The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-12-27
Strongly Opposed to the Nomination
of Secretary Taft.
Prom one saginaw News.


ice Tuesday. He was not in Wash
ington when the committee assign
ments were made and expressed him.
self as greatly gratified at being
placed on the committee on ways ana
means. He was the unanimous
choice of the Michigan delegation.
Congressman Hamilton preferring to
retain his place as chairman or the
committee on territories.
In speaking of the Taft sentiment
in Michigan he did not hesitate TO
express forcibly his opposition. Il
cannot understand why anyone IN
Michigan, of all states, should favor
Taft. He has lost no opportunity to
assail one of the great industries OF
the state and has no claim on a sim
gle loyal son of the commonwealth.
He is a tariff revisionist and what the
country needs at the present time
and at all times, is not a theorist,
but a practical business man, one
who is intimately acquainted with
the business policies and the COM
mercial needs of this country. In a
recent speech he said he was in ia
vor of tariff revision all along the
line, but after he qualified this by
saying he would not disturb existing
tariff until after the next election.
II there was crying need for revision
why does he postpone action until
after the election? II would seem to
Indicate that he is. afraid there are
so many men opposed to this policy
that anyone advocating 1t is liable
DO be repudiated at the polls. My
opposition to Taft is on questions of
policy only He is broad gentle
man, fine man, an eminent citi-
zen. and should he receive the NOM
nation would command my support.
There are FIVE men standing high in
the councils of the party who would
make good candidates and who will
probably have large following in
the convention: Hughes, Knox, For
aker, Fairbanks and Cannon, and my
drst choice is Speaker Cannon. If
there is a man to whom Michigan
should feel under obligations it is
Joseph G.. Cannon. Never have the
members been so we'll placed on COM
mittees and never has the state been
so well taken care of. Look at the
places: There is DENLY on foreign
affairs; Townsend on interstate and
foreign commerce; Gardner, fourth
member of the committee on appro-
priatiOns; Hamilton, chairman of
the committee on territories; Dick
eIna on judiciary; Sam Smith, chair
man of the committee on the District
Of Columbia; MsMorron, chairman
1f the committee on manufac-
Eurers; myself on ways and means;
Darragh on postoffise and post roads;
Loud on naval affairs; Mclaughlin
on agriculture and Young on rivers
and harbors.
AN of these got the places they
asked for or desired and this makes
a commanding force in the
council Of the nation. Besides the
speaker stands for the sound. policies
Of tho Republican party that have
ever spelled prosperity and it should
BE the plain duty of Michigan to
stand by him. You may add that the
Taft sentiment seems to be en-I
couraged by the Democratic papers
and ] cannot understand why the
Democrats should be booming a Re-
publican. There is no more staunch
Taft advocate in the state than the
Detroit News, Democratic news
pager"
IA TO the action Of Congress, Mr.. |
Fordney declared that body should
pass the appropriations as early as
possible and adjourn. The items
should be given careful scrutiny, ELI
anything that could be dis
pensed with for the present, but pro-
ridiDg all needed expenditures. The
people do not want experimental or
theoretical legislation. The laws
src ample and their enforcement the |
FIRST consideration. The last con-
sress passed appropriation bills
to over 920 millions of
solIars but the present congress
should have much less than that"
As TO the financial situation he
aid: 81 do not see that congress
an do anything, but / do not speak
With full knowledge of the subject.
sut 1T is not clear to me how con-
,ress can increase the circulation
Without resorting to species of wild
at currency remedy worst than the
Incidentally it developed that Mr..
'ordDey is the third member from
Michigan to be honored with a place
"a the ways and means since it has
I'D representative in Congress and
". Fordney is the youngest in point
I service to serve on that commit
re. Mr.. Burrows was the first mem
er and w. A. Smith was on the COM
''tteo for three months. Mr.. Ford
~ also has o place on another COM
IAttee OF importance to the state,
ines and mining
Wso was likely TO win out in the
,tionai convention. he said he dared
st venture to predict.
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The two-cent rate law seems to
ave worked well with the majority
tho railroads In Ohio, as thirty