The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-25
PRESIDENT LETS 1T BE KNOWN
THAT HE WANTS NO SECOND
TERM AT EXPENSE OF PLAT
FORM.

FORM.
Washington, Jan. 25.-President
Taft has set his back against the
wall, babe defiance TO foe and too
solicitous friend and announced an
lutimatum that began with the state
ment that a second term is matter
of supreme indifference TO him, and
that while he is president he is going
to do something"
That something, the president made
clear to regular and insurgent re-
publicans, is to carry out the pledges
of the Republican party and his test
of Republicanism will be a vote for
those measures that he regards as
pledged by the party in the party
platform in the last campaign:
/. The limitation of the use of the
injunction power by the federal
courts.
2. The enactment of amendments
to the railway rate law ana those to
the laws which regulate interstate
commerce.
3. The establishment of system
of postal savings banks.
A. Separate statehood for Arizona
and New Mexico.
No Test of Regularity.
The president mentioned two i'm
portant bits of legislation as debat-
able. and consequently no test of Re-
publicanism. He submitted that these
two matters were questions on which
there could be reasonable differences
of opinion. These he mentioned as:
/. Conservation of the natural re-
sources.
2. A federal incorporation act.
Representative Hayes of California,
Murdoch of Kansas and Gardener of
Massachusetts got this information
but what they did not get was the
other part of the presidents ulti-
matum, when, boiling under the split
in the party, opposition to some of
lis measures and wagon loads of
gratuitous advice from we'll meaning
friends all over the country, the pres
ident showed his hands deep in his
trousers pockets, lost his famous
smile and stated the case concisely.
Presidents Ultimatum.
One may not quote the president.
It can he said, however, the presi-
dent plan for the rest of his term is:
1. That the pledges of the Repub-
lican party, made in the platform on
which Mr.. Taft was elected and in the
campaign for election that followed,
must be fulfilled.
=. That he does not care about an
other term and is not looking for it.
8. But that he does want the ap-
prevail of his countrymen, and this he
feels sure he will receive, if not now,
then at some future time.
4. He is not in sympathy with the
idea that he is to stop all activities
and make enemies of congressional
leaders and of all those who in the
present congress have the power to
do what he wants done.
The president believes that many
men who are making trouble within
his own party are honest in their be-
liefs, but that they do not realize the
responsibility on him as leader of the
party and as president to do things. )"
They expect him to enact laws with
out party, whereas under the Ameri-
can system, laws can be enacted only
by party. They expect, the president
thinks, that he can do things by his
good right hand"
Says "Hypocricy" Rules.
Mr.. Taft believes that the absurdity
of this idea will be recognized by the
American people, though perhaps not
until the Republican party has been
defeated two or three times.
The president believes that the
United States is now passing through
a period of supreme hypocricy, in
which the man who makes the loud
est protestations of hatred of mon
opoly and political corruption and
bossism has a great advantage.
The president is anxious that those
people who are sincerely DESTROYS of
his success should remember that he
is laboring entirely alone to do some