Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-15
T.R. AND GR|SCOM
TO HAVE MEETING
Rumor Says Conference Is to Be
of More Than Usual In
portanCe
COL. DUE AT U. OF C. IN MARCH
Intimated That Roosevelt Will
Place Himself on Record Anent
Conservation
COL. DUE AT U. OF C. IN MARCH
ASSOCIATED Press)

OYSTER BAY, Aug. 14.-Former
President Roosevelt announced today
that Lloyd c. Griscom, chairman of
the New York Republican county com
mittee, will come to Sycamore Hill to-
morrow for conference. Mr.. Griscom
spent last night with President Taft
at Beverly. Col. Roosevelt would not
say that Mr.. Griscom will come to
Sycamore Hill as the bearer of an i'm
portant message from President Taft,
but the conference will be of more
than usual Importance.
The former president would not con-
sent to the bare announcement that
Mr.. Griscom was to come, except to
say that he had read with great in
terest the dispatches from Beverly in
timating that the president in expect
ing Secretary Ballinger to resign and
that Senator Aldrich and Speaker Can
non in the future are to be in less
direct contact with the administration.
He refused to give his views on this
subject or to say whether the message
which Mr.. Griscom bears constitutes
another step in the administration
program for readjustment of the con-
ditions within the party.
1t is believed here, however, that as
a result of Mr.. Griscom's- visit the ex-
act relations between the president and
the former president will be more
clearly defined, even though no public
announcement be made.
Since Col. Roosevelts return from
Africa he has resolutely avoided plac-
ing himself on record in regard to the
Taft administration. He has seen the
president only once, and then only for
a comparatively short time, during his
visit to Boston for the Harvard com
mencement. So far as known no mes
CO.. ha L
that time, and it is believed that Pres
ident Taft desires to ascertain where
his predecessor stands, particularly in
view of the nationa; campaign which is
about to get under way.
t. RS WESTERN TRIP
Colonel Roosevelt's western trip will
start on Tuesday of next week. Dur
ing the trip it is said that he will place
himself on record in regard to a great
number of important questions.
One of them will be the conserva-
ton of national resources. While it
is believed that Colonel Roosevelt will
not have one word of criticism of the
administration in any of these
speeches, there is good ground for the
assumption that he will not depart
from the vigorous stand for conserva-
ton which he assumed while he was
president,
Whatever may be the tenor of Mr..
Grscom's message it may be said that
Colonel Roosevelt will proceed with
the program which it is known he has
mapped out for himself.
Colonel Roosevelt announced today
that he had decided on a third long
trip Starting some time in March, he
will go from coast to coast on a trip
that.will occupy about one month The
colonel said that while he was in At
RIGA eight months ago, he accepted an
invitation from President Wheeler of
the University of California to speak
at the university on charter day next
March. He will go by the southern
ruote Only one other speech has been
definitely settled on-that at the
Southern Commercial congress at At
lanta.
From Atlanta Colonel Roosevelt will
travel through the south, making one
speech in each state which he traverses.
He probably will make a short stop
at the Texas ranch of Cecil Lyon, Re-
publican national committeeman. who
is an old friend. The return from
California in all probability will be via
the northern route. The exact time
of the trip and the places at which
speeches will be made have not been
decided upon.