The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-07-21
Washington News Letter.


ington special correspondent of the
Reporter.)
Washington, July 16.-Regular re-
publicans are declaring more boldly
than ever that Roosevelt will indorse
Taft
Vice-President Sherman says that
Roosevelt will indorse the Payne
Aldrich tariff law and the Taft adj
ministration in every particular"
r do not believe it. / do not be-
lfeve it because l read Roosevelt to
be too clever politician to put his
o. X. on such a band of criminals as
that which dominates the republican
party
l wish to make no apology for the
use of the word Criminals / en-
ploy the use of the term advisedly
The Republican party is today con-
trolled body and soul by the sugar
trust, the steel trust, the harvester
trust, the lumber trust and other sim
liar organizations, each and every
one of which is in existence in vi
olation of the antitrust laws of the
country.
Having no legal right to exist,
each of these greedy monopolies is
criminal corporation, and if the at
torney general of the United States
would do his full duty they would
be forced to dissolve.
But if Roosevelt does indorse the
Taft administration it will be and
ought to be his Waterloo, following
in the due allotted time his triumph
ant return from Elba'. If Roose-
welt openly indorses such standpat-
tiers as Taft and Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts it will mean that he
deceived the people as to his true
sentiment as completely as the prize
fighter Jeffries deceived the sporting
world as to his real physical con-
dition
Taft Past Redemption.
Roosevelt will not dare indorse
Taft for these reasons.
First: Taft personally promised re-
vision downward, and then person.
ally signed tariff bill which revised
the tariff upward.
Second: Taft personally aided
Boss Aldrich to cheat the people out
OF an income tax, which would take
some of the burden of taxation off
the poor and place it upon the rich.
Third: Taft personally used all
the power at his command to prevent
Speaker Cannon from being dethron-
ed.
Fourth: Taft upheld Ballinger af-
ter the latter had been exposed and
discredited as having given aid to
Alaska coal land grabbers.
Fifth: Taft counseled with AL
drich, Lodge, Hale, Guggenheim, Pen
rose, Flint, Cannon, Fordney and
other representatives of the special
interests, and refused to accept ad-
vice from such men as LaFollette,
Dolliver, Cummins, Clapp and Muir
dock
Sixth: Taft is personally seeking
to defeat LaFol1ette and other gen
ulne insurgents because they endeav-
ored to revise the tariff in conformity
with the Taft prediction speeches.
Aldrich's Exact Words.
Senator Aldrich on FEBRUARY FL,
1910, in the Senate, when speaking
on the subject of government expenses,
said:
There is no intelligent observer
in Congress or out of it who does not
know that the executive departments
OF this Government are carried on
either under obsolete business meth
DDS or without any business methods
at all. There is no man that has
given this subject any attention what
ever who does not know or believe
that at least 10 per cent of the thous-
and million dollars which we are APP
propriating annually can be saved by
the adoption of business methods.
This question of saving 100000,
600 per year, and it can be demon
strated, in my judgment, that the
saving will be much more than that,
is matter that should receive serious
attention of Congress. If l were a
business man and could be permitted
to do it, / would undertake to run
this Government for $500, 000,0 900
less than it is now run~for.
Lodge and Teddy are Pals!
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; of
Massachusetts, is posing as the bosom
friend OF Roosevelt. He says T. r.
will campaign for his reelection, and
Roosevelt has not denied that he will
go to Lodges rescue. 1t was only
recently that LaFollette, of Wiscon-
sin, in speech in the Senate, ex-
posed this same Lodge as the un-
scrupulous tool of the railroads and
other special interests. Lodge is by
training and nature untitled to rep
resent any part Of the United States
in the Senate He cannot outgroW
the ancient illusion that the business
of the Senate is to legislate for the
rich, regardless of the rights of the
poor. Unless all signs read falsely
Mr. Lodge, of Massa chusetts, who
declares the consumer is a myth
will be retired to private life, yea
and regardless of whether the ex.
president indorses or refuses to in.
dorse.
Uncle Joe'' has not Retired:
"God willing, I'll be back in Wash
ington next session, and it will be
for the Republican majority to de
termine who shall be speaker"
So spoke "Uncle Joe" Cannon the
other day. Speaker Cannon has moi
the least intention of retiring from
the speakership, and the public is
only fooling itself to think other
wise. Cannon has served the cor
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