The Yale expositor., 1910-03-04

he is going to issue an edict of dis
approval OF everything that Mr.. Will
liam Howard Taft has done since he
entered the White House. Then there
are the Republicans who are progress
sive without being markedly so. who
say that Mr.. Roosevelt will give ex-
pressions of approval to some of Mr..
Taft's acts and of disapproval to some
of his other acts. Then there are the
old line Republicans who believe that
Mr.. Roosevelt will hold his peace.
Then come the Democrats, who
look at the thing from political
rather than from a personal point of
view. and who say that Mr.. Roosevelt,
being a good politician and knowing
the value of making the party record
appear as good as ii can be made,
will indorse the Taft administration
and will simply bend his own writing
energies to aid the energies of the
president in getting the party to go
line OF progression.
Hopes of the Democrats.
The Democrats say, however. that
the extreme conservatives in the Re-
publican party who have control of
the house and senate will refuse to
go ahead on the new paths of prog
ress any faster than they have been
going in the past, and that as a re-
suit the combined editorial efforts of
Mr. Roosevelt and the administration
efforts of Mr.. Taft, will avail nothing
to get the party to move fast enough
to satisfy the people-ergo the next
national administration is bound to
be Democratic.
Theodore Roosevelt Is recognized as
being the man who was practically re-
sponsible for making William II. Taft
candidate for the nomination for the
presidency. 1t is no secret, and Mr.
Taft does not deny it himself, that he
did not care to enter the campaign for
the nomination. His chief ambition
was to have seat on the bench of
the supreme court of the United
States. IL he had not been urged to
enter the field as a candidate for the
presidency he probably would be on
the supreme bench to-day. He yield
ed unquestionably to the persuasions
of his friend. who then was president,
and became an active candidate.
Roosevelt's Probable Action.
Now, when it is considered that for
years Theodore Roosevelt leaned on
his secretary of war, Mr.. Taft, as he
leaned on no other member of his
cabinet. and it is remembered how he
constantly alluded to the great work
which his war secretary was doing,
it can be readily understood why it is
that the colonel's friends do not think
! that he will become hastily an adj
verse critic of the man in whom for
SO long time he had placed his con-
fidence. 1t may be that Col. Roose-
welt is disappointed because his party
already has not carried out every
pledge that was made in the national
platform. 1t may possibly be that he
is disappointed in President Taft, but
even if this is so his friends in Wash
ington say he is going to keep his
own counsel for long time yet to
come
Investigations Interest.
The interest in Washington actu-
ally seems to be sharper to-day
| in the Investigations under con-
gressional supervision which are go
ing on, than in any legislation which
is pending before the lawmakers.
The Democrats say that the Republi-
cans are busy investigating them
selves, but nonpartisan fairness would
make it appear that the Democrats
are right only in part.
Here is list of the Investigations
and inquiries. for inquiry is a better
word to apply in some cases, which
are now under way or in present pros
pect:
Richard A. Ballinger, secretary Of the
interior, and Clifford Pinchot, former
United States forester.
AS to the cost of living.
An inquiry into the business meth
DDS of the various departments of the
government with the view of discover
ing, If possible, why it costs so much
to run the federal machine.
An inquiry into the monetary sys-
| TENS OF Otner countries preliminary
to the introduction of legislation es-
tablishing a sound currency system
in the United States.
An investigation with reference to
immigration.
A study of waterways at home and
abroad.
An inquiry to determine whether
the maximum rates of the new tariff
law shall be applied to any nation.
Are Somewhat Costly.
Some of the members of congress
have said that the expenses of the
several committees and commissions
will amount TO pretty close to mill
lion and a half dollars. A study OF
the paragraphs setting forth the in
vestigations which are being conduct
ed will show that the Democratic
statement that the Republicans are
investigating themselves has perhaps
bearing in real truth on only the in