The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-06

The results Of this deliberate
sell-abnesation are shown IS the
great legislative and constructive ae-
compiishments 81 bis term ar
Taft standards O admin pn
IKE those 81 NJ Roosevelt have
6een instantly toward purity ana
eiegation Is ON public life
With grea patience. with ,in-
wervihg courage. with absolute
disinterestedness, ii Those excitable
times when mems minds are full Of
Ta readiness for criticism and a de-
flsire for experiment. he has carried
on the burden Of administration
and has carried it forward. It
Twin be refIection upon our own
power Of fair-minded and candid
Judgment II we do not recognize the
merit as well as the difficulty Of
THAT achievement now
Reform methods Of government
advocated by many Of the progress
lives and in part by Mr.. Roosevelt.
were severely criticised BY Mr. !.
stimson. He denounced the recall
Of judges as destined to bring the
courts down into the welter Of
politics;" and said that 1t was no
ltest of Republicans progressive
mess to require his support to sys-
Items that had been successful in GER
tain states
1t Is mere narrowness and intol-
erance to insist upon remedy
which has proved effective in one
place, as the necessary test OF sim
,eere and intelligent reform in an
other he said. cit Is even more
erroneous to make fidelltyto one OF
these schemes Of local government
in one Of the commemorative a
test for what Is proper and apprc-
PIRATE in the government OF the ma,
tion at+large }'s
Mr.. stimscn said that the refer
endum had apparently worked we'll
In oregon, but that ina 5o-year.sl
trial in New York, as applied to1
constitutional questions, It had been
a failure
Should the national Republican
who lives in New York he read our
Of this party he asked, "becauso
he declined to- accept the referen-
dun as the best remedy to cure the
abuses OF popular government in his
own slater
cit only confuses and distracts
to drag into a national campaign
the preindices and shibboleths
which have arisen in the contests Of /
the different states iMr. Taft's1
administration must be judged by
the attitude with which he has ap-
preached and the success he has at
tanned 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 I"
The secretary of war drew atten-l
ton to the investigations which have
been made under President Taft, in,I
to problems that had been the sub
iect OF serious controversy for
years. The work Of the taritf
board. the FIadley railway securitI
ties commission, and the Hughes
commission on second-class mail
matter. were typical, he said, of the
methods sought by Mr.. Taft to as
certain facts.
II doubt If there has ever been an
administration where SO many vital
questions Of progress were under
careful, scientific investigation and
scrutiny by commissions of compot-
ent supports" he said.
"There is nothing dramatic about
such method; but reform accom-
plished in the light, OF such care-
fully accredited facts is more likely
to be permanent This is the very
esseneesof Mr. Tafs.s method zas p,
reformer.
President Taft has been most
falsely yillified and. abused" in con-