Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
TWELVE MONTHS OF TAFT,
PRESIDENT.
Presidents Popularity Gone, His
Party in Ribbons, the People
Disappointed and Resentfu!
says Walter II. Page, Edi-
tor of Worlds Work.

says Walter II. Page, Edi-
tor of Worlds Work.
The latest attack on President
Taft comes from the Worlds Work
edited by Walter II. Page
former member of Roosevelt's country
life commission.
The article says that Taft himself
has said that, because congress repre-
SCENTS districts, sections, etc, the
PRESIDENT lis the only real representa-
tive of the people.
mo man in recent times has gone
into the white house with SO nearly
a universal trust Of the people,"
writes the editor.
but now. at the end of a year,
his party is divided into fierce fac.
lions, his well-nigh universal popular
lily has waned.
He made a logical and well
thought of plan for his administra-
ton. He contended for better and.
more sincere tariff revision-too late.
The people respected his sincerity
while they regretted his yielding
They saw clearly that these leaders
of the party lin congress) could not
be trusted. Yet they accepted the
unsatisfactory result without severe
personal criticism of him, and they
said, Now the president sees that
these leaders do not represent the
conscience and Sincerity Of the party
and henceforth he twill not yield to
them They hoped that he had open
ed the way to shifting of leadership
and they still kept a high expecta-
ton Of his administration.
'Jf the republican masses could
have voted on the question, Shall
Mr.. Aldrich and Mr.. Cannon be re.
tanned as leaders in congress?, no
body doubts what their answer woule
have been.
THE president must decide be.
tween party regularity and the lead.
ership of the people. The old lead
ers stand for the undue influence OF
wealth on government.
There is something terrible and
cruel In MANY wave of popular dis
approval that sweeps over the land
but 1t is public opinion that is domi
nant in our democracy and public OPT
ion has fast withdrawn approval
from the administration since last
summer.
1.-THE people feel that the admins
tration has gone out of touch with
them. They are saying that the cab
met has not single man who has
ever held an elective office of i'm
portance Except the secretary Of
agriculture.)
"The president has able counsel;
gentlemen who have all won distinc
ton as counsel for corporations ant
railroads. But the people, right OF
wrong, feel that these gentlemen
may not know their case.
THE people expected that the tar
/ If would be revised, that the conser
yative policy would be developed ant
hat new regulative acts would b'
passed. The failure was threefold.
i And still, 1t is pointed out. Tai
hopes to hold his party together. TIL
people think the republican LEADER
will treat the conservative plan al
they treated the tariff revision
III the party leaders again givi
him, what they want and not what tn
people want and II the presiden
again submits to such treatment. hi
party will be hopelesslyN split and hill
shance of leadership will be gone.
"The people can not reach Mr.. Aid
Itch. He comes from Rhode Island
But they will not elect a congress
THAT will dare to elect Cannon
speaker.
"The future of the republican part,
belongs to the faction now called
the insurgents, because they repre-
sent the convictions and conscience
If the people.
| Party control is about to bt
shifted. To lead party was {
worthy aim, but our parties nov
ire dissolving groups.
THE makers of wealth and thu
makers of parties and the makers O
presidents are not republicans ant
democrats, as they once were.
| Factions, parties, even presidents
have lost power to allure or OBJ
scure or frighten. What the people
want is a leader, a leader withou'
hesitancy. They have but one enemy
in political life, and they are in earn
est in there fight against that. THAI
enemy is the power, whether demo
cratic or republican, that money
has to do the peoples business ou1
of the peoples sight and by doing sc
it is to secure immunity and priv
lege and more complete control"