Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-06-06
WILL GIVE UP NO PRINCIPLES
However, is Very
Much Engaged With Other issues
Than Those Created by Mr.. Roose-
Welt and Besides the President Has
His Own Way to Get Results.
(By Associated Press.)

CfilCAGO, Ills, June Drank
lin MacNeagh, secretary Of the
treasury and Jacob NJ. Dickinson. sec
rotary of war. We're the guests OF hon
or at the banquet of the Chicago
Commercial GLIB tonight.
Secretary MacVeagh outlined the
of the Taft administra-
ton and said it would be as oistin-
guishable from the Roosevelt adm.His-
cation as RooseVelt's was from Me
Kinley's. Decision and regularity Of
procedure, he said, would be the
ke ynote of the new administration.
Secretary Dickinson talked about
the Panama canal enthusiastically and
said he was certain it would be I'm
ished on scheduled time.
ReIinquish no Principles.
This administration will be conci-
liatory If you do not ask il 10 give
up a principle or to go back on Its
promises. Neither of these things Will
it do. II will stand by its PRINCIPLES
and il will stand by its policies.''
SO said Mr. MacVeagh in discussing
the characteristics of the Taft govern
rnent The administration of Presi-
matter of course be a Taft admins
tration pure and simple. and as dis-
tingtiishable from the Roosevelt adj
ministration as Roosevelt's was dis
tinguishable from McKinley's.
In the mind of Secretary Mac
Veagh the leading and controlling note
of the present administration was a
determined tendency toward regularity
of decision and Of procedure. Presi-
dent Taft. he said, would administer
his Office within constituted bounda-
ries. The effect of this, he declared,
would be to keep the President the
leader of the party organization Presi-
dent Taft, he said, was the man or
progress land it goes without saying
that no great leader of an American
party. in this day and generation. can
fail 10 understand the values of in
dependent thought and action in the
party itself, wherever they are mani
tested, whether in Congress or at
large. If only this independence aims
at the party's progress and liberaliza-
ton and if It seeks in and through
the party to answer more perfectly
the deliberate and wise demands OF
che nation. And you and I must
agree-for We cannot escape the con-
ii might become at any
time the duty OF any great party lea
der to create for his party a new
majority and control"
For Higher Ideals
Mr.. MacVeagh. in this connection.
said that he saw for himself very
clearly that while President Taft
would be greatly and temperamentaliy
inclined toward party regula<ities and
to the encouragement of party unity,
he would not wish nor be able 10 lose
sight of the fact that the Republican
party has wished to dedicate itself in
the present Uneven as 1t did in
its earliest days-to the furtherance
of fhe higher ideals Of the people. 10
the wider and more varied and COM
plefe .nrogress of the nation and to
the nations helpful work and in
fiuence in the world at large
He referred to the Presidents de-
ference and respect for the formal
privileges Of the Congress. and VIVA
is more significant and interesting at
resent is not the actual non-intcr-
ference but rather the fine disposition
the President shows to respect all
rights and 10 meet everybody half
wav in the hope and interst OF a
homogeneous party OF progress-a
disposition which can only be inter
prefed as statesmsniike Cancellation
and which II would be fatal mistake
TO consider as a change Of actual pol
icy OF purpose"
Roosevelt Policies.
As TO the Roosevelt policies. -
NacVeaxh said that they we're as safe
in the hands Of the present admins.
trafion "a they were in the hands 81
the last. We are not hearing much
about them. he said. but that Is
partly because the President has his
own way OF arriving az results ana
because other issues are now aSsocia-
ted with them in the activities AZ
Washington. issues thar before left 20
tie Roosevelt; policies the whole
stage He mentioned the tariff. Chr
rcucy and banking reform would have
10 be wrought out IN the present
wear. the deeper reunion OF TIE
soufh with the North world Interest
peopia and administration.
measurement Of practical everyday
admin 'stration would become an i'm
portans federal interest The issue
OF more deliberate government appro'
pristions and Of a corresponding scien.