Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-11
President Taft Is Very
Much Like Mckinley.
His Ambitions for the Country
Are Much the Same.
His Chief Aim Now Is to Encourage
Revival Of Business.

Washington, June 10.-(SpeciaD.-
President Taft has frequently been
likcned to Mckinley by those who
have observed him and his adminis-
| tration for the last three months. Taft
| has the same congenial manner to-
ward visitors that Mckinley had He
makes friends. Those, who have
| talked with him in recent weeks, are
aware that his ambitions for the
| country during the next three or four
years are very Mckinley-like The
| martyred President figured before the
country as the advance agent Of
prosperity, for instance. The Upper
most thing in the mind Of President
Taft is to encourage the revival Of
| business
When he sent his two Democratic
cabinet officers = Secretary of the
Treasury MacVeagh and Secretary Of
War Dickinson-to Chicago the other
day, it was we'll understood in inner
circles here that they would twang the
Tyre to prosperity notes. They had
talked with the President about the
speeches they proposed to make
Naturally, as happens when a cabinet
officer goes forth to make a public
tNNiN'S VI any lIIpoL ldllCc, he COIL
suits with his official chief about it in
advance. A cabinet utterance is inva-
riably interpreted as one that the
President approves and that therefore
| is official
President Taft believes that once
business gets good start, the con-
tentions over tariff and over corpora
| ton control will speedily be lost sight
of and soon forgotten. He is more
anxious to see the idle men of the
United States employed, than about a
fractional raising or lowering of tariff
upon given item. The tariff is now
50 far completed that in some
schedules business men can tell with
| accuracy what the rates are going to
| be. The President attributes the
growing Improvement in business and
| industrial pursuits to this fact is con-
siderable part. Accordingly he has be-
come more and more impatient over
| the delays in getting the bill out Of
Congress and in having it laid upon
his mahogany table where he can sign
| 1t. For such reasons. as given, the
| President is holding back with other
governmental plans and programs He
does not want the minds of people
| diverted by discussions about LegisIa-
| ton or administration in the future
| lie is holding the tiller firm and steer
| ing straight ahead with the least
| possible fuss and agitation. There is
put little talk and but few conferences
| IN the White House offices, eXcept re-
garding the business of government
| Immediately current And it is the
PRESIDENTS purpose that this sort of
thing shall continue for many months
| He proposes to make the summer
Just as quiet a one in administration
| circles as it can be- consistent with
good administration. He will be wag-
| ing no campaigns between now and
the time that Congress convcnes again
next December
The President has also indicated his
purpose to keep very quiet at Beverly,
Mass, which is to be the summer
Capital. He will see just as few
people on government business as he
can Some attention will be given to
his annual message, which will con-
tam the promised recommendations
about further corporate legislation.
ne indications are that he is less
enthusiastic about making trip into
Wy west tHan ne formerly was. While
ne still expects to travel considerably
before ne returns to Washington in
the autumn, his disposition now is to
curtail that trip considerably, to make
fewer speeches than he had contem-
plated originally, but above all to en-
courage the coming again of good
times. That elimination is more de-
sired by all the people than any other
one thing.
These conclusions by the President
are significant. because they represent
the outcome of his plans, after very
careful thought. He has talked tn.
situation over with many men. in
whose confidence he has confidence.
Their advice has in the main coincidaa
with his best judgment During the
last month he has been shaping his