The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-07-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.

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LaFollette formally projected himself into
the field as candidate for the Presiden-
tial nomination next year under condi-
tons that apparently make it impossible
for Kim and his followers ever to take any
other position than that of unyielding
hostility TO the President and all that he
stands for. The Wisconsin insurgent did
not content himself with burning his
bridges behind him. He dynamited the
foundations and approaches, so thatifthe
Republican party makes Taft its standard
bearer next year, it will be impossible for
LaFollette and his following to return
from the bad lands Of insurgency across
the gorge to the level plains of Republic
can regularity
After listening to LaFollette's scathing
condemnation of what Taft has done
and what he has failed to do that the in
surgents claim be has promised to do, the
general feeling was that bolt of the in.
surgents was inevitable in the event that
the President again secured the Repnbli-
can Presidential nomination. LaFollette
at least can never give his support 10 Taft
under any conceivable circumstances.
He must flock by himself or join the
Democratic party. His purpose undoubt.
eddy is to become a candidate for the
Presidential nomination as an indepen-
dent progressive Republican, and in this
purpose it is already known be will be
backed by fairly well perfected organi-
cation that will not lack funds nor the
support of men of distinction who have
heretofore acted with the Republican
party. The split in the Republican party
is complete, and the prospect of Demo.
cratic success in next years campaign is
more certain than eyer.
Nv
The effort to GUST DIR. Harvey w. Wiley,
pure food expert of the Government, will
be investigated by the House Commi
on Expenditures in the Department of
Agricultural.
I'VE want to see who is behind the ef-
fort to GUST DIR. Wiley" said Chairman
Moss. II have sent call to the mem.
bers of the committee. We will discuss
every phase of the matter and then sub.
poena witnesses"
The charges against DIR. Wiley and his
associates are that there was connivance
and an effort to circumvent the law in the
method chosen by the officers of the
Bureau of Chemistry to secure the SER
vices of Professor H. H. Rusby, of New.
ark. N j., as pharmacognist of the
Bureau.
Although DIR. Wiley refused to discuss
the charges. DIR. Wiley's friends in the
service. men closely associated with him
in his work. declare they have evidence
to show that the mover of the charges is
the Whiskey Trust. aided by manufac-
turers, who have been fined for violations
Of the Pure Food and Drug act.
The fight Of the whiskey Trust oates
back to 1907, when the Bureau of Chemis-
try was called upon to decide the ques-
ton, What is whiskey?"
When the question of "What is whis.
ky?" came up. in 1907, for an opinion,
DR.. Wiley submitted one 10 Secretary
Wilson. Solicitor McCabe read the
opinion and disapproved it. He recon-
mended to the Secretary that DIR. Dunlap
give an opinion aud that he, McCabe.
give one, Secretary Wilson agreed to this.
and two additional opinions were render
ed. Dr.. Wiley's decision was put aside.
over his protest. and the opinion sub.
mitted by Solicitor McCahe was substi-
tuted. This .opinion, however, was
changed after a hearing Of the whisky
makers before Solicitor General Bowers,
to conform almost with DR.. Wiley's
opinion.
When the House committee begins its
investigations il will have placed before
It the charge that the opinion on whisky.
purporting TO have been written nv
Solicitor McCabe. was not written by him
him. but WAS. in fact. written by an at
torney of the Wholesale Liquor Dea' ers'
Association of the United States.
+*4
Governor Charles S. Deneen, OF Illi-
nois, on Thursday. swore that he had not
used the name Of President TAFT in as
sisting in the election of Senator Lorimer
to the Senate. He swore that he did not
promise Edward Hines'that he would use
the Presidents name and that when
Hines called him up in Springfield from
Chicago. he looked upon the latter's &C.
tivities in Lorimer's behalf as more or
less of joke.
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