New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-17
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From The Tribune Bureau

From The Tribune Bureau
Washins ton, June 10
TAFT WILL MAKE GOOD.-When the
question of nominating successor TO GOV
ernor Hughes was being discussed TWO
years ago some of the leading members Vi
the New York delegation were at the mug
House talking over the situation Win
President Roosevelt. Mr.. Roosevelt re-
marked that in his opinion. Mr.. Hughes
should be renominated, and some one re-
marked that would make the Governor 50
big figure IN the politics OF the nauon
that he would become Il formidable canoi-
date for the Presidency IN 1872 DO you
think SOP asked the President, turning TO
another member. II DO" was the reply
and one after another answered the Ques-
ton in the same way. When all had spoken
Mr.. Roosevelt smiled his characteristic
smile, surveyed the company for mo-
nent and then replied: Well. you are All
wrong VIII Taft will be the next Presi-
dent, and he will be renominated and re-
elected Taft will make good" Whatever
differences NAV be entertained regarding
the wisdom OF Mr.. Roosevelt's policies, no
one will question his political sagacity-
There has recently been time when many
questioned his wisdom in predicting the
success of Mr. Taft in the White House,
but that time has passed. Everything now
points TO the accuracy of Mr. Roosevelts
forecast Mr.. Taft has made good From
all parts of the country the reports are
coming and they all declare that the Presi-
dents popularity is increasing by leaps and
bounds, that popular sentiment is entirely
in his favor and that the people feel they
have a President in the White House who
stands for their interests. AS was asserted
in this column at the time, the turning or
the tide came with the injunction suit
against the Western Traffic Association.
His victory over all the railroads when he
met their representatives at the White
House and induced them to suspend all rate
increases until after the pending railroad
bill shall have become a law completed it,
and the ablest politicians in Congress now
predict that the popularity of the President
will continue TO grow at pace which they
believe will insure a Republican majority in
the next House.
TELLING THE COLONEL.-Sometime
tomorrow night FIVE men will sit around
Colonel Roosevelt down at the mouth of
New York Harbor and will tell the colonel
q story which will amaze and delight him.
They will describe the wonderful trans
formation which has come over the pros
poets OF the Republican party in the last
two weeks. These men will be James Will
son, the perennial Secretary Of Agricult-
ure: George Won L. Meyer, the Secretary
Of the Navy; Henry Cabot Lodge. senior
Senator from Massachusetts; Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth, Mr.. Roosevelt's
son-in-law, and William Loeb. jr.. Collector
morrow evening they Will go down the bay
on the Dolphin, and will meet the coleneIs
ship. which they will board, and once there
they will proceed TO chronicle the events
of the last few weeks. They will agree
that the reports carried to him when he
came out of the African jungle regarding
the failure of the Taft administration were
correct. They will confirm the assertion
which Senator Root made in London that
at the time when he sailed for The Hague
the prospects for the Taft legislative pro-
gramme were anything but, bright. that
the leaders of the party had lost interest
and that no Republican feared to vote
against the President But to all this they
will add the news that in the last few days
there has come a change: that the Presi-
dent has executed a coup against the rail-
roads. or at least in the interest of the
shippers, which has changed the whole
face Of the political situation; that to-day
every man thinks twice before he votes
against a measure advocated by the Presi-
dent: that the insurgents In Iowa have
been defeated and the regulars heartened
and that Congress is about to adjourn after
having passed all the important measures
on the Presidents legislative programme
and with a record for fidelity to duty and
party discipline which cannot but work TO
the great advantage of the party.
ANOTHER VICTORY--The colonels in
formers will also tell him of another VIC
tory of perhaps even more Importance in
the long than the legislation accom-
plished They will tell him of the abolition
Of the unlimited power of Speaker Cannon
and the broadening OF the House rules a
work which promises to be completed by
the adoption of additional rule permit
ting a majority Of the House to discharge
any of its committees from the consider
alton Of a measure on which such COM
mittee has spent undue time 1t is easy
TO imagine how the colonel will chuckle
when Mr.. Longworth tells him how the
Democrats marched valiantly forward 20