New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-22
PRESIDENT TAFT'S TOUR.

President Taft again made it clear in
speech in Wyoming that it is his inten-
tion to enforce the Sherman antitrust
act, no matter now much offending COM
binations cry for mercy. lie said: The
prosecution of these great combinations
that have been trying TO prevent compctl-
ton must go on until either the law is re
pealed or the law is enforced, that no com
binations shall exist which shall be able
10 prevent competition and establish a
monopoly. and that is the policy which the
administration has adopted, and one il in
tends TO carry through
''Thirty-nine sticks of dynamite We're
found under the Cairtan vfaduct on the
Southern Pacific Railroad a few hours be-
fore President Taft's special train was due
on its way to Los Angeles. a ten-foot fuse
was attached to The explosive. A watch
man employed since the shopmcn's strike
saw two men put the dynamite ON the
bridge and exchanged bullets with them.
but they escaped in the darkness.
The itinerary of President Tafts tour
was altered, and the date of his return 10
Washington was fixed for November T..
The original trip will end at Pittsburgh on
at Morgantown. W. Va. and from there
will go 70 Hot Springs for five days. He
viii spend only one day at Cincinnati, No
vember Z, when he will vote at the local
election. From Cincinnati the President
will go TO Louisville TO spend November ;.
He Will be at Frankfort, KY, November g.
ana Iodgensvnle. KY, 10 attend the Lin
coin farm celebration, November 10 ON
November n Mr. Taft will pay hurried
visits to Nashville and Sewanee, Tenn
visiting the University of the South, where
Major Butt once went to school, and 10
Chattanooga From the latter city Mr.
Taft will 90 directly to Washington.
Theodore Roosevelt in an address dwelt
with renewed emphasis upon the 'reck-
less exercise of power by the judiciary.
Putting his beliefs strongly in this re-
spect. ne said: 4 believe that the only
ultimate safety for our people is in self
control not IN control from the outside.
do not believe in snap judgments; ] do
not believe i'm permitting the determination
Of a moment to be transmitted into per-
maucnt policy: but ! do believe that the
serious. sober, we'll thought out judgment
of the people must be given effect. l DO
believe that this people must ultimately
control its own destinies. and cannot sur
render the right of ultimate control TO a
judge any mole than TO a legislator on
al executive. As a matter of eXpcdicucy
II may De, and i'm my opinion it is, desira-
BILE that the control by the people over the
Judge shall De exercised more cautiously
and in a different fashion than the conro
by the people over the legislator and The
executive: but the control must bee there
the power must exist in the people to see
TO IL that the Judge. ike The legislator an,
the executive, becomes in the long run rep
resentatiyc Of and answerablc to the wei
thought ont judgment Of the people as Z
whole
Charles +. Murphy. the Tammany lead
or. took active control Of the Democratic
Organization I'm the state when the Demo
cratic state Committee met in this city &c
elect a successor to Chairman Winfield \
Huppuch. who resigned last February
Mr.. Murphy insisted upon the election OF
Norman +. Mack, of Buffalo, to the chair
manship. despite the fact that Mr.. Mack is
chairman of the Democratic National Com
mittee. Mr.. Mack was elected
William j. Bryan in a public announce
ment gave up a lifelong ambition in these
words: i shall never be President. but 1