The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-29
TAFT all Right
SAYS HEARST
NO 50 COL. RoosEvELr, VIM.
EDITOR ATTACKS
VIOLENTLY

correcting Blum
ders Of Preceding one-cou,....
Prosperous After Lear Of Tar r..
inc.
Washington, April 23-w,u
Randolph Hearst. former aspirant -,
the Democratic nomination for ;,
presidency, has issued remarkah,.
statement. over his own signaturo
which he unQualifiedly Endorsed N,
Taft. A''
In doing SO he also criticises in ..
Verest terms the administration .,
President Roosevelt, and in so m.,.
words warns the American nation
against renewal of the political dom.
nation of the former president
Mr.. Hearst called at the White
House yesterday afternoon. He sno,+
half an hour with the president Unon
leaving. Mr.. Hearst said he had cal,oa
merely to pay his respects to Mr. Taft
whom he said he admired. Later bo
issued his indorsment of the Taft ad.
ministration.
mo one can talk with the president
without approaching and RESPECTING
his earnestness and sincerity" the
statement says.
Believes Him Efficient.
Personally, believe also in his Of.
ficiency. He has been one year in Of.
fee, and he has certainly accomplish.
ed more in that year than Roosevelt
did in his first year.
1T is hardly fair to compare Tafts
one year with Roosevelt's seven, and
yet am not sure even with that the
comparison might not be to Taft's ad.
vantage. Taft's methods are not those
of Roosevelt, but then Taft probably
will not conclude his term with a
panic.
"On the whole, it SENS to me a
quiet, earnest gentleman, who came
into office when the country was in
the slough of adversely, and after one
year in office has placed the country
on the high road of prosperity, is quite
as valuable a president as more
snowy and spectacular person who
found the country in the height Of
prosperity and left it in the depths Of
adversely
Mr.. Hearst admits he does not
charge Mr.. Roosevelt directly with
responsibility for the panic of 1907,
nor does he undertake to give Mr..
Taft the entire credit for the restora-
ton of prosperity. He declares, how
ever, that an ADMINISTRATION which Is
producing more dividends for the rail-
road men and finding work for the un'
employed should not be too carpingly
criticised for certain minor faults OF
omission or commission.
Carrying Out Roosevelt Policies
''Taft is carrying out Roosevelts
policies in the one way that they ought
to be carried out. That is to say, ne
is doing the things that Roosevelt
should have done, but did not 90.
"Taft is making the railroad bill rate
act complete and effective. The Roose-
welt railroad act has always been al
utter farce, and everybody who knew
anything about the subject knew wnen
it passed that it was farce and wouid
be a failure. It might have Deen
meant to be failure.
sAt any rate, Mr.. Hepburn, the gen
tleman who was selected by the Roose
welt administration to stand sponsoi
for that bill in the house, had Deen
but lately hanged in effigy by MS 81
thusiastic constituents for too sie''
friendliness to the railroads. -
would you have selected tnat NV
Of man, tagged with that kind Oh 81
timonials. to frame that kind OF Ol'.'
and can you imagine Mr.. Roosess's
the, Diogenes of politics, nun... .o
through the house of congress- lan.e "a
in hand. to find an honest man. auu
selecting this executed effgy as Nv ~,
fittest one to frame the people i'A
road bill?" .r.f+
Mr.. Hearst says that President ls,s
is trying to stiffen into active io .hs
the "spineless railroad bill o. ;s s
Roosevelt administration. He s" ~
Mr.. Taft credit for the prosecutor is
criminal trusts. and for throWlns 800.
powerful influence behind many n ZION
ed laws. among them the corpoIa =, .
tax bill, the oyer-capitalizatlon D us
bill providing for postal savings . ps' IN,
the parcels post measure ana 'D0
come tar bill. -. he
"All these measures are soou pose
continued. "Some Of them the n .,.sd
yelt administration) wilfully om a 4
others ii merely neglected. SOM
discussed but never accompasne.'
HE Choice Among RepuD.'ss as;eve-
III the people want more OF aoI INST
ment than Taft is giving they not
turn to another party. for ~ - the
believe there Is another man :. 20 or
Republican party who will do moro