The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-11-18

Progressive and Patriotic Leader
ship is Necessary i'm Order to Win
i'm This State.
Especial to the Caucasian.)
Washington, D. c., Nov. 16.-
Quite a sprinkling of Congressman
during the last week, and some of
| them are settling down to remain in
the city during the last week, and
some of them are settling down to
remain for the opening of Congress.
There is keen interest among all
| which it is expected that President
Taft will urge upon the next Con-
gress for a reform legislation to
carry forward the Roosevelt policies.
Attention is frequently called to the
fact that the President devoted only
one or two of his first speeches, in
his great swing around the circle, to
the tariff question, and that afte1
that, in almost every speech, he de-
clared unequivocally his endorse
ment of the Roosevelt policies and
in favor of clear and defined meas
ures for amending the present laws,
and for indeed, new laws to carry
forward in a positive and compre-
| hensive way the Roosevelt policies.
Some Reform Legislation.
1t is understood that the President
will again strongly urge the estab-
| lishment of postal savings banks and
the Strengthening Of the antitrust
| laws, as we'll as laws to preserve and
| conserve the great natural resources
of the country, including important
water-power sites, about which so
| much has been heard recently.
| It is thought that the President is
thoroughly in harmony with the
views recently expressed by DIR. Ell
| lott, so long the head Of Harvard
| College, about the danger Of a few
great combinations of capital secur-
of the country and the need at once
of legislation to prevent such dis
| aster and to preserve such most i'm
| portant natural resources for the
public good.
Cannon and the Progressives.
The recent severe attack on the
| part of Speaker Cannon against the
progressive Republicans who voted
| against the tariff bill, and the force
full and dignified response thereto,
made by Senator Cummins and 9TH
ers, has been a frequent topic of COM
ment not only by Congressman and
Senators who have been here, but by
nearly every one else. The general
| sentiment is that the Speaker went
| too far in his attack in attempting
| to read these Republicans out of the
| party, and. on the other hand, that
Senator Cummins and the other pro-
| gressives have taken a very sensible
and proper position in response
| thereto.
Senator Cummins, in a recent
speech in Chicago, outlined the posi-
tion of the progressives to be that
they were standing for the platform
of the party as interpreted by Presi-
dent Taft, and that neither Speaker
| Cannon nor any one else could read
them out of the party; that they
would continue to fight for tariff re-
form inside the party, and press for
the establishment of q tariff sco1nmis-
sion to reform the tariH IN detail !;
that is, to take up at once any one
schedule that needed reforming, as
soon as sufficient Information and
| facts were gathered, and thus con-
tinue year after year such reform,
without waiting for or ever having
another general tariff revision at one
time.
These progressives point to the
| fact that while President Taft did
sign the tariff bill. that he was very
much dissatisfied with it, and that he
has said in his recent speeches that
no one would claim that the tariff
bill fully met the promises made by
the party to the people.
The general impression is that the
| progressives have taken a very
strong position, and that their
strength is liable to grow as they
themselves confidently believe and
predict.
Enemies of Taft and Roosevelt.
/ There have been recently what
L - he 70 1A1
on the part of certain persons, who
claim to be friends Of Taft as against
Roosevelt, to create the impression
upon President Taft that there is an
organized movement going on among
certain ardent supporters OF Roose
welt, to diseredit his administration
and bring about the nomination OF
Roosevelt four years hence.
1t is very gratifying to the friends
"a 4 u l.