Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-21

| VILLA NJ HANDOIIPH HEAHSI.
Severely criticising the administration
OF President Roosevelt and unqualihedly
fndorsing President Taft, William Ran
dolph Hearst of New York, who was
caller at the White House yesterday
afternoon, last night issued a statement
over his own signature.
| mo one can talk with the President
without approaching and respecting his
earnestness and sincerity" he said. Per
sonally, l believe also in his efficiency.
He has been one year in Office, and he has
certainly accomplished more in that one
year than Roosevelt did in his first year.
1T is hardly fair to compare Taft's one
year with Roosevelt's seven, and yet am
not sure than even with that the com
parison might not be to Tafts advantage
Taft's methods are not those of Roose-
welt, but then Taft probably will not
conclude his term with a panic.
ION the whole it seems to me that a
quiet earnest gentleman who came into
office when the country was In the slough
Of adversely, and. after one year in Of
Ace. has placed the country on the high
| road Of prosperity. is quite as valua BILE
President as more snowy and spec
tacular person who found the country in
the height Of prosperity and left it in the
| depths of adversely.
| Work for the Unemployed.
Mr. Hearst admits that he does not
charge Mr.. Roosevelt directly with re-
| sponsibility for the panic of 1907, nor
does he undertake to give Mr.. Taft the
| entire credit for the restoration of pros
perity. He declares, however, that the
administration which is producing more
dividends for business men and finding
work for the unemployed should not BIZ
| too carpingly criticised for certain minor
| faults OF omission or commission.
Taft is carrying out Roosevelt's
policies 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 did not do.
Taft is making the Roosevelt railroad
rate act complete and effective. The
Roosevelt railroad rate act always has
been an utter farce, and everybody who
knew anything about the subject knew
when it was passed that 1t was a farce
and would be a failure. 1t might have
been meant to be failure.
Censure for Mr.. Hepburn.
"At any rate Mr.. Hepburn. the gentle
| man who was selected by the Roosevelt
administration to stand sponsor for that
bill in the House. had but lately been
hung in eff1gy by his enthusiastic con-
stituents for too great friendliness to the
| railroads.
would you have selected that kind of
man, tagged with that kind of testimo-
NAL. to frame that kind Of bill? And can
you imagine Mr.. Roosevelt. the Diogones
of politics, hunting through the House of
| Congress. lantern in hand, to find an
honest man and selecting this executed
eftigy the f1ttest one to frame the peo-
pies railroad bill?"
! Mr.. Hearst says that President Taft is
i trying to stiffen into an active force the
"spineless railroad bill of the Roosevelt
administration. He gives Mr.. Taft credit
for the prosecution Of criminal trusts and
for throwing his powerful influence be-
hind many needed laws, among them the
ton bill, a bill providing for postal saw
ings banks. the parcels post measure and
the income tax bill.
Good Measures Pushed.
"A1l the measures are good" he con-
tinues. Some Of tl1ese the Roosevelt ad-
ministration willfully omitted. others it
airily neglected. and some 1t discussed
but never accomplished.
IF the people want more Of achieve
ment than Taft is giving them they must
turn to another party. for do not be-
| Iieve that there is another man in the
republican party who will do more or as
much.
Most certainly il the people want the
tariff modified, they must turn to an
modified by its benehciaries. And It's
beneficiaries control the republican par
ty."
| Mr. Hearst closes his statement with
the declaration that the American peo-
pie need look for no tariff reform.