The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20
Will NOT MIX
in STATE Fight
President Taft Believes New York
Can Settle Its Own Affairs
Without Calling on
Him.
LEAVES IT TO FRIENDS
Whether He viii be Candidate in
1912 Is to be Decided by the
People and Not
Him.

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 2o.-Col.
Roosevelt came to President Taft for
aid in his fight against the bosses in
New York state. The conference took
place in New Haven, where President
Taft had gone to attend q meeting
of the Yale corporation.
Neither Mr.. Taft nor Mr. Roosevelt
would discuss in detail what they had
to say to each other, but these re-
suits can be given as apparent:
ID So far as the situation in New
York State goes, where there is war
between Col Roosevelt and the old
guard, the president stands squarely
on his letter of August 20 to Lloyd
@. Griscom, in which he defined his
attitude at length.
t2.) The president is willing to run
again If he is renominated, but he In
tends to leave that to his friends. He
Is not hunting delegates.
Col. Roosevelt expressed himself as
gratiffed at the very pleasant inter-
view He reiterated with emphasis he
will not run for governor and that if
the convention Is stampeded for him
he will refuse the nomination.
The colonel made no specific rer
quest for action in President Taft's
part, but 1t was apparent he and his
friends had sought the conference for
the moral effect it would have in the
New York state contest.
The president made it clear to Mr..
Roosevelt he Is in sympathy with the
fight against the bosses, but he also
told the colonel plainly that he would
not mix further In the New York
state situation. He told Mr.. Roosevelt
he would stand squarely on the letter
which he had written Lloyd G. Girls
com soon after the meeting of the
republican state committee in New
York. Later President Taft told the
newspaper correspondents that, in his
| opinion, his sympathy with the Roose-
velt forces was clearly shown in this
| letter.
| Although Mr.. Roosevelt's supporters
who attended the conference continu-
ed to declare the bosses would be
outvoted in the Saratoga convention,
the impression prevailed that Col.
Roosevelt and Mr.. Griscom now find
themselves in tight hole and they
had turned to the meeting with Mr..
the day.
Mr. Roosevelt's followers profess
ed to be entirely satisfied with the
outcome of the meeting with Mr..
| Taft
The reiteration by President Taft
Griscom letter was not, however, the
only important development that fol
! lowed the New Haven conference. 1t
4 is certain now that the Taft admin
! istration will be endorsed in its en-
4 tirety by the Saratoga convention.
On the other hand, however, there
4 will be. no Endorsement of President
Taft by the New York state republi
can convention for denomination in
1912 The omission of such an en-
dorsement will be in conformity tc
/ the presidents desire. This will
! ltdNS UDG lSdu OpS-iB ~ ioi 40 ANS"
York state is concerned, between Mr.
Taft and Mr.. Roosevelt for the repub
lican nomination of 1912, If Mr.. Roose
velt has any thought of trying for 1t
i The action of the Saratoga Conven
ton either toward the Endorsement OF
the Taft administration or of Mr.
Taft's candidacy for denomination
i was not mentioned in the conference
tween Mr.. Taft and Col. Roosevelt
but Otto T. Barnard who is Taf
man, but it fighting with the Roose
velt- -Griscom forces, Is authority fol
the statement the Taft administra
tion will be indorsed at Saratoga, bu
there will be no acion by the conven
tion in reference to Taft's renomina
ton.