The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-21
The President Declared to Be a
Quiet, Earnest Gentleman,
Who Has Placed Country on
the High Road of Prosperity.
DIVIDENDS FOR CAPITAL,
WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED
Railroad Rate Act Being Made
Complete and Effective by
the Present Administration
Strengthening Weak Places.
SLAP AT COL. ROOSEVELT

w TASHINGTON. April 2O.-WilIisan
Wv Randolph Hearst, former as
piraEf for the Democratic nOm-
inatiOn for the presidency, tonight is
sued q remarkable statement over his
own signature, in which he unquali-
fiedly endorses MIR. Taft.
In doing so he also crificises I'm sew
crest terms the administration of Pres
ident Roosevelt and in so many words
warns the American nation against a
renewal of the political domination OF
the former President.
Mr. Hearst called at the White House
this afternoon. He spent half an hour
with the President. Upon leaving, Mr.
Hearst said he had called merely to
pay his respects TO MIR. Taft, whom he
said he admired. Later he issued his
endorsement of the Taft administra-
ton.
mo one can talk with the President
without appreciating and respecting
his earnestness and sincerity" the
statement says. Personally, 1 believe
also in his efficiency. He has been one
year in office and he certainly accom-
plished more in that one year than
Roosevelt did in his first year.
TT is hardly fair to compare Tafts
one year with Roosevelt's seven, and
yet am not sure even with that, the
comparison might not be to Taft's ad
vantage Taft's methods are not those
of Roosevelt, but then Taft will prob
ably not conclude his term win
panic
con the whole it seems to me a quiet,
earnest gentleman VINO came into Of
flee when the country was in the slough
of adversely, and after one year in Of
flee has placed the country on the high
road of prosperity, is quite as valuable
a President as a more snowy and spec
tacular person who found the country
in the height of prosperity and left it
in the depths of adversely"
Administration Producing Dividends.
Mr.. Hearst admits he does not charge
Mr.. Roosevelt directly with response
bility for the panic of 1907, nor does he
undertake to give Mr.. Taft the entire
credit for the restoration of prosperity.
He declares, however, that an admins
tration which is producing more divi-
bends for business men and finding
work for the unemployed, should not
be too carpingly criticised for certain
minor faults of omission or commits
"Taft is carrying out Roosevelt's
policies in the 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 so.
Taft is making the Roosevelt rail-
road rate act complete and effective.
The Roosevelt railroad rate act has al
ways been an utter farce and every
body who knew anything about the
subject knew when 1t was passed that
it was a farce and would be a failure.
1t might have been meant to be fall
ure.
AT any rate Mr.. Hepburn, the gen.
tIeman who was selected by the ROOSe-
Welt administration to stand sponsor for
that bill in the House, had been but
lately hung in effigy by his enthusiast
tic constituents for too great friend
illness to the railroads.
''WouId you have selected that kind
monial, to frame that kind of bill?
And can you imagine Mr.. Roosevelt,
the Diogenes of politics. hunting
through the House of Congress, lam
tern in hand, to find an honest man and
selecting this executed effigy as the
finest one to frame the peoples rail-
road b4ll?"
Gives Taft Credit.
Mr.. Hearst says President Taft is
trying to stiffen into active force the
spfneIess railroad rate bill of the Roose-
Welt administration. He gave Mr.. TAFT
credit for the prosecution OF criminal
trusts and for throwing his powerful
influence behind many needed laws
among them the corporation tax Dill,
the disqualification bill, a bill pro-
viding for postal savings banks. the
parcels post measure and the Income
tax bill.
sAI these measures are good" he
continued, "some Of them; the Roose-
velt administration wilfuHy omitted,
others it merely neglected. Some II dis
cussed but never accomplished
'If the people want more of achieve
ment than Taft IS giving they must
turn to another party, for l do not pc
lieve there is another man in the Re-
publican party who will do more or
as much.
Most certainly if the people want
the tariff modified they must turn TO
another party. for the tariff will never
he modified. by its beneficiaries. And
its benefieiaries control the Republican
party" ~,
Mr.. Hearst closed his statement with
the declaration that the american pe0-
ME need look for no tariff reform. He
signed his full name at the end Of the
document.