Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-06
NOT EASY SAILING.
THE ADMINISTRATION POLICY is
FEARFULLY MADE.


FEARFULLY MADE.
Secretary Taft. Now on Parade for Roose-
velt's Double. Repudiates Ancient Land
marks" to the Great Distress of True Re-
publicans Regarded as a Great Mistake
"Frankcnstein." the Man Without Soul
an Illustration Taft Expects Bryan to
Be His Antagonist Standard Oil Appeal
for Sympathy.
from Our Special C"rrcspondent)
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug -, 07.
Democratic politicians in Wash
ington are finding good deal of quiet
enjoyment in the difficulties which
their friends, the Republicans, are ex-
perirncing with the tariff question.
Secretary Taft has come out in the
speech which is understood to be the
platform on which he will stand for
the party, for tariff revision to take
place after election, or eighteen
months hence, and it is known that
President Roosevelt read and approved
Mr.. TaftS utterancc before it was de-
|
that he is convinced that in order to
win the Republican party must pledge
itself i'll its next national platform to
this programe and the President is
known to hold the same view. These
views of the party leaders, however,
cause unmitigated agony to those
Stanch old protccti0niStS who have
always been the bone and sincw of
the party, and Honest John Dal-
zell, who is sent to Congress year by
the Steel Trust. and made Il member
of the most influential committee of
the House, that on Rules, by Speaker
Cannon, to please the same corpor-
ations, is groaning SO loudly that
his wall can be heard all the way from
Pittsburg to Washington. Speaker
Cannon is also in severe distress be-
cause he well realizes that his long
record as a stand pattcr" maturity
units him to succeed himself as Speak
er of House elected on such platform
as the President and Secretary Taft
propose. Were it not for the fact
that the venerable General" GroS-
venor OF Ohio had fallen by the way
side, SO to speak, in other words
failed of reelection. his wall of grief
would already he piercing the am
bient atmosphere all the way from
San Francisco to the Atlantic coast.
Perhaps Secretary Taft did make Il
mistake in thus committing himself
So far in advance of the nominating
| convention. as in addition to the
railroads and the trusts he will now
have the protected industries, which
have long been the special pets of the
Republican party. and in return have
| furnished the SinewS of war for
each campaign fund against him, and
it is not impossible that the combined
interests may accomplish his defeat.
To hear the good old-fashioncd Re-
publicanS, men of the stamp of Vice
President Fairbanks Senator AL
drich. Senator Crane, Senator For
aker, Senator Knox, Gov. Hughes and
others, talk among themselves about
Theodore Roosevelt and the Republi-
can party, one is reminded of that
story once famous in popular fiction,
of the scientist who 10 far perfected
his science that he created u man al
though he was unable to endow it
with soul. His creation doggcd his
footsteps all his life, proved verit-
able Nemesis, and when he finally, in
desperation, took the life he had crea-
ted, he committed suicide from re-
morse. So say the Republican party
created Roosevelt, but he has proved
to be man without Republican
soul, at least His policies are Demo-
cratic, not Republican. He has not
hesitated to borrow from Mr. Bryan,
or from any other source. anything
he regarded as good and he has so far
had the people with him as to compel
his Republican brethren in Congress
to support measures which were in
the last degree repugnant to all that
has hitherto stood for Republican,
ism. And now, to augment and re-
fine the agony of the old ld-fashiOned
Republicans, Mr.. Roosevelt seems
bound to intlict the party with anoth
er man OF his own stripe in William
Howard Taft. Truly, in these days
of progression, the way of the Re
publican is hard.
Democrats in the national capital
are greatly interested in the obvious
facts that the President and Secre-
tary Taft have come to the conclusion
that William j. Bryan will again be
the Democratic standard bearer. and
they assert that the attention Mr..
Taft paid to Mr.. Bryan in his keynote
| -, %.e bnt md
the Peerless Leader" as truly u for
midable opponent. Mr.. Taft devoted
q gOOdly portion of his speech at Co
lumbus to an attempt to show that
ROOseyeltism was not Byranism, al
though he was compelled to admit
that many of his and Mr.. Roosevelt's
policies sounded singularly like the
scheme originally propounded by the
brilliant Nebraskan.
The Standard Oil Company direc-
tors have just issued statement in
which they appeal for sympathy
against the persecution which
they are suffering at the hands of
the present Administration. which is
the first Republican Administration
| WulCil CNtI tlttN Htt NC W PiOoC-
cute the great octopus. Among 9th
er things, their statement, although
it does not actually state falsehoOd,
is so wOrded as to convey the i'm
preston that the report of the Com
missioner Of Corporations on the
Standard was issued in order to in
crease the fine imposed by Judge
Landis The facts are that the re-
port of the Commissioner, although
ready before, was withheld from pub
lication until after Judge Lands had
pronounced sentence. in order that
there might be no appearance of try.
ing to influence the court improper
ly. The intimatiOn of the Standard
directors is characteristic of the work
of the high-priced press bureau which
this corporation is now maintaining