Show I r Will ia IT Ii BE TAFT v r. r BIG MAN JUST GRINS Statesmen and Politicians Wondering Won Won- m dering What Plans Are On Oil Foot iT f WOULD HONOR HONORy I 1 y J Arrange loi Trip to Panama l i ViII n Will ll Announce c Future I t t. t 1 IWo Ii ts s on Ills His t i Washington Feb 7 II n Tart Tail be ho a candidate for the time rean presidential nomination next O u n V V That question Is puzzling statesmen V antI and politicians throughout the countr coun coun- tr try Secretary Taft Tart himself will make V answer ans to It H No No friend or of his has V boon authorized t to to speak for him The TIe secretary laughs oft off any my suggestion eS tion Uon that he ie be he a n. can candidate lie has hns gone so o far ao as to lo sa say that he lie could coul 17 V n gone bt t get the nomination If Ir he I It and has expressed ed doubt about his V election even en If he should be nomi- nomi V 1 lie has haR said very ery directly however er V. that ho he would accept the tho nomination i. i V V If It f It should come to him coupling the V I I statement with the Intimation that he would regard it IL as a notable V ment He docs not believe however I V V that a man should be an avowed candidate can can- V f for the nomination so o far In inV I V advance of the convention as at the I V V V present time V 1 To j Panama mill and Cuba Almost Immediately after the a adV adjournment ad ad- V V of the present session of V congress Secretary Taft will go to VL th the isthmus of oC if Panama on a somewhat some- some J J wh what extended working trip V f V Before his return to the United States he will visit visH Cuba to confer V V V with Governor Magoon and If pos- pos i V ible conclude arrangements for fOl the J V retirement of or the the American troops V and the relinquishment of the temporary tem tem- r V American administration of the i V f islands island's affairs I by br the first of next July Juh a Later In the year probably before V V the middle of ot summer Secretary Taft V will wH go o to the Philippines V V J It I Is not unlikely el that thai he ma may visit I V Japan prior to 0 his return to lo the Ihei i- i i V United States StateN with wih a view Jew to carrying V V friendly greetings from rom this country to the mikado's government go V |