The Washington times., 1912-04-24
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ucularly hostile toward Cummins be-
cause two years ago he exposed the
betrayal Of public interest and party
pledges in the Taft-Wickersham rail-
road bill That measure, was gotten ,lp
for the purpose Of repeating, in secret,
the most useful parts of both the Sher-
man act, as applied to railroads, and
the Hepburn act. II was to have been
hurried through Congress. and perhaps
would have been, but for Cummins and
few Erogressives who stood with him,
exposed The plot. showed what the actual
eHects OF the measure would be, and
not only defeated most Of the vicious
provisions, but actually forced the in
sertion OF useful ones in their places
For that performance, Cumming has
never been forgiven. He did not intend
10 10 run Tor PRESIDENT, but, in the desire
a candidate for his home-State support
before Roosevelt was announced. Com
PEELED to remain in Washington while
the old radlroad crowd and the Federal
gang fought him. Cummins has had a
hard row. The state convention today
is so evenly divided that until a vote
is taken 1t will be impossible to Judge
which side will control
Things are warming up In Massachu-
setts Yesterday President Taft had a
colored man, William G. Matthews.
sworn In as special assistant United
States attorney at Boston, this being
keep the large and important colored
vote OF that State In line. Thus II is
shown that MI. Taft did not entirely de-
serve the opprobrium that was aimed
in his direction by the politician who
recently opined that he was the only
man in public life who was left-handed
in both hands" Mr.. Taft Is perfectly
northumberland in both hands--when
It comes to putting over the patronage
spitball at the right time.
Colonel Roosevelt has tossed a super
heated package to the Hon. Augustus
p. Gardner, Congressman from Massa =
chusetts. one-time putative progressive.
| son-in-law OF Henry Cabot Lodge, and
one of the most ardent Taft supporters
| in sight Mr.. Gardner charged that
Colonel Roosevelt. when President, sup
pressed documents and otherwise fav-
ored the Harvester trust in it's efforts
Taft with faVorinR Lorimer when, in
fact Roosevelt himself had not been
against Lorimer, and that he advised
Taft to get along with Uncle Joe Can
non.
Mr.. Roosevelt just explained how all
these things were not true; he handed
Mr.. Gardner a certificate of life mem
bership In the Ananias Club: he pointed
out that II he had favored the Harvester
trust II would have been as discreditable
to Taft as TO himself because the pol
Icy toward that corporation was deter
mined by the whole Roosevelt Cabinet.
OF which Taft was member: and he
observed that when he (Roosevelt) was
President, he met Cannon, but wasn't I
bossed by Cannon. Apparently, Colonel
Roosevelt thought that marked sharp
difference between his relations with
Cannon and those OF Taft.
Meanwhile, the President is getting
ready. according to report. to spring his
big mine under T. r. In his Massachu-
actly whether he will do IT is yet vague
he has been reported changing his mind
about it every few hours for a week.
His campaign managers want him to
do 1t; Mr.. Taft hates TO think of the
discomforts that might follow, rather
more personal to him than to the gentry
who are eggtng him on to be bold and
bad.