Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — TAFT AND TEDDY FORM ALLIANCE [ARTICLE]

TAFT AND TEDDY FORM ALLIANCE

Both Hold G. 0. P. Must Be Successful at Polls. TAB TO TOUR MIDDLE WEST Roosevelt Also Will Aid in Campaign of Henry Cabot Lodge for Re-Elec-tion —Teddy Acts the Role of Peacemaker. Beverly. Miss.. July 4. President Taft and (<>!. Roosevelt are in perfect accord. Between them there is an un-. derstanding. not eXflreseed perhaps, but tacit Between them they will play out the great game that is to end only at the pells next November and that will result in a Republican or a Democratic house of representatives and that may indicate the way in which another election in 1912 may go. As to the ultimate outcome of that game they Loth agree. The house must go Republican. It was admitted after the conference between the president and Col. Roosevelt at the Evans cottage on Burgess Point, that politics had entered but little into the conversation. At the tea party on the portico of the little cottage that looks out over Salem bay, they did talk politics and of the fight that is coming next fall. Probably before that time the colonel had let Mr. Taft know something of his ideas. He wrote from London, it will be remembered. to President Taft a friendly intimate letter. Many men since then have seen the colonel who talked afterwards with the president He began the leading of the Insurgents months ago. Gifford Pinchot crossed the seas to speak with him and pour into his ear the tale of troubles and woe. So did Senator Root, who is hot an insurgent. Senator LaFoltette, the radical, who out Heroded Herod, called at Oyster Bay and came away smiling, calling the hunter “the greatest living American." Victor Murdock.' the vigorous Kansan, with the sunflower hair, Judge Madison of Kansas, and Senator Bristow were there on Sundays. According to politicians here Mr. Roosevelt will continue to receive insurgents. He will continue to send them as sy happy and be will go ahead working for the Republican party. Even if it were possible that Mr. Roosevelt intended to take the nomination for the presidency in 1912, provided he could get it. or in 1916, as some believe, he would not be likely to split the party now. Any announcement from him that he did not approve of Mr. Taft's administration would mean a break in the ranks such as that party has not suffered in many many years. It would mean certain defeat in November and possibly later it would mean New York lost to the party. Ohio swept away. Indiana, now uncertain. over in the Democratic ranks, and altogether a blow which would work irremedial injury. Mr. Taft let be known that he intended to make a trip through the middle west in October. It was to last ten days, and friends said would be devoted partly, at least, to a defense of his administration. The colonel, it has been announced, is coming back to Massachusetts to help Senator Henry Cabot Ixrige in bis fight to retain the toga against the ambition of Representative Butler Ames. The president is going to do some direct campaigning in Ohio. This announcement was made semi-officially. In his home state he takes an active interest.