Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-12

| CO0lO tu&S lGV0SkVb ebs0 OtS0essSs~s
prospect 10 there that under such leaA-
ership - they have been havins ~
congress- lately, they could control t
now. even II they could DO rallied TO
| the attempt M
The situation In iowa n the situa-
ton In Nebraska. Kansas and Mime
sofa. AZ Tor Missouri, Illinois. Indiana.
Ohio. and other like states no one has
ever suggested them for the La Fol-
1ette column Aside from Wisconsin
there II not state where q In Fol-
lette delegation could be confidently
counted on and but few where even
scattering La Toilette district dele
gates would be more than . negligible
| quantity.
There IL no possibility the country
over OF any such uprising as attempted
to beat Grant for a second term IN
1872. nor as attempted to beat Harri-
SON in 1892, and neither Of these were
| successful.
Accepting It an settled then that the
president will be the republican candi-
date and that the campaign next year
will be IN defense OF the things he IL
pushing to the front here Is the second
obvious fact Of the situation-republi-
cans OF progressive tendencies will be
compelled to decide whether they are
going to continue to denounce the
president, or whether they are going
to accept his performances of the past
year az in compliance with the plat
form on which he was elected and a. q
promise Of continued well doing for
another four years.
| And right here we come to what the
REGISTER and Leader considers the cor-
trolling consideration. Is the president
| In the new course he Is laying out. for
himself merely playing a game to side
track the progressive movement, or
has he taken the bits in his teeth and
set about getting hfs own purposes
land policies incorporated into national
Legislation?
| It makes all the difference in the
world in estimating public man
whether we look upon him as being
driven to do something he does not
want to do or look upon him as com
| ing back to a Job he prefers tnat ne
has real heart for.
with this in mind, let US consider
the matter of tariff reform for mo-
ment. Is the present tariff situation
one that has been forced upon the
president or IL he merely where ne
would naturally be expected to be? II
Mr. Cameron will allow his mind to go
back n few years he will recall that
President Roosevelt deliberately avoid
ed the tariff. he will recall that senator
La Toilette has never been tarin re-
former. that Senator Crmmins had
dropped the tariff for the corporation
question, that In fact when then Sec
retary Taft made his famous Name
speech 1T was the first revival OF
tariff discussion in several years IN
the republican party Then In the pur-
chase OF Panama supplies Secretary
Taft started another controversy. the
American Economist denounced TAFT
as worse than Bryan and indirectly IN
vited hixl, tariff men to vote for Bry-
an TAFT in all his campaign speeches
EN- ha sized the tariff, and promised an
extra session.
It 10 no, worth while to 60 over
followed nor to offer any explanation
of the genesis of the Payns-Aldrich
bill. The presidents inexperience. his
desire to have harmony. a feeling that
perhaps Roosevelt had been too radical
and that the country wanted peacs. .
feeling that perhaps Senator Csammins
was right ana the president ought to
sit back ana let congress inAugufa1e
| it's own legislation, any one OF Q do1an
considerations may be cited. But that
IL not what we want to emphasize.
What we want to emphasize Is that In
l his present course he II coming back
| to his own announced purposes, and
that there IL no sham about the re-
forms he IL now actively urging.
what is true OF the tariff is true Of
| conservation President Taft was al
| ways an advanced conservationist. He
| was looked upon as the most progress
sive man in the Roosevelt cabinet
Why Ballinger was appointed ana
apologized for we need not stop to In
quire. The important thing is to rec
osnixe that the appointment OF Fisher
was not the act OF q coward who had
been scared out Of q crooked or un-
popular policy, but the act of very
determined man who had decided to
run his own boat for while in his
own way. Taft showed thruout the
! Ba,l.nser episode that he was not
moved by cowardice or by popular
clamor. What he did he stood for.
and what he does now he does on his
own account.
In the prosecution Of trusts we have
the same record. When wickershan
was appointed he was looked upon by
everybody as a corporation man. and
when his first draft Of tho interstate
commerce bill was submitted the coun-
try had no doubt Of its character We
need not now stop to quarrel over
wickersham. What we need now to
do is to recognize that with Wicker
sham in the attorney gsnerafs office
the president has prosecuted m0fe viO-
lators Of the Sherman law than MI his
predecessors put together, that he has
accomplished more many times over
than President Roosevelt did. And
those who are In a position to know.
as Senator Kenyon IL, know that It
was on Taft's own motion.
| In saying these things we do not
need to minimize in the least the
tremendous influence the insurgent
movement has had in bringing the
president to himself. !. But for that
movement he might have continued
thruout his term adjusting himself to
things he could not approve Of In the
interests Of harmony. Nobody knows
what would have happened but for the
insistent nsht the insurgent leaders
made in the. first congresses Of his
term. We do not need to minimize or
undervalue the insurgent movement IN
the slightest degree. ali we need 10 10
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