The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-03-27

fore the National Press Cub in Washington:
MY. sin is indisposition to labor as hard
/ might disposition TO procrastnate and dispo-
sition to enjoy the fellowship of others more than
| ought"
;. No, replies the New York Globe Ond):
These faults, If they exist are not the faults
that have wrecked the administration One
must look further and deeper for the causes Of the
great defeat.
The fundamental cause was the failure Of the
President to satisfy the expectations OF the wing
of the party responsible for his nomination and cleo
ton. The record is that he quarrelled with the
progressive Republicans. Within a few monthse
after his election members OF his cabinet were read
ing them out Of the party. The President believed
that he being true to his pledges. and that he
carrying the great work Of his predecessor
The public did not think he was when they saw
him on Of political intimacy with reactionary
Republicans who had opposed his elevation, and on
terms Of political hostility with the progressive Re-
publicans who had favored his elevation. The sign
ing of the Payne Aldrich Bill the retention of Bal
linger in his cabinet and hundred other crcum
stances created in the minds Of progressive Repub
licans the notion that they had made mistake and
that the President had little sympathy for the
cause with which he allied in the cabinet Of
is predecessor.
Finally. Mr.. Taft, through the use of patron
age and the influence of his great office insisted on
having denomination when 1t was plain that he
was not the choice of majority Of the members
of his party. State after state, where there was
free expression, declared against him. Yet he hung
on, knowing that If denomination came to him
at all 1t must come from the votes Of hundred
and fifty more non-representative Southern dele
gates There was no chance. for him, after that
Many friends Of our Junior exPresident". in
sist that he has been victim Of circumstances and
that history will set him right. True says the New
York Evening Post (Ind.) as far as many minor
matters are concerned. But 1t is constrained to
add that there was a really grave deficiency in Mr..
Tafts political equipment: ~.
He has shown himself devoid of the higher
imagination in public affairs too little president
without the touch Of quick sympathy and popular
quality which would have enabled him to take arms
against his of troubles. The great difficulty
that the storm broke upon him when he had
persuaded himself that the sky was clear. A party
rebellion rumbled under his feet, but he heard
thing till the earth actually assured. Congress
placed in his hands an unsatisfactory tariff bill
which almost visibly labelled dynamite yet
he played with it unconscious of danger Political
disaster after political disaster he failed to recog
nize in its beginnings. Too late, he acted the mans
part, but again and agan-as in the Ballinger i'm
broglio, in the case of the Panama tos-he
would be got wrong at the beginning and then find
1t impossible to recover himself even by heroicSef
forts. 70 =
IF the break up of the Republican party must,
be dated from his administration, involving his own
overwhelming defeat this was because the higher
reaches of craftsmanship and the gifts of leader
ship in great crisis beyond him It was his
misfortune to fall upon Iron Age; and he is not
a man of iron Literary Digest.
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