Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-28
Laurence Abbott Clues Remarkable
Story in Worlds Work of Rooseuelfs
Later Activities in National Politics

president to request old members to
continue to serve uder the elected Of
fetal. A change of intention under
advice of Taft men caused the Roose-
welt element in the cabinet not to be
retained
AS to the Taft intention to keep
members of the cabinet, a Roosevelt
marginal note says;
He told me so and authorized me
to tell the cabinet specifically Car
field, Strauss and Luke Wright"
But Roosevelt harbored no malice
end at the pier dictated o Mr.. An
bolt a warm friendly telegram 10
Taft, telling his old friend goodby,
when leaving tor Africa. A year and
half later when Abbott met Ro0%e-
welt on the Nile no response mad been
received from TAFT, although hun
Greds of cables and letters were there
from American friends of the hunter.
Three months later, IN London, the
first letter was received from the
president, Taft asking Roosevelt's
advice and aid in Strengthening Out
party troubles that had come.
Messages From New York.
Many of the messages from New
York We're appeals Tor Roosevelt to
be a candidate for mayor, or for send
tor. All of these he declined with
decision and assured his friends that
never again would he be in public
life: that he desired to indulge other
tastes. No argument could remove his
fatalistic belief that he had reached
the zenith and must go down instead
of up. He often cited the Dewey
fall from popularity.
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he was besieged for help in the party
campaign that was on in 1910, for the
republican nomination for governor.
He nally yielded upon claims of his
friends that he owed them political
aid, went to the convention and by
personal domination defeated a rival
element and nominated Stimson for
governor
Hughes especially asked me- says
Roosevelt, "as TO help in New York
Stimson was defeated and as
Roosevelt feared, Tammany came in
to full power under Governor Dix.
Roosevelt again wished to stay out
of politics and devote himself TO
writing and leisure at his country
home.
Halted BY Taft.
But he felt strongly thath the pro-
gram he had planned for progressive
measures had been halted when Taft
made the celebrated Winona speech
identifying himself with the element
antagcnistc to the progressives.
The marginal comment of Roose-
welt on this point reads:
MY personal feeling about Taft's
relations never influenced by one
iota my public course; it took me
eighteen months to convince me that
he was a first class lieutenant, but )
leader with real convictions or APP
probation of the magnitude of the
really vital problems before this
country"
Interpreting this expression, Mr.
Abbott says that it was not meant
that Taft had no convictions of any
kind, as Roosevelt probably believed
Taft had a high order of convictions
on legal and judicial questions.
OF the policies which Roosevelt had
started and which fel! by the way
when Taft was left to the influence
of others. Roosevelt said:
The force of events had made me
strike absolutely my own note by
October. 1902, when / settled the ce,,lI
strike and started the trust control
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