Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-17
Controller
BAY SCANDAL
"Dick to Dick" Letter Cause
of Sensation at National
Capital
PRESIDENTS DILEMMA
Washington Times Makes
Sensational Charges
Against Taft
PRESIDENTS DILEMMA

When the "Dick-Dick" letter about
Controller bay was first made public
the assurance was widely published
a, coming from the white house that
the president did not know Ryan and
had never talked to him. Now after
memory, the president finds that he
did have long talk with Ryan about
that particular matter.
When the "Dick-Dick" letter first
attained publicity, the president was
unable to recollect ever talking with
Charles p. Taft about Controller bay
and the desirability of giving it to
Ryan.
On that point we will wait and see
whether the executive recollection
may be changed. as further evidence
develops about this conversation.
When the Lorimer scandal brought
Edward Hines to the witness stand
to tell of the midnight conference at
the White house, as result of which
he was sent to tell the Illinois leaders
that the president was willing to have
Lorimer elected the president denied
it.
But now comes Governor Deneen
testifying that when Secretary Mac
Eeagh asked him how Lorimer's elec
ton happened. he-Deneen-replied
ASK the president; he is the man
who is said to have sent the message
that did it.
When the army was sent to the
Mexican border, assurance was issued
by the administration that the troops
were sent merely for maneuvers.
A few days later, Mexico, having
become much wrought up over the
operation, the administration admit
ted the real purpose of sending the
troops. 1t was not maneuvers. but
to patrol the Mexican frontier.
When the Ballinger-P Pinchot inves
tigation was on. there was strenuous
denial that certain much wanted
paper existed.
| Later it was produced, and there
was demonstrations that the records
in that case had been stuffed, fixed
and padded with a manufactured and
| predated document, in order to pro
vide justification for an act of the
president
When Mr. Taft was a candidate fol
president he pledged himself to down
ward revision of the tariff.
Despite this, he signed the Payne
Aldrich act.
Soon after he was elected, the pres
ident inspired stream of assurances
that he was going to make a great
fight to defeat Cannon's reelection as
speaker.
But when the fight came on, when
many members had lined up against
Cannon, expecting the president
would be with them-then the presi
dent turned out the hottest Cannonite
OF them all.
Because a lot of republicans did
fight Cannon, the president withdrew
their patronage in the effort to des
troy them. The country was con
stantly assured that nobody was be
ing Disseminated against, and most
people doubted whether such extreme
measures We're being employed to
wreck the progressive movement.
And then came the Norton patron
age letter, confessing the whole con
spiracy to to suppress progressiveism
When Dr. Wiley decided that
whisky ought to be whisky, not con
coction of high wines and colorine
matter, the president himself wrote
the decision that reversed Wiley.
The president has admitted that the
wool schedule ought to be revised
EVERYBODY knows it ought to be.
And recently there has been uncov
cred, by accident, The fact that fine
cabal has been planning for months
to force Wiley out of the government
service.
| But none the less. the president
Iintimates give positive assurance that
if it is revised he will veto the revis
ion.
| The Canadian reciprocity agreement
was handed out to the country as a