The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-10
ROOScVe|t's Recent Utter anCeS on Politics Are
 Overlooked by Taft
CONSERVATION WORK IS
 TAKING PRESIDENTS TIME
ministrative Plans Without Fear or Favor and VIII stand
 on His Record

Beverly, Mass, July 9.-(Special) )-Pres- fdent Taft refuses to be disturbed by the political activities of Oyster Bay. He has his own ideas on the subject and regrets tendencies that will lead inevit- ably to a wide-open split in the repub- lican party; but it be said that the President is content to rest on his own achievements and be judged altogether by the results of his administration.
 The President is fortified in this posi- tion by the fact that he ss utterly indif- ferent to a second term. If at the close of his term his party on the record that he shall have made, calls on him to lead again, he will readily consent But he will not engage in any scramble for the office.
 Meanwhile the President intends to pre- serve his friendships without any regard to political considerations. The call of Colonel Roosevelt at the summer capitol on June 30 was that of one friend on an 1fAsr sa. if is known now that a mini nnn politics was discussed. Colonel PsastTait haa not disclosed any plans that h e Cor A 3 future and neither has th i5 It was agreed at Colonel RorsoN6 ggestion when Taft as- euued 5n at every suggestion of in tertsrenee h8 the former President was q D avoided
 HSoaevelt's Attitude
 Tho attitude of Colonel Roosevelt is un- dewtco1 ra that of private citizen, free t3 e. cise all of the political priv Negas 4 itizen, and the President desires # To ,e so. What meaning the events ef the past three weeks at Oyster ha4 maF have the President has not fought ta insuire. The one question that he is considering is whether, to the best Of h's aailityH he Is carrying out the pledges he made to- the people in this cenn-e-inn. lere is an answer to the eeenta st Cs ter Bay--the Poindexter ir- c'eani, tne pledge of support to Rev. sriese 4a iints about conservation-in tlse acts he administration during the paal VI
 Ag Saturday the development of t ,nts conservation policy has geae Lrd to an extent to make it .aaasia able to all. Conservation Is the 5ua inite, distinct policy that Col paA E avelts seven years in office
 uced. It is the one policy for which na5 pre-emnently before the peo- lsf paH and it is the one policy about rita controversy hinges.
 Policy of Conservation
 l. n IF view of the President. without assiqs 10 take issue with Colonel Roose- gstt. ef n any way to become involved 4 ptfi discussion, the people of the Lrliel .5tates are for conservation of heir natural resources without particu- afy ring by what methods, so long csa most effective are adopted. Dis narf with the ideas of Colonel Roose- fat to the powers of the executive laas e law, the President, while not perfs lg the public interests to suffer iH t interim, has secured from Con-
 ne enactment of laws authorizing s l 'ne withdrawals of land made by the lou,ior President Under this law dur ing past week he has confirmed all af tts acts of Colonel Roosevelt and taken dditional initiative, acting himself In the premises, so that there Is a total of more than 30,0O0O OGO acres of coal land, petroleum, phosphate and power sites, now fully entrenched behind the statutes, free from exploitation by the trusts and corporations for examination, develop ment and improvement as Congress by further legislation shall direct.
 Satisfied With Record
 In other words, by legal methods that are beyond doubt or question the Pres ident has fully carried out the policy of the former President, and he Is sat- isfied to stand that, believing that the people who desire conservation wilt not stop to quibble or question as to what particular means were used to bring about this desired end. It Is but just to add that all along the Presidents plan has been Secretary Ballingers plan, and that the law under which the President is now acting in conservation matters is the one that MT. Ballinger recommend ed in his first annual report to the Pres ident.
 AS with conservation, so with the other acts of his administration. The Presi- dent has proceeded along lines that seemed to him best suited to meet the party pledges and he is not disturbed therefore by any outcroppings of opposi tion from high quarters which, after all are held to be differences In methods moro than in measures.
 The President proposes to proceed along these lines to the end He will make nc move to counteract any influences that art at work His plan Is to allow the worh that he has done to sink in. After thai he will be satisfied to be Judged.
 Result Is Not Feared
 Al the same time, it is not to be under stood that the President is throwing | away any support that his administration may reserve from the former President | But to friends who understand the Pres ident's position what Is distinctly clear 1: the fact that he does not encourage tn' notion that he is to stand or fall by thu | attitude that Colonel Roosevelt may as l sume. By the same token, since Poindex ter and Beverdge are both republicans l even though hostile to some of the Presi l dents beliefs, MT Taft does not believe that the walls of his administration wil | crumble if both are elected. He Is no opposed to progressive ideas. He merely a man desirous Sof results and 1 . majority of progressive republicans | secured in both branches of Congress | sent there by the people, the Presiden | will be found working with them a | heartily as anybody.