The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-21
Publisher Talks With Taft and Then Gives Out
 a Statement
HEARST INDORSES TAFT
 AND HIS ADMINISTRATION
While Hearst Docs Not Charge Ro0se- welt With Being Direct Cause of Panic, He Holds That He
 Is Not BInmeless

| Washington, April 2O.-Wiilam R. Hearst Issued tonight a remarkable state- ment over his own signature in which he unoualifedly indorses MT. Taft. In doing so he also criticises in severest terms the administration of President Roosevelt and in so many words warns the Amer ican nation against renewal of the po- litical domination of the former President
 Mir. Hearst called at the White House this forenoon. He spent half hour in the executive office with the President. Upon leaving Mir Hearst said he had called merely to pay his respects to Mr. Taft, whom he said he admired.
 Later MT. Hearst issued his indorse- ment of the Taft administration. NO one can talk with the President without ap- preciating and respecting his earnestness and sincerity" the statement proceeds Personally believe also in his eff ciency. He has been one year in office and he has certainly accomplished more in that one year than Roosevelt did in his first year,
 Continuing, the statement says:
 "It is hardly fair to compare MT. Tafts one year with Roosevelt's seven, and yet am not sure that even with that the comparison might not be to Taft's dis credit. MT. Taft's methods are not those of Roosevelt. but then Taft will prob- ably not conclude his term with a panic.
 'On the whole it seems to me that a quiet, earnest gentleman who came into office when the country was in the slough of diversity, and after one year in office has placed theecountry on the high road of prosperity, Is quite as valuable Pres ident as a more showy and spectacular parsonage who found the country in the height Of prosperity and left it in the depths of adversity''
 MT. Hearst admitted thatf lie did not charge Mir Roosevelt directly with re- sponsibility for the panic of 1907, nor doef he undertake to give MT. Taft the en- | tire credit for the restoration of pros 1 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 carpngly criticised for certain minor faults of omission or commissionn | Taft is carrying out Roosevelts poli- cies in the one way that they ought to be carried out said MT Hearst, that is to say, he is doing thngs-he is doing things Roosevelt should have done Taft is making history. The railroad rate law has always been a farce and every body who knows anything about the sub | ject knows when it was passed 1t was a farce and failure. It might have been meant to be a failure"
 At any rate. Mir Hepburn the gen tleman who was selected by the Roose- welt administration to stand sponsor for that bill in the House. declared MT. Hearst, has lately been hanged in ef- | hgy by his enthusiastic constituents for too great friendlinss to the railroads. l Would you have selected that kind of man. tagged with that kind of a testimonial, to frame that kind of a | bill? MT. Hearst continued, and can you imagine the Diogenes, Mir Roose- welt. hunting through Congress. lantern in hand, to find an honest political man and selecting this effigy as the Attest oe to frame the peoples railroad bill?n | MT. Hearst said President Taft was | trying to stiffen Into an active force the "spineless railroad bill" of the Roose- welt administration. He gave Mir 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 over-capitalization bill, bill pro- viding for postal savings bank, the percels post measure, and the income tax bill.
 All these measures" he continued Some of these, the Roosevelt adminis- tratlon wllfully omitted, others it merely neglected. and some it discussed but never accomplished. If the people want more of achievement than Taft 10 giving them. they must turn to another party, for I don't believe there Is an- other man in the republican party who can do as much or more.
 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 beneficiaries,' con- | tinues the statement And the bene- fciaries control the republican party, Mir. Hearst concludes.
 MT. Hurst signed his full name at the end of the document.