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THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.

Few presidents have taken the oath of office in whom the people have had so perfect a confidence as is felt today in MT. Taft's ability and rectitude of intention. So widespread an expecta- tion that the incoming president will measure up to the full requirements of his high responsibilities is unusual at the outset of new administration. The woods are commonly full of doubters and critics and shakers of heads, and on several occasions the local atmosphere has been openly hostile. This is, how ever, an era of good feeling, at least so far as MT. Taft is concerned.
 Those who have stood by MT. Roose- welt these seven years have his word for it that MT. Taft will make the best sort of president, and MT. Taft him. self has sworn fealty to the Roosevelt doctrines. On the other hand, a consid- erable section of the American people anticipate that the bulk of the Roose. Veltian policies will be quietly but eff
 
 fectually consigned to the wastebasket occupying middle ground between these two extremes of prospection are number of folk who hope that the next administration will be mildly Roose veltian, preserving the gains of the late unpleasantnesS, but temperamentally suave and diplomatic and comforting to the pocket nerve.
 Now, somebody may be disappointed in the course of events. MT. Taft nav not be able to play all the roles assign. ed to him to the complete satisfaction of all his admirers. His administration has yet to be developed in detail. It opens auspiciously, great with oppor tunity, inviting to lofty ambition, but with some elements of uncertainty. MT. Taft's handling of these uncertain ele- ments will probably furnish the su- preme test of his executive ability. There are doubtless many politicians anxiously awaiting to see just how much or how little belligerence MT. Taft will develop in the exercise of executive power and influence. So far they have seen only the gloved hand. Is there mailed fist within?
 The relations between the executive and congress and the degree of domi- nance of the one or the other naturally vary with the personality of the presi- dent and the complexion and temper of the legislature. Normally neither is master of the other, and the healthy re- lation is that of the constitutional check and balance. Yet even this relation i'm plies a certain amount of antagonism, of independence of judgment, and pos sible difference of opinion. Mr. Taft enters office with an evident hope that he may get along amicably with tho legislative branch. He has rejected the advice of those hotheads who wanted him to squelch Speaker Cannon, and in the matter of the tariff he has merely NAA@S'SNu SOiCldl lllCS NnlCl ne thought revision should be made, giv ing the congressional leaders to under stand that his duty with respect to the tariff bill would be performed by either signing or vetoing it. Suppose, how ever, that the tariff bill, when present. cd, obviously falls short of that .hor. ough revision which the president elect has demanded in his public utterancos. Will he exert his official influence to persuade congress to better perform ance? Will he hold up patronage un. til recalcitrant senators and members come around to his way of thinking, as some of his predecessors have done? Or will there be reluctant acquiescence in the congressional verdict, leaving the question of indorsing it to the elections of 1910?