Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-04
PRECEDENT DOES
NOT GUIDE TAFT
PROGRESSIVE PLANS
PRESIDENTS SLOGAN
Gives No Heed IL chickering's Of Les.
ser Lights Regarding His Own
Way Of Doing Things-'sills to
be Given Much Thought.

administration Is to be his admins
tratj6u and there will be no turning
aside from personal purposes because
of complaint or insinuatIon that an
another, q man no, lohger President
would have taken n difrercnt course
Washington Is beginning to un-
derstand that the President has his
own ways of accomplishment, and
when the country reaches the same
understanding It probably Will be
more content to wait for results and
be the, more willing to forego hasty
Judgment. Close friends of the
President say he Is In no wise dis
concerted by constant statements
made to the effect that he has ior'
gotten his progressive tledges and
has cast in his lot with the conserva-
tives.
I, Taft's attitude. perfectly apparent
to those who see him, Is that OF
man, who, having given his word
expects IT. to be taken, and, more
over, believes It has been taken, ex-
cepi by the few whose business IN
life IL seems to him TO be to search,
keen-eyed. for cause of suspicion apu
complaint. One of the close adVis-
ers to the administration has taken
the trouble to look up the record OF
the Presidents speN3hes and TO
number the occasions on which he
has declared himself unequivocally
TO he In favor OF progression as IL IN
understood by those who commended
and still commend, the Roosevelt pol
icies.
Has Declared for Progression.
The record begins In the days ne
fore the Republican convention, anu
IL carries the history of progressive
announcement down To the emu OF
Taft's long autumn journey. On u
score of occasions Taft has declared
himself for progression, ana on
nearly every one Of them he has
coupled with the word progress the
name of Roosevelt. The President Is
determined on a progressive admin
|istration, but he Is going to conduct
liz on lines of his own, and II Is his
hope that progression under him can
lbe the more safely buttressed with
the law.
Ever since Taft arrived in Wash
ington he has been comforting with
Cabinet officers senators and repre-
'scntatiyes on matters OF progressive
Legislation. lie intends that there
shall be nothing haphazard about the
plans for new laws, and he intends
also to give the Taft judicial stamp
To every bill which goes before Con-
gress which can In any way he con-
sidered an Administration measure
There always has been objection In
Congress to the consideration OF bills
framed by Cabinet officers. Senators
and representatives may approve OF
the measure which a department Sc
cretary has prepared, but they are
jealous OF the bill-fathering prcro'
gative.
The President wants To win Con-
gress to his side In the matter ol
progressive legislation. and, while
bills amending the interstate com
MERGE and the antitrust laws, and
other laws, may, be formulated by
Cabinet officers and approved by thu
judicial mind of the President, they
will not be given to Congress in bill
form. Mr. TAFT will take the opin'
ions OF his Cabinet advisers, add his
own opinion, and then will call In Q
Senator or a Representative and ash
him to stand sponsor for II bill on
these lines"
Will Be Roosevelt Measures.
| There will be measures submitted
to Congress which the country will
at once recognize as Roosevelt mea'
sures, but an analysis of their phrase.
ology will disclose that they have
been made constitutiOnally bomb,
proof. President Roosevelt had tt
depend entirely on Others to safe,
guard his proposed legislation from
the attacks Of the strict construc
tionists--and there was always be
lief tthat some of these Others pur'
posely deceived the man now hunt
Ing In Africa. The member of Con
sress who puts In bill next winter
and says truthfully that It has tho
! Administrations Endorsement vii
Know that the constitutional test ha,
been applied In advance.