Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-04-11
WASHINGTONL LETTER AS A FARMER SEESIT
PRESIDENTIAL BOOM and RAIL.
ROAD REGULATION.
Taft Boom Coming from the White
House. ROOSev Dominates
Everywhere. Calls War Between
President and Railroads a "Tem.
pest in a Teapot"

Especial Correspondence to the HERALD. ]
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 9. The
things on tap at the nations capital just
now seem to be the spiinging of presi-
dental booms and the presidents war
with the railroad managers.
The Taft boom seems to be the only
presidential boom that shows anything
like growth in the ranks OF the repub Bill
cans, and it comes as straight from the
White House as anything that ever came
from there. Roosevelt simply dominates
his party and bestrides it like Colossus.
He is 1T, and everything he says must
go or something will bust. The party
leaders stand aghast at everything he
says and does. They get tongue paralysis
and wobbly in the legs like young calf
every tiine he pops his whip or wields
the big stick. The so.called leaders OF
the republican party are the worst set OF
political doughfaces l ever saw. They
allow Roosevelt to completely dominate
them and run over them like they were
a lot Of piglnes. He is now setting up
his own candidate to succeed him, and
there is no one to say him nay, apparent.
ly. How have the mighty fallen! Think
OF what would happen to Roosevelt il
there were still men in the senate like
Conkling and Blaine. and Edmunds and
Thad Stevens and Zach Chandler and
Oliver P. Morton. Why, they would
bend him over political barrel and
spank him with board. They would
convince him at one sitting that there
were enough brains and power and sure
enough men in the senate, and that they
would not submit to his dictation as to
laws or candidates. The first time he
whistled for the grizzly the grizzly would
come. Alas the giants are gone and
the pigmies Of congress are ruled as with
q rod Of iron by the greatest fakir and
fraud in American politics. Every other
newspaper correspondent here would cay
the same thing if he dared to do So He
does not dare. His paper is edited from
the business Office and it would cost him
his job. defy the whole outfit, and the
country press of the country is now the
only place where the people can get the
truth.
If the republican party is satisfied te
sit down and allow the president to die
tate who it shall and must vote for at the
next election, and also write its plat
form, then the democrats can look or
compacently. 1t is family row and is
no concern of ours. If they are so weak
kneed as to allow him to walk on theil
necks it will simply add to the gaiety o.
nations in the next elections. Let it &C
at that.
The so-caled war between the presi
dent and the big railroad managers is g
tempest in teapot. 1t is all sound anG
fury signifying nothing. a lot of these
wanted out of this administration last
year when the railroad rate bill was
passed, just as l said they would when
the president laid down and allowed Aid.
rich to have his amendments put into
the bill and when he went back on Bailey
and Tillman and Chandler, have been
over here pntting up poor mouth to
the president and talking through the
administration papers to the effect that
they have been begging the president
not to sit on them so hard it would mash
all the water out of their stocks. What
they really have been doing is to beg the
president, after patting him on the back
to get the state legislatures o go slower
on them and to advocate in a message to
the next congress that all transportation
shall be declared interstate commerce
and shall be placed under the control OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission
They have got that machine grabbed,
and they know it IS an easier matter to
control it than to control all the state
legislatures. In other words, they are
assuring the president of their support OF
his ioea of centralized government, thus
eliminating the power Of the state to con-
troll and regulate their own rates ol
transportation within their own borders
That is the combination between the
railroads and the present republican ad-
ministration to emasculate the power o
the state governments that the people oi
this country are up against, and the
sooner they take cognizance of that fac
the better prepared they will be to beat 1t
CHAs. A. EDWARDS.