The National tribune., 1910-09-01

considered during that long meeting
erwill try again to have the estimates
much detail at the long Cabinet meet
ing of late September.
When the Cabinet meeting has ad
journed the President goes over tosNeN
York to deliver an address on the even
ing of Sept. 81 before the New HorF
League of Republican Clubs. 1t is the
one political speech he intends to de-
liver in the campaign. Then he hur'
ries away to Beverly. where he plans tC
arrive by Oct. l, and, as matters Stanc
now. will remain there indefinitely LII
ali probability, however. he will return
to Washington about Oct Is. lntfaen-
tial Republicans are urging him to stay
at Washington as much as poSslpie, pe'
cause ii is more convenient to dispose
of public business there. Men VINO
want 70 see him can get to Washington
more conveniently than to Beverly. The
President probably will, spend couple
of weeks at Washington before he starts
on his long trip to Panama, which VIII
keep him away the best part of No
Nember.
Encouragement in the West.
= Some pretty definite reports about
been brought to Beverly of late, and a:
far as the trans Mississippi country are
concerned, these are on the whole en-
couraging. The inSurgent country, II
appears. is pretty safely Republican
The Congressional campaign authorities
tell the President there is no reason tC
worry about Kansas. While it has NOM
mated insurgents in the main, there Is
every prospect that these insurgents
will b. elected, and the insurgents are
Republicans There is some prospect
of an improvement in conditions IL
iowa, where the insurgents and regulars
have been at it, sword in hand. Senator
Dolliyer has shown a disposition to bury
the hatchet, so the Republican manag-
ers believe, and they think it will not be
long .before Iowa will have something
like campaign harmony. The factions
have fought fiercely thru primary cam
paignS out there before this, and then
come together and Joined in the fray
against the Democrats. The Congress
sional Committee has reasons to believe
that it will be so this year.
There has been a lot of ruction il
Minnesota politics this year; but there
too, it appears TO be coming out al
right Representative Jim" Tawney
in the Ninona district, has a big fight
on his hands for denomination; but nc
one is predicting that Minnesota VIII
send more than one or two democrats
to the next Congress.
The President is receiving almost
daily word from Ohio, and it is the one
State where he is bearing hand in the
local arrangements The Buckeye poll
ticians have ceased coming to Beverly
for the time being. Warren G. Hard.
ing, the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor. was one of the last visitors. They
have been busy at home selecting
Chairman of the Executive Committee
and perfecting their organization. Now
that this work of organization is wei
completed the President hopes to SEE
some effective activity in Ohio toward
harmony.
The Fly in the Ointment.
The only fly in the ointment thus fal
is the sulking of the followers of ex-
Secretary of the Interior James r. Gar
field. They won only in part what they
wanted in the State platform, and they
did not obtain the candidates they
wanted on the State ticket. There have
been many alarm statements that they
might not vote the ticket in November
These stories have reached the Presi-
dents ears. He is hopeful they will not
prove true. EX-Secretary Garfield has
personal grievance, because President
Taft would not retain him in the Cabi-
Roosevelt ever since the latter returned
from Africa. Probably Col. Roosevelt
could have said the word which would
have brought the Ohio progressives int
line, but he has not chosen yet to sa!
it; neither has he chosen to indorse TIT
Taft Administration.
Quite a cIamor has arisen in som,
quarters for the President to call al
extra session of the Senate in late Sep
tember, when he goes to Washington
for a meeting of the Cabinet. Busines
interests concerned in the decision o
the big cases pending before the Su
preme Court, urge this that the Presi
dent might make his nominations o
Justices and thus enable the court T.
start off promptly in early October witt
the work. He said very recently, how
ever, that he would not call an extr;
session of the Senate. There are man.
objections to it, one of which is tha
the Court at best would save only three
or four weeks time. The proposed extr;
session would come right in the mids
of the campaign. 1t would be exceed
1ngly difficult for many Senators to ge
back to Washington at that time, anC
1t would also be exceedingly difficult t
maintain quorum.
The New Justices.
The President wants plenty of tim.
TO deliberate over the selection of al
Associate Justice to succeed Mr.. Mood
and of d Chief Justice to succeed tn
late Chief Justice Fuller He has be
gun his scrutiny of names, and is un
derstood to have conferred over the sit
uation already with some friends i
whose judgment he has confidence. ]
may have some significance that tn
President has met with Justices Holme
and White on the North Shore thi
Summer, and has had the opportunit
to talk with them about condition.
While Presidents do not necessarily fol
low the judgment of members of tn
Court in selecting new members, it
not exceptional for him to talk thing
over with the Justices with a view I
obtaining their ideas.
AS far as the new Commerce Court
concerned, the authoritative word
that President Taft will not appoiI
Chairman Martin A Knapp, of the In
terstate Commerce Commission, as on
of the Judges. Altho some of Chairma
Knapps friends have urged his al
pointment, the Presidents decision
In no sense derogatory TO the Interstat
Commerce Chairman. On the contrarl
the President regards him as a pilla
of strength upon that Commissioned
kind of man who could not well
spared there. The President told VII
itor not long ago that Chairman Knap
had performed a service the value
which was little appreciated by II
country at large.
Many names have been presented ,
the President for the five Judges of tn
Commerce Court, but he has given III
matter consideration only in a gener;