Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
REAL WORK DONE IN HIS TERM
Record Of Accomplishment Shows Him
Energetic and Industrious.
PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THE FACTS
Public Coming to Give Full Credit to
Active Executive.
WEST RALLIES TO HIS SUPPORT
Attitude of Voters is GRuged by Tone
of Letters Sent TO Secretary
HiIes from All sections
of Country.
rrom a staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, July 2.--(Special.) .)-Luck
has played a most prominent part in the
lives of some of our presidents, but II has
been woefuly lacking in the administra-
tion of william Howard Taft He Inherited
seven and one-half strenuous years of
Theodore Roosevelt, who started many
things, but failed to finish them, and Taft,
with an inheritance of unaccomplished
prosecutions and legislation, was com
PEELED TO set the machinery Of the admin
istration in motion TO terminate what had
been begun by his predecessor. Shortly
after Taft's taking the oath of office the
Ballinger- -Pinchat controversy arose, out of
which grew the enforced retirement of
clifford NJ. Pinchot. chief forester. Then
the clacauers began their anvil chorus
against Ballinger. His investigation fol-
lowed and in due course his retire
ment. The Cunningham coal cases rose
up to haunt the presidential mind and then
in orderly procession came along the Con-
troller bay matter and the ''Dick-to- Dick"
letter, which covertly brought into the
limelight Charles p. Taft, brother Of the
president. who was to have told the presi-
dent the name of the syndicate represented
by "Dick" Ryan. With this matter excit-
ing the public DR.. Wiley struts upon the
stage as the victim of an alleged cabal of
manufacturers who are opposed to his
rulings on benzonate OF soda and whisky.
only Drops in the Bucket.
These things alone would tend to make
the presidents life miserable, but they are
really only drops in the bucket, for Taft
has had one big thing after the other to
take up and decide and as result OF the
constant and everlasting pressure upon him
IL is doubtful IL any president in the last
quarter OF a century has solved so many
important problems as William Howard
Taft, and he has hired no brass bands to
tell TO the world the achievements OF his
administration.
He has gone about his work with a deep
appreciation of the responsibilities deVolv-
ing upon him. lie has neither shirked nor
shunted upon his subordinates consioera-
tion of the important matters which have
come uppermost in the last two and
half years. As a result Of his clear Vlsion'
his broad knowledge of the law ana per
feet understanding of international affairs,
President Taft has accomplished much Tor
the American people. In the Department
of Justice the achievements in the prosecu-
ton OF cases under the Sherman antitrust
law. the administration of President Taft
far outstrips that of his predecessor.
recent pamphlet prepared by the Depart
Nment of Justice containing the record OF
trust prosecutions from the Harrison ad-
ministration beginning March L. 1889, to
July l. 1911 is luminous with great things
accomplished. In all of the Roosevelt ad-
minlstration eighteen bills In equity were
filed and twenty-five indictments obtained.
In the two and half years OF Tafts ad-
pinistration ten bills in equity have been
recorded in trust prosecutions and sixteen
indictments obtained. This proportion is
much in favor of Mr. Taft and his attorney
general. Twenty-six cases under the anti
trust law have been begun under President
Taft. Eighteen are pending, some OF them
in the supreme court; two have been closed
by the imposition OF fines; demurrers
against the indictments have been sus-
tanned in four; one dismissed to assist
criminal prosecution and one other ended
favorably for the government. Can you
beat that record?
shOtweI.'s story started Something.
When Frank Shotwen OF Omaha, sec
retary Of the Republican Progressive
league. recently stated in an interview that
Nebraska republicans were turning to TAFT
he put a burr under the tall of Representa-
tive Norris, figuratively speaking, and in
cited that gentleman TO his now forgotten
protest against the alleged activities OF
the secretary TO the president Mr., Hilies
But he also called the astonished attention
Nef the public generally to the fact that
the so-called insurgent sentiment Of Ne
braska, which was supposed to be hostile
60 President Taft. has become transformed
into a progressive sentiment, and that that
sentiment seeks its natural outlet in the
acknowledged leadership Of William How
ard Taft
And now comes the same sort of story
from Kansas, where the rip-snorting per-
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