The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-13
ROOSEVELT 0RTAFT
FOR LEADER
Question as to Who is to
Rule Party is Now
Causing Trouble.
REAL CRISIS COMING
Unless Settlement is Made,
There Will Be Confusion
in the Campaign.
REAL CRISIS COMING

Beverly, Mass, July ia real
crisis in the affairs of the republican
party is rapidly approaching. Whe-
Their the leadership is to be divided
with Colonel Roosevelt or President
Taft is to assume and insist upon
undisputed leadership, is a problem
that has begun to press itself upon
the president, and which he must
sooner or later decide.
Senator w. Murray Crane of Mas
sachusetts, sent for by the president
to come here and discuss the general
political situation with him, put some
bald facts before the president Tues
day, and he left the titular head of
the party in thoughtful mood.
Secretary Nagel and Attorney
General Wickersham also conferred
with the president.
Senator Crane is one of those who
does not believe in divided leader
ship, and as he is man upon whom
the president has depended in many
close political and legislative con-
tests, and upon whose judgment he
relies, his views in the present emer-
gency carry great weight.
Senator Crane never talks for pub
location, and he was no more COM
municative than usual. He left at
Z o'clock.
Talked Big Politics.
AS he was departing the senator
admitted that politics had been dis
cussed. Secretary Norton later echoed
the same sentiment. Concurrently,
rumors spread abroad that it was
very big politics that the little group
discussed in the library out at Bur-
CESS Point, and that the end was not
yet.
The wheel horses of the party
the men who are depended upon after
all to achieve results-who collect
the campaign funds put the legisla-
ton through congress, carr the cleo
tions-are becoming FESTIVE.
The fall campaign is approaching,
with the governorship in a score of
states, The seats of dozen o. ho:e
senators, the control of the national
houses all at stake, and politicians,
great and small, are getting cross
eyes watching Oyster Bay and Bev-
erly at the same time.
Who is Real Leader?
Who to look to for the leadership
is the problem.
While Colonel Roosevelt is doing
a fine bit of political circus riding,
with one foot on the insurgent horse
from Indiana, and the other on the
reactionary horse from Massachu-
sets, Taft is sitting silent at Bev-
erly.
There should be some distinct,
dominant leadership, was the burden
of advice Senator Crane gave to the
president. He added that the need
was becoming urgent. With affairs
running wild, as at present, a badly
split party will enter the campaign
in the fall.
Many Split Over Loeb.
That much reflects the views of
Senator Crane and the element of the
party which is chatting under the adj
vertising that is being reaped by the
visits to Oyster Bay of the insurgent
chiefs.
Coming down to particulars, there
crept out here rumors that some of
the presidents friends are not pleas
ed with the candidacy of William
Loeb, Jr., for the governorship of
New York. They do not object to
Loeb, whom everyone admires, but
they do point out the fact that the
wide advertisement that Loeb came
here at the invitation of the presi-
dent, coupled with the statement that
Taft asked, or suggested to Loeb,
that he run for governor Of New
York, might convey the idea that
Taft is seeking t. placate Roosevelt.