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Show HEARST ENDORSES PRESIDENT TAFT WASHINGTON, April 20. William Randolph Hearst, former aspirant for tho Democratic nomination for th presidency, tonight Issued a remarkable remark-able statement over hb own signature In which ho unqualifiedly endorses Mr. Taft. In doing so ho also criticizes In severest se-verest terms the administration of President Roosevelt, and lu to many words warns the American nation against a renewal of tho political domination of the former president. Mr. Hearst called at tho White House this afternoon. He spent half au hour with the president. Upon leaving Mr. Hearst said he had called merely to pay his reapocts to Mr. Taft, whom he said he admired. Later ho Issued his endorsement of the Taft administration. ' "No one can talk with tho president without appreciating ond respecting his earnestness and sincerity." tho statement says. "Personally I believe also in his ef- flcloncy. He hs been one year In office and ho has certainly accom plished more in that one year than Roosevelt did in hia first year. "lt:1n hardly fair to compare Taft's one year with Roosovolt'a seven, arid yet I am not snro even with that the comparison might not bo to Taft's advantage. ad-vantage. Taft's methods ar no those of Roo.iowlf, but then Taft will probably prob-ably net conclude his term with a panic. "On the whole, it seems to me a quiet, earnest gentleman who came Into office when the country was In the elough of adversity, and nftcr one year in office his placed the country on the high road of prosperity, is quite as valuable a president as a moru showy and spectacular person who found the country in the height of prosperity and left it In the depths of adversity." Mr. Hearst admits ho does not charge Roosevelt diiectly with responsibility re-sponsibility for the panic of 1007. nor does ho undertake to glvo Mr. Taft the entire credit for the restoration of prosperity. He declares, however, tbat an administration which is pro duclng more dividends for bus'nwss men and finding work for the unemployed unem-ployed "should not be too carplngly criticised for certain minor faults of omission or commission. |