Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-01
N r. DOLLlVEn'S
INSURGENCY.

Mr. Dolliver. who declines to take
seriously Mr. Canpons inflammatory
utterances with regard TO insurgents.
although Mr.. Cannon is the titular
head of the party in the house. con-
fines himself to parliamentary Ian
guage and moderate statements in
criticising the attitude Of the present
administration toward all who do
not swallow the pill of Aldrichism
and Taftism without making faces
or protests.
Custom permits the ant-ma thine
politician little more latitude in his
choice of terms of excoriation than
organization. Moreover the anti
courts popularity by violence of
speech while the opposition risks
disaster by following that course.
Yet Mr.. Dolliver speaks with re
straint and keeps within the bounds
of truth and temperatures, says the
Courier-Jaurnal.
Mr.. Delivers assertion that Presi-
dent Taft's speech at winona was
an indiscretion. published simultane
ously with a Lincoln day speech con.
Trajectory in spirit and terms. draws
attention TO one reason why the Wi
mona Grafton was a blunder The
greater blunder was that to defend
the Payne-Aldrich bill as the bes'
ever enacted" served merely TO draw
attention to the Presidents willing
ness to let others write as if the
were president and to allow himsel
70 be used as the medium through
which their false figures could b
? paraded as proof OF the benignity @
law which President Taft himsel
had said only a short time Prov 1usly
was not all that it should be
When President Taft might hav
5 covered himself with glory by prov
ing his superiority to machine il
nuences. he tamely signed the Payn,
: Aldrich abomination and Iamely apo
= ogized for it. His next utterance II
dorsed it as a piece of practical pc
tiles insuring party solidarity.
which he considered more importan
; than good legislation. according I
his own rather frank admission
! When he had progressed to II
point of pronouncing eulogies upo
= Mr.. Aldrich and panegyrics upon tn
! tariff law, the president had prove
I himself willing 10 shout for an,
thing that politicians OF the AIdric
clique considered in need Of pres
Dental bolstering. Mr. Deliver say
. the figures the President used WEI
bogus. That they were so in tw
ways is beyond successful contradi
ton In the first place they wei
prepared for the president. like ii
Bal1inger generation. In the secor
place they illustrated the adage TIL
while figures do not lie liars som
time figure. Bogus figures and do
uments have had too large a place
the record of President Taft's OF
a ciaI utterances. Apologizing for Il
e president, upon the ground of b
, good intentions balancing his b;
o breaks, has about run its cours
n The president will hereafter fiji
that when Official utterances are ma
b touching important matters the pu
lie lie viii be less concerned TO knc
N who is the author of the presiden
o latest speech than why the pre-
IT dent consents to make himself I
mouthpiece for the least desirable e
o ment OF his party and why the pre-
b dent, rather than those writing
"a figuring as if they we're president,
ri not to be held accountable, as
adult. a man Of sound mind. an of
a holder Of wide experience and Ia
on but not least, the Chief Executive,
o Mr.. Delivers comparison betwe
to DR.. Cook as a discoverer and ]
rii Aldrich as the reviser of the Tar
N is apt enough. Since President T
NJ has virtually assumed responsible
DIV or at least made himself access