OCR Text |
Show ADMINISTRATION TO OFEER ITS DEFENSE WASHINGTON. April 3 Tho Taft administration is about to riefund lt-. lt-. aelf aggressively 'before the people of tho I'nlted iates. Convinced that tho public mind has , been Impressed by attacks upon, the administration In many parts of the ; country, and that criticisms cannot . be permitted to posa unanswered wlihout injury to Republican prestige '. tho party leaders have decided to I "carry the war into th- eueniles' coun-! coun-! try." l President Taft Is now declared to ; ue reauy ana anxious to assume tne i offensive. The openlriK kuus will be j fired next Saturday In Washington by ' the president in person, and In Shi-', Shi-', cago by Attorney General Wlckcr-1 Wlckcr-1 sham. Mr. Taft will speak on the subject , rf organization and he will be s-up- ported by other powerful orators of the Republican party. Attorney General Gen-eral Wlckerahajn'6 subject will be the : policies of the administration. ' Other speakers on tbe platform w ith Mr. Taft will be Senator Lodce. Representative Rep-resentative McKlnlcy of Illinois, chairman of the Republican congrcv plonal committee; Representative , Duncan McKlnley of California and John Hay-fs Hammond. Nothing has created so much interest inter-est among the Republican leaders in Washington since the Inauguration of Mr. Taft as the plan naw formulating ta defend the administration. Some of the facts are to .be brought out about the operation of the Payne-Ald-ricli tariff bill and It Is expected that legislation will be called upon to afford af-ford the frteDd of the admlnb-tra-i tton with some corvcrote evidence of ) this subject U to coutlnue as an U-) U-) sue within tbm party. The party. It is said, expect con-fldeDtrj- to close tho session cf-con-j |