Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-30
TAFT DISCUSSES
ANCIENT HISTORY
PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS
HIS THEME
nELvEs INTO DEAD ISSUE OF
FREE SILVER
Republican Candidate Says His Party
Should Continue to Rule Be-
cause II Has for Twelve
Years


SYRACUSE. N. Y, Oct. 29.-Republi-
ran cheers have sounded in the wake
~ the Taft train which today visited
LYONS. Canandaigua, Geneva, Seneca
Falls and Auburn. The climax was
reached tonight in this city with a big
parade. two meetings and an overflow.
There has been no lack or auoltors
and demonstrations wherever the
Ohioan has tarried.
Desnite the heavy campaigning re-
ouired of him yesterday in Greater
New York he showed little effect OF
Judge Taft had the rival attraction
here tonight of Mr.. Bryan, whose spe-
rial car was at the station when the
Taft train arrived.
Taft's arguments today nave Deeli
made pointed with new phrases ana
illustrated with new comparisons. AT
LYONS in the first speech Of the day,
where he talked to an audience in Gil
christ hall he asserted that the defeat
in 1906 of the silver heresy was VIC
tory for good that was exceeded only
by the victory of the army in the civil
war,
The next extended effort of the can
didate was at Canandaigua, where ne
went into an analysis of government
through the political parties
Government MOT OTaeo'J
The vital issue of this campaign, he
asserted, was whether or not the
American people had been Wen served
under the administration OF McAIiliey
and Roosevelt.
S"I sometimes think" he explained,
"that we fail to appreciate what gov
erning means. 1t does not mean ora
tory. 1t does not mean the power OF
debate. 1t does not mean the advance
ment of plausible theories, but 1t
means the power of efficient perform
jance.
Comparing the two parties, first,
what experience has each had in gov
erning; second, what is it that unites
them together? Having made that
comparison without regard to the poll
cies which they upheld in the present
issue, you can easily make up your
minds which party you ought TO take,
because between each presidential cleo
ton many issues are likely to arise that
cannot be submitted to party, crises
are likely to come that cannot be sub
mitted to the rank and file of the peo-
pie, and you have got to take a party
and trust to it to work those prob
lens out.
"That was exhibited in the records
of the Republican party with reference
to the Spanish war. We determined
10 end the db Jul
doors. We went into the war in Cuba
and we came out in the Philippines,
10000 miles away, and we had to de-
eide the issues which were there
raised and which were difficult to meet.
Says Democrats QuarreIed
Now what of the Democratic party?
They had power for four years, but
the minute they got into power they
began to quarrel over what they should
do. They passed a free trade Dill
through one house and then in the
next house they made a kind of Sec
tional protective bill, and before they
got through it assumed such phase
that Cleveland the leader of the party,
for whom We have the highest respect,
pronounced that bill an act of perfidy
and dishonor, and that broke up the
party and they had to divide between
free silver and the gold standard"
At Geneva, where Judge Taft had
large audience, composed largely OF
those interested in labor, he said:
"The Republican party recognizes
that iniunctions that are too broad
have sometimes been issued in labor
disputes. That puts labor at a dis
advantage and therefore it ought to
be discouraged as much as possible
The party passed a resolution requir-
ing the best practice with respect 10
1nJunctlOnS, SpeclIyllS the INSTANCES III
which injunctions shall issue without
notice and Offering an opportunity for
a statute which shall make inJunctions
without notice operative for only forty
eight hours or fifty-six hours.
injunctlons Without Notice
"The Democrats, on the other hand
do not pay any attention to injunc-
lions without notice. What they say
is that injunctions ought not to issue
in industrial disputes, unless they
would issue under similar circum-
stances in any dispute Nobody ever
said that they ought to- That is one
of those meaningless declarations"
Judge Taft was resting when his
train reached this city and he was not
disturbed until o'clock, the hour for
his first meeting.
The Alhambra, the largest hall In
the city, was filled and the police had
a hard time keeping back those who
fought for admittance.
Taft again gave his strongest in
dorsement to Hughes.
Following his meeting at the AL
hambra, Taft was escorted to Turner
hall, where he addressed an audience
composed largely of Germans.