Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-03
Positively Will Not Enter Race for
White House in 1919.
MAY BE AlARD AT ST. PAUL
Address. il is Expected. Will State
True Position Of Leader.
NAMES LOEB TO SUCCEED HUGHES
statement by NsshinEvon Post that
Colonel RooseVeIt Has Written
Letter DECLARING His
Position.

WASHINGTON. May .-In letters which
Theodore Roosevelt is alleged 10 have
Urltten 10 President Taft. Senator Root
and William Loeb. fr. lt IS ssid by the
Washington Post the former president
thoroughly endorses the Taft admiuistra-
ton. favurs Mr.. Lpeb 10 succeed Governor
Hughes of New York and indicates that
his decision 10 remain IN private life is
final nnd uuhlterBhIe. The colonel VIII not
even he a candidate TO succeed Chauncsy
N. Depew IN the senate and much less
would he desire any other office
il Is SAID also the former president viii
not be q candidate for the presidency IN
1872 On the contrary his letters are said
TO Indicate that il is mis- conviction that The
reelection Of President Taft is the repub-
lican pRr1y's duty.
While Colonel Roosevelt believes that q
fight within the party when il is confined
10 opinions Of legislation, may be health
fuL he does not favor q degree Of insur-
Eency that threatens 10 disrupt the party
az the polls and viii probably deliver
some speeches in the congressional cam
palgu in the west. urging the return Of re
pubncsns 10 congress.
When Colonel Roosevelt speaks before
the National Conservation congress in ST
r-hUI IN EtIltLlbtls II i EEA0 ht VIII Qt-
clare himself again for the policies for
which he has always stood, bot viii in
sist that the work be pressed forward with
cut making conservation q pivot for politi-
/ cal expedients.
In q word. former President Roosevelt
before seeing Clifford Pinchot in Europe
and after has expressed himself as con-
/ vinced that President Taft has been work
ing hard and consclentiously TO cErTy out
the policies which were started during the
T Roosevelt administration and has gwen 70
the Taft administration his whole ap-
proyRL
Doubs Cast ON sforF.
7 i is irrIpassTbls 20 Tird IN Washington
TO-DAY a single person who would admit
having received from Mr.. Roosevelt any
o0nmuui ication on the subject Of politics
or his plans for re future. Those who
are known TO have been in intimate cor
respundence with the ex-president made
little secret Of their skepticism OF his hav-
nEi communicated on those subjects with
anybody.
Representative Nicholas Lu1Ev urth. SON
in-lsw Of former President Roosevelt. TO-
day said he knew nothing about any let
te-s being reCsiy &c IN this country by any
body ouuiaiug M. Roosevelt's political
views
] think tina; about the time Mr. Roose-
Welt arrives back IN this country people
wiz learn where he stands on these mat
tiers" ssid Mr. Longworth
Taft and Loeb Not Informed.
PITTSEURG. May when President
Taft was Informed today q the story pub
Hsatd in Washington as 10 letters sand tc
have been received by him and was asked
II he had rereived any such communication
from M Roosevelt, he shook mis- head
No" he ADDED.
NEW YORK, May 2-wnllam Loeb II
merely smiled when ne WAs asked TODAY
about the letters Theodore Roosevelt il
said 10 have written 10 President Taft
Senator Root and himself He wHs I'd,
willing 10 say anything for publication
but ne made IL clenr 10 his friends tina
he knew nothing Of the letters or an
plans Of M. Roosevelt involving mis- Owl
political future.