Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — TAFT SILENT ON COMBINATION [ARTICLE]

TAFT SILENT ON COMBINATION

No Data Regarding Deal Can Be Obtained at Summer Capital. Beverly. Aug. 19. —If President Taft entered into any combination with the Sberman-Woodrnff-Ward - Wadsworth wing of the Republican party in New York to defeat Col. Roosevelt for the temporary chairmanship of the state convention, the executive offices will not admit it. / The president himself has had nothing to say, and the secretary to the president will add nothing to that silence. The report, however, is discredited in other quarters So far as rutqors that the president'Wat to get the New York delegations vote in the 1912 convention, there is no ground to stand upon.