Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-11
POLITICAL GOSSIP FROM
 WASHINGTON
Washington. D. C., June 0, lsO5

The thing uppermost in the minds
 of official Washington, the visiting
 statesmen, the gossips, the quid nuncs and all sorts and kinds of ponpclans
 are the recent Ohio State Convention. the terrible wrench the President and Secretary Taft have given the stand pat Republicans on the tariff ques-
 tion, railroad rate regulation and the
 private car line people and the at tempt to throw it into them over the protest of the people who raise the | fruits and the berries for market. There will be plenty to write about from here all the summer on these
 very topics and as they are the things | the people are most interested in I |
 will devote most of my letters to them
 from now on.
 The Ohio State Convention is being | discussed because of the speech made out there by Secretary Taft, and De- cause he is looked upon as the mouth piece of the administration as no other man in the Cabinet is. His 1 speech out there was in most respects i an orthodox defense of the admins |
 tration. In general, Republicans are great and good, Democrats weak and |
 wicked Republicans propose wise
 and statesmanlike measures; Demo ! crats oppose with fClly and trickery. l
 He said further, in particular, the rail | way rate bill is moderate in pro- visions, and if the Republicans do not ! redress grievances by rallying in sup { port of it, the naughty William J. 1 Bryan may lead a formidable move ]
 ment for government ownership. In 1
 other words. the gobble-uns VIII glt
 you if you don't watch out. In his opinion the Monroe Doctrine, inter- : preted by Theodore Roosevelt, is-as l
 it was in the beginning, is now. and ever shall be-the great ,bulwark of ! the Republic. The man who lays his
 hand upon it, save in the way of kind ! ness, is a wretch whom 'twere gross l ! ff1lattery to name . coward. The big stick is noe too big and the gentleman |
 who carries it exercises "a degree of i | forbearance that the confidence of strength and a righteous purpose JUS [ tifies." He might. if he chose, be ! fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, l but really he isn't.
 When Taft came to the tariff on l DEuENCLS lEOLl AIe b u4lAAD D44H6s AG dropped the smooth language of con ! graduation end laudatien, denIsnlitced ! the high tariff wall between us .and l the islands, and asked that justice be 1 done them. On the main tariff ques- ton, however. he was singulaiiy non commital h order to make the gov ernment income meet the outlay. | there must he asserted, be either ad.
 ditiOnal internal taxes or a revision | of the tariff-"with every effort to i cause the minimum of business dis | turbances." Which of the alterna- | tives he and the President favor. he did not reaveal. This reticence falls i in with what we know here in Wash | ington to be the facts, that, after all said and done, the President is luke warm on the subject of tariff reform and regards the railway rate problem as far more pressing. From Repub- ] lican stand pat point of view, it would, of course, be better to prohibit all importations and raise the whole revenue by internal taxes than cause [ the slightest disturbances among the tariff schedules as they are and make raid on the beer and other people who always furnish the internal rev enue when it is needed. The peer 1 people may as well look for it and prepare to fight for they surely will have it on their hands.
 The President, in trying to reform
 the world and everybody and every
 thing in it, it getting somewhat tan
 gled in his dates. His recent public pronouncements on railroad rate reg ulation, and those of a part at least, Of his official family have been 10 the effect that wanted government l rate gegulation in order to build up the commerce of the country. That
 harp string has been played on for all it is worth in aid of the Presidential aspirations of his friend, Secretary . Taft, whom he evidently is endeayor- : ing to make his residuary legatee. American producers must be protect
 ed and encouraged was his theme,
 even if the railroads of the country
 and their stockholders should be
 bankrupt in the process of protection
 to these producers, for whom he
 evinced so much paternal anxiety.
 Yet when the question of furnishing steel rails and supplies for the Pana- n ma railroad came up he and his favor
 ite Secretary forgot the poor Ameri-
 can producer of these supplies, and ' he orders the Commission to go out t irto the wide; wide world and buy y where they can buy the cheapest, e promising that no duties whatever '' should be imposed on purchases made abroad Did he forget the producer
 whose alleged oppression by the rail | roads had so aroused his sympathy | when the question of railroad rate | engrossed his attenton? There's con e sistency for you.
 The result is going to be that ne
 will nave the biggest fight on his
 hands when the next Congress meets
 in extra session next fall that ever ' was had since the revolt against Gro Il yer Cleveland by the men in his own z party He will have aligned against S ', him all the stand pat Republicans, all