The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-21
HEARST BACKS TAFT.
Draws Parallel Between This Admin
istratiOn and RooseveIt's.

Washington, April 21.-William
Randolph Hearst, former aspirant for
the Democratic nomination for the
presidency has issued a remarka BILE
which he unqualifiedly indorses Pres
ident Taft. In so doing he also criti-
clseS in SeVereSt terms the admins
tration of President Roosevelt and in
so many words warns the American
nation against a renewal of the dom
ination of the former president. Mr..
Hearst called at the White House. He
spent a half hour with the president
in the executive office. Upon leaving
Mr.. Hearst said he had called merely
to pay his respects to Mr.. Taft, whom
he said he admired. Later he issued
his endorsement of the Taft admins
tration.
No one can talk with the presi-
dent without appreciating and re-
specting his earnestness and SINGER
ity,' the statement proceeds. Per
sonally I believe also in his efficiency
He has been one year in office and
he has certainly accomplished more
in that one year than Roosevelt did
in his first term.
one year with Roosevelt's seven, and
Vet 1 am not sure that even then the
comparison might not be to Tafts ad-
vantage. Taft's methods are not those
of Roosevelt. but then Taft will prob
ably not conclude his term with
panic.
ION the whole, it seems to me that
q quiet, earnest gentleman who came
into office when the country was in
the slough of adversely, and after one
year in office, has placed the country
on the high road to prosperity, is
quite as valuable president as
who found the country in the height
of prosperity and left it in the depths
of adversely"
Mr.. Hearst admits he does not
n wit
responsibility for the panic of 1907,
nor does he undertake to give Mr..
Taft the entire credit for the restora-
ton of prosperity He declares, now
ever, an administration which is pro-
ducing more dividends for business
men and finding work for the unem-
ployed should not be too carpingly
criticised for certain minor faults of
omission or commission.
Taft is carrying out Roosevelt poll
cies in the one 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.
1.-THE Roosevelt railway rate has al
ways been an utter farce and every
body who knew anything about the
subject knew when it was passed that
st was a &c and would be failure.
At any rate. Mr.. Hepburn. the gentle
man who was selected by the Roosevelt
administration to stand sponsor for
that bill in the house had been but
lately hung in effigy by his enthusiastic
constituents for too great friendliness
to the railroads. Would you have Sc
1ected that kind of man, tagged with
that kind of a testimonial to frame
that kind of a bill? And can you
imagine Mr.. Roosevelt, the Diogenes of
politics, hunting through the house of
congress- lantern in hand, to find an
honest man and selecting this executed
effgy as the fittest one to frame the
PEOPLES railroad bill2'
Mr. Hearst says President Taft is
trying to stiffen into active force the
"spineless railroad rate bill'' of the
Roosevelt administration. He gives
Mr. 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 decentralization bill. bill
providing for postal savings banks, the
parcels post measure and the income