Show CLASP HANDS AGAIN PRESIDENT TAFT AND COLONEL ROOSEVELT GREET EACH OTHER CORDIALLY Persistent Prophecy of a Coolness Between the President and ex President Proven False by Action of Two Men Beverly MassFor a full minute Thursday afternoon President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt stood on the broad veranda of the Evans cottage with hands upon each others shoulders I shoul-ders while delight shone In every line of their smile enwreatlied countenances counten-ances Colonel Roosevelt who was visiting with Senator Lodge had called to pay his respects to the presidenthis old friend They palled each other affectionately affection-ately on the shoulder They laughed In a way that left not a single lingering lin-gering doubt as to the exuberance of their feelings They seemed utterly oblivion of tho fact that others were present And so It went throughout the afternoon after-noon When Colonel Roosevelt was president and Mr Taft was secretary of war the meetings of the two men In tho executive offices at Washing ton were always characterized by the same cordiality ns was shown Thurs day Whlto House attaches who witnessed wit-nessed the meeting Thursday afternoon said It was just like the old days There was a rapid fire of conversation conversa-tion The meeting was everything that the friends of President Taft have claimed it would be and the persistent prophecies of those who have Insisted all along tlat a coolness cool-ness hall developed between the two men proved false But what of politics entered Into the conversation what words of rem iniscence what exchange of experiences experi-ences during the last sixteen months no one on the veranda other than the two friends themselves knows The public was not taken Into their confi deuce |