New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-24
1IBL|C WORK TAKES
TAFT TO WASHINGTON
die Return Earlier than Planned
~ me- to Government Bust
ness, Not to Politics.
MANY PRESSING PROBLEMS
,...ident Pleased with Work
- His Cabinet and Con-
yinced That the People
Will Support Him.

star Correspondent Of The Tribune.]
fI-.rlv Mass. Oct. 23.-President Taft's
,,rlated return to Washington
~ earlier than he had expected is not
.0nsars popularity to be supposed. die
"a nv any exigency Of the campaign.
,,tber by the demands of the public
business.
49, Cuban situation IS the cause of
ANXIETY 10 the administration. The
,,gstion in Mexico, while apparently less
- Than was supposed forty-eight hours
% sull far from composed. Mica
@,,,s continues 10 be a cause of anxiety.
n-s.. ,nportant problems in connection
IN ,bs panama Canal and the expected
Est from Great Britain and the move
~, for & farmers loan system also de-
-,,a the attention Of the Chief Execu-
tive.
Than too. Mr.. Taft Is intensely inter
"a IN the budget which is to be sub
-.,,,sd N Congress in his annual mes
.sgs or in a special message OF about the
80 date. ana he desires to confer not
..lv with the economy and efficiency
,osrd but with the members OF the
c.A,nst with a view TO holding down the
climates and eliminating as far as pos
,,,,. sYtravagance in the public service,
II IS quite possible the President will
,,ots trip to Panama after the election.
/, :, h. does not go there he will probably
,nsnd few weeks at Hot Springs, Va,
hr, IN either case he believes that little
,5ectIye dirAction in the national capital
=, this time will effect a considerable
economy Of his time later, and he is this
wear determined to be forehanded.
Mr., Wickershan's Trip.
The trip OF the Attorney General to
min Is taken with the cordial approval
=, m. President. who believes Mr.. Wick
,r,han's speaking tour will be productive
n much good. The subject was fully
.eanysssed when the Attorney General
VAS in Beverly. when Mr.. Wickersham
,1pressed a desire TO do everything pos
,iSe TO further the political interests OF
the President.
Mr. TAFT realizes that he has suffered
somewhat I'm his own state from his rigid
enforcement Of the law and from his
TO put political considera-
tons before those of fitness in the seicc-
ton Of men for the federal judiciary and
other important government Offices. The
people Of Ohio, perhaps naturally, as
sumed that they could look TO their IA
vorite son, once he was in the White
House. to take care Of a good many
Ohioans. President Taft has sadly dis
appointed them In this respect.
With regard TO the judiciary, Mr.. Taft
has felt it Of special importance to con-
ster only merit and judicial fitness In
fling vacancies, and the more or less
popular discomfort with the judiciary has
made him regard that course as all the
more important, believing nothing serves
30 well to further popular dissatisfaction
as an unfit judge. In other instances, too,
Mr. Taft has failed 10 take care Of
ohiGns whose claims to preferment were
purely Political and who lacked the quail
fcation necessary to add to the efficiency
Of the public service.
Leaders Of the opposition to the Presi-
dent in his own state have been Dan
Hanna and Walter Brown, Mr.. Hanna's
AS soon as he became Presi-
dent Mr.. Taft gave instructions to the At
tomey General to enforce the law without
fear or favor, and wholly without regard
to the political welfare Of the occupant
Of the White House. The penalty which
Mr. Taft has paid for his impartial en-
of the law was the $4,000
which Mr.. Hanna contributed to the
third party campaign fund and the de-