The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-03-07
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duaOSdteu W many OF the progress
ives, and in part by Mr.. Roosevelt,
were severely criticised oy Mr..
stimson. He denounced the recall
of Judges as destined ito bring the
courts down into the welter of
politics." and said that it was no
test Of a Republicans progressive
ness to. require his support to sys-
TENS that had been successful in GER
tain states.
sit is mere narrowness and intol-
GRANGE to insist upon a remedy
which has proved effective in one
place. as the necessary test of SIM
cere and intelligent reform in an
other" he said. ut is even more
erroneous to make fidelity to one OF
these schemes of local government
in one of the commonwealths
test for what is proper and appro-
PIRATE in the government of the ma
ton at large.
|, Mr.. stimson said that the refer
endum had apparently worked well
in oregon, but that in 50-year's
trial in New York, as applied to
constitutional questions, it-had been
a failure.
Should the national Republican
who lives in New York be read out
of this party he asked, because
he declined to accept the referen-
dunn as the best remedy to cure the
abuses Of popular government in his
own state?
"It only confuses and distracts
to drag into a national campaign
the preiudices and shibboleths
which have arisen in the. contests of
the different states. air. Taft's
administration must be- judged by
the attitude with which he has ap-
preached and the success he has at
tained in dealing with those ma
tional problems, and not according
to the views which any of US may
hold upon these local questions Of
state machinery
The secretary Of war drew atten-
ton to the investigations which have
been made under President Taft, in.
to problems that had been the sub
iect of serious controversy for
years. The work of the tariff
board, hesHadley railway .securi-
tiles commission anaai the Hughes
commission on second-class mail
matter, were typical he said, of the
methods sought by Mr.. Taft to as
certain facts IS st'9afb a6g4
+ II OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES been an
adfninistratioh where ,sp many7sIital
questions Of ptogrsss iwere uader
careful, scientific, hEeatigatiop sand
scrutiny by commissions of compot-
ent supports" he said.
"Where is nothing. dramatic about
such method! but Sifetofm accom-
plished in the light Of. such care
filiy accredited facts is moreilikely
to be permanent This is the very
essence of Mr. Taft.s method as a
reformer y 5aa. s4tHrrt
President Taft has been most
falsely villified and abusedn in con-
nection with the tarlfH. said Mr..
stimson, and has, in fact, taken the
Republican party out of the grasp
of the special interests benefited
by the tariff and has made part
iof the Republican progressive pol
icy the downward revision of the
tariff law schedule by schedule.
rs this not a tremendous achieve
ment in the direction of national
progress. asked Mr. stimson, Ito
completely rescue his party from
the methods and influences which,
If uncontrolled, would Inevitably
turn it into a party of special inter
ests and REACTION? Is he not fight
lin standing I'd the {ittermost, even
ITO, the exercise of all the executive
power, of veto against the old priv
elege4breeding methods of tariff re-
vision employed by the Democratic
House of REPRESENTATIVES? Is he
not right in insisting even against
popular clamor that we shall make
a clean break with the past and that
no tariff revision shall take place
except upon these conditions and
after scientific study by non
partisan board of experts?"
Secretary stimson reviewed the
administration and its achieve
ments. He said that the president
had outlined theSsystem OF trust re-
form which if adopted would put
the country in "a fair way to solv-
ing our trust problem and solving
1t right" that in the corporatioS