Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-10
ROOSEVELT WILL STAND
WITH PRESIDENT TAFT
Gives Blow to Back From
EIba'' Club.
Washington Post.)

What practically amounts to a per-
sonal confirmation by Theodore Roose-
Welt of the article printed in The Post
more than tire weeks ago defining the
attitude he will assume toward the
Taft administration upon his return TO
the United States, has come from
Rome. An Associated Press dispatch
from the Italian capital-a dispatch
evidently inspired by the ex-president
himself-contains this significant de-
claration
Amy report that Mr.. Roosevelt pro-
poses to repudiate his successor in the
presidency is a baseless fabrication. :"
Any one familiar with the vigorous
language which Col Roosevelt en-
ploys in characterizing a report or
statement which IS not correct should
recognize in the expression base
less fabrication" words peculiarly his
own. AS though to emphasize his lack
of sympathy with the Associated Press
to say:
''1e will see Clifford Pinchot at Ge-
noa just as he will see other old
Efriends who desire to see him."
The words who desire to see him"
establishes the correctness of what
was stated in The Post at the time
! Pinchot sailed for Europe-to wit, that,
instead of having been invited to meet
the former president, the deposed chief
forester of the Agricultural Depart
ment had actually invited himself in
order to give Mr.. Roosevelt his version
of the controversy over conservation
that has been in progress in Wash
ton for several months.
Letter to Senator Root.
Obviously the former presidents OBJ
lection in disclaiming a feeling of nos
tility toward President Taft was
prompted by stories printed in this
country recently to the effect that an
estrangement exists between the two
men, and that one of the consequences
of it would be the Withholding of his
support by Mr.. Roosevelt from the
Taft administration after he returns
to the United States Men who may
have been skeptical of the prediction
that obsequis would be held over the
Back from Elba Club" soon after
Mr.. Roosevelt returned may find fur
Their evidence of its approae ling dis
| solution in communications received
this week from Mr.. Roosevelt by Sena-
tor Lodge, of Massachusetts,, one of his
most intimate friends.
The senator has not yet given out
the text of these letters, and very
properly so, but he has permitted an
intimation Of their purport to reach
lating any confidence, it may be said
that there is no comfort in them from
the Back from Elba" coterie
THE declaration by Mr.. Roosevelt
in Rome yesterday that he had desired
to see Senator Root in Europe, has
proved very interesting to people IN
Washington. SIX or eight weeks ago,
when the Back from Elba" crowd
were industriously circulating the re-
port that Mr. Roosevelt would not
stand by the Taft administration upon
his return, Senator Root wrote long
letter to the former President in
which he detailed the work of the adj
ministration, and related what had
been going ON since March, 1909
The senator's purpose in giving the
colonel this information was to con-
trovert unfriendly statements concern
ing his successor in the white house,
which, it was believed, had already
been made, or were to be made, to the
colonel while he was proceeding down
the Nile or travelling through Eu-
rope.
Evidently the senator's letter PROV
ed mighty interesting to the African
hunter, inasmuch as he expressed a
desirGeb to have a talk with Mr.. Root
while :. W in Europe. But the SEN
ator is unable to Leave Washington
now However, he will go to The e
Hague on or about June LIST, to appear
as counsel for this government in the
fisheries controversy with Canada,
which has been submitted TO arbitra-
ton before the international court.
Possibly, therefore the ex-president
and he may meet before the colonel
embarks for New York, early in next
June,