Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-05
.1AFI HAS MADE GOOD
Washington Says Understand.
ing With House Leaders Over
Revision is Complete
WILL GOVERN IN OWN RIGHT
AS President Taft Will Stand Upon His
Own Feet = Harmony Obtained
Among His Friends and Forced Up
on Speaker cannon-compIete Co
operation to Be Rule.

Washington, Dec. o.-Poiticians in
made good in his attempt to reach a
working understanding with the house
leaders regarding tariff and other legis
lation to which the republican party
is committed thru the Chicago plat
form. He has made good, these politi-
clans say. not because he has succeeded
in bringing the house leadership over
to his way of thinking, for there was
never any serious doubt but that the
leaders willingly would join hands with
him in carrying out the platform
pledges. but because the little furry
which has taken place has helped give
Mr.. Taft an individuality OF his own.
The fact widely advertised, that he
had been working for this agreement,
and that. if necessary. he Would, In
order to reach it. carry the controversy
to some lengths. has probably COM
pleted the work of convincing the coun-
try that the new president VIII gov
ern in his own right, and that there Is
nothing in the idea so long entertainer
in many quarters. that he was, and
would continue to be merely shadow
of President Roosevelt.
Psychologically. therefore Washing
ton believes that the new president has
made good as the result of the negotia-
lions which have been pending between
Ian fny
weeks.
Stands on Own Feet.
Said one of the oldtimers TODD :
"Mr. Taft secured standing of his
own, apart from that given him be-
cause he was the personal choice of
President Roosevelt. during the cam
paign. His speaking tour thru the
country was of tremendous advantage
to his candidacy. Wherever he went
the people found out that he was
man of character. of force, of initia-
tive, of tact, of intelligence. and that
he would need no help from President
Roosevelt, FOR from anybody else, TO
maintain him in the position or presl-
dent. 1t thus happens that in part he
cleared the atmosphere before election
day His negotiations with the house
leaders now brought to successful
close, as all well-informed people knew
they would be, have merely completed
the work of the campaign. The very
over-emphasis given by many of the
newspapers to the negotiations; the
statements, altho at no time we'll
founded, that he was on the point of
a break with the house leadership over
,,f, I,nfh
be genuine tariff revision, and an hon
est carrying out of the platform
pledges, have helped attract attention
TO him as a man who is able to stand
on his own feet, as a man of courage,
independence and high ideals regarding
loyalty to party principles,
THE exaggerated newspaper ac-
counts to which | have referred were
made, in the main, for the purpose OF
stirring up trouble. In some instances
the newspapers making them were un-
friendly to Speaker Cannon, in others
to Chairman Payne, and in others still
they desired to do anything that might
seem calculated to create friction, or
semblance OF it, between the new presl-
dent and his co-laborers in one of the
coordinate branches of the govern
ment. For once, as it seems to me
these exaggerations have resulted in
good all around, and particularly TIC
Mr. Taft personally. l have not the
slightest doubt that by the time he is
inaugurated the country will have al
most forgotten that there was a time
when he was popularity known as
merely the echo and shadow of Mr.
Roosevelt, a sort of second William
Mckinley, we'll meaning and honest
but without initiative and backbone
Harmony is Complete.
( Word reaching Washington from Hof
Springs is that Mr.. Taft entertains the
kindlest feelings for Speaker Cannon
Chairman Payne, Chairman Tawney,
Mr.. Dalzell and all the other house
leaders, whom he has known intimately
for years, and with whom he has
worked thru many sessions of congress
on matters of appropriations and gen