The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-30
TAFT GETS SCORING.
From a Magazine Which Has Never
 Been, and is Not. Insurgent.

(By Clyde H. Tavenner, Special Wash ington Correspondent of the Farmer.)
 Washington, Sept. 30.-It will pay any man who has a loose. dime in hls pocket to buy a copy of the October number of the Success magazine, even if he reads it no further than the opening page. On this page is an ar ticle by the editor, Orisen Swett Warden, entitled sThe Man on The Lid'' Mir. Warden is not an "Insur- gent by any means, yet he gives an analysis of MT. Taft, which, while entirely friendly, is a remarkably good estimate of him.
 ''It is rather difficult to write frank ly about Ttaft,'' the article begins. 'It is probably his misfortune that he did not tumble and fight his way up through the political struggle for ex- istence, but came in by the side door after a life time on the bench and i'll other secure and comfortable appoint i've jobs.
 Some threads of the judicial aura finger mistily about Taft. He isn't distinct but he is distinct to show certain indications of the judicial hab- it of thought. He unmistakably has a distaste for all such facts as are "inadmissable in evidence, and it is easy to ''get'' him by simply plac- ing the right" evidence before him, and keeping the wrong evidence carefully in the back ground. He has a deep sense of order. He dislikes disturbance.
 And so, when the La Follettes and the Murdocks and the Delivers be- gan to rise and clamor for reform, Taft set out to treat them exactly as he would have treated a bunch of disorderly spectators in his court room. But this method didn't work very well. The power of the Federal judge to order about and punish was bocters turned out to have rights, even to have faculties for striking back. So Taft did the next best thing under the circumstances. He allied himself instantly and instinctively with the recognized and regular" leaders; with the Cannons, the Ald- riches, the Murray Cranes and the John Hays Hammonds.
 Tn his message on the Arizona statehood matter he frankly overruled the expressed will of the people, on the ground that their proposal to es tablish the recall of judges was sub- versive of the spirit of the Constitu- tion: not of it's letter. In other words he thought the gentlemen who drew
 
 thought the recall too Democratic.
 AS regards the recall we have our doubts, but there can be no doubt about the impropriety of everything, by Presidential veto, the expressed wish of a new state in the matter of it's own government.
 ..The other important acts of Taft his pliancy in the matter of the out rageous Payne-Aldrich Tariff law, and his vetoes of the wool, cotton and free list. bills and above all his yielding to the skillfully worked up conspir- acies against Pinchot, Glavis and Wiley, are in character. His attitude in these matters has been conserve tive" and shows that he wishes, above all things to uphold 'the established order.'
 We need steersmen today. not re- sisters. Men who look forward, not back. The men of today are the men who, in Taft's mind, mean only disaster. There is nothing strange or local about these reformers. La Toilette is mild beside the British Lloyd George, and the rulers of tomorrow are sure to be those very men who so disturb Taft.