Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-23
President Taft and Colonel
Roosevelt Once More Fellow
Workers in Same Political
Field,
FRANK LETTER FROM TAFT
ENDS MISUNDERSTANDING
President Denies Taking Part
in Scheme 10 Defeat Colonel
for Temporary Chairman Of
New York Convention,

fay Morning Journal sneciai Leasea Wirel
New York, Aug. 22.--President
Taft ana ex- President Roosevelt are
again fellow workers in the same po-
lnical field. The threat that theN
might pull apart has been forefended
by full explanation on one side ana
an unreserved acceptance on the
other.
The president made it plain in a
letter given out here today by Lloyd
c. Griscom, president of q New
York republic e inty committee
how the misunderstar arose. ne
ov,loined that ne il, dy part
in committee cabal q, eat COL
opea Aosevelt for temporary chair
man Of the coming republican state
convention. on the contrary he eX-
plieiuy deplores the result OF the
committee meeting which chose Vice
President sherman; he rebukes the
party leaders who have permitted It
to 20 abroad uncontradicted that the
president Of the United states was
behind their factional preference. He
insists that at every opportunity he
advised the fullest conference with
Roosevelt and he explains he has
been panied by the "columns of un-
founded stories In newspapers con-
cerning my attitude in respect 10 the
New York situation
For his part, Colonel Roosevelt
when he read President Tafts letter
as communicated to him ut oyster
Pay. said
u am very glad to see President
Tafts letter and am pleased with it.
The presidents letter comes in re-
ply 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 sherman of the
plan to oppose Roosevelt, he per
emptoiily declined" to be drawn into
a fight with Mr. Roosevelt and again
renewed my urgent advice that there
be full personal conference with him
Finally he asserts that the solution
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.
In the course Of the correspond
ence there comes out telegram from
the president to the yice-president.
hitherto withheld but Of which mem
ba.a I, ,.I n
In substance the president informed
Timothy L. Woodruff, republican
state chairman and William y. Ward
of the national republican committee
that the thing of ell others that
ought to be avoided is a controversy
IN the convention"
The presidents letter throughout is
temperate although positive. Mr.
Griscom in his comment on il was
much more outspoken He did not
hesitate TO charge that the repuhll-
can organization of the state had
played politics with the presidents
name and had misrepresented his at
utude
tie asserted in so many words that
'e ui the or Buaih - ~ '''
seeking republic,n success at the
coming election, they wish to per
petnate their ,ntrol of the republic
can organizati, at any cost TO the
party"
and he goes on TO particularize that
VI such event they would have been
siad TO unload defect on the should
els of the president on the ground
..'A' he had ignored the policies OF
hughes ana slmbbed Theodore Roose-
'e'I the very man whom they had
consistently opposed at every turn.
'as'ly he charges that in the last
W." legislatures there had been dis
sl"cetul alli5 nee between Tammany
nan and some Of the "old guard
leaders.
colonel Roosevelt in his statement
sven out at oyster Bay explains
"hat had been the course of his ne
souaticns with the organization and
NV after his successive rebufis he
'"a leit that further overtures could
,''' consisten,lv come from him. His
''ure attitude he does not define
'.,"use he is as yet uncertain what
'tct on public sentiment President
i'utS Letter Will ba,-, vrhan il has