New-York tribune., 1910-08-22
TO SPEAK OUT
Expected to Define Position in
Letter and Speech.
TO AVOID CONTROVERSY
Mr.. Taft Devoting Greatest Care
to Documents Which He Is
Now Preparing.

Now Preparing.
Beverly, Mass, Aug. 21.-As time goes
it becomes more and more apparent that
no direct answer will be made here to the
reports of a break between President Taft
ard Theodore Roosevelt and the charges
alleged as a foundation for the rupture
Although the silence of the last few days
is still strictly maintained. It is believed
now that President Taft intends to make
his position clear in the letter he is pre-
pairing for the Republican campaign COM
nittee handbook and the speech he is pre-
pairing for the conservation congress at
st Paul Mr.. Taft has been working on
these two documents almost continuously
for the last two days. He realizes the i'm
portance of what he may have to say at
this time and is devoting more care TO
the letter and the speech than to any pub
lie utterances he has made since his in
auguration.
The letter and the speech, so far as
known, will not be controversial The
President is said TO recognize no situation
calling for a controversy. Mr.. Roosevelt
has made no statement in support of the
reported break. There is nothing definite
on which the President could act. even If
he had a desire to do so.
With the important work that he has in
hand, Mr.. Taft evidently has decided that
this is not the time TO enter into a news
paper controversy with any one. AS TO
his administration. what il has accom-
plished in fulflment of the party plat
form pledges and what il intends to do
in the future in the way of recommenda
ton to Congress, President Taft soon
will make clear, and it is said he is
70 ST fall hV what a has
to say As to state fights-and it is the
New York State fight which is alleged to
have created a break between the Presi-
dent and the only living ex-President-
there is every reason to believe that Mr..
Taft Will restate what he has said here
many times of late: That he does not be-
lieve it TO be the province Of the Chief
Executive to interfere in state fights, and
that IN dealing with state situations he
has confined himself to urging on the va
rious leaders the Importance to the party
of an honest endeavor to adjust their dif-
ferences and an agreement on a harmo-
niOus programme.
Won't Dictate to State Leaders.
The President has repeatedly stated that
he has not and will not attempt to dictate
to state leaders what they should do. There
is every reason TO believe that he applied
this principle in the of New York
State, for il is said here that while there
is no occasion for its publication at this
time the Presidents record is absolutely
clear.
That the President, disregarding local
issues. is still intent on bringing about a
situation in the Republican party as closely
allied to harmony as is possible under all
Of the circumstances. is shown by the fact
that his campaign committee letter is re-
ported to contain declaration that there
is no desire on his part or on the part of
any one closely identified with the admin
istration TO read any person out Of the
party. This is taken here 10 mean that
the President has no fight with the In
surgents but is glad to welcome them as
Republicans. During the last session of
Congress the President clearly defined his
position to what constituted a Republi-
can. He held that all men who were will
ing TO support measures which clearly were
framed in compliance with pledges in the
party platform were entitled to be regarded
as members of the party, no matter what
their position might be as to the House
rules or the Speakership. It is also said
here tonight that President Taft will point
to the fact that all of the legislation he has
recommended which has been enacted has
| been in line with the progressive policy he
outlined at the beginning of his admins
tration-
Would Piacate All Factions.
So far as he consistently can do the
President viii endeavor to placate all fac
tions of the party. He believes the party
already is moving ahead, and he wants all
its members to pull at the oars"
Representative Mckinley, of Illinois,
chairman of the Republican Congress Cam
paign Committee. when he was in Beverly
ten days ago. announced that the congress
committee was ready toesupport regulars
and insurgents alike, the only test being
support OF the President and of the party
platform
AS to the tariff. President Taft, it is be-
lieved. will lay chief importance on the
results that it is hoped will be accom-
pIished through the work of the new tariff
commission. The party platform called for
a revision of the tariff on the scientific
principle OF difference in the cost of pro-
duction here and abroad. with fair profit
to the producer. 1t also called for i'm
mediate revision and the public demanded
immediate revision. In bringing about i'm
mediate revision it was obviously impossi-
BILE to make that revision scientific. The
means Of securing the needed information
was not available, and the time was too
short. The President Will point out what
! he believes TO be the good features of the
/ Payne-Aldrich act, and will declare that a
real. scientific revision, based on the mass
| of information the Tariff Commission will
collect, will undoubtedly be had If the Re
publican party is kept in power