The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-30

this extent. 1t was sent to confer
ence and turned over to two men,
who did some more guessing, and af-
| ter the manner of horse trading
| methods, differences were split and
! the bill sent to the president. The
| country, of course, will never know
what that bill would have meant to
| labor. agriculture ana business gen.
| orally. That it would have been dis
astrous there can be but little doubt
Veto of Free List
'The so-called free list bill failed
! by a tie vote, was then reconsidered
and an amendment offered when it
could not be discussed or explained
ard about which no one outside of
the senator who offered it knew any
thing. This passed and finally went
to the president and was vetoed for
reasons that | believe will strongly
appeal to the country.
THE cotton bill as it went to the
president did not command a single
republican vote in the senate. 1t was
purely a democratic measure, much
of it made up of amendments pre-
neither explained nor discussed. No
republican can question the wisdom
of its veto.
THE president says wait for the
report of the tariff board which con-
gress has specifically directed to re-
port upon certain schedules by De-
cember. It's report will be ready
within 80 days. We will then have
impartial data upon which legisla
ton can well be based. If reductions
are necessary the president will re-
commend and urge them. / see it
urged in some quarters that the So
called regular republicans will not
assist in a proper revision based on
the report of the Tariff board. In my
Judgment this is a mistake. They
will be found supporti~g the recon-
mendatiOns of the mt for re-
ductions in accordar TIL that re-
port. If such reduo are defeat
ed they will be de-, by the dem
ocrats standing for enue only and
the self-styled progressives standing
pat because things may not be done
just as they want them done. I be-
lieve, however. that tariff legislation
will be proposed next winter upon
which all republicans will unite and
if not passed the issue between the
two parties at the next election will
be clearly defined.
Taft for 1912
Whom will the republicans nom
mate for president next year? Well,
the impression is general that Pres
q yyi no inc cd - N.
is stronger today than he was six
months ago and he will be far
stronger next year than he is this
He is a progressive who progresses
and will keep fully abreast of the
careful progressive IT, ought of the
country. He is not playing politics at
any time, but he is advocating what
he honestly believes TO be right and
for the best interests of all the peo-
pie, regardless of its effect upon his
political future and that is the kind
of man who will meet with the
ultimate approval of the mature
judgment of the American people.
Whom will the democratic nomi-
nee be? 1t would be pure guesswork
to attempt to say. Harmon is gen.
orally regarded as the conservative
candidate, while Wilson. Clark and
practically all the others mentioned
are regarded as more or less pro-
gressivc With their two-thirds rule
in convention | don't see how Har-
mon can win. 1t will be pretty con-
test and the winner may not be NAM
ed yet"
"What are your plans for the va
cation?"
"My vacation will be short, I am
sorry to say. ] had planned to get
over the state pretty well this sum-
mer and visit Alaska, but ] have to
be in Chicago by the 10th of Octo-
Der to take up the Lorimer investi-
cation and therefore will have but
little opportunity to get around. and
under the circumstances I cannot be-
leve that the people of the state will
expect very much of me in this line
this year"