| Show CLASP HANDS HANUS AGAIN PRESIDENT TAFT AND COLONEL ROOSEVELT GREET EACH OTHER CORDIALLY Persistent Prophecy of a at Coolness Between the President and ex- ex President Proven Falso False by Action of Two Men Beverly Mass For For a full minute Thursday afternoon President Taft and C Colonel Roosevelt stood on the broad veranda of the Evans cottage with hands upon each others other's shoulders shoulders ders tiers while delight shone In ever every line of Df f their enwreathed smile countenances ances Colonel Roosevelt who wiio was visiting with Senator Lodge had called to pay his respects to the president president his his old lId They Ther patted each other affectionately affectionately affection affection- I on the shoulder They laughed single lingering lin In a way that left not a goring gering doubt as to the exuberance of oC their feelings They seemed utterly oblivion of the fact tact that others were were present And so it went throughout the afternoon after after- noon When Colonel Roosevelt was president and Mr Taft was was' secretary of war the meetings of the two men In the executive offices at Washington Washing Washing- ton were always characterized by the same cordiality as was shown Thurs Thurs- day White House attaches who witnessed witnessed witnessed wit wit- the meeting Thursday afternoon said it was just like the old days There was a rapid fire of or conversa conversa- tion The meeting was everything that the friends of f President Taft have claimed it would be be and the persistent prophecies of those who have insisted all along that a coolness coolness coolness cool cool- ness had developed between the two men proved false But what of politics entered into the conversation what words of reminiscence remIniscence reminiscence rem rem- what exchange of experiences experiences expert expert- during the l list last st sixteen months no one on the veranda other than the two friends themselves knows The public was not taken into their d dence nce Colonel Roosevelt still cUll was in the spirit of or the renewed association with the president when after two hours and twenty minutes spent with Mr Taft and members of his family he started back to N ah ante to spend ase a se second ond night with Senator Lodge |
