Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-08-30
Washington.

President Taft has selected some
of the subjects on which he will speak
on his Western trip that will begin
next month. He told callers that the
tariff. peace and arbitration, currency
reform, reciprocity and conservation,
probably, would form a nucleus for ais
speechmaking. He will make al
dresses on many other subjects, but
the topics named would make sort
of "big five" around which speeches
that he deemed less important might
be made.
On the eve of mis- forty-day swing
around the circle, on which Republi-
can leaders expect him to define the
issues for the campaign Of 1912, Pres
ident Taft announced himself unalter-
ably opposed to the "nostrums" of re-
form. which, he declared, "dema-
gogues" and theoretical extremists"
have advanced for the solution of the
problem of concentrated wealth in this
country. The president spoke to the
veterans of the Grand Army of the Re-
public at Rochester, n. Y.
The first session of the Sixty.second
congress ended, and Immediately the
exodus of members began. President
Taft ioined with several hundred tired
legislators in the hegira, and official
Washington was comparatively desert
ed. Every outgoing train bore sena-
tors and representatives on their
homeward journey after being togeth-
er 121 days and setting the liveliest
pace of any legislative session in
wears. The adjournment was feature
less, despite the strenuous activity
that had gone before. The president
vetoed the cotton tariff revision bill,
President Taft signed the joint res
olution for the admission of New Mex
leo and Arizona into the Union. There
was but one resolution, SO the presi-
dent used three pens in order that
some of the relic hunters might be sat
isfied. "Wen, it's done," the president
said. as he signed the parchment. The
resolution provides that Arizona shall
eliminate the judiciary recall clause in
it's constitution.
Some $50 initial doses" Of typhoid
vaccine have been distributed to physi-
clans throughout South Carolina, by
the state health department since the
distribution was commenced about two
weeks ago.
Senator LaFollette electrified the
senate with vitriolic attack on Wall
street. Addressing his colleagues in
the upper chamber on conditions in
Alaska, he charged that conspiracy
is being hatched in Wall street among
the money kings for the "upbuilding
Of a monopoly equal, if not greater,
than that in the anthracite coal fields
of Pennsylvania. Senator LaFollette
did not mince words nor was he back
ward in his allegations. He declared
the gigantic powers in Wall street
were using the government to help
tht min tying up Alaska for tneir own
exploitation.
The department Of state has become
interested in securing relief for the
cotton industry of the South from the
injustice resulting from the present
cotton "tare" system in operation in
the cotton market of foreign countries.
I! Congressman Brantley's activity in
| the matter is due to the passage by
the Georgia legislature of an appeal
to the president and congress for re-
lief from the unfair and arbitrary dis
elimination against the cotton grow
ers in the matter Of "tare." Secretary
Knox's letter is of vital importance
to every cotton farmer of the South.