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[[4 columned newspaper page]] [[left column half cut off]] [[Left column]] was visible. But change was very puzzled, sore, hurt, came more and more more felt that he was broom was to sweep thout any help from to show his hurt and met Mr. Taft's good st imitation he could s part. So well did part, so well did he ings that Mr. Taft, fortune and full of d importance, never e mind of his friend. y of inauguration. ew but on one side e of spirit and feel- ntments were dis- men. There was not of this sort as peo- , there was very lit- and generally be-Roosevelt's friends break between the Mr. Taft had prom- ep Garfield, Meyer et and to put Mr. hat he broke these case of Meyer, and use Senator Lodge, turn to Massachu- on-in-law, Gardner, the Gloucester dis- ail till he got Meyer ward apologized to ing him, imtimating gations in the cam- possible for him to obligations were critics as meaning m interests which appointment of Mr. TAFT. has had wide cir- an injustice to Mr. Mr. Roosevelt, of he retention in the ends. He carefully request or anything nto such a request. suggest the value ed upon it, of such and Siraus, and in larly he laid stress oung man had not t had made great d be only a matter p him. As to the not care so much; of themselves; he e promoted to the that Loeb should d in fact Mr. Loeb ay from Washing- not think it neces- instinct request for friends. It seemed mstances, consid- Taft owed him and his grateful friend was necessary only ould be respected. Taft would make what things there special and par- n do them without withstanding the in the mental atti- r a long time Mr. est doubt Mr. SMILED. [[/Left column]] [[2nd column]] President-elect Taft had made a treaty of peace with the Speaker and the forces represented by the Speaker, which included the Cannon-Aldrich regime, known to the country as standpat, reactionary or anti-progressive. "With this fact before him, President Roosevelt reached a definite conclusion that the man he had placed in the presidential chair had forgotten his ante-election pledges and gone over to the enemy. In fact, his enemies made their boasts that while they had not been strong enough to stand against the influence of Roosevelt and nominate one of their own number for President, they had done the next best thing, which was to capture the man the President did nominate and elect. CLIMAX AT LAST. "President-elect Traft's treaty of peace with the Cannon forces was the last straw needed to break down the friendship between the outgoing and the incoming President. From that moment Mr. Roosevelt had no real confidence in Mr. Taft and felt that he had been betrayed by his protege both on personal and political grounds. Again Mr. Roosevelt was too proud to show his hurt; ostensibly the old friendship was unbroken and among those who never suspected the truth was Mr. Taft himself. "Colonel Roosevelt left Washington thoroughly disgusted and was glad to put it all behind him and sail for Africa for a year's outing. The day he sailed occurred one of the most extraordinary incident of American politics. A messenger from the White House brought him a little gift from the President, accompanied by a farewell letter wishing the Colonel a pleasant voyage, thanking him for his favor and concluding with these words, quoted verbatim: "'Next to my brother Charles, I think I owe more to you than to any other living man.' "Colonel Roosevelt's anger over this 'next to my brother Charles' was very great. He took it as a personal affront. To be related second to a man who had merely put up a sum of money, he who had used the power of his office and his party leadership and his personal prestige and skill to make one of his lieutenants his successor, and then to play second fiddle, in the estimation of that successor, to one who had signed a few checks! "NEXT TO CHARLES." "It was with this last cruel thrust of ingratitude—'next to my brother Charles'—ringing in his ears that Colonel Roosevelt sailed away to Africa, thoroughly convinced that from both the personal and the public viewpoint his selection of Mr. Taft to be his heir was the greatest blunder of his public career. "During his sojourn in Africa Mr. Roosevelt received a great number of letters from his friends at home telling him that the new President had forgotten his pledges to stand by the Roosevelt policies and had, in the belief of the writers, gone completely over to the opposition. After his return to America Colonel Roosevelt became convinced that this was in a large measure true. Asked one day for his opinion of the Taft administration, Colonel Roosevelt replied: 'Mr. Taft has been a failure as President. He had his chance, wabbled and lot it.'" TAFT IS SERENE. The Taft side of the story given here is also a composite narrative composed of statements made by the President himself or by some of his close friends: "It was not till after Colonel Roosevelt's return from Africa in 1910 that President Taft had [[illegible]] [[/ 2nd column]] [[3rd column]] that he [[illegible]] doubt of the Colonel's [[illegible]] are of himself in this affair [[illegible]] many similar wars before. [Explanator Note—The reader will observe that in the Roosevelt version the cause of off [[illegible]] was not that Mr. Taft failed to [[illegible]] Mr. Roosevelt's assistance, but [[illegible]] President Roosevelt was engaged [[illegible]] struggle the President-elect made [[illegible]] of peace with the enemies of the administration.] LETTERS SUPPRESSED. "Third—The [[illegible]] to my brother Charles' letter sent by President Taft to Colonel Roosevelt at [[illegible]] on which he was sailing for Africa [[illegible]] his letter has never been published; the [[illegible]] of it has not been fully or correctly [[illegible]] the full letter would soften the exp[[illegible]] which Colonel Roosevelt so bitterly [[illegible]]ted. If Mr. Taft had it to do over again [[illegible]] probable he would employ a more ta[[illegible]]hrase. But the whole purpose of the [[illegible]]e was as an expression of gratitude and friendship. If the one phrase was a slip [[illegible]]ead alone, it should be interpreted to [[illegible]] light of the fact that William H. Taft [[illegible]] always felt the keenest sense of gratitu[[illegible]]o his half brother Charles. In writing this [[illegible]]er and that objectionable phrase, he did [[illegible]] have in mind merely the events of the previous year, the presidential campaign, as apparently Colonel Roosevelt had, but his entire career in public life, a large part of which had been made possible by his brother Charles. "When the mu[[illegible]]l friends made this report to Mr. Taft the President felt there had been revealed no [[illegible]]ue and just cause for quarrel; his own feelings were as friendly and grateful as before. And he consented to Senator Lodge's plan to bring about a meeting between the two principals at the Senator's home in Na[[illegible]] with a view to a frank talk over differe[[illegible]]s and if possible re-establishment of [[illegible]]e old relations. At the meeting the President went more than half way toward peace; [[illegible]]t he was not met in a like spirit of conci[[illegible]]tion by Colonel Roosevelt. The Colonel [[illegible]]as scrupulously polite, outwardly friendly, but gave unmistakable indication that he did not care for a private or intimate talk. Hence nothing happened; the reconciliation program was a failure. REVIEW [[illegible]] INCIDENTS. "In conversation with his intimate friends President Taft has viewed the incidents which happened be[[illegible]]een election and inauguration, and he has been unable to find any justification for the claim that his attitude toward Colonel Roosevelt was other than irreproachable. "At the conference President Roosevelt said again and again to Mr. Taft: 'You will have to work out your own salvation. You start in with a clean slate. You inherit my general policies, but not my quarrels. I am going away to Africa for a year, so that every one can see I am not trying to interfere with you in any [[illegible]] "One of the great questions that confronted the new administration was how to get results from Congress. The Republican party in the national legislature was split into two factions, Mr. Taft stood pledged before the country to a program of tariff revision, and he wanted to put the house in order to secure results. So he took a leaf out of the book of his astute predecessor and sought to make terms with the opposition—if opposition [[illegible]] could be called—to bring the factions together for the sake of action. NO OBJECTION IS [[illegible]] "Everything Mr. Taft did [[illegible]] was with [[illegible]] [[/3rd column]] [[4th column]] on more than one occasion to his intimates: "'If Colonel Roosevelt,' said the President, 'had returned from Africa my friend, as I believed he was, and felt that I was his friend, and he had permitted me to know that he wished to be nominated for the Presidency again in 1912, nothing would have given me greater pleasure than to retire in his favor and to use all my influence in bringing about his nomination and election. 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