New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
WILL MEET TODAY
Ex-President to Make His First
Call on His Successor
at Beverly.
HUGHES NOT TO BE THERE
Lodge Will Accompany Roose-
velt-Love Feast Rather than
Political Conference at
Taft Cottage.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Boston. June 29.-With President Taft
at Beverly, ex-President Roosevelt at
Nahant, Governor Hughes in Boston and
Senators Lodge and Crane in the not
distant offing, the simple folk along the
North Shore are convinced that about
the biggest thing in the way of politi-
cal conferences that was ever pulled off
is about to occur among them, and they
are convinced that the remainder OF the
country should hold its breath to-nor-
row awaiting the news from Beverly.
Reno on the Fourth of July won't be a
marker to Beverly on June 80, is the SOL
enn conviction of every inhabitant OF
the North Shore.
Didn't Colonel Roosevelt say ne eA-
pected to have a bully time at Beverly! z!
they ask with crushing scorn OF any one
who dares suggest that the event may
not be productive of big news. and Ii
does seem a shame to puncture their ex-
pectations, but the facts don't square
with the advance notices.
Ex-President Roosevelt will motor
down from Nahant with his friend, Sem
ator Lodge, some time tomorrow and
with their friend, President Taft. Gov
ernor Hughes will not be there. and 1t is
very doubtful II Senator Crane will be.
Ex-President Roosevelt is delighted
with the success which has crowned the
first year Of his successor in the White
House-more delighted than surprised,
because he has all along expected that
viii Taft would make good" He told
the American people he would before
they elected Mr.. Taft President, and he
would be surprised were it otherwise.
No Time for Meeting Before.
Moreover, President Taft did not re-
fuse to go to New York to meet his
predecessor. On the contrary, he was
willing and anxious to do everything in
his power to contribute to the success
of that reception. It was a friend and
authorized representative OF Mr.. Roose-
Welt who advised the President not to go
to New York. saying that it would be
more seemly for the ex-President to
come to Mr.. Taft, who, whatever his
personal regard for Mr. Roosevelt might
be, was still President of the United
States. That same representative prom
ised Mr. Taft that at the first suitable
opportunity Mr.. Roosevelt would come
TO him. From the time Mr.. Roosevelt
landed until Monday Of this week the
President was working from eighteen to
twenty hours a day. Mr.. Roosevelt
knows that He had been through the
mill himself, and he knew what the
closing days of a session Of Congress
mean to the President. There certainly
has been no suitable opportunity here
tofore. But now the time is most suit
able.
After two strenuous days at Cam
bridge Mr.. Roosevelt went out to Ma
hant this evening to spend the night
and tomorrow with his long time inti-
mate friend, Mr.. Lodge. There he is
within eighteen miles of Beverly, and
what is more natural than that he
should motor down to see his old friend? :?
| And when they meet there is no doubt
MI Roosevelt will tell how he put steel
nosed bullets into an elephants brain
and soft-nosed bullets into a lions
launches, and the President will tell
how, in this very town Of Boston, he put
honey on an Aldrich and won his 10y
atty, and how in little old Washington"
he put tacks on a Cannon's chair and
produced mighty explosions of wrath,
but no injury to his legislative pro-
gramme, and there will be a fine old
| fashioned love feast out on the wide
veranda at Burgess Point Tomorrow
afternoon.
What They May Talk About.
OF course, it is not to be supposed that
two men as big as William Howard Taft
and Theodore Roosevelt can get together
and not talk of big things. but for all
that IT may not mean any startling news
for popular delectation, and it is abso-
lutely certain there will be no such mill
as Reno expects to pull off on the
Fourth of July.
The time of Mr.. Roosevelt's visit is
not disclosed, and there was every in
dication tonight that unusual precau-
tions would be taken Tomorrow to
maintain the seclusion of the Taft cot
tage which is in a sort of park, well
away from the public thoroughfare
The President, however, will play golf
tomorrow morning. He will not return
to the cottage until after j o'clock, and
this means that Mr. Roosevelt's call will
be about mid-afternoon.
Secretary Norton saw Mr.. Roosevelt
at the Harvard Alumni luncheon in
Boston to-day, but he would not discuss
the visit to Beverly in any way.
The President Visits italian.
President Taft. accompanied by Sec
retary Norton, Captain Butt. Assistant
Secretary Forster and a large part OF
the White House staff, reached Beverly
nearly two hours behind schedule time
this morning. There was d hurried
visit 10 the cottage, and then the Presl-
dent directed his chauffeur to proceed
TO Beverly Hospital. where Mr.. Taft in
quired as to the condition of the Italian
laborer, who was injured several DAYS
ago by Robert A. Tafts automobile. He
was much gratified to learn that the pa
tient was greatly improved and Is ex-
pected 10 recover Next the President
went shopping, visiting several stores
on Cabot street. After luncheon Mr.
Taft hurried away TO the golf links at
the Myopia Hunt Club. With John
Hays Hammond for d partner, he played
in fnigrsoTaa against p,,.. and