Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-07
TO
MAKE NOISE LIKE
TRUST BUSTING
Determined Effort to Be Made
to Win Support of Theodore
Roosevelt and Powerful Fol-
lowing for Taft,

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The republican party finds inself
in such a condition today that, IN
order Ter the administration to gather
10 Itself all the strength II chr muster.
MIR. Taft and his advisors, It Is alles-
ed. feel they are fortunate in being
able to show more clearly oven than
they have in the past that they are
doing. ana viii do, everything In their
power to "clinch' the Roosevelt poli-
cios. Their activity in this direction,
ii is claimed, win lie nrst apparent
through the department OF Justice,
which branch Of the government now
has in It's possession a wealth Of IN
formation regarding thc operations
Of the great corporations Of the eouh-
try.
Action will be had, It Is promised
by the attorney general against eVe'y
corporation which has been found by
the eaglc-eycd agents of the depart
ment of Justice to be breaking or
-cending the law. This Information
comes from some of the highest AID
ylsers of the president. and conplei
with 1t is the news that up to tins
time the administration is without
of any sort from the re-
TURNING former president, Culontl
Roosevelt. as to what stand he VIII
take regarding the present situation
IN the republican party, This admtl-
istlation is too wise to ignore the
Immense strength it can win By hay
ing as one of It's ardent Supporters
Roosevelt. the man who was the CHER
boomer of william Howard TAFT Tor
the presidency.
Mr.. Taft's advisers believe, there
fore. that the best way to win the
country and MT. Roosevelt Is to dem
o~nstrate I'm the open and by emphatic
action that the Roosevelt policies are
the policies of the government today.
The Tart people point out that thus
is no new doctrine on his part. For
the past two months, under his d.
rcction, the department of justice has
been at work gathering every sort of
material regarding the conduct and
operations oil the trusts, good and
bad,
No more striking example Of this,
it is claimed, can be had than the
painstaking way in which Attorney
General Wickcrsham went into the
question of compelling the Apaeondt
Copper company to change It's meth
DDS of smelling. AN action which was
begun in the open onls a few days
ago. And the same minute care
which was devoted ia discriminating
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been used la investigating the larger
issues ANA phases of the corporations
activities.
As a campaign resource ana as a
proof Of The anxiety of the admins
tration to demonstrate that thcre IS
no reasonable ground for opposition
from the Roosevelt or any other
wing OF the party, the department Of
Justice. according 10 the presidents
friends. oncrs the greatest advantages
at ibis lime. II has HE information.
and Is ready 60 use IL.
Ia addition to this. There Is a re-
vivaI of the report that the supreme
court viii hand down on Aprilli, its
opinion In Tho tobacco trust cnse,
aud that this will give the udministra-
ton an unerring guide as to what
lines il shall follow in It's prosecution
of the offending corporations.
some weeks ago 81 was said that
the court would not give this opinion
untii 1t was ready to decide the stan
dard OH ease. but the records and
briefs in the standards case are 50
volumlnous and win take up so mucn
of the courts time that now the prob
ability is That the tobacco decision
VIII not Doe longer delayed
President Tart has been absolutely
confident all along hat The govern
ment viii win both eases. and. as ia
is~as7 iu effh Hrc the same. the to-
ts,eco decision VIII DE enough {" les
The prosecution Of the onending trusts
proceed without DELAY.