The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-27
TAFT IN BALTIMORE
TWO CABINET MEMDBnS AH1
 STUNNING STATE.
Bonaparte and War Secretary Both Enter Into Campaign in Mary
 land, Whlle Supposed
 to Be at Work.


 Baltimore, Oct. -2s.-The principei r,eetine Incidental to the current Re- publican Con9rsssibnal campaign Tn this State was held at the Lyric tonisht and was made notable by the presence of two Cabinet ohhcers. Secretary oI War Taft and Secretary Of the NssS
 The latter presided and the former made the principal address. 6otn were warmly greeted. the reception .c- corded Secretary Taft amounting to an ovation.
 In, opening the meeting. Secretary Bonaparte denounced the Democratic party vigorously. declaring that 1t was a party of no principles and no poicy except to get an6 keep office, no mater how. -, .n.s
 Anything to win.' he said, mas been it's motto for forty years ana what it. has been for generations IL ie today. It has nominated Hearst TOT Governor of New York, just as. thirty four wears ago it nominated Greeley for President of the United States. al- though 1t must be noted that Greeiey was personally respectable man:
 Tt tried a sane and safe candidate fin 1901. only because it had been beat. an with one not called sane or 'safe in ls00. and four years previously, ana as it was beaten even worse when it tried sanity and safety. 1t Is apparently getting ready to try some things Sns more insane and yet more unsaie in 190S."
 Secretary Bonaparte concluded by m . troducing Secretary Taft, as he wouio sneak with far greater authority than himself. A..
 Secretary Taft addressed himself 10 current national issues. viewed In the light of the work of the last Congress. He said in part:
 "The question tonight is whether the President and the House of Represen- tatives with a Republican majority have done anything or left anything undone calculated to impair confidence in them. For a number of years 1t has been apparent that the great oppor- tunities for the making of pronts Tn industrial business have been misused and the purpose of. the President mas been to devise means to restrain such misuse.
 Tt was found that the most power full factor for sustaining the trusts was the rebate system and President Roosevelt's investigations resulted m the railway rate bill. passed by the Republican majorities in both Houses of Congress. although the Democrats say that the bill did not receive Re publican votes. Wheh 1t WAS finally nassed by what the Democrats de- nounce as the trust ridden Senate" | was more drastic in its provisions than when 1t left the House.
 The fear of the law has entere1 into the hearts of the trusts. Com missioner Garheld's exposure of Stap- dard oil has resulted in competition in oil in New England.
 Like results have been secured with regard to sugar and .obacco ana we have not done with them yet: l but cite these cases to show that Roosevelt means what he says when he declares that he is going to pur- sue i'll gotten wealth.
 The tariff fixes the basis of most of the manufacturing business or the country and operates with great tn- f1uence on business everywhere. IT you change the tariff with rude hand, you destroy the business that rests on the protective principle. Ihe tariff encourages trusts only so far ss if makes it easier tr gather into one corporation all American nanu- lecturers than 1t would to gather tn those and the European ones as we'll
 "Senator Rayner has asked me to de' hate the tariff with him. am franh to say that do not intend 10 go lhtc the various schedules with hlm TOT admit that l know even less or them probably than he does. although l nave had some experience in making tarlfff for other countries. The trusts cannot he controlled by any manipulation oi the tariff; the only way to handle mem is through the courts.
 Secretary Taft lauded the defeat oi the anti-injunction law. which he an alyzed critically.
 Labor organizations. he said' are useful--as useful as corporations ou' there Is no reason why men who inlsuee either corporations or labor organiz- stions, should not Ibe restrained and made to obey the law. The speaker defended the navy ana army and spoke for :he adequate nam tenance of both.