t is the t
re- belief of the colonels intimate as
rn, ciates that he will be in the fight
il. the end, that he will stake his {
;er. future on the outcome, and again
iful coma candidate for the Dresideu