The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-27
sunny jim
IS NOT WANTED
BY PRESIDENT
TAFT HAS MADE 1T KNOWN THAT
HE PREFERS ANOTHER AS A
RUNNING MATE IN THE NEXT
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
BY CLYDE Il. Tavenner.

Washington, Aug. 26.-Presideht
Taft has made it known that he does
not want Sunny Jim" Sherman for a
running mate next year. Sherman be-
lieves in a high tariff. He wants it
sky high-higher even than the Payne
Aldrich law-and says so, openly,
without equivocation. His high tariff
courage is equal to Cannon's. He does
not dodge an inch.
And President Taft, who signed the
Payne Aldrieh law, the highest tariff
law ever passed in this country, and
who recently used his veto power to
save those high rates from the slight
est cut, is through with Sherman.
Sunny JIM" from the Taft stand
point, makes the mistake of being
openly sincere. To sign a high tariff
bill, at the behest ''of men who knew
exactly what they want" is one thing
To blab about the country that you
believe in such a law is quite another
thing. Between Mr.. Sherman's tariff
words. and Mr.. Taft's tariff acts, there
isn't a particle of difference, yet the
president wants no more of the present
vice. president.
1t is well known in administration
circles that Mr.. Taft would like very
much to have Senator Cummins on the
ticket next year for the vice presi-
dency. The Iowa insurgent has little
use for Mr.. Taft. In his speeches in
the senate, and about the country,
Senator Cummins has said about all
the hard things he could think of about
the Taft failure to keep campaign
promises of a tariff revision down
ward. He has even made his political
contempt for the president a personal
issue, and for months he refused to go
near the White House. Mr.. Taft is
well aware of these things: yet he
gladly would have Senator Cummins
for a running mate.
Senator Cummins breaches and
practices tariff revision downward.
Along with La Toilette, Murdoch and
the other insurgents he fought, as best
he could, for the principle that the
Republican campaign promise of tariff
revision downward was made to be
kept. Mr.. Cummins has been on the
side of the people. He is popular, and
If he were on the ticket many voters
doubtless would remember the hard,
honest fight he made for revision
downward. And while they were re-
Numbering Mr.. Cummins's fight for
real revision many of them probably
would forget that Mr.. Taft nullified
that fight.
Upon that theory is built the Taft
desire to have Senator Cummins for
a running mate.
Unlike Mr.. Sherman, whose high
tariff words square exactly with Mr..
Taft's high tariff acts, Mr.. Cummins
wouldn't go about preaching high
tariff, thus alternating the people. Mr..
Cummins would give them low tariff
before election, and Mr.. Taft, judged
by his endorsement of the Payne Al
lrich bill, and his veto of the Under
wood-La Toilette wool bill, would con-
tinue to give them high tariff after
election.
The Taft reelection schemers (Sec-
rotary Hilles and Postmaster General
Hitchcock. managers) know full well
that after election Mr.. Cummins, then
harmless. could busy himself presiding
over the senate, and that Mr. Taft
once again could turn TO rs high
tariff friends, who "know city what
they want"