AMERICAN POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 927, 21 September 1910, Page 8

AMERICAN POLITICS.

yyy; .; '.;o,_ ,;;v • ROOSEVELT AND TAFT CONFER: By Telecraph—Frees Association—Oosyrißlit (Roc. September 20, 9 p.m.). New York, September 10.,' President Taft and Mr. Ropsovelt: will confer at NewTH'ayen, Connecticut; on; the question, of. New ' York '.. State politics: Tho' quastion of, the, Presidency will not be discussed.' ■ - • ROOSEVELT'S ROLE, The : correspondent.,ofthe "Sydney Morning Herald;" 1 .writing, on August .7, states, ', : Tho more important States of the west have;:,now ;held theiiv l conventions,- and the,' progressive l -Republican; faction .; has, -won at ill'' ; p'oints. ; ' ..This had .been;; ex-': 'pected; ;.but the platforms; adopted and . the • general. tone of. the speeches'.- have been *a; startling surprise. ■ For while;the Eoosevelt policies are,, as; a . whole, , commended, . controlling emphasis is laid on. the. wrongs ; of,tho hew tariff;' and, thus all the markets. of _ the world; will note ndth moro or' less, interest the .result of, tho.campaign.'. - ■ .■'-.., ■ -■ ; -', ; : Gampaigning has • 'already;, begunibut, the. 'more^important; orators-are ,:as yet :husbanding ■ 'their strength at: the:' seaside or in; the'moiuitains,:,;;Mr!, Taft has formally .cancelled ; all but ; two or/ three engagements; .'but- Colonel-,,Roosevelt is. already booked -for, a' long';tour.' iWithout warning he went off :: a'.-week ago' with John Mitchell, the great 'labour leader,. for a fiui'-days' : aitopiobile/trip through the; Pennsylvania ..mining, / regions; -and,' of "course,; .was everywhere, greeted with' the wildest enthusiasm. By. everyone, too,; 'he was, - hailed-, -affectionately;, as. "Telldv," was a- guest at. the, house.-of, the famons labour;; champion, \] Father Curran, and . at an .informal banquetpossibly. to show that' the incident at Rome had,ho. influence upon- his Ameri-,. can adherents—no fewer than one ;bishop ■and'; 30" 'priests';were fellow-diners.. ■ The' ■speaking .was all non-political—even from , the'standpoint of labour, politics—except that. Colonel -; Roosevelt proclaimed,. ver} strenuously .that a workman.; ought ,to be able to do in eight, hours all tho work that, it "was ,good ior him ,to do; ' Nominally,' the 'invitation-, for this; trip, came not from labour men, but from some. jvomen settlement workers among these miners, and/ yvith ;.a vfew- to social; rather than to 'political agitation':',; the two' is :not; easy; to 'der fine;; however;,. and : this, excursion;.;.'is therefore generally .accepted' as . evidence. that social refonn is '.o be. added to; conservation,.' trust-regulation, • and adequate, taxation ot the rich: as the platform of 'the'.regenerated ; Republican party.'. ; '; .:.■