The Mena weekly star., 1910-09-22
BR|STOWNANNA AID FOR ROOSEVELT
A CONFERENCE AT NEW HAVEN BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND
 COLONEL.
BOTH ARE OPPOSED TO B0SSISM
Mir. Taft In Hearty Sympathy With Mir. Roosevelt in His Fight in New ork-Administratlon to be In. dorsed.

New Haven, Sept. 2l.-President Taft received a call from Col Roosevelt just before starting on his western tour and the New York situation was thoroughly discussed.
 The president is in hearty sympathy with the fight against bossism in New York and will stand firmly by Col, Roosevelt in the impending contest or the basis of his letter to Chairman Griscom following Vice President Sherman's selection as temporary chairman of the Saratoga convention.
 The president favors direct primary legislation on the basis laid down ip the Cobb bill as amended in accord ance with the suggestions of SetA Low, Joseph H. Choate and othel New York citizens; that is to say tho president believes that 1t will be bet ter to try an experiment with direc' primaries in New York as regard congressional, state senatorial and as sembly nomination, preserving tn, state convention system for the tim, being in the nomination of other off cials.
 Finally the president believes tha. man should be nominated for gov ernor whose ideas are in sympath! with this program.
 Will Indorse Taft. Incidental to the conference 1t + definitely understood now that tn, Taft administration win be endorset in It's entirety by the Republican plat form but there will be 10 mention O him or any one else in connection with 1912.
 This is in accordance with the pres | ident's own wishes. He agrees witt | his friends that it Is not the proyinc, of state convention to nominate ; l president two years In advance of | national convention. It was agains the presidents advice that Ohio CT dorsed him for 1912. The presiden | believes that it is mistake to pas; Judgment in that way upon an admin :stration until it's work has reasonabl, been completed.
 A wealth of interesting detail at tended the meeting which was hels at the residence of Horsse c White o New Haven. The Colonel made tn trip from Oyster Bay partly by moto boat and partly by motor car.
 An Unpleasant Trip. l The trip was not without some peri | and had to be abandoned at the Nor ! ~f do nf on1 ing further by water. Then after tn, | transfer to a motor car and the de parture from Fairfield, Conn, tn, home of Mir. Griscom tire blew ou | and the Colonel and Mir Griscom anl a MT. Dodge who had furnished thu motor boat had to transfer again to | sired car in which they fininshed th' 1 trip
 ! Col. Roosevelt was expected at th' White house at 1 D. m. By reason 0 1 the mishap of his journey he was hal | an hour late in arriving and then i was much bedraggled ex-presiden which presented himself. He wa soaked from the sound waves whic' | had washed over him on the trip D boat and dust covered from the Tor automobile ride. His collar had melt ed and his boots were muddy. Hi clothing was shapeless and his ha was awry. And in addition he wa worried looking when he leaped iron the machine and ran into the arms o Sloan, the secret service man wht had guarded him for five years ant now is rendering the same service tt | Taft