The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-10-30
TWO BIG PARTIES
COMPARED BY TAFT
Presidential Candidate Gives
Good Reasons Why Republican
Ticket Should Be Elected
AT Geneva He Makes Long ADJ
dress to WOrkmen About
Injunction Question

OF the Taft train which today visited
Lyons Canandaigua, Geneva, Seneca
Falls and Auburn. The climax was
reached tonight in this city with
big parade. two meetings and an over
flow. furnishing audiences Of thousands
which Judge Taft addressed There
has been no lack Of auditors and
demonstrations wherever the Ohloan
has tarried. Despite the heavy cam
paigning required of him yesterday in
Greater New York, he showed little
effect Of the strain today. He has hit
at the roots Of what he considers dem
ocratic faIacies in every speech, and
has been free in expressing his opti-
mism as 10 what the result viii be
next Tuesday. Governor Hughes has
been commended in strong language
likewise the remainder of the New
York state ticket and the vice presi-
Dental candidate.
Here tonight Judge Taft had the
rival attraction Of Mr.. Bryan, whose
special car was at the station when
the Taft train arrived.
Judge Taft today accepted an invita-
ton to visit New York City in Deem
Der TO attend the installation of an
organ in the Metropolitan temple. the
gift Of Andrew Carnegie. This invita-
ton was extended by Rev. DR.. John
Wesley Hill. pastor of the temple. who
has been assisting Judge Taft as a
speaker. DR.. Hill left the party to-
night, after having made $50 speeches
during the campaign.
Judge Taft's arguments today have
been made pointed with new phrases
and illustrated with new comparisons.
At Lyons, in the first speech of the
day where he talked 10 an audience
al Gilchrist hail. he asserted that the
defeat in 1896 Of the silver heresy was
Id
only by the victory Of the army in
the civil war.
The next extended effort Of the can
cidate was at Canandaigua, where he
went into an analysis Of government
through political parties. He preceded
this with prediction that Governor
: Hughes would be elected.
VITAL ISSUE or CAMPAIGN
The vital issue OF this campaign,
Judge Taft asserted. was whether or
. rot the American people have been
wei served under the administration
OF Mckinley and Roosevelt. Taft said:
II sometimes think that we fail to
appreciate what governing means. 1t
does not mean oratory. It does not
mean the power Of debate. It does not
mean the advancement of plausible
theories. but it means the power of
efhcient performance.
Between each presidential election
many issues are likely to arise that can
not be submitted 10 a party. crises are
likely 10 come that can not be submit
ted TO the rank and file Of the people.
: and YOU have got to take a party and
Crust 10 it, TO work those problems out.
That was exhibited in the record Of the
republican party with reference to the
Spanish war We determined to end the
international scandal at our doors. we
went into the war in Cuba and we came
out in the Philippines. 10000 miles
away. and we had TO decide the issues
which were there raised and which
Were difficult TO meet They presented
new phases of government that we had
never had before. but with William Nc
kinney at the head. with your own
Elihu Root TO AID him as one Of the
greatest iurists and statesmen this
world has even seen, with the repub-
lcan party behind him with its soil
darity Of discipline. with its intelligence
and with its courage, those policies were
carried through and they brought credit
and glory to the nation. I am using
that TO illustrate that one of the great
reasons FOR the selection of a party is
its proved efficiency. its proved courage
SITS proved experience with reference Il
all issues of government that may arise
Now what Of thea democratic party
They had power for four years, but the
minute they got into power they begar
% quarrel over what they should do
They passed free trade bill through
one house. and then in the next house
they made kind Of sectional protec-
tive bin. and before they got through
il assumed such q phase that Cleveland
the leader Of the party. for whom We
have the highest respect pronounced
that bin an act OF perfidy and dis
honor. and that broke up the party, and
they had TO divide between free silver
and the gold standard. In other words
they showed. as they would show now
II YOU gave them power. that the only
cohesiveness that they have IS a cohe.
siveness of opposition TO the republican
party. They lack efficiency, they lacl
responsibility 10 the people for carry
ing on the government as ii should b.
carried on, and this. my dear friends
without any reference to their princi-
pies. and when you get to their princi
pies their acts are even worse
EXPLANATION OF INJUNCTION
At Geneva, where Judge Taft had :
great audience, composed largely oil
those interested ia labor, he talked Z
hair hour longer than his hours SEIZED
-ule permitted. He said.
The republican party recognizes thai
1n5unctions that are too broad have
sometimes been issued in labor disputes
That puts labor at a disadvantage. and
. therefore IL ought To be discoura ged as
much as possible. The party passed z
resoi utlon requiring the best practice
with respect 10 iniunctiOns specifying
the instances in which injunctfons shall
ISSUE without notice and offering an Cd
pOrtunity for a statute which shal
make injunctions without notice opera.
tive for only As hours or IS hours. The
democrats. on the other hand do MOI
pay any attention to injunctions with.
out notice. What they say is that in.
functions ought not to issue in indus.
trial disputes unless they would Issue
under similar circumstances in any dis.
pute. Nobody ever said that they ough,
to- That is one OF those meaningless,
declarations. or else fl means this. ape
that I suppose is what Gompers would
claim fl means Whether Bryan know;
whar GOmpers claims il means or would
understand II IL he did is TO me :,
. vague because Bryan has not an
sWere1 the questions put 10 him by tn.
president on this very subject and be
cause ne skips over tllis part of III.
platform with an agility and clevernes
that enable you not 10 catch him il
any declaratio that is definite Blu
what ] say to you is, that as laymef
you are able 10 see that If an injunc
.tiOn should issue 10 protect propert.
rights III should also issue especially [.