Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-07-09

Republicans who experienced timor-
Gus anxiety lest party pledges might
be neglected or fail because of the
continued stubborn opposition of the
insurgents" are now reassured.
The Republican party has again de-
monstrated that It Is the party Of
performances and has again tri-
umphed over the allies of opposi-
ton.
'It may be surprising to some
people," says writer in the New
York Mail, "but 1t is fact patent
to every competent observer that no
president save Lincoln ever did, or
assisted in doing, SO much in the
first sixteen months Of his tenure.
Never were so many party pledges
so promptly enacted into law. Many
administrations, indeed, have had
less achievement to show after four
full years than that already behind
Mr.. Taft. A fine case OF VIII
liam the Fulfiller' could be made
out of this really unexampled rec
ord" And the Mail, be it remem-
bered, is more inclined to "insur-
gency" than any other Republican
New York newspaper.
or those policies and measures to
which Mr.. Taft considered the Re-
publican party pledged and which he
insisted should be enacted into law,
the most notable may be summar-
lied as follows
Postal savings banks.
| Revision Of railroad law.
| Creation of court of commerce.
Statehood for Arizona and New
Mexico.
Placing conservation" in hands
of the president.
Publicity of campaign contribu-
tions.
| Appropriations for reclamation
projects.
Creating a bureau of mines.
Creating a tariff board.
| Regulating white slave" traffic.
Making available surface coal
lands.
Revision of the tariff.
Economy Of governmental expen-
ditures.
New Philippine tariff.
In all probability no president ev-
er entered upon his office more be-
set with embarrassing inheritances
The "insurgent" movement was In
flower during the past session OF
congress and those imitation Repub.
licans who united with the Demo.
Gratis exertod their influence to dis
credit Mr.. Taft and block his ef
forts to carry out party pledges. Mr.
Taft also inherited tariff revision
which had been so adroitly side
stepped by his immediate predeces
sor. On every side the wreck ant
disruption of my policies" confront
ed him and he faced the problem
of supplanting the reign of the obi,
stick" by the supremacy of law. Tt
D the other vexations came the con
: spiracy of Pinchot and Garfield t,
hamper and confuse the man VIII,
refused to be ruled by the fiedglini
tennis cabinet" of the Roosevelt
regime. But Mr.. Taft held hi
!. course in spite of all obstacles an
!, has emerged from his first year a
K President with victorious account o
: his stewardship. Not all of tn
D laws enacted by congress were wis
: or conformed to the best ideas O
v craftsmanship. In some there
d the vicious taint of demagoguery
!. The interstate commerce commiss
n ion has been overloaded with inar
e propriate functions and there is
e tendency in much of the legislatio
Il to hamper trade and harass com
d merce and public carriers. But MI
/, Taft seemed entirely favorable
= this policy and the enactments re
fleet credit upon his influence an
: accomplishment.
IS Congress has finished it's RECORD
l. Its members may now return to tn
q people and make an accounting. Nc
y a single honest Republican nee
hang his head when he faces his col
d stituents. No one need apologize
n leaders who helped formulate the T
It cord now before the people. The
e have been carried out and this in tn
face of unprecedented oppositio
s from quarters where the Republ
It cans had a right to expect aid an
l. encouragement.