Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — Bad Faith. [ARTICLE]

Bad Faith.

Perhaps the most salient feature of Oscar W. Underwood’s address in St_ Louis was the definite charge of personal bad faith on the part of President Taft in his tariff vetoes. Aside from the well known facts in the case, the thing that gives this charge weight is its source. Coming from some members of congress, it would amount to little, but Mr. Underwood Is not a man who goes on verbal debauches. Language in his hands Is an instrument of precision and he has a deep sense of the responsibility of public utterances.

Nor do we see exactly what President Taft is going to do about it. There is nothing Machiavellian aboutthe president or his reputation. He is a plain, blunt man, ungifted in equivocation and evasion, who only speaks right on. His promises to aid downward revision by every means In nis power carried with them the atmosphere of simple good faith. He most surely did give “his word of honor.” The opposition is not putting him in a bad box. It Is simply pointing out the sad fact that he is there.