Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-11
General Makes an Aggressive
Defense Of Administration POICieS---
"Who Has Accomplished So Much
In So Short a Time?"

rt,erod for tie policies and admins
ration of William Fl. Taft. Attorney
General George w. Wickersham, at the
Anromattox celebrate ton of the Ham
anon Club last night. fiayed the Presi-
dents detractors; smote the Republic
can Insurgents hip and thigh, reviewed
me acts Of the first year Of the ad-
,oinistration and, declaring that every
hedge made in the republican plat
forra of 1908 had been fulfilled to tie
extent Of the possible limits Of execu-
tive action, challenged in ringing
ZONES. what other administration can
point 70 the accom- plishmert Of so
rnlcl. in so snort a time?'
II was the general feeling that the
Attorney General was speaking for
his chief as he recalled the campaign
hedges one by one and pointed to the
eyec"tive's action upon them after
taking Office.
The administration determination
TO enforce the Sherman law against
trusts ana mpnopolieS, he reiterated;
the tariff, he defended and declared
that as n revenue producer it had no
anual. while it's maximum and mini
mum provisions provided a powerful
wr9pon for the protection of American
commerce. Pointing to the treaSury'S
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nor" ''lah %''ooV'oo' 10Y W H9C'H
year ending on June Goth, 1911, the
attorncY general said it reflected econ
on,ies which would reduce the annu-
At expenses of the government forty
two million dollars and turn IN eSti-
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