The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-08-05
WILLIAM r. NELSON OF THE
KANSAS CITY STAR is Ex-
EcUTivE's GUEST.
DISCUSSES INSURGENCY
Missourian Declares That Next Con.
0ress viii Be Either insurgent or
Democra.ie-Talks Unreservediy in
Praise OF Rooseveit-Taft to Prov
incetown Today.

beverly. Mass, Aug. 4.-coloncl Will
liam Il. Nelson. owner Of the Kansas
City Star, who has been spending the
not weather at his summer home near
here. dropped In on President TAFT at
Burgess POINT this afternoon. On the
way out To the presidents cottage. the
colonel suid he was not going to talk
boiiti@s II he could help himself.
Subsequent reports from the front
porch overlooking Salem bay indicated,
however. tiiat IL hearty exchange Of
greetings were quickly followed by IN
earnest discussion of recent events In
TIE political world.
President 1ult and Old Bill Nelson,
as he famliarly refers to the Missouri
editor. have been friends for II long
time. Their divergent views Of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff act have not Sc
yerely intcrfercd with their personal
intimacy. Colonel Nelson probably had
a few burning thoughts TO convey to
the president and there appears to he
little doubt as to the conference.
WHAT about the results In Kansas
Mr.. Nelson was asked BY the news
paper men.
oh" laughed the colonel. my heart
Is not broken
And Iowa."
We'll. 1 am managing to bear MP
under that pretty we'll too he said.
What do you think of the possibi1-
ity Of the next house of representa-
lives being democratic?"
1T looks az though II will be either
democratic or inslirgeni. At any rate
you can be sure IL will be anti Gun
non"
kansas" The colonel said. lis filled
with men who either made the state
or the sons of men who made 1t. They
think progressively out there and they
act progressively. People in the east
don't understand Kansas. But just
watch Kansas and you can come
pretty close to seeing what the rest OF
The country viii do
Many republicans seem to think
that the republican party is made VI
of a majority Of the voters Of the
country In that they are wrong. The
DEMOCRATS have never put up n candi-
date for president who ought to have
won who did not win. Take Cleveland
and Tllden for example"
"All this does not mean that you are
going to support Judson Harmon. does
ii?" querled II venturesome reporter.
Not against Theodore Roosevelt"
"Do you think Colonel Roosevelt
can come back?''
Come back" The colonel snapped
why. he'd sweep the country. But
don't think lie Will run unless he has
H."
Colonel Roosevet's recent travels In
the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania
claimed Colonel Nelson's attention foi
II few minutes.
"Yon will notice." he said. "tha,
Colonel Roosevelt went to the Goa
Mines and not to the National Cit.
bank: that he went to Father Cllrrar
and not J, r. Morgan
Colonel Nelson then spoke of hi,
friendship for President Taft.
II am very fond of him. he said
and WAS much interested In hi.
election"
do you think he will be reelected 2
Nov. boys" laughed the colonel
.yon must not ask me foolish ques
tions."
The president lad a number Of visi
tors besides Colonel Nelson, Ambns
sador Bryse Of Great Britain and Mrs
Bryce We're at Burgess Point for NJ
extended visit. Tonight President ant
Mrs. Tart slept on board the May
flower, and win sail soon after day
light for Provlncetnwn, Mass. >wher
the president is tn review fleet o
II batleshjps and speak at the dedi
cation of the Pilgrims monument.
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