El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-21
WILLIE HEARST IS
OUT STRONGLY
FOR TAF!
Denounces Roosevelt and
Declares Taft Is a Great
Leader.

Washington, y. c., April 21.-Wlllianl
Randolph Hearst, former aspirant for
the Democratic nomination Tor the
presidency, has issued a remarkable
statement over his own signature, IN
which he Enqualifledly endorses MT
Taft.
In doing so he also criticizes in Sc
verest terms the administration Of pres
ident Roosevelt and in SO many words
warns the American nation against
renewal of the political domination OF
the former president.
Mr.. Hearst called at the whitehouse
Yesterday afternoon and spent half an
hour with the president Upon leaving,
Mr.. Hearst said he had called merely
TO pay his respects to Mr.. Taft, whom
he said he admired. Later he issued his
endorsement OF the Taft administration.
Believes in Taft.
mo one can talk with the president
without approaching and respecting his
earnestness and sincerity" the state
Inent proceeds. Personally, l believe
also in his efficiency. He has been one
year in office and he has certainly &C
eomplished more in that one year than
Roosevelt did in his first year.
TT is hardly fair to compare Taft's
one year with RoOsevelt's seven and
yet, I am not sure that even with that
the comparison might not be to Taft's
advantage. Taft's methods are not those
of Roosevelt, but then Taft will prob
ably not conclude his term with panic.
Taft Valuable President.
~On the whole it seems to me that
a quiet earnest man who came
into office when the country was in the
slough of adversely, and after one year
I'm office, has placed the country on the
high road to prosperity, is quite val
4 2 SNOWY
spectacular person who found the coun-
try in the height of prosperity and left
DIT in the depth of adversely
Taft is carrying out Roosevelt's poll
cies- in the way that they ought to be
carried out That is to say he is doing
the things that Roosevelt should have
done but did not do.
Roosevelt Act Farce.
Taft is making the Roosevelt rail-
road rate act complete and effective.
The Roosevelt railroad rate act has
always been an utter farce and every
body who knew anything about the sub
jeet knew when it was passed that il
was farce and would be failure. 1t
might have been meant 10 be a failure.
AT any rate. Mr. Hepburn. the
man who was selected by the Roose-
Welt administration to stand sponsor for
that bill in the house had been but
lately hung in e1figy by his enthusiasts
tic constituents for too great friendli-
ness to the railroads.
Would you have selected that kind
OF man. tagged with that kind of a
testimonial. to frame that kind OF a
bill? And can you imagine Mr..
Roosevelt, the Diogenes of politics
hunting through the house of congress,
lantern in hand, to find an honest man
and selecting this executed effigy as the
fittest one 10 frame the peoples rail-
road bill2"
Praises Taft
Mr. Hearst says that president Taft
is trying TO stiffen into active force the
'-spineless railroad bill" of Roosevelt
He gives Taft credit for prosecuting
criminal trusts and for throwing his
powerful influence behind many needed
laws, among them the corporation tax
bill, the over capitalization bill. bill
providing for postal savings banks, the
parcels post measure and the income tax
bill
"All these measures are good" he
continues, Ssome of them the Roosevelt
administration wilfuIly omitted. others
ii merely neglected: some it discussed
but never accomplished.
IF the people want more of achieve
ment than Taft is giving they must
turn 10 another party, for 1 do not be-
heve that there is another man in the
Republican party who will do more or
as)much-
Most certainly if the people want the
tariff modified they must turn to an
other party, for the tariff will never
be modified by its beneficiaries And
us oeneficiaries control the Republican
party"