The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-02-26

through Mark Hanna, and that no case
against the Standard was ever pushed
to a finish in the courts during Ellis
administration. Bope says over 40
900 farmers in Ohio petitioned Ellis
when he was attorney general of that
state to either compel the 1nterna-
tional Harvester trust "a fine Repub-
lican campaign fund contributor) to
obey the laws of Ohio or get out of the
state. Ellis reply was that there was
no harvester trust. Yet the federal
government is now said to be preparing
to proceed against this trust on the
very lines suggested to Ellis by the
farmers of Ohio. No longer ago than
Jan. 10, 1907, says Bope, in an address
before the Ohio society Of New York,
with President Archbold of Standard
at his left, both applauding, Ellis de-
clared that the prosecutions against
corporate interests must cease, and
that the public welfare demanded that
halt be called on the violent out
bursts of a radical and intoxicated
national administration against the
''malefactors Of wealth."
There are three insurgents who are
neither invited to the White House nor
go there of their own accord. They
are LaFollette, Clapp and Cummins.
Senator LaFollette went to the exc
cutive officers early in December, found
the President busy, and before leaving
left word for the President that when
the latter wanted to see him he could
send for him. Senator Clapp of Min
nesota has not been inside the White
House in ten months, and has not re-
ceived any invitations that he is wanted
there. Senator Cummins went to the
White House early in the session of
Congress and predicted the re-nomina-
ton and reelection of the President
Since that time he has kept away.
Senator Bristow of Kansas has been to
the White House two or three times,
but his visits We're short, merely to
present friends.
At Duluth. MINI, DR.. Marcus B. Gull
lum, Democrat, defeated the Republic
can mayor, who was a candidate to
succeed himself. Five of the eight all
dermen elected were Democrats.
I have spent two days in the Con-
gressional library reading editorials in
Republican newspapers of the Middle,
Western, Southwestern and Mountain
states on the reasons Of the Widespread
dissatisfaction with the Taft admins
tration.
An unusually large number OF edi-
torials have been printed on the sub
ject within the last two weeks as 4
result of the announcement of the
straw ballot taken among 3,O37 Repub-
lican editors. of which number 1914
disapproved Of Taft as President.
"Why IL Taft unpopular among the
editors of his own political faith ~
This was the question to which |
sought reply in the editorial columns
of more than one hundred Republican
newspapers.
In the first hour of investigation I
found that the majority Of the editors
condemn Mr.. Taft mainly because OF
the company he keeps. They resent
such men as Aldrioh, Cannon, Hale and
Dalzell. They feel, Furthermore, that
insult is added to injury when the
President while listening attentively
to the advice of the re-actionaries, in
solently refuses to consider the sugges-
tons of such Republicans rs LaFol-
lette, Clapp. Cummins, Dolliver and
Bristow. And then the insult. assumes
the proportions of an outrage, in the
when the President goes so far as to
charge from the public platform that
the progressives and insurgents are
not Republicans, and therefore ought
not to receive either patronage or con-
fidence from the party leaders.
The editors take the position that the
pregressives and insurgents represent
the sentiment Of the Republicans of the
Lake, Prairie, Mountain, Pacific and
Southwestern states. They reason
therefore. that when the president re-.
fuses to hear the advice of these states
men the sections which they represen,
are practically and in reality deprived
of representation.
The attitude of the average Repub-
lican editor who disapproves Of Mr.
Tafts administrs ton, toward the Presi
dent personally. is interesting and in.
structive. There is practically no bit