Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-21

m
w Randolph Hearst, former aspir-
ant for the Democratic nomina-
ton for the presidency, tonight issued
remarkable statement over his own
signature, in which he unqualihedly
indorses Mr.. Taft.
IN doing so he also criticises in Sc
verest terms the administration Of
President Roosevelt and in so many
words warns the American nation
against a renewal of the political DOM
nation of the former president.
Mr.. Hearst called at the White
House this afternoon. He 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.
mo one can talk with the president
without appreciating and respecting
his earnestness and sincerity" the
statement says. Personally / believe
year in office and he has certainly ac-
complshed more in that year than
Roosevelt did in his first year.
"It is hardly Iair to compare Taft's
one year with Roosevelt's seven, and
yet 1 am not sure, even with that, the
comparison might not be to Taft's ad-
vantage. Tafts methods are not those
of Roosevelt, but then Taft probably
will not conclude his term with panic.
MORE VALUABLE; LESS SNOWY
ION the whole. it seems to me
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 val
liable a president as a more showy
and spectacular person who found the
country in the height Of prosperity and
left it in the depths of adversity."
Mr.. Hearst admits he does not charge
Mr. Roosevelt directly with respon-
sibility for the panic of 1907, nor does
he undertake TO give Mr.. Taft the en-
tire credit for the restoration of pros
perity. He declares, however, that an
administration which is producing
more dividends for business men and
finding work for the Unemployed
should not be too carpingly criticised
for certain minor faults Of omission or
commission.
Taft Is carrying out Roosevelt's pol
icies in the one way that they ought
to be carried out. That is to say, he
is doing the things that Roosevelt
should have done, but he did not do.
Taft is making the Roosevelt rail-
DAD act complete and effective. The
Roosevelt railroad rate act has always
been an utter farce and everybody who
knew anything about the subject knew
when it was passed that it was a farce
and would be failure. 1t might have
been meant to be failure.
-''At any rate, Mr.. Hepburn. the gen.
tleman who was selected by the Roose-
velt administration to stand sponsor
for that bill in the house. had been but
lately hung in effigy by his enthusias-
tic constituents for too great friendli-
ness to the railroads.
ROOSEVELT AS DIOGENEs
would you have selected that kind
of a man, tagged with that kind of
testimonial, to frame that kind of a
bill? And can you imagine Mr.. Roose-
welt, the Diogenes of politics, hunting
through the house of congress, lantern
in hand, to find an honest man and Sc
lecting this executed effigy as the fit
test one to frame the peoples railroad
bill?"
Mr.. Hearst says President Taft is
trying to stiffen into active force "the
spineless railroad rate bill" of the
Roosevelt administration. He gives
Mr.. Taft credit for the prosecution of
criminal trusts, and for throwing his
powerful influence behind many needed
laws, among them the corporation tax
bill. the capitalization bill, bill
providing for postal savings banks,
parcels post measure and the income
tax bill.
"All these measures are good" he
continues, "some of them, the Roose-
welt administration wilfully omitted,
others 1t merely neglected. Some it
discussed, but never accomplished.
'If the people want more of achieve
ment than Taft is giving, they must
turn to another party for I do not be-
lieye there is another man in the Re-
publican party who will do more, or
as much.
''Most certainly. If the people want
the tariff modified. they must turn to
another party, for the tariff will never
be modified by it's benef1ciaries. And
its benefciaries control the Republi-
can party"
Mr.. Hearst closed his statement with
the declaration that the American peo-
pie need look for no tariff reform He
signed his full name at the end Of
the document.