Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — TAFT’S TRAVELING EXPENSES. [ARTICLE]

TAFT’S TRAVELING EXPENSES.

President Taft i- getting $7 5000 a year salary, which is 525.000 more than any other president ever received. In addition, an appropriation of $25,000. a year was made by congress _ for Mr. Taft’s traveling exenses. The year covered by this appropriati m does not end until June 3u. but Mr. Taft has spent all of hitravelirtgCtnon'ey. He ha- gone vo and down the country in exi. o-.-n-iyely equipped trains and with a costlv company of servant-. retainer- and courtiers. In hi- journings he --ha- not traveled as mere president of the United States, but largely as a Republican politician, making partisan speeches and endeavo. ing to make or to save vote- for the Republican party and to win support for his own personal and peculiar policies. The people would not seriously *object to paying the traveling expenses of the president of the United States, but they have a right to object and do object to paying the traveling expenses of a Republican stump speaker. Mr. Taft has been an expensive luxury. In one Way and another he has allied himself with persons- and interests of which the people are justly- suspicious, and has' championed men and acts that public sentiment does not approve. If he insists upon traveling, therefore, he should either cut these things out or pay his own expenses.