Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-31
The Worlds Chief Events and Tendencies of a Year Outlined In Orderly Array
 For Busy Readers Who Want to Be We'll Informed.
Reform Waves ane Panic Winds Keep Party Navigators Anxious
By EDWIN S. POTTER. Editor Universal News Analysis.

Through the misty pros and cons of
 administrative responsibility and of
 ambitious party leaderships the weath-
 erwise American citizen sees Con-
 science-with big Gas the unknown
 factor in the coming national cam
 paign, judging from the signs of 1907.
 The great American public has begun
 Ito think about few things, and that's
 what has kept the political pot a-boil-
 ang:
 One thing the year makes clear to khe, most casual observer-the line be-
 tween the old Democracy and the old Republicanism no longer exists. It is
 now a question of conservative and radical on which both these historic parties are being rent transversely.
 Tha same head winds which made the years voyage a hard one for President Roosevelt and his administration serv-
 ed to bring the Bryan vessel into the
 port of a third Democratic nomina-
 tion, now generally conceded. and yet the leader of the opposition presents the unusual spectacle of smiling ap- proval of much of the Roosevelt pro- Rramme. Theodore Roosevelt began to experience powerful opposition for the first time in his own party while the popular cry for third term grew louder. In his own state a new figure, that of Governor Hughes, was attract Ing, much attention by his quiet way of bringing the Republican organiza- tion to his feet, appealing direct to the people for his measures of reform, chief of which was the creation of the public service commissions for state and city, with power to bring the util- ity corporations to terms.
 It was on the morning of APRIL 2 that the president woke up to find himself on the defensive by the publi- cation of the Hartman letter telling of an alleged deal between Roosevelt and Hartman in 1904. At once the president published his Sherman letter telling of Harriman's brag that he could buy laws and judges ad libitum, for which the president had class ed him along with Debs, Mover and as undesirable citizens" This incident assumed great signifi- canoe owing to the fact that organized labor resented the slur upon the West ern Federation officials about to be tried for their lives. Much was made by the enemies of Roosevelt of the re- mark in his letter to Hartman that f.you and I are practical men,"
 In the face of the increasing hostil- fty of many wealthy citizens the presi- dent persisted in promulgating his re- form policies, notably in his Memorial day speech at Indianapolis, advocating the theory of federal control of rail- ros is under the postal clause of the Constitution; at Provincetown, Mass, AUG. 20, where In laying the corner stone of the Pilgrims monument he charged "certnin malefactors of great wealth" with conspiring to depress business in the hope of discrediting his policies in the eyes of the people, and again in his series of speeches at the Medication of the Mckinley tomb at Canton SEPT. 30 and on his ensuing pouthern tour.
 Almost the same sentiments were expressed by Secretary of War Taft in fhe series of addresses beginning at Columbus, O.. AUG. 19. in which he took his stand as a candidate for the Republican nomination as the chosen defender of the administration. Such was the launching of the Taft boom. . dramatic feature being his start on the long journey around the world.
 Tn the meantime all the antiadminis- fration strength in Ohio had been sum- moned into action by the avowe1 can didacy of Senator Foraker, who glories tn his differences with the president.
 Furthermore. all the legal and exec ntive machinery of the government was being brought into action against the big railroad, on. coal and other combinations. Secrets of the Standard on company were laid bare and its head haled into federal court. after which came the big Landis fine. In a hefiant interview John D. Rockefeller openly attacked the administration and predicted financial chaos- as the har- vest, referring to himself as being "hitched t0 the cart fin which the peO- pie ride That was in July. Well. by the middle of August stocks were tumbling. and the rest Is part of the business record.
 Whether justly or unjustIy. the ad- was blamed by many when the panic came. and besides the gibe of Chancellor Day about the raid On prosperity Roosevelt received hand knocks from such sources as ex-Sela- tor SpOo7er and Justice Brewer. the latter charging the president with playing peekaboo with the Amerf- can people, about the third term. Tn November the president did order fed ersl emploFees to deSist from efforts for third term delegation. and after the national committee met at wash ingtoa recently the country heard from the White House again definitely that a noufnztsan would not be acoepted The message to congress DEC 2 was q stand p-st valeiietory-
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