The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-29
Vital Washington News.
(By Clyde H. Tavenner.


Washington, Sept. 24.-Presiden,
Taft has made it plain that he hopes
and expects to secure a renomina.
| ton for the Presidency.
This means that he does not ever
yet see the point conveyed in the
returns of the recent elections. Ii
is evident to many that the President
sees no significance in the fact thai
from Maine. to California the candi.
dates branded with his Endorsement
have been retired to private life by
Overwhelming majorities, while
those having his opposition have
everywhere been elevated by the
people.
In view of the decisive repudi-
ton of the Taft Administration in
the recent elections, it becomes in
teresting to know the identity of
the men whose advice the President
has followed to his political down
fall. Here are some of the men in
the Taft cabinet whose pedigree
make it plain why Mr.. Tafts adj
ministration has failed to please the
common people.
Attorney General George c. Wick
ersham-former attorney for the
sugar trust ct was he who in
duced President Taft to recommend
in his annual message against a
Congressional investigation of the
100000 sugar trust underweight
frauds;) Immediately upon taking
office Wickersham dropped suits
which had been started against the
beef trust, taking the opposition thai
he did not believe members of the
trust meant to violate the law and
that nothing could be gained through
prosecution for past" offenses;
Wickersham wrote legal opinion vim
dicating Ballinger and indicting Pin
chot and CLAWS.
Secretary of the State Philander
c. Knox-former attorney for the
steel trust; and of j. p Morgan is
seen by the many in his conduct of
The state department; the Manchur-
ian proposal, for Wall streets bene-
fit, made America the subject of
aughter in every civilized land, and,
with the Crane scandal, practically
ended our influence for the doctrine
of the open air"
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
Does whatever his superior officers
(Taft, Aldrich, Cannon ct all de-
mand in order to hold his position;
has shown himself to be an enemy
of pure food laws by permitting
manufacturers of food products to
use benzoate of soda in any quanti-
ty desired; takes position retail
merchants and not trusts nor tariff
are responsible for increased prices.
(ThlS is official view of the TIA #
administrator.
Charles Nagel, secretary of COM
merce and labor-former attorney
for the Waters-Pierce (Standard ]
on company! he is at the head of
the department in which is located
the bureau of corporations.
Secretary Of War Dickinson-Har-
riman and Illinois Central LAWYER:
showed his hand as a stool pigeon
for the railroads by blocking an in
dependent line of steamships to
Panama.
Secretary of the Treasurer Mac
Veagh-his record is immaterial. as
Aldrich is real head of currency and
finance of country.
-eXpoused and discredit-
ed, but still in office.
Ifutn ABOUT Maine.
Sufficient time has now passed to
get the truth from Maine. Anthem
tic reports show that the democratic
victories there were not won princi-
pally upon state and local issues as
the republican leaders have tried to
represent. The most prominent
issues were:
Failure of the republican party
to fulfill it's campaign pledge to re-
wise the tariff downward, high cost
of living, Cannonism, Haleism, cues
tons pertaining to prohibition.
The democratic congressional can
didates promised to investigate and
expose the following:
The cost of living was affected by
the tariff and the trusts.
Extravaganza in government ex-
penditures.
The part played by Mr. Wicker
sham in the sale of friar lands in
the Philippines.
The amount of money Cortelyou
and other cabinet members squeezed
out of plutocrats for campaign pur-
poses when Roosevelt ran in 1904,
and how much nlUcncock raised IL
Taft four years later.
The efforts of the trusts and syn.
dicates to grab timber and minera
lands and water power sites an6
Ballinger's relation thereto.
The reason why President Taf
joins the Guggenheims in denying
to Alaska territorial government
The influence behind the rubber
schedule, cotton schedule and WOO
schedule of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill.
The part PLAYED by national Of
ticers in promoting the plundering OF
the civilized Indians in Oklahoma
by lawyers, claim agents and politi-
clans.
Generosity of Aldrich.
Republican candidates for con-
gress boast of the generosity of Sen.
ator Aldrich in permitting a large
number of articles to go on the free
list in the new tariff law. And dem