Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-30
Senator Crane is to Travel
in the West and Sound
Political Conditions.
WILL AVOID ROWS
Tires of Being President on
WheeIs-NeW Policy of
Speeches.

Beverly. Mass, July 30.-Presi-
dent Taft is tired of being president
on wheels and has announced a new
policy. Mr.. Taft has sent out a cir
cular letter canceling or refusing
more than 20 engagements for this
fall. They ranged all the way from
New England to San Antonio, Texas
He will keep his engagement at
Provincetown, Mass, Aug. and may
speak at the conservation congress
in st. Paul Sept. 5, the day before
Colonel Roosevelt speaks.
In November, It was announced,
the president will make a three
weeks trip to the isthmus of Panama
to observe the progress of the work
on the big canal.
In the meantime Senator Crane
of Massachusetts will be mustered
into service as the political scout of
the administration. After long con-
ference with the president yester-
day it was said that the senator
would make a tour of the west and
far west for the purpose of feeling
the political pulse. Whether the
cancellation OF the numerous engage
of the presidents travel policy or not
could not be learned.
Political Consideration Dead.
Political considerations may have
had a great deal to do with the
presidents decision. It would be
difficult for the president to travel
through the doubtful states in Sep
tember and October without being
drawn into the campaign, or at least
having his speeches construed into
political utterances. In a speech at
Rockland Me-, the other day Mr..
Taft said he did not believe a presi-
dent of the United States had a right
to talk politics and that his only plat
form should be patriotism, love of
country and prosperity for all"
In the list of wholesale cancella-
tions announced there were three
omissions. The president will go TO
Provincetown. Mass, on Aug. 5, to
review the Atlantic battleship feet
and to speak at the dedication of the
Pilgrims monument. He has left
open the question of whether or not
walton congress which meets in st.
Paul Sept. 81 and at the unveiling
of the Reed monument in Portland,
Me-, on Aug. IL.
st. Paul May he Exception.
The chances are that the president
will go to st. Paul. There has been
so much said and written on the
subject of conservation that desire
to place himself on record once for
all may impel the president to speak
at the conservation congress. If he
attends the congress he will have the
first say. Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt will speak on Sept. 6 or Z. Gov
ernor Eberhardt of Minnesota, Frank
B. Kellogg and others will be at
Beverly on Monday to urge the pres
ident to speak at the. st. Paul gath
ering.
Concerning the cancellation Of his
western and southern trip this fall
and his forthcoming visit to Panama
it was said that the president finds
himself confronted with conditions
which have required him to rear
range his program for the fall be-
tween Sept. IL and December, when
congress meets.
The very great number OF import
ant legislative acts of the present
congress have imposed upon him adj
ditional executive duties requiring
great deal of investigation and ads
ministrative supervision Of work. So
much is this the case that the presi-
dent has found il impossible to make
certain engagements which he hoped
to make at a time when he could not
anticipate the extent Of the burden Of
official duties for the fall.
PinchOt for Governorf
New York, July 30.-Gifford Pin
chot. former chief forester under
Theodore Roosevelt, took place yes
terday upon the list of possible can
didates for the republican nomina-
tion for governor of New York, and
Roosevelt was asked to support bis
candidacy. Although the ex-presi-
dent is carefully suppressing every
thing which resembles an outspoken
declaration in favor of any candidate
he showed great interest in this lat
est boom and it is believed he does
not look unkindly upon II.