Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-14
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
ARE BOTH KEPT BUSY
Both Want Public to Under
stand Their Activities
in Politics.

Yesterday was a busy day in politics
at Beverly and Oyster Bay. President Taft
caused it to be made known, through the
medium of the correspondents stationed
at the summer capital. that his participa-
tion in the campaign this summer and fall
will be of general character. He is
interested in having the republican party
win in the congressional elections and
in the various state elections.
He will not, it is stated, attempt to read
anybody out of the party nor to insist
upon any mans candidacy for a particu-
lar office. He suggested to Mr. Loeb that
he would make good candidate for gov
ernor of New York but he is not pushing
Mr.. Loeb's candidacy.
Work on the Tariff.
The President during the summer will
also give his attention to the work of
placing the tariff on q scientific basis as
result of the Investigations of the tariff
commission. Late in August the entire
commission will be summoned to Beverly
to lay before him the details of the work.
Monetary reform and economy in the
administration of the government service
will also be dealt with by the President
during the summer from time to time.
AT Oyster Bay Col. Roosevelt put in a
busy day with the politicians Insurgent
and reactiOnary were alike welcome. He
grasped Tim Woodruff with one hand and
Representative Fowler of New Jersey with
the other-and these two are about the
extreme poles of political thought. The
colonel Ii is said, made each man feel
that he was the especially favored one.
Is Seeing Both Sides.
Afterward he said to the interviewers:
Il want you to make 1t clear that / am
seeing both sides. l wish you would make
that emphatic. My main interest is in the
state. but on national issues 1 want to see
both regulars and insurgents, party men
and Independents. I want to see demo
Gratis as well as republicans"
But you don't want to Ssee democrats
VIM he was asked
Not if the republicans do the right
thing" replied the colonel.
Speaker Wadsworth of the state as
sembly had previously seen him and
came away defiant Mr.. Wadsworth
would not yield to the colonels solicita-
State His First Concern.
The New York World correspondent at
Oyster Bay had thirty-minute talk with
the colonel and in a dispatch to his pa
per wrote as follows:
I'm the first place of Importance it
can be said most decidedly that the col
onel has not indicated to a single one of
the many men who have called on him
either at Sagmore Hill or at the Office
of the contributing editor which he has
in the city his determination to take
sides in any factional controversy This
applies to regular and iEsurgent' in the
national game and to the Hughes and
the 'anti-Hughes' wings in the state sit
uation. Men of any and all these fac
lions who have PRETENDED otherwise have
done without the authority Of the
colonel. There is the very best authority
for this statement.
This is equally true of those persons
who for their own personal purposes have
attempted to make it appear that there
exists antagonism between President Taft
and the colonel, in support of which it is
contended that the alleged failure Of the
colonel to indorse the President justifies
the assumption that such antagonism real
ly exists. The reason that the colonel
has not placed himself on record as be.
ing thoroughly in accord with President
Taft and completely satisfied with the lat.
ter's course during the last sixteen
months is twofold; he does not think
such a declaration necessary and has nc
desire to interfere with administration
matters"