Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-31
TAFT SMILE IS UNLIKE
 RO0SEVELTS
Visitors to White House Have Found a Judge and Not a Rough Rider in the PreSi- dents Chair.

WASHINGTON. March S0.--People who haunt the executive offices at the White House and part cularly i some of the, newer senators and rep resentatives, are slowly but surely | finding that President Taft can smile and smile and be a villain still from the standpoint of the professional , politician.
 MT. Taft Is not as explosive as Mr. Roosevelt. He does not bubble over w'th either enthusiasm or resentment. DThere is a judge in the White House and not a colonel He listens to all sides in friendly. but impssslye fash ' ion and the newer senators. includ- ! ing several from the southern states, have mistaken this attitude, which IS | purely one oi judicial poise, for one Of hearty acquieseence.
 Produces Various impressions. | Several people have gone up Co talk | to President Taft about tariff and came away convinced he is a stand | batter and n at he will sign any b II ! which congress chooses to pass. Oth- CTS, of the more radical element, be l licve he is on the point of instigat- ing a political revolution becadse he is so completely in accord with the r own views. Southern democrats have participated in these mistakes and some believe that President Taft is about to dump the entire southern republican organization and turn over the entire patronage of that sect on to white democrats.
 So far as can be learned. the poll cy of the new president will not be essentially different from that of his predecessor. He is a republican and always has been. If he succeeds In office he undoubtedly expects to ap- peal to the voters of his own organi- zation for reelection. Prior to re- election comes reDomination, and Tn this the votes of southern republi. cans are somewhat more essential than they really ought to be.
 Smith Idea Is Wrong.
 Senator Smith Of South Carolina and some other southern statesmen conceive the idea that the president is about to abandon southern repIb- lican organizations everywhere, mere ly because he did not care to insist on the conirmat on of Dr, Crum. This was a great mistake. Wherever in any section Of the south there is decent republican who is fairly well fitted for any office he will be given the place in preference to a democrat, as a matter of course.
 And in ticking out these men the republican orgaDizat on in every state will be recognized, not exclusively. but in such a way as to make it as sured of the sympathy of the presi- dent as head of the party. -In this policy Postmaster General Hitchcock, f4sn chairmaDship of the republican na- tiOnal comm ttee, will cooperate.
 Instead of attempting to destroy the republican organization in the south. the purpose of the administra- ton undoubtedly will be to build it up, and to do th's in the best way. That is to say, an effort will be made to select the best republicans rath- CT than those who were the most ae- tive politically.
 Organizations Just Skeletons. Tn every other state, with one or two exceptions. the republican organ 1 ization is a mere skeleton of a polit ical party Th's is not the fault of the republicans, but of peculiar polit- l ical conditions In the south. The great mass of republican voters are negroes, who are barred from the polls on one pretext or another. The result is that the democrats have only ' a fight among themselves. They wage their battles at the primaries. and hardly find it necessary to go to | the polls. so completely are negro republicans deprived of suffrage. | In distributing offices in the south according to the best information. the purpose of the president is first of all 1 to secure the best material WheT- ever there Is a republican of good an- | tecedents and ia 'Tly well fitted for some particular office. he will be ap- pointed without hesitation. WhereEer there is no such republican who would reflect credit on the administration a democrat will be chosen.
 | In no case will an important office be given to an unworthy man. whetn- CT. white or black, merely because he l calls himself a republican and once in four years participates in the eefe- [ a1.Tra