Arizona republican., 1910-01-20

per man at the national capital than
to find out if he could just what
President Taft thinks and intends.
He reports i'm his letter that he has
secured authoritative information" as
to both things-the presidents IDEAS
and the presidents intentions.
The president thinks, writes
OLaughlin to the Chicago Tribune,
that he has a double duty resting
upon him, viz, to press Through to
enactment the reforms promised by
the republican party and it's candi-
date in 1908, and to see to it that
the republican party itself as ma
tional organization suffers no det-
riment. He wants to have his ad-
ministration remembered as a pledge
redeeming, eform-accomplishing adj
ministration. It's a point of personal
honor as well as official obligation
with him to carry through those
amendments to the interstate COM
merce act, and he will leave no stone
unturned" to do it. So of the con-
servation of the country's natural
resources. He thinks himself entitled
to the help of all good republicans as
poration of business concerns engaged
in interstate commerce is different;
he's all for it personally, but it is not
party measure and the republicans
in congress are free to vote as they
please. At this point the Chicago
Tribune's correspondent becomes in
teresting enough to be worth quoting
verbatim:
The president naturally is impa-
.tient at the action of certain senators
and members of the house in i'm
putting motives to him which are
discreditable and are, circulated, he
feels, only for the purpose of doing
him injury in the eyes of the people,
clouding real issues and making his
task of securing the legislative re-
forms he desires more difficult of
achievement. So far as his personal
fortunes are concerned. the president
does not care a rap what these men
may do or say. So far as the opera
lions of the government are con-
cerned, their criticism will not cause
him to depart in the slightest degree
from the course Mhich he believes to
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will continue to frame his recon-
best judgment in order TO give the
people legal remedies which he con-
siders essential to their wellbeing."
The president would frown strongly,
O'Laughlin reports. upon any at
tempt to pack the Ballinger- Pinchot
committee; his view is that the peo-
pie are entitled to the whole truth.
and he wants it himself. If any
guilty person or corporation escapes
just punishment, it will be no fault
of his. He regrets the conditions that
have developed in the house; his
views as to Speaker Cannon are well
known But he does not see how
the executive can properly intervene
in what is the houses own business
He wishes that all the postoffices,
etc, in the United States were under
the merit system. He has never
threatened to use the appointing pow
er coercively; on the other hand he
is not disposed to put weapons in the
hands of his enemies. Naturally"
reports O'Laughlin, "the president is
anxious that the division which exists
in the republican party shall cease
At the same time he does not appear
to have a definite program in mind
as to what he will do. He will OBJ
serve the conduct of every man in
congress and will be the sole judge
as to whether he is supporter of the
administration or not"