Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-06
Special to the Silver Belt.

WASHINGTON, D. c, March g.
 No man who occupies the center or th'
 stage as the president of the unite,
 States does, can escape comment, poI,
 bv the press and by the individual. It
 i: not strange, therefore, that President
 Taft has found himself, ever since ne came before the nation as candidate for the highest office in the gift of the
 neonle. in the dazzling glare of the imaligbt, Sometimes the scrutinlzlng critics were pleased with what that Gobt revealed. sometimes they were dis nosed to be critical. That is the pre- roqative the American voter assumes to himself. In some places he even re- serves the right to "recall them 10 nrivate life if he is displeased with their actions after they have held ofhce for A time sufficiently long to give him an-o opportunity to judge or 'he" in the role of public servants. |,
 That the president has not reilsned the very frank discussion of him, Of ms motives, of his ability, and Of ms chance for reelection, and of the com parison of him with his predecessor, was made strkingly evident by his re marks on February 23 at Newark, N. J., before the Newark board of trade. He referred to the criticisms of the press and called it "hypercriticism, also "something of hysteria, and some thing of hypocricy. He complained that the newspapers were prone to crltl- else his administration, "treating 1t sometimes with contemptuous disdain and sometimes with patrOnizing friend ship" By way of contrast he referred to the hearty reception he received at the meeting he was addressing and said that he would take that as his criterion, and that he would go back to Washing ton and avoid the newspapers.
 It is doubtless true that no presi- dent who ever assumed the duties or the office ever had the more united frlend- shin and regard of the newspapermen the working correspondents, at any rate, in Washington. Throughout the country Mr. Taft was regarded highly There was no taint of scandal about him. He had been clean in office as he had been otherwise. He was considered able. fair. "iudicial," |" and he was look ed on as a sane and safe man. Natur' ally there has been some criticism. Disappointed office holders have voiced the.r discontent. "InteIests' which found the president as adamant, seolded him. Friends of the men who had been or would like to be president, did not find him so great or so good as their particular idol. Advocates of reform did not find their hobbies advancing bv bounds as they hoped that they would do. Oh, the president has had his share of detractors. But on the whole, the country is willing to wait and let him have chance to make good. It would be hard to find better man. I am afraid that the president, feeling the stress of hard work inseparable from his office, and wearied with the efforts to please everyone, has grown a trifle peevish. His term is yet young and there will be lots of time for the president to cultivate the press. He will need it in his business, and it needs him. Meanwhile, what the president really needs, it would seem to an out slider, is a good working cabinet that he can rely on to do most of the work. He is doing too much work now that some firstclass specialists ought to do for him.