The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-23
HARMONY REIGNS.
President Taft Writes a Letter
to Lloyd GriscOm.
He Disclaims Any Part in the
Fight on Roosevelt.
APOLOGY is ACCEPTED
The Colonel Expresses Himself
as Entirely Satisfied.
The "Old Guard" Appears to
Have Put Up a Job.
Apologies ACCEPTED

New York, Aug. 23.-President Taft
and ex-President Roosevelt ~-- again
fellow workers in the same political
field.
The threat that they might pull apart
has been forefended by a full explana-
ton on one side and an unreserved ac-
ceptance On the other.
The president made it plain in a let
ter given out here by Lloyd c. Girls
com, president of the New York Repub
licar county committee, how the mis-
unders .anding arose. He explained
that he never took any part in a COM
mittee cabal to defeat Colonel Roose-
Welt for temporary chairman of the
coming Republican state convention. On
the contrary, he explicitly deplores the
result of the committee meeting which
chose Vice President Sherman; he re-
Dukes the -7rty leaders who have per-
united it to go abroad uncontradicted
that the president of the United States
was behind their fractional preference;
he insists that at every opportunity he
advised the fullest conference with
Roosevelt and he Explains he has been
Tained by the columns of unfounded
stories in newspapers concerning my at
tftude In respect to the New York stu
alton"
For his part Colonel Roosevelt when
he read President Taft's letter as com
Il am very glad to see President
Taft's letter and am pleased with it,"
The presidents letter comes in reply
to Mr.. Griscom's blunt assertion by tel
egraph that the absence of any auth
oritatiVe information as to your atti-
tude is seriously misleading many Re-
pubficans."
The president tells how, when he first
learned from Vice President Sherman
of the plan to oppose Roosevelt he per
11fo I'll i1od m he dv-axx fvofn a
fight with Mr.. Roosevelt and again re-
lowed my urgent advice that there BE-
full personal conference with him.
Finally he asserts 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
direct rebuke to Mr.. Roosevelt and Gov
ernor Hughes"
Tried to Keep the Peace.
In the course of the correspondence
there came out telegram from the
president to the vice president hitherto
withheld, but of which mention had
nevertheless crept into print. In sub
stance the president Informed Timothy
L. Woodruff, Republican state chair
man, and William L. Ward of the ma
tional Republican committee that the
thing of all others 49, ought to be
avoided is a controversy in the conven-
ton"
The presidents letter throughout is
NSiIpSI0lS tItOuSn POSITIVE MT. NTrlS-
com, in his comment on it. was much
more oItspoke n. He did not hesitate to
charge that the Republican organiZa
ton of the state had played politics with
the presidents name and had misrepre-
Eented his attitude.
He asserted in so many words that
some of the old guards are not seek
ing Republican success at the coming
election; they wish to perpetuate theil
control of the Republican organization
~ ov,Ny .-f to he rav.4x Av,A he
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 Theo
dore Roosevelt, the very men whom
they had consistently opposed at ever!
turn.
Lastly he charges that in the last twt
legislatures. there had been a disgrace
full alliance between Tampany Hall AM
some of the "old guard leaders. Col
Roosevelt, in his statement given out a
Osyter Bay, explains what had been TIL
course of his negotiations with the or
ganization and low after his successive
rebuffs he had felt that further over
lures could not consistently come fror
Tim. His future attitude he does no
define, because he is as yet uncertain
what effect on the public sentimen
President Taft's letter will have whe
1t has been read and digested by tn
voters of the state.
Taft's Letter.
The following letter from Presiden
Taft to Lloyd c. Griscom. president o
the New York Republican count
committee, was given out here b
Mr.. Griscom:
Beverly, Mass, Aug. 20, 1910.
my Dear Mr.. Griscom: As yo
know from your telephone converse
tions with my office, I have steadil
refused to admit the propriety o
necessity of the president replying t
newspaper statements which are no
based on any act or authorized wor
of his and have no sponsor l am en-
tirelv willing. however, to reply cate
eorically to your telegram of Angus
10, which has just arrived and whic
Il as follows:
"Y am informed and believe tina