Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-01-23

Then came the Payne-Aldrich tariff
and other painful things, including
reciprocity with Canada, in which the
latter country refused to reciprocate.
William Howard, it is sometimes said,
had a private wire into Brother
Charles lair down near Wall
Street-anyhow it has been more or
less definitely settled that those rich
brothers helped to queer" their poor
but famous relative. 'Howsorlever,'
it was generally accepted that "old
Bills all right until period just be-
fore the Chicago convention, when Ted
dy started in to recall his appointment.
Just little less than two years ago
the correspondent of THE WAsHISGrJN
STANDARD dropped into Taft headquar
ters-rent $1,000 week-and heard the
assistant baZoo of the institution who
still retains a box stall in the Republi-
can Congressional committee, remark:
"Oh, what DO we care about Teddy and
his roar-we've got the delegates"
True enough, they had 'em, and lest
it be generally accepted that William
Howard Taft was always considered a
failure, let us recall that up to the
night of election, the Republicans in
Washington, and they parrot the SEN
timent of the country, stood on their
very tiptoes and fairly shouted that
"Taft's all right"
Passing the post mortems, if you
please, there was indicted into the
presidency less than year ago a YER
liable political upstart. Three years
before most people who did not know
an alma mater from HOPELESS barrel,
or sorority from "sorosis" of the liver
were asking: Hey, Wilson, did you
say-who's he? Oh yes, Princeton,
Grover Cleveland, Buzzard's Bay. Oh
sure. s-hu-r-e, l know about him."
Down the avenue came the bands and
the Democratic clubs and Governor
Bill" Sulzer wearing SLOUGH hat and
soft warm breezes delighted the as
sembled suffragettes and other millions
in painless contrast to the bowling,
yowling winds and the binding snow
of the fourth of March four years pre-
vious. Those were bad omens for Will
liam Howard Taft, and in his quiet
retreat at Yale he has plenty of time
to reflect over it all.
Woodrow Wilson in nine months has
forced a new tariff and a great big
currency bill through Congress. Now
he has tackled the trusts" and with
his we'll trained boys in the two
houses he can do just whatever he
wants to do with the crowds of NAM
mon. Up in Wall Street the little bill
lionaires are trembling in their patent
feathers and they have given up as
licked. OF course the policies of the
present administration have yet to
prove their efficiency, or fail. Anyhow,
it would be a shortsighted opponent
who would attempt to discount the re-
suits of these initial nine months. Is
Wilson popular in Washington? Hard
hasn't got his size yet,
any more than has the rest of the coun-
try. But Wilson has the number of
every big anu little Politician who
signs his name on official stationery.
While there are plenty of people who
are after him." yet the tale so far
is simple one. IT'S this: For nine
months he has been the magnificent
and undisputed cock O. the walk.
1t may be different later on, maybe,
maybe not; nobody knows.
Tuberculosis and Cancer Cures
Secretary Lanes energy in cornering
the radium beds so that everybody can
get hundred thousand dollars worth,
and thereby get rid of his cancer, a la
Congressional style, meets with the ap-
prevail of the nation. Along with this
comes a story that the public health
service of the federal government is
optimistic over experiments being con-
Quoted in New Mexico by which air
is pumped into the patients pleural
cavity every day or two to maintain
pressure, and the results observed by
means Of the X-ray. The lung, figur-
atively speaking, is put into an "air
split" and nature is given a chance to
cure.