The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-05
taft URGED 70
BUILD MACHINE
Republicans Want Him TO Put
Politicians In Cabinet.
HE LISTENS WITH A SMILE.
Then Says He VIII Do the Best He Can
Without Regard to 1ef2--Residents Of
Alaska Claim That Country lie Sadly
Neglected-Senster TaIiafsrro Takes
Defeat With Grace.
BY ARTHUR W. DUNN.

BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, Jan. 3.--[Speciail Ire
publican politicians want President
Taft to perfect an organization which
will insure bis own nomination In 1912
and also make it possible for the Re
publicans to win the presidential cleo
ton They tell him that the party Is
in bad shape politically and that he
ought to begin now to rehabilitate 1t.
He has been warned that Roosevelt
will carry off the nomination II he
doesn't lock out or that Cummins, La
Toilette or some other progressive
may take it. The president has been
further warned that he ought to get
few politicians In his cabinet and go
to work building up a political machine
TO all such suggestions the president
listens, often with an amused smile,
and then he will tell those who are so
earnest in his behalf that he intends
to go ahead and do the best he can as
president, that he is no politician him
self and does not want to run q pc
lIticaI administration. IL the people
want him at the end Of his term they
can have him; If not they can get an
other man.
The president makes 1t plain that he
does not intend to make the White
House the center of a political organi
cation, having for its object his reten-
tion in the presidential office.
Neglect Of Alaska.
Like all new and distant regions,
Alaska Is suffering from neglect of the
mother country. In the last two years,
according to statements OF Pacific
coast men, seven steamships have been
wrecked because lights and other safe
guards OF navigation have not been
provided on the Alaskan coast.
In many other ways have the needs
of Alaska been ignored, although 1t
returns millions every year in gold and
commerce. Men from Alaska claim
that the United States is expanding
enormous sums Dit Panama, In the
Philippines and other places, leaving
Alaska to get along as best it can.
An Art Critic.
Among the San Francisco boomers
in washington Is NJ. f. Tarpey, vet
eran Democrat, who goes to all ma
| tionaI conventions, who enthusiasts
tically supported Cleveland three
times, Bryan three times and Parker
once and who will support the NOM
inee in 1912, no matter whether he be
conservative or radical.
/ found this veteran looking at the
collection of curios In statuary hall
the other day. He was very much
| interested. After making a circuit Of
the hall he paused before the statue Of
Francis Pierpont, the latest addition,
presented By West Virginia, and said:
THAT is the best Of the lot. The pose
Is most natural, and the face is better.
| 1t does not have that strained APP
pearance which Is seen in the poses
and faces Of the others Art u nature.
The closer the artist gets to nature the
better his picture or statue"
Takes Philosophical View.
Senator Taliaferro of Florida win
not attempt to carry the primary
which chooses his successor. He was
candidate last summer and was beat
en- by Napoleon Broward, who died
before the legislature met.
Il have decided that II could not
defeat the man ran against last sum-
mer could not defeat another candi-
date, said Taliaferro. Il have had
twelve years In the senate, and no one
has attacked my record. But Florida
seems to want another man, and shall
net try to be elected again. There is
one thing in my record which few men
can equal. No negro has been con-
flrmed to an office IN Florida since
have been in the senate
When Taft Reversed Himself.
CONGRESSMAN Bartlett Of Georgia
told a story Of how President Taft,
whom q circuit Judge, reversed himself
In a certain case Judge Taft granted
an injunction, holding that a law of
Ohio contravened the constitution of
that state But the case was also
tried by the Ohio supreme court, which
held that the law did not contravene
the constitution.
Judge Taft then decided that It was
the duty Of a federal Judge to follow
the decision Of the highest court of a
state IN constituting the law and con-
stitutlon Of that state and reversed his
former decision.
And the judge who thus set an ex.
ample fer the Judiciary Of the United
States, said Bartlett, was man
whom the people have since honored
and placed In the White House
Two Battlsships.
The forthcoming naval appropriation
bill viii provide for two battleships
ii viii mean the same fight as Of for
4ner years, but IN this congress the two
ships viii be authorized
The friends Of naval increase are
more CONCERNED about what the next
congress VII do than with this sas
zion. Two battleships were Eecon
mended ~ tho president, and foF sew
cKal years thae las constituted slsF