Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-04
COLONEL ROOSEVELT TO MAKE
ATTITUDE PLAIN WHEN HE
COMES HOME.
MIDDLE GROUND POLICY
ON PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION
No Ono Has Expected Roosevelt to
Condemn Taft or His Aetions-Mueh
Speculation as to His Attitude
Towards Office Now That Hughes
is Out Of Politics in New York.
Especial Correspondence

lSpeClal
Washington, May 4.-That Former
President Roosevelt has nc intention OF
rushing hastily into the field of Amer
lean politics and committing himself
one way or another until he has sur
veyed things carefully, is the statement
made by some of the men closest to
him.
They say the probabilities are that
no announcement from Roosevelt on
the political situation need be looked
for until he has returned to the United
States and even then he is not likely to
be in a hurry abou it.
Recent publication of a report that
letters had been received from Roose-
welt saying in effect that he would
come to the support of the Taft adj
mi%nistration, hat he wanted to remain
in private life, and that he wanted Loeb
for the next governor of New York has
stirred up a great Zeal of fresh dis
cussion here as to Roosevelt's uture
President Taft has denied that he has
received any such letters as alleged n
it appears none of the men in congress
supposed to be closest to him have
heard from him as to his political
course. In New York, Mr.. Loeb will not
admit having received anything from
his former chief telling which way the
latter will jump p~litically n the i'm
preston is extremely strong here that
as a matter of fact he has written none
telling him how he steer his course.
This agrees with advices obtained here
from parties who have seen Roosevelt
in Europe.
Will Stand BY Pinchot.
Good authority exists for the state
ment that Roosevelt intends to back
Pinchot up in conservation matters and
in the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy.
This same authority says that before
Mr.. Roosevelt has been in this country
long he will take occasion to show
where he stands on this matter. 1t does
not follow from this he will launch into
criticism of President Taft. AS a mat
ter of fact, at nc time has it been SER
iously expected here by many of the
men who are most enthusiastic for the
return of Roosevelt to the White House
that he would attack Mr.. Taft. Some
of them have predicted that Roosevelt
would refuse to endorse the present adj
ministration but the men in congress
who do not agree with Mr.. Taf<'s
have as a rule not believed
Roosevelt would venture on open criti-
cism of it.
Will Take Middle Ground.
AS a matter of fact, the most reli-
able information here for months has
been that Roosevelt would be inclined
to take middle ground and not meet
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1t was predicted here some weeks ago
by one of Mr.. Roosevelt's closest
friends and trusted advisers that he
would pursue the policy Of keeping still
on political matters. At the same time
it was said that Mr.. Roosevelt would
not accept public office, believing that
to do so would lower the dignity of a
president. This had reference
especially to the talk of a eat in the
senate or the house for Mr.. Roosevelt.
That, however. was before the recent
developments in the New York po-
litical situation, before Governor
Hughes was appointed to the supreme
court and before many of the New
York politicians raised the cry so We
hemently that Roosevelt would have
to give direction to the campaign next
summer and fall. At the same time,
the cry was raised that Roosevelt
should be sent to the senate with Root.
to succeed Senator Depew. 1t is ex-
pected' here that III pressure on
Roosevelt to make him identify him
self with the New York campaign
will be tremendous. In this
ton there is talk that the regular
forces who are in control of the con-
-p,,I 1tIn ~ oct
Roosevelt into the New York cam
paign, taking the view that If he got
into that he could not refrain from
fighting for the success of the republic
can ticket in the congressional con-
test all along the line.
Action in 1912 Uncertain.
SO far as the course of Roosevelt in
the 1912 presidential campaign is con-
cerned, there is as much Worderment
and uncertainty here as there ever was.
In fact, there is probably more. In
congress, the feeling is rife that Roose-
Welt is almost wholly ar uncertain
quantity in that contest and that he
himself knows what program he has
in mind but that few others do. One
view is that Roosevelt ants to be
president again but wants to wait until
1916. Another view is that he is de-
liberately planning to get himself
nominated and that this is the mean
ing Of the numerous invitations to
speak he is accepting for different
parts of the country. Some think that
President Taft, who is making no con-
cealment of the fact he is not mored
Of the job Of being president, will re-
fuse to run again n that in that
case Roosevelt will be inevitable. Still
another view is that the radical or
progressive movement in the country
has grown away from Roosevelt since
he left the White House, and that it
will not readily take up with him
again unless he comes out strongly for
thai movement anu, as 10 inis, it is
pointed out that in the winding up of
his administration, with the 1907 panic
fresh in pemory, Roosevelt came to be
conservative as to many propositions.
Plenty Of public men there are who
believe Roosevelt will come back from
Europe a fairly good conservative who
will soon find himself and the radical
element in his party at odds. In short,
the views as to Roosevelt's future
course are numerous and Of the most
divergent sort and this among men
who knew him intimately when h was
in the White House.
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