Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-04-06

0SS'Seo'y VI w ar SPSlOS NlOSt OF tbs
Time Travelling Over the Country In
the Interests Of His Candidacy.
Print Paper Users Will Get No Re-
lief From Congress Concerning
Yachts, Public and Private-Cost of
Our Naval Establshment-PIans Of
the Stand Patters.
By WILLIS j. ABBOT.
One of the curious features of news
gathering in Washington is the rapid
lty with which a story, at first merely
limited at, passes quickly from the
realm of rumor to the point of publ
cation. \ few days ago it was ru-
mored that the facts concerning the
enormous expenditures of money being
made to secure the nomination for the
presidency Of Secretary Taft We're like
ly to he made the subject of investiga-
ton by Il widely circulated weekly pa
per. Within forty eight hours the story
of the Taft money campaign was told
in full III New York newspaper
&c, Rotary Taft is fortunate in having
a brother who is enormously rich, who
attained his fortune partly through
marriage and partly because of Il
shrewd combination of politics and
business and the successful manpua-
ton of public service franchises in Gin
cinnati. Two weeks ago people in
Washington who protested to know
told me that the Taft campaign for the
nomination was costing in the neigh
borhood of $SOO,000. The investigators
for the New York paper, proceeding
along. as | have reason to know, entire
ly distinct lines, fix 1t at $750,00O. This,
be 1t known. is the expenditure up to
date, yet the real work of controlling
convention has only just begun.
While there have been men travelling
all over the United States in the in
terest of Taft while he has had head
quarters in Washington and in Column
bus, vet what has been done up to the
present time does not represent half
the expenditure that will necessarily
have to be made If his brother Is to
buy the nomination for him. The con-
vention is nearly three months off, and
these three months will be the time
that, If it does not try mems souls, Will
try their pocketbooks.
Many people on the Republican side
of the house and senate think that Sec
rotary Taft would have done better
to have made his campaign without
this lavish expenditure of money. a
Kentucky congressman living almost
directly across the river from him said
to me today that two Of the issues
likely to be raised against Taft are his
apparent neglect of the duties of his
office while travelling all over the Unit
ed States in the interests of his can
didacy and the lavish use Of money to
force his nomination upon an unwill-
ing party At present Secretary Taft
says nothing in answer to any crti
cism, but if he shall be nominated he
will have to explain whence came the
money that paid for his extravagant
campaign and how he was able to Sc
cure from civil service reform prest-
dent the leisure to go to all parts of
the world for self advertisement and
political purposes
podgng Free Paper.
The newspaper publishers and own
ers of the United States who have been
pleading with this congress for relief
against the eXtortions of the paper
trust will no doubt shout with JOY
when they learn that the Republican
majority has agreed to put an item in
the agricultural appropriation bill for
their benefit. The huge sum of $4,000
is to be asked for the investigation of
new substances from which paper may
be made
| happen to know the proprietors of
three or four different newspapers of
circulationS ranging from $4,000 to o.
600 daily who say that the recent in
crease in the price of paper has cut
down their net earnings from $4,000
to $4,000 annually. You can imagine
what it must have meant to papers
like the Chicago Tribune. the New
York W orld and the Philadelphia North
American, with five times that circua-
ton.
The Newspaper Publishers associa-
ton asked that print paper and the
raw materials necessary for the manu-
fncture of print paper should be adj
mitted to this country free of duty.
They sent committee to interview
President Roosevelt on the subject.
and he tossed them Wilted bouquet
by SAYING in his next message that
this should be done in order TO protect
our forests The Republican congress,
or rather. the five men who run 1t, de-
cidcd however. that to touch the tariff
ON PAPER or on wood pulp would be to
open The tariff question. Therefore
nothing Is to he done on the subject
except the appropriation of $4,000 to
secure information which will be quite
as valuable to the paper trust as II
will be to the newspapers now ground
under the heavy heel of that trust.
What are the Republican papers re
sponsble for the president who be-
trayed them and for the congress
which ignored them going to do about
It?
Yachts, Private and Public.
A New York newspaper the other
day printed half page of pictures OF
steam yachts owned by millionaires of
that city that were offered for sale