Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
REPUBLICANS RATIFY.
new York Union Leagues Reception to
Candidate Higgins

A dispatch from New York last night
says: Many prominent republicans were
present tonight at the ratification meeting
ana reception rendered by the Union Jeap,e
Clup to Lieut.. Gov Higgins. renublicar
candidate for governor, and to his asso-
crates en- the state ticket Cornelius NJ
Bliss president Of the club and treasurer
OF the republican national committee. pre
sided at the meeting
In introducing Secretary of War Taft he
pdid hlgh tribute to the Secretary's condnct
Oh aHairs IN the Philippines, and particu
iarly TO his strong unfolding of the noIicy
OF president Roosevelt In the islands
secretary Taft said, in part:
Mr. RooSeyelt'S speech of acceptanca ana
nus ietter or acceptance state the grounds
upon which the republican party asks q
continuance of the mandate of govern
lneht from the people with clearness and
SuccinctneSS. s-iA1
IN view of the record of the democratic
party IN opposing everything that has been
zone during the last eight successful wears
the burden In the present controversy is
certainly upon 1t to point out in what
respect the republicans have forfeited their
rlsht TO the continued trust and confidence
or the people, in what way they have vio
idted tnelr duty as trustees for the public
eitneF IN departure from constitutional
principles or from sound public policy
The attitude of Judge Parker and the
attitude OF the democrats who are behind
MIN with respect to this Philippine question:
whether intentional or not is exactly In ac
cord with their previous pernicious nolicv
or stirring up the Filipino people against
the present government the success of
which offers the only hope for the islands
Ire republican party states without
hesitation that the Filipino people are not
now fitted for self-government and that
they are not likely to be fitted for a genera
ton or more. Judge Parker leaves omen
as does the democratic party, the question
of the present fitness of the Ffipino neonle
in such a way as to invite discomfort and
discussion in the Philippines among the
people themselves and especially among the
demagogues and the ambitious Adventures
and extremists.
The democratic party is directly respon-
sible for two years of the war of the in
surrection that was continued in 1901 and
1902 Their speeches, their attitude. their
obstruction to the governmental policy en-
couraged the extremists, encouraged the
violent in the Philippine Islands to believe
that with each succeeding election the
democrats were to come in and lie they
only maintained their attitude of disturb
ance, and lawlessness they would receive
the power of governing their fellow-citizens
Judge Parker, in his speech of accept
ance, charged that the Philippines cost the
United States $6J0OO0,000. This is an exag-
geration so great as to be ludicrous. An
of1clal report to Congress by the Secretary
Of War in 1902 showed that the expenses OF
the army in the Philippines from 1898 to
and including ten months of the fiscal year
1902, We're $169, $780, 00."
Taking up the subject of government ex-
penses the Secretary said:
Judge Parker's theory seems to be that
in democratic administrations there Is much
more economy than in republican admins
trations. / think 1t will be found on an
examination of the figures that even in
times of profound peace there is tendency
upward in governmental expense from one
administration to another, and that this