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Show I TATT AND ROOSEVELT CONFER. It is given out jn the. dispatches that the .conference between President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt in New Haven on Monday was not decisive on any proposition prop-osition or productiyo of an3' close alliance. alli-ance. This might fairly have been inferred in-ferred from tho authorized statement that the conference was about New-York New-York politics. President Taft has distinctly dis-tinctly said that he wishes to keep out of it as much as possible and to withdraw with-draw from such connection as ho has hitherto had with the political ombroglio in that state. Mr. Roosevelt appears to have sought this interview, doubtless with a purpose. Probably President Taft did not give cordial assent to the requests made of him. It does not need any peepstone to discern that Mr. Roosevelt finds himself him-self in deeper water than he expected in his proposition to overthrow Vice-President Vice-President Sherman at tho New York convention next week. So finding himself, him-self, he naturally dosired help from President Taft, and hastened to see him, to get that help. It does not seem to have been extended, at least in the way that was dosired, and perhaps not in anv effective way. Still, tho personal per-sonal relations .between tho two men wore evidently cordial, and though it seems likely that President Taft, could not agree to do what Mr. Roosovelt wanted him to do, that disagreement in no wise affected their personal friendship. friend-ship. And so a battle royal is on in New York; a .bitter, irreconcilable conflict. Tt means the certain loss of New York Slate to the Republicans this year. That loss will cost them tho Senatorship now held by Mr. Depow to the disgrace of the State. A Democrat will succeed him, arid it must be said for tho Democratic Demo-cratic party in New York that it has generally sent eminent and fit men to the Senate when it had tho opportunity to send anyone. The Democratic victor' will mean, however, a good deal more than the loss of the Senatorship. It will mean, with the loss of tho legislature, the loss of tho power to redistrict the State into Senate and Assembly districts, a new apportionment of these being obligatory by reason of the new census; and it means also a readjustment of the Representative Rep-resentative districts in the State. This readjustment of Representative districts for Congress is of tho highest import ance, because a districting maybe made decisively favorable to the party making it, aud disastrous to the minority party. The Republicans have made this redisricting redis-ricting for some decades past, with the result that the minimum of Democratic Representatives have come from that State; and of course with a Democratic apportionment tho maximum of Democratic Demo-cratic Representatives in Congress will be fostered in New York. And since that State is likely to have as many as" forty Representatives or even more, the opportunity of redisricting to the advantage ad-vantage of the Democratic party is one of tho very hiplioal importance. The faction tight in the Republican party of New York could not ha- e come at 'a mere inopportune time than now, for that party. It will iuvolvo tho max imum of loss to the Republicans and the maximum of gain to tho Democrats. |