The Washington times., 1911-07-16
SEVERAL EXPLANATIONS
NEEDED, MR.. PRESIDENT.

President did not know Ryan and ha'
never talked to him.
Now, after consideration and re
freshment of the memory, the Presi
dent finds that he did have a long tall
with Ryan about that particular mat
ter
When the "Dick-Dick" letter frs
attained publicity, the President wat
unable to recollect ever talking with
Charles P Taft about Controller Bay
and the desirability of giving it tc
Ryan.
On that point we will wait and see
whether the Executive recollection may
be changed, as further evidence devel,
ops 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 a 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
Veagh asked him how Lorimer's cleo
tion happened, he (Deneen) replied:
ASK the President; he was 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 be-
come much wrought up over the op-
Grafton, the Administration admitted
the real purpose of sending the troops
1t was not maneuvers, but to patrol
the Mexican frontier.
When the Ballinger- Pinchot investi-
cation was on, there was strenuous
denial that a certain much-wanted pa
per existed. Later it was produced,
and there was demonstration that the
records in that case had been stuffed,
fixed, and padded with a manufactured
and predated document, in order to
provide justification for an act of The
President.
When Mr.. Taft was a candidate for
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 Presi-
dent inspired a 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 President
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 destroy
them. The country was constantly as
sured that nobody was being discrimi-
mated against, and most people doubted
whether such extreme measures were
being employed to wreck the progress
sive movement.
And then came the Norton patron.
age letter, confessing the whole con-
spiracy to suppress progressivism!
When Doctor Wiley decided that
whisky ought to be whisky, not con-
coction of high wines and coloring mat
ter, the President himself wrote the
decision that reversed Wiley.
And recently there has been uncov-
cred, by accident, the fact that a fine
cabal has been planning for months to
force Wiley out of the Government
service!
The President has admitted that the
wool schedule ought to be revised. Ev-
erybody knows it ought to be.
But none the less, the Presidents
intimates give positive assurance that
if it is revised, he will veto the re-
vision.
The Canadian reciprocity measure
was handed out to the country as
measure calculated to reduce the cost
of living.
Later, the President found that it
could not be expected to reduce the
cost of living.
Two years ago, the President and
his Attorney General got up the orig
inal draft of the Mann railroad bill,
and the Administration insisted that
it must be passed exactly as written.
The progressives demonstrated that
if this were done it would practically
undo all that had ever been accom-
plished in the direction of railroad
In the face of the bitter
of the Administration, they
forced the bill to be reorgamzed into a
progressive, instead of an utterly reac-
tionary, measure.
The President, however, was still
powerful enough to induce Congress to
retain his provision for a Commerce
Court.