Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-12-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

session ana both the President and
the President-elect in the city.
with the addition of three numer-
ously attended important conven-
tions, discussing Waterways, for
est conservation and other mat
tiers of the greatest national i'm
portance, that there is so much to
write about that the main difficult
ty is one of selection.
The President and the President
elect, as is we'll known are the clos
est of friends. The latter bears a
relation to the former that is close
ly analogous to of heir apparent,
or crown prince. He is politically
the well-beloved son of the former.
although they are nearly the same
age, President Roosevelt being less
than a year older than Judge Taft.
But so busy has been President
Roosevelt, talking and scolding
and so much occupied has Judge
Taft been in dining, breakfasting
and lunching with his many friends
and discussing political questions
with Speaker Cannon and the MEM
bers of the Ways and Means COM
mittee, that he and the President
have not been able to spend much
time together. In few davs,
Taft will go South to Augusta, Ga,
where he will be the guest of a
prominent and wealthy Southerner
and where he will remain greater
part of the time until the fourth of
March. Then he will, of course,
take up temporary residence, for
four years at least, in the White
House, while the President will
cross the seas and deserts and
plunge into the depths of the dark
continent, where politics and visit
ing delegations will trouble him no
more.
Judge Taft expressed the belief
last night that the House of Repre-
sentatives would make an honest
and thorough revision of the tariff
revision, Immediately after his in
auguration. He bases this state
ment on an interview which he had
with Speaker Cannon about the
middle of the week and with the
Republican members of the WAYS
and Means Committee the follow
ing day at the residence of the
President'5 son-in-law, Hon. Mich
olas Longworth. Mr. Taft has not
yet consulted Republican Senators
who will no doubt have something
to say about the tariff bill after it
comes from the House, but he gave
an intimation that he might even
veto bill bill that had re-
ceived the imprimatur of both
the House and the Senate, if it did
not conform with his views as a
fulfillment of his pledges made in
the Republican platform at Chica-
go and himself, when he said in an
address at Milwaukee:
"Mr. Bryan says there has been
no indication that the revision may
be upward rather than downward.
In answer | can say that the party
is pledged to genuine revision
and as the temporary head of that
party and President of the United
States, if it be successful in Nov
ember, | expect to use the infu-
ence that | have by calling imme-
diately a special session and by re-
commencing to Congress to secure
genuine and honest revision of
the tariff in accordance with the
principle of protection laid down
in the platform, based upon the ex-
animation of appropriate evidence
and impartial as between consumer
and manufacturer"
There is doubtless some opposi-
tion to Speaker Cannon and to his /
reelection in his own party in
Congress. This opposition, how
ever, is not as strong and universal !
as is the feeling in the White
House and probably through the
country. The President, as is we'll .
known, believes in the present and /
the future. He favors young men
in the Army and the Navy and
doubtless thinks there should be
more young men in Congress. He
perhaps would accede to such wis
dom as may be in the old maxim
"Old men for counsel and young
men for war;" But craftsmanship
or counsel according to his theory,
is no longer in diplomacy and CHI
canery of the Macchiavellian type,
but war and contention against
stationary stand pat and retrogres-
sive tendencies. The speaker be-
longs to past generation and the
ways of the fathers and their
grandfathers, the old time religion,
iS GOOD enouph for him There ic