New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-23

virtues of the President, the writer
says Mr.. Taft subscribed to this
policy: Don't excuse, don't expl ain;
go do it and let them YELL
The insurgent-sympathizer of the
west who thinks the Taft administra-
tion has been a failure may find it
difficult to believe that Mr.. Taft is
almost certain of reelection, yet that
is the indication now. Practical poll
ticians declare that regardless of how
the public stands as to Taft's admin
stration, he already has the re-nomi-
nation bottled. The men who will go
to the next Republican national con-
ventiona are being selected, and selected
with the greatest OF care. Delegates
to. national conventions are generally
either Office holders or men satisfac-
tory to Office holders. So far as it is
within the realm of possibility, Post
master General Hitchcock is seeing to
it that no man with Roosevelt lean
ing gets on the government pay roll.
The Republican presidential nomi-
nation is not gift of the people any
more as was originally intended. 1t
is the gift of the tariff trusts and other
special interests. President Taft paid
the price, and a high price, for re-
nomination, when he signed the
Payne-Aldrich-S moot tariff bill.
A political blunder is move which
receives adverse comment over a wide
section of country. Therefore the APP
pointment of Wade Ellis to the posi-
ton of chairman of the Republican
executive committee of Ohio was a
serious blunder. While soliciting
campaign funds of the corporations of
Ohio, Ellis is retained as special
counsel for the government in trust
prosecutions. George W. Bope, a
prominent Republican of Columbus,
States Senator Dick, in which he
charges that the Standard Oil trust
brought about Ellis first nomination
as attorney general of Ohio through
Mark Hanna, and that no case against
the Standard was ever pushed to a
finish in the courts during Ellis ad-
ministration. Bope says over 100000
farmers in Ohio petitioned Ellis when
he was attorney general of that state
to either compel the International
Harvester trust "a fine Republican
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 pre-
pairing 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 Oil at his right and Henry
81. Rogers at his left, both applaud
ing, Ellis declared that the prosecu-
tions against corporate interests must
cease, and that the public welfare
demanded that halt be called on the
violent outbursts of a radical and in
tOxicated national administration
against the "malefactors of wealth.. y
There are three insurgents who are
neither invited to the White House
nor go there of their own accord.
They are LaF Toilette, Clapp and Cum
Minis. Senator LaFollette went to the
executive Offices early in December,
found the President busy, and before
leaving left word for the President
chat when the latter wanted to see him
he could send for him. Senator Clapp
of Minnesota has not been inside the
White House in ten months, and has
not received any intimation that he is
wanted there. Senator Cummins went
to the White House early in the
session of Congress and predicted the
denomination and reelection of the
President. Since that time he has
kept away. Senator Bristow of Kan
sas has been to the White House two
or three times, but his visits were
short, merely to present friends.
At Duluth, MINI, DR.. Marcus B.
Cullum, Democrat, defeated the Re-
publican mayor, who was candida ate
to succeed himself. Five of the eight
aldermen elected were Democrats.
Tavenner.
The Governor and the County