The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-23
President Writes Letter Re-
garding the Turning Down
of Roosevelt by New York
Republican State Committee
LATTER PLEASED OVER
LATE DEVELOPMENTS
Blunt Telegram Sent by Lloyd
GriScOm to President Taft
Which Results in the Fa-
NOUS Letter Being Written,
OYSTER BAY STATEMENT

ATEW YORK, Aug. 22.-President
N Taft and Ex-President Roosevelt
are again fellow workers in the
same political field. The threat that
they might pull apart has been fore
Tended by "a full explanation on one
side and an unreserVed acceptance on
the other.
The President made Ii plain I'm a let
ter given out here today by Lloyd Z.
GrfseOm, chairman of the New York
Republican county committee, how the
misunderstanding arose. He explained
that he never took any part In "A COM
mittee cabal 40 defeat Colonel ROOse-
welt for temporary chairman of the
coming state convention. ON the con-
trary, he explicitly dePlOred the result
of the committee meeting which chose
Vice President Sherman; he rebukes
the party leaders who have permitted
IL 10 go abroad uneOntradicted that the
President of the United States was be-
hind their fractional preference; he in
s1sts that at every opportunity ne nd-
vised the fullest conference with
Roosevelt, and he explains he has been
panied by the columns of unfOunded
stories In newspapers concerning my
attitude in respect 10 the New York
situation"
For his part, Colonel Roosevelt,
when he read President Taft's letter,
as communicated TO him at Oyster
Il am very glad to see President
Taft's letter, and am pleased with 1t. -"
The Presidents letter comes in reply
TO Mr. GriscOm's blunt assertion by
telegraph that "the absence of any
authoritative information as to your
attitude is seriously misleading many
Republicans" He tells how, when he
first learned from Vice President Sher-
man of the plan 10 oppose Roosevelt,
he 'peremptorily declined" TO be drawn
into a fight with Mr.. Roosevelt, and
again renewed his urgent advice that
.
him. Finally he asserted that the so
luton OF the direct primary issue can
be found in provisions similar to those
OF the Cobb bill defeated by the last
legislature in dire rebuke to Mr..
Roosevelt and Governor Hughes
Telegram 10 Sherman.
In the course of the correspondence
there comes out a telegram from the
President to the Vice President
hitherto withheld but OF which men
ton had, nevertheless, crept into print.
In substance, the President informed
Timothy L. Woodruff, Republican state
chairman, and William L. Ward of the
National Republican committee, that
the thing Of all others that ought to
be avoided is any controversy in the
The Presidents letter throughout is
temperate, although positive. Mt.
GriscOm. in his comment on IL, was
much more OutspOken. He did not
organization of the state had played
politics with the Presidents name and
had misrepresented his attitude.
He asserted, in so many words, that
"sOme of the old guard are not seek
ing Republican success at the coming
election; they wish to perpetuate their
control of the Republican organization
at any cost TO the party"
And he goes on to particularize that
in such event they would have been
glad to unload defeat on the shoulders
of the President on the ground that he
had ignored the policies of Hughes and
snubbed Theodore Roosevelt, the very
men whom they had consistently OPP
posed at every turn. lastly. he charges
that in the last two legislatures there
had been disgraceful alliance between
Tammany hail and some of the old
guard leaders.
Roosevelt. in his statement given out
at Oyster Bay explains what has been
the course Of his negotiations with the
organization and after his successive
rebuffs. he had felt that further over
lures could not consistently come from
him. His future attitude ne does not
define, because President Taft's letter
viii have when it has been read by the
voters of the state.
President THft's Letter.
The following letter from President
Taft to Lloyd G. GriscOm, president OF
Continued on Fasv TwO.)