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Show B THIS IS THE LEVITT. !' ? "V . Here is a quotation from the Salt Lake Tribnne which impels j tj-ns to inquire as to whether the editor of that paper is coming or 1 ' going. The Tribune says : H. r- p The nagging prosecutions that Attorney-General Wick- m i ersham is beginning, and threatening right and left, are the Hl attorney-general's blunders, and not the President's. If H the people could see that the attorney-general was getting Hl any results worth while in his prosecutions, then there would bdino such contempt for them or for him H r None of this obloquy, however, attaches to President H Taft The President very properly entrusts the manage- m ment of the prosecutions to the attorney-general, that the H 1 ' attorney-general makes a failure, even when he apparently H I v succeeds, is the attorney-general's fault, and not the Presi- H dent's. B ' There is no doubt in the world about the absolute H , I good faith and earnestness of President Taft in all of his H efforts. He has had. occasion to chastise Attorney-General H Wickersham, especially in the pure food case, and he has H M I been unfortunate in others of his cabinet appointments. K ir. ufc iat be himself is standing squarely upon the law and H I doing his duty as chief executive of the law, in absolute 1 df candor and good faith, there can be no question H The Tribune has peculiar ideas of tho relation of President to M ' cabinet officer. Aiy member of the cabinet absolutely out of har- 1 mony -with the President invariably offers his resignation and gets H I out. Wickersham1, on all important matters, not only confers with f Tait, but must have tho President's sanction before declaring a H public policy of tho administration, such, for instance, as "the H y- nagging" of the big interests. When Hitchcock announced his Hl I policy of federal ownership, Taft hastened to assure the public M ' there was no friction with his postmaster general and he favored B j the public ownership of the telegraph. 1 : j When Ballinger drove Pinchot from office, Taft made a public H L ' statement accepting responsibility for the act. Hj We presume that the Tribune would have us understand that M what is bad in the Taft administration is chargeable to Wicker- H j sham and the other cabinet blunderers, but that which is praise- Hf ' worthy must be credited to the President. Like the king, the H President can do no wrong. Hj I t As a matter of fact, Taft is responsible for his cabinet ap- ! pointments and for the acts of his cabinet officers, and the Tribune is aware of this. When Wickersham 's administration of the high office of-fice of attorney-general is not what it should be, the people look to M . Taft for a corrective, and so far they have looked in vain. H , V |