The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-24
TAFT AND HIS CHANGES FOR A
 REORGANIZATION
REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF RESULT OF DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH
 IN MAINE. FARMERS WASHINGTON COR RESPONDENT ABLY REVIEWS EXISTING POLITICAL
 SITUATION.
By Clyde H. Tavenner.) )

l By Clyde H. Tavenner.)
 Washington, Sept. 24. President Taft has made it plain that he hopes I and expects to secure a, renon1ination
 for the Presidency
 This means that he does not even
 yet see the point conveyed in the re-
 turns of the recent elections. It is
 evident to many that the President
 sees no significance in the fact that
 from Maine to California the candf- ! dates branded with his indorsenent | have been retired to private life by l overwhelming majorities, while those l having his opposition have everywhere 1 been elevated by the people. 1 In view of the decisive repudiation | of the Taft administration in the re- | to know the identity of the men whose | advice the President has followed to 1 his political downfall. Here are some l of the men in the Taft cabinet whose pedigrees make it plain why MT. Taft's s administration has failed to please the common people:
 Attorney General George C. Wicker shan1-Fornler attorney for the sugar l trust; Git was he who induced Presi- l dent Taft to recommend in his annual message against a Congressional in underweight frauds); immediately up on taking office Wickersham dropped suits which had been started against the beef trust taking the position
 
 trust meant to violate the law and that nothing could be gained through prosecutions for past offenses; Wickersham wrote. legal opinion vim dicating Ballinger and indicting Pin chot and G1avis.
 Secretary of State 4Phi1ander c. trust; hand of J. P. Morgan is seen by many in his conduct of the State department; the Manchurian proposal, for Wall streets benefit, made Amer a civilized land, and, with the Crane scandal, practically ended our influence for the doctrine of ''the open door,
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Does whatever his superior officers Craft, Aldrich Cannon, ct al.) demand in order to hold his position: has food laws by permitting manufactur- CTS of food products to use benzoate of soda, in any quantity desired; takes position retail merchants and not trusts nor tariff are responsible for increased prices. CThis is official view of the Taft adninistration) Charles Nagel, Secretary of Com merce and Labor-Forner attorney for the Waters-Pierce GStandard) Oil Company; he is at the head of the de- partment in which is located the bu- reaiI of corporations
 Secretary of War Dickinson-Harrf- man and Illinois Central lawyer; showed his hand as a stool pigeon for the railroads by blocking an tndepen- dent line of steamships to Panama.
 Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagll His record is immateria1. as Aldrich is real head of currency and Hanance of country.
 Rallinger-Exposed and discredited, but still in office.
 TRUTH ABOUT MAINE.
 Sufficient time has now passed to get inc truth from Maine Authentic re- ports show that the Democratic vic tories there were not won principally upon State and local issues as the Re- publican leaders have tried to repre- sent. The most prominent issues were:
 Failure of the Republican party to fulfil it's eampaign pledge to revise yii ing Cannonism. Fia1eism, questions pertaining to prohibition.
 The Democratic Congressional can didates promised to investigate and expose the following:
 The cost of living as affected by the tariff and the trusts. c ditures
 The part played by Mr. wickersham in the sale of friar lands in the Philip pines.
 The amount of money Cortelyot1 and other cabinet members squeezed out of p1utocrats for campaign purposes when Roosevelt ran in 1904 and how much Hitchcock raised for Taft four years later.
 The efforts of the trusts and syndi- cates to grab timber and mineral lands
 
 relation thereto.
 The reasons why President Taft joins the G.uggenheinas in denying to Alaska territorial government.
 The influences behind the rubber schedule. cotton schedule and wool of the Payne-A1drich tariff bill.
 The part played by national officers in promoting the plundering of the civilized Indians of Oklahoma by law yers, claim agents and politicians.
 GENEROSITY OF ALDRICH.
 Republican candidates for Congress drich in permitting a large number Of articles to go the free list in theI new tariff law. And Democratic can didates are telling what the free List 1 really consists of. Some of the things | that the generous Rhode Island states | man permitted on the free list were horse hair. Then there are birds | eggs lemon juice, turtles and junk. | Also acorns, bones, ashes, zaffer, cat gut fossils, Brazilian pebbles and |
 EXTENSIVE HORSESHOEING!
 One hundred and forty dollars for street car tickets; $237.66 for horse $42955 for soap and brushes! government in 1909. The horseshoeing item is gem as sample of the much boasted Taft policy of "cut-to- s237. .66 refers to the shoeing of four horses for year!
 TARIFF INCREASES PRICES.
 Prof. J. P. Norton, of Yale Univer- sity, declares that the increased pro- portionate output of gold'' is not the cause of increased prices. Prices in this country. under protec- ton, have advanced 50 per cent. more than in England, under free trade, he says. In all countries under the gold standard, the output of gold must operate uniformly. Therefore, Prof. Norton concludes. there must be some special cause at work in this country He suspects it is the Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
 A GROWING ARMY