Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-19
IN NEW YORK MARCH z
But the Occasion Will Not BE One
for 2 Political Address,
ENCOURAGING WESTERN NEWS

| 0AA y. sAAS A"SAAS NO"os
Changing in Presidents
Favor, Says Visitor. -. ! /.
In agreeing today. to visit Chicago
| March o, when he will make several
speeches. President. raft has kept open
| the opportunity correspond to the red-hot
Columbus. Ohio. speech to be made BIZ
ex-President 3 Roosevelt February %.
After the Presidents recent New York
speech it was said that he would prob
ably not make another one before his
visit to Boston, March 1S when he will
join the Irish of that city in celebrating
st. Patrick's day and the people of Bos-
ton generally in celebrating Evacuation
day. Although he is to appear at two
places before he goes to Chicago. it Is
not likely either of these would be appro-
pirate for a political speech.
The first is Thursday next, when Mr..
Taft will go to the tomb Of Washington,
at Mount Vernon, with the Alexandria
Masons. The second Is in New York
March 2. The President is to attend a
dinner that night given by Col. George
Harvey. publisher Of Harper's Weekly, in
honor Of the seventy-fifth birthday ami
versary Of William Dean Howells, the
American 'author Col. Harvey was at
the White House today in connection with
the visit.
To Leave Here March 8.
The President is to leave here for CHI
cago March at 11:55 am, arriving in
Chicago early next morning. He will put
in a lively day in the Windy city. At
IL o'clock he is to visit the Armour In
situte of Technology: at 1 o'clock he is
to have luncheon with the Union League
Club; at O'clock he is to make short
visit to the Press Club, and at night he
is to speak before the Swedish American
Republican Society and make a brief
visit to the Traffic Club. The principal
speech will be before the Swedish-Ameri-
cans.
The Roosevelt Columbus speech is ex-
pected to create hubbub in the politics
indirectly reply to it at Chicago. 1t is
not settled what his course will be, and
he will not know himself until he has
| read the speech of the ex-President. The
President has refrained from referring
directly to Col. Roosevelt or his utter
ances. and he Is not likely to break that
rule, but it will be possible for him to
state his own position on some of the
things Mr. Roosevelt is understood to in
tend to put forward as his own plat
form.
In Chicago also the President will be
in the center of what is regarded as the
hotbed of Rooseveltisn. The principal
Roosevelt headquarters are in Chicago.
1t is from there that the Roosevelt propa-
ganda is being sent throughout the west.
M /or Fitzgerald Calls.
Mayor Fitzgerald Of Boston conferred
to-day with the President about his Bos-
ton trip March 49,, The program Of the
Presidents day there has not been fully
made up, but he has promised to ride in
the Evacuation day parade in South Bos-
ton in the afternoon Of March Is and
review the parade afterward. At night
the President Is to be the guest Of the
Charitable Irish Society Of Boston.
Dr. Louis Seaman, representing the
American Peace and Arbitration League
and the New York Peace Society, called
on the President today to say that the
two societies have joined to celebrate the
contemplated ratification OF the peace
treaties by the Senate, and they wish to
have the President. with them on that Oc-
casion. Secretary Knox and the British
and French ambassadors will be the only
othor invited speakers. The President
Will go IL the Senate does what the So
cieties expect.
President Gaining in West.
Political sentiment on the Pacific coast
is changing as rapidly as Is that in the
east, according to e. III. Tryon, president
of the Union League Club in, San Fran
cisco, who called upon President Taft
this morning. Mr.. Tryon says that SEN
timent for the President in the far west
Is increasing by leaps and bounds. He
Is on his way to Palm Beach and Cuba
and will also visit the Panama canal.
mot only, In California. but farther
north. in Oregon and Washington, there
has been in the last few weeks a strong
tendency to turn to President Taft" said
Mr.. TryOn.
California is very much for him. The
tariff is becoming an issue of very great
Importance. The people of the state are
prot ectionists, and when they have looked
into the tariff situation they have become
convinced that President Taft represents
the protective principle and that he is
the man whom they want nominated
and elected. 1 was toastmaster at ban
uuet in San Francisco just few nights
ago. when q telegram from the President
was read. Every man rose to his feet
and there were hundreds present-and
cheered the Presidents greeting to the
echo. There is no question whatever but
that the President will have the state OF
California with him in the convention.
We want no other man."
Pope's Confirmation Recommended.
The confirmation of William H. Pope
as United States district judge for New
Mexico was recommended by the Senate
committee on the judiciary today. Judge
Pope was on the bench in the Philip
pines when President Taft was governor
general, and later he served as judge and
chief justice Of the New Mexico supreme
court.
The contest over the Office brought out
numerous charges which the committee
Investigated.
WITHDRAWS NOMINATIONS
TO NORTH CAROLINA JOBS