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VOLUME li; NUMBER 36
Washington correspondents say
that David Jayno Hill was forced by
Secretary Knox to retire from the
diplomatic sorvico. Knox wanted
the place for a friend.
Senator La Follotto will probably
follow Mr. Taft's trail in a speaking
trip through tho west.
Presidont Taft's itinerary for his
western trip is as follows: Leave
Soptomber 15; Syracuse, Erie, Pa.,
September 1C; in Erie, Pa., Septem
ber 17; Erio, Pa., Detroit, Pontiac,
Saginaw, Bay City, Mich., Septem
ber 18; Bay City, Sault Sto. Mario,
Marquotto, September 18; Mar
quette, Mich., September 20; Grand
Rapids, Monteith, Battle Creek,
Kalamazoo, Mich., September 21;
Pooria, 111., September 22; Peoria,
111., St. Louis, Mo., September 23;
Kansas City, Mo., Baldwin, Kan.,
September 24; Baldwin, Cherry vale,
Coffoyvillo, Independence, Kan.,
Chanuto, Ottawa, Kan., Kansas City,
Mo., September 25; Hutchinson,
Kan., Septombor 2G; Hutchinson,
Topeka, Atchison, Leavenworth,
Kan., Soptember 27; Council Bluffs,
Donison, Fort Dodge, Webster City,
Iowa Falls, Waterloo, la., Septem
ber 28; Waterloo, Des Moines,
Knoxville, Iowa, Albia, Ottumwa,
la., September 29; Moberly, Sedalia,
Kansas City, Mo., September 30;
Omaha, Neb., October 1; Omaha,
Lincoln, Hastings, Neb., October 2;
.Denver, Colo., October 3; Cheyenne,
Laramie, Rawlings, Wyo., October
4; Salt Lako City, Utah, October 5;
pocatello, Boise, Ida., October 6;
Walla Walla, Lewiston, Moscow,
Idaho, Spokane, Wash., October 7;
Lind, Ellenburg, Tacoma, Wash.,
October 8; Bellingham, Mount Ver
non, Everett, Seattle, Wash., October
9; Seattle, Tacoma, Wash., October
10; Tacoma, Olympia, Centralia,
Chehalis, Castlo Rock, Kelso, Kala
ma, Vancouver, Wash., Portland,
Ore., October 11; Portland, Salem,
Ore., October 12; Sacramento, San
Francisco, Cal., October 13; San
Francisco, Cal., October 13; San
Francisco, Cal., October 14 and 15;
Los Angeles, Cal., October 16; Los
Angeles, Cal., October 17; Salt Lake
City, Utah, October 18; Butte, Liv
ingston, Phillips, Mont., October 19.
by friends for publicity in other
newspapers, and that they would
meet any reasonable expense of this
sort.
Senator Swanson engaged head
quarters at Richmond at $55 a week,
and Sonator Martin said his expense
on this account would be small.
All of tho approximately 1,800
postoulces of the second class and
many of tho first class having been
designated as postal savings banks,
Postmaster General Hitchcock be
gan the designation of the third class
offices. It is his purpose to extend,
as rapidly as practicable, tho postal
savings system to tho smaller post
ofllces of the country. A beginning
was made when 100 offices in
smaller commorcial towns, needing
such special banking facilities, in
twelve different states, were directed
to receive deposits by October 7. By
January 1, the postal savings system
will be in operation in all of the
8,000 first, second and third class
offices.
SENATOR CUMMINS ARRAIGNS
MR. TAFT
Tho Chicago Record-Herald, a
Taft organ, called upon Senator
Cummins, insurgent republican, of
Iowa, to give specifications in bis
opposition to Mr. Taft's renomina
tion. Senator Cummins made the
tollowing reply:
"My general conclusion is, there
fore, that in every struggle which
has taken place since Mr. Taft be
came president, on vital things, his
allies and supporters nave been the comes of the country.
back to the senate precisely aa tho
attorney general wrote It and as
President Taft apparently believed
It ought to bo enacted.
"If this bill had passed aa insisted
on by tho president tho work of
nearly a quarter of a century would
havo been swept away and wo would
have taken a long step backward In
the regulation of our railways.
"It was reconstructed on tho floor
of tho senato by tho progressives,
against tho violent opposition of the
reactionaries, who were acting for
the president. I believe that people
generally will agree with me that
with respect to this measure Mr.
Taft did not take tho 'progressive
view' of the subject.
"3. Before the present adminis
tration came in, a postal savings bill
had been practically agreed on in
the senate. The fight which tho pro
gressives had made was to insure
the deposit of the money put into
the postoffices in tho banks of the
local communities.
"We had won out, but just as we
were on the point of passing the
bill, President Taft had sufficient
influence to rewrite that part of the
bill, and everybody recognizes that
the law as it was finally adopted, in
that respect, was a victory for the
great city banks and a defeat for the
small country banks. Again the
president was in the company of the
reactionaries and not with the pro
gressives. "4. The progressives were ex
ceedingly anxious to attach an in
come tax law to the Payne-Aldrich
tariff act. We had good reason to
believe that the president was with
us in this effort, but at the moment
when it seemed likely to succeed,
the president, under the leadership
of Mr. Aldrich and his close associ
ates, brought forward the so-called
corporation tax law and defeated the
proposal to levy tax on the great in-
faig the Iniquitous duties ot tho
Payne-Aldrich law, but (preserving
tho system of protection. In waiting
for his taTiff report he lost an op
portunity which democrats will not
give him again.
"With respect to the veto of tho
resolution admitting New Mexico
and Arizona as states, I havo this to
say: Some of the progressives were
opposed to provisions in both con
stitutions. They were not all in
favor of the form of initiative, refer
endum and recall found in the Ari
zona constitution.
"I do not approve tho recall of
judges. All of these things become
immaterial in .the presence of one
progressive proposition, viz: That
congress had no right to prescribe
constitutions for these incoming
states."
BRISTOW ON TAFTISM
Senator Bristow, of Kansas, says:
"I am not for the renomination of
President Taft because I do not be
lieve in the things he stands for," the
senator said. "His tariff policy
seems to be free trade for the far
mer and high protection for the
manufacturers. His reciprocity bill,
the pet measure of his administra
tion, practically put every product
of the American farm on the free
list, and when congress undertook
to relieve the farmer from some of
the burdens of tariff taxation, by
giving him free lumber, free shoes,
free harness and free farming im
plements, Mr. Taft vetoed the bill.
"In his celebrated Winona speech,
when Mr. Taft declared the Payne
Aldrich bill the best tariff law ever
The Associated Press correspon
dent says: The first campaign pub
licity statements, those of Senators
Martin and Swanson, of Virginia,
filed in accordance with the cam
paign publicity law passed at tho re
cent session of congress, were made
public recently by order of Secre
tary Bennett, of the senate. They
had been kept secret because the act
contained no requirement for pub
licity of individual statements filed
by candidates for the senate or
house. Both Senators Martin and
Swanson showed that on tho day
their reports were filed, which was
exactly the required ten days before
September 7, when tho democratic
senatorial primary election was
held in Virginia, they were far below
tho maximum of $10,000 which a
cenatorial candidate may spend to
procure his election.
Each had spend about $3,500. Of
this amount, $3,000 was required of
each candidate to help defray ex
penses of the election. Senator Mar
tin spent $348 for newspaper space,
and Senator Swanson $332.
Each said he expected to incur a
further expense of "several hundred
dollars for space and editorials."
They declared that other small
amounts doubtless would bo spent
senators and members of tho house,
who, however honest they may be,
are known from one border of the
country to the other as reactionaries
or standpatters and not progressives.
"If the voters of the republican
party believe that the old leadership
should be perpetuated then can find
no better nominee than Mr. Taft. I
do not believe it ought to be con
tinued, and therefore, without any
personal disparagement of the presi
dent, I am hoping that a progressive
republican will be nominated and
elected next year."
His reason for this conclusion fol
lows: "It is to be understood that my
opposition to the re-nomination of
Taft is based solely on his attitude
toward public questions and my con
viction that the convention ought to
nominate a candidate for president
who will be strongest in the election.
"With this preliminary and ex
planatory suggestion I present my
bill of particulars. I shall content
myself in the main with merely re
calling to tho minds of the people
the lineup on each of the following
subjects:
"1. Tho Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
Mr. Taft's associates in tho making
of this law, which he declared to be
the best over passed on the subject,
wore Mr. Aldrich and his followers in
the senate; Mr. Payne, Mr. Dalzell,
Mr. Cannon and their followers In the
house. It seems to mo I am justified
In tho conclusion that he did not
take 'the progressive view' with re
spect to this measure.
"2. The act amending and en
larging me interstate commerce law.
President Taft made legislation on
the subject the prominent feature of
the first regular session after he was
inaugurated. Through his attorney
general ho presented to congress a
bill which was introduced In the
senate, referred to tho committee on
interstate commerce and reported
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he seems to be out of harmony with
those who were recognized before
his advent into office as the best ex
ponents of the conservation policy;
and so far as I know, his appoint
ment of Mr. Fisher as secretary of
the interior was about the first act
of his administration which com
manded the approval of the progres
sives throughout the country.
"6. With respect to the Canadian
taTiff bill, there is, of course, the
widest difference of opinion. It is a
false pretense from beginning to
end. It gives free pulp and free
paper to publishers using print
paper and it gives free farm pro
ducts, but it will not reduce the cost
of living and it will not, in my judg
ment, widen or enlarge our markets
for manufacturers In Canada.
"Its evil effects have been greatly
exaggerated and its beneficial effects
are almost wholly imaginary.
"7. With regard to peace
treaties, I am in hearty sympathy
with the president in an endeavor to
broaden the field of arbitration, but
they can hardly be instanced as a
great advance In the move for peace
when they are construed as the
president himself construes them in
his public speeches, and as they
must necessarily be construed if the
senate amends them as it proposes.
for they are practically the same as
the peace treaty we already have
with Great Britain.
"8. With regard to the woolen
bill and the free list bill, I have
only to say that I haven't heard of
any progressive rejoicing over the
vetoes which killed them. They
were prepared with the greatest care
and in the full light of abundant in
formation and both amply justified
by the standard of protection.
"1 predict that these bills gave
the president the only chance ho
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