The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-10-31
Vital Questions Discussed
by Secretary Of War Root
in New York.
ROOSEVELT MUST Be UPHELD
IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING THE
CONTROL OF CONGRESS.

No Reason for Changing the Political
Completion of the House-The Desire
for tho Curbing of Trusts and for "a
Revision of the Tariff Does Not Call
for It-Repubiican Party Proposes TO
Regulate and Suppress Bad Trusts
Rather Than Destroy the Good and
Bad Together-Capital aud Labor
Danger,of Disturbing the Tariff.
New York, Oct. 80. - Cooper Union
was filled tonight with people who had
come to attend republican mass meet
ing, the principal speakers being Mayor
Low, Governor Odell and Secretary of
War Root Mr. Low eulogiZed Cover
nor Odell and his administration Of
state affairs. Governor Odell followed
in an address in which he cast aside as
absurd the prediction that his majority
would be as small as some had prophe-
sled.
Secretary of War Root spoke after the
governor had finished ana after trib-
ute to the governor said:
The national issue of this political
campaign, in it's most important and
practical aspect, is whether President
Roosevelt shall be sustained in his ad-
ministration of the national govern
ment.
Will the people of the United States
elect a house of representatives with
a republican majority to work in har-
mony with the president and with the
republican majority of the senate, so
that he may go ON, as he has begun,
with an effective government, working
out practically the plans for improving
administration and FOR the remedy of
evils along the lines upon which the leg
islative and executive branches agree,
or will the people elect house with a
democratic majority which will be hos
tile to the president, will not agree with
him upon any course of conduct, and
will hinder and embarrass him in all
his efforts for the public good during
the remainder of his present term of
office?
There ought to be no difference upon
this question among the people of the
state of New York If the people of the
state think he has made good presi-
dent, as believe they do; if they are
proud of him., as I think they are
proud of his manly and noble qualities,
his courage, his frankness, his freedom
from guile and double dealing, the
genuineness of his republican simplici-
ty, the sincerity of his love Of country
and of his countrymen, the rugged
strength of his character the exception
al power of his trained intelligence, the
wise thoughtfulness and boldness with
which he is graphing problems of gov
ernment when smaller and selfishly po-
little men would temporize, then the peo-
pie of the presidents own state will do
their duty by him as he is doing his
duty by them and will send represen-
tatives to congress at the coming cleo
tion who will stand by him and work
with him for the good of the country
I am not going to talk about what the
republican administration at Washing
ton has done further than to say that /
believe it has been honest and efficient,
and that 1t has accomplished success
fully many difficult tasks, avoided
many dangers and attained many re-
suits beneficial and creditable to the
country. I think its policies have been
justified and it's conduct of affairs ap-
proved by their fruits, and that it is
entitled to a continuance of public con-
fidence.
Tt will be difficult to find better rec
ord of wise and painstaking legislative
performance than is furnished by the
republican majority in the present con-
gress. Besides dealing with all of the
great appropriation bills, with their
multitude or difficult questions affecting
the public welfare, in their first ses-
sion, they relieved the industry and
property of the country from the bur-
den of the war revenue taxes; they set
tied by an admirable statute the long
vexed question of the isthmian canal;
they inaugurated a new system for the
irrigation of arid lands in the west;
thew worked out and adopted laws for
safe government of the Philippine ISL
ands. exhibiting high order of con-
structive ability. The one case of ur-
gent necessity for action which failed
of response was the bill for a just
measure of reciprocity with Cuba and
that was defeated by a combination be-
tween the democrats in congress and a
small minority of the republicans refus-
ing to go with the majority of their
party. There is good reason to believe
that the measure will succeed at the
next session.
No reason for changing the political
complexion of the house of representa-
tives can be found in the past action of
that body.
What is there to come in the future
which calls for such a change? Is the
reason to be found in a desire for the
curbing of trusts, for an effective treat
fnent of labor troubles, or for a revis-
ion of the tariff? Certainly not
Our democratic friends talk as if
some capitalists, securing undue prof
its, and some tariff provisions, becom-
ing outgrown with changing conditions
and some stubborn contests between
employers who wish to pay less and
wage-earners who wish to be paid more
for labor, were new and strange phe-
nomena, threatening our social and po-
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