The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-22
PRESIDENT FINDS
MORE HOT WATER
Senate Wants to Know About
Use of Patronage Club
in South
BRISTOW RESOLUTION
TEXT FOR ATTACK
Taft Must Reply to Charges
of Roosevelt, As Well,
So His Campaign
Advisers Say
BY j. j. MONTAGUE.


WASHINGTON, March 21.--Nith
his enemies in the Senate preparing
to jam through resolution investi-
eating the use of the patronage bud
geon in the South, and with his
friends DINING into his ear. the
necessity of answering the charges
of Theodore Roosevelt which speak
freely of crooked privilege" Mr..
Taft was plunged again today into
very hot water.
The Bristow resolution which plain
~ intimates that skulduggery has
been resorted to in the South to work
up Taft Sentiment" came out of
the Senate committee on current ex-
penses today with the report that
money would be forthcoming for an
investigation. This will give Sena-
tors Bristow and Dixon a chance TO
go after the administration on the
floor. and Mr.. Taft knows that they
will do II.
BY way of ammunition for their at
tack they dug up today an adver-
tisement printed in the Houston Daily
Post, which warns Texas off1cehold-
ers that IL they lineup for Roosc-
welt with State Chairman Cecil Lyon
they are jeopardizing their jobs. Bris-
tow and Dixon have also few facts
regarding North Carolina that Will
not sound we'll In speeches to admin
istration ears. In short. as soon as
that resolution is disclosed on the
floor, the people will begin to dis
cover Just how practical the admin
istration Ia In its politics. and that
Is exactly whit the President would
rather keep dark till after conven-
ton time.
Ceases to be Virtue.
AS to the Roosevelt speech the
President has announced that ne viii
indulge In no personalities, but to-
day after the colonel loosed the iasr
dose Of walls of his wrath on the
presidential head. Mr.. Taft's advisers
|. told him that silence has ceased 10
be a virtue Among them was Gov
ernor j. X Tener, of Pennsylvania.
whose citizens Mr.. TAFT will address
when he makes his Philadelphia
speech March 80 Tcner told him
that il he wanted To make II hit win
the Pennsylvanians he had better DO
he has formerly.
Other counselIors said that he es-
peciai,-- ought to have something to
saw about the following passage IRON
the eoIoners New York address,
Mr.. Tafts position is perfectly
clear. This Is the old doctrine which
has been acted upon here in Amer
ical. sometimes secretly, for forty
years by men in public and private
life. and / am sorry to say by many
judges-a doctrine which. in fact.
tends to create a bulwark for privf-
iege. a bulwark untustly protecting
special interests against the rights or
the people as whole. Naturally.
every upholder and beneficiary OF
crooked privileges upholds the doc
trine,"
bad Luck With Replies.
Such language az that about tho
President of the United States calls
for reply. the Presidents advisers
assert. But Mr. Taft has had had
luck with his replies up to date.
Every time he has gone after
Roosevelt indirectly. Roosevelt has
come back at him directly. And. in
asmuch as the administration is 90
plainly reactionary that the colonel
has no difficulty in finding new ma
terfal for charges, the President
thinks he'd better keep his own dig
nified and glossy hat out of a ring
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