Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
Friends Want Him to Return
RooseveIt'S Blows.
TIME TO ATTACK, THEY SAY
Unfair Tactics Said to Have Aroused
Presidents Resentment.
TAX ON FORMER FRIENDSHIP
Hawaii Will Give President Its Del
egates Today, Delaware and Con-
necticut Tomorrow.

necticut Tomorrow.
Is President Taft going to carry the
fight straight to Roosevelt from now on
There was no authoritative answer ia
this az the White House today, but IL is
positively known that the Presidents adj
visers will almost unanimously urge h m
to set aside conciliatory methods and put
aggressiveness in the campaign for the
presidential nomination. and to go as far
in attacking Col. Roosevelt as the colonel
has gone in his assaults on the President
So long as 1t looked as If President
Taft would be renominated with many
votes to spare it was considered best 10
refrain from the sort of campaign that
would mean bitterness after the conven-
ton and possible loss of the election in
November. you've got the nomination
sure" President Taft was told thou
sand times over, and the thing 10 do
now Is to shape matters SO as to make
certain Of the election
President Taft has firmly believed that
this represented actual conditions. His
personal wish has been for Cancellation
and for the relegation to the rear OF ag-
gressive tactics
Said to Have Caused Resentment
The President still believes that he will
be nominated and will have plenty of
votes to spare, but there are two i'm
portant features of the situation that are
stirring him at this time:
Ffrst-What he regards as unfair and
unwarrantable assaults upon him by Col.
Roosevelt. The President is said to feel
more strongly about these than about
Coi. roosevelt opposing his having an
other term.
Mr.. Taft is said to have intimated to
close friends that Col. Roosevelts coup
ling of the names of Lorimer, Penrose
and others with his without warrant
truth or fairness, has wrought within
him feeling of resentment that Is like
ly to break beyond restraint at any time
Second-The repeated statements OF the
Roosevelt people, fostered by the colonel
himself, that Taft cannot be elected. thus
spreading view that becomes more or
less contagious under constant reitera-
ton.
President Taft has steadily refused to
say mfriendly things of the former Pres
ident, and has earnestly hoped that the
colonel, for the sake of the party and
for the sake of old and kindly comrade-
ship, would follow the same course.
Roosevelt's Alleged Insincerity.
1t is declared that Col Roosevelt knew
when he associated the names OF Taft
and Lorimer to the great injury of Mr..
Taft in Illinois that the Presidents SYM
pathies were not with Senator Lorimer
and had never been. 1t is asserted he
positively knew that the President had
on several occasions used his influence To
insist on a most careful investigation OF
the Lorimer case and such action as was
fair and right. 1t is also maintained that
Roosevelt knew that the President did
not turn hand to favor Lorimer, and,
on the contrary, would have opposed him
If he had felt that he was right in in
terfering with a matter belonging wholly
to the senate. e---.-
If Mr.. Taft becomes thoroughly aroused.
as indications today pointed. there will
be something doing in politics in a mighty
short time that may change the aspect OF
things considerably The Taft people may
finally conclude to look to the nomination
first and the election afterward; not the
election first, as has been the case. The
President is to be told that his chances OF
election in November will not be leSsened
by bringing out some stiff talk, and that
whatever soreness follows will be gone
before November. He will be assured
plainly that If he does not do this he can
not expect to arouse his followers. and
that the Roosevelt idea that Taft has no
chance of election will be adroitly pushed
along to the latter's great disadvantage
and possible undoing.
Cannot Control Friends.
Whatever the President does. 1t was
evident today that he will no longer be
able TO control his friends and determine
their attitude toward Col. Roosevelt.
Director Mckinley Of the Taft bureau
took things in his own hands yesterday
and issued a hot anti-Roosevelt state
ment He pointed the way to further
work of this kind, it was said today, ana
v,<,t he hi 40 HON
his own friends, even If he continues to
maintain his own self-control. The fight
is to grow warmer and more personal.
President Taft has never had any init
mate relations with Senator Penrose or
Pennsylvania. He has not tnsulted tho
PENNSYLVANIA senator or suggested that
Mr.. Penrose refrain from supporting him.
but he is not tied up with him In the way
Col. Roosevelt has alleged In his speeches.
In coupling President Tart With politi-
clans who have great opposition In their
own states, 1t is asserted, Col. Roosevelt
is proceeding in the way to cause an ex-
plosion at the White House at any time,
an explosion, too, that may meal quick
change in the lineup among the states
that are yet to act.
More Delegates for Taft.
The Taft delegate total IL to be IN
creased today by Hawaii. where six dele
gates will be elected. instructed for Taft
Delegate Kanalianaole Of Hawaii. said at
the White House today that there was no
doubt of the Hawaiian delegates being
for Taft
The Connecticut and Delaware state
will meet tomorrow. and both
will elect Taft delegates. Nothing else
will be done until the Nebraska primaries
are held late in the week. The dates for
six congressional conventions in Texas
have been fixed and the committees in
each district have come out for Taft.
Help for Flood Sufferers.
President Taft and Secretary Stimson
conferred today about the money that
will be necessary to continue assistance
to sufferers from the Mississippi river
floods. The War Department. through its
officers, is furnishing rations and supplies
to thousands Of homeless people. This
must continue for some time. Secretary
Stimson is trying to gather exact infor-
nation as to how much money will be
necessary. 1t is probable. it was said to-
day, that $500, 1000 will have to be appro-
priated to pay for the supplies that will
be needed. The figures may run higher
than this.
Senator'S Fall and Catron Of New Mex
leo conferred with the President today
as to federal appointments in that state.
The President directed them to prepare
their recommendations for a dozen regis.
ters and receivers of land offices. a init
ed States marshal and a collector of IN
ternal revenue. There will be one col