Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-27

Jul eAASeiDB evils, ana now Withdrawn
under assurances that they will not bt
again suggested.
He declared that the Republican marty
was not responsible for the abuses he
had described and that "the evils were
due to the fallibility of human nature
and the willingness of ambitious anc
unscrupulous men to turn an instrumen-
tallty necessary in human progress to a
VICIOUS purpose" OF all possible
agencies for reform, he said, the Dem
ocratic party under its present leader
ship is the one least entitled to any
credit.
while the resolutions of its platform
in 1896, 1900, and 1904 denounced the
abuse of corporate wealth." he said.
they never proposed feasible plans
or made the prominent and chief issue
of any campaign the carrying out of
what have now become known, and
properly known, as the Roosevelt poll
cles. On the contrary, in 1896 the party
made the chief issue a disastrous
financial experiment, which would have
retarded the progress of this country a
quarter of century and sullied its
financial honor. In 1900 the party
reiterated its adherence to this suicidal
policy of reputation of national and pri-
vate debts and obligations and then ad-
vanced as the paramount issue of the
campaign not the trusts, not corporate
wealth and abuses, but rather the repu-
diation of all our international RESPONSE
blllties growing out of the Spanish war
and the destruction of what they call
the growing cancer of imperialism in the
policy of this country. Again, in 1904,
instead of selecting the abuse and evils
for which they now seek to make the
Republican party responsible as the
main issue of the campaign, the burden
of their contentious was the usurpation
of the powers of the executive office by
President Roosevelt, including the
settlement of the anthracite coal strike
and the violation of the Federal con-
stltutional limitations by the Republican
party, while the extent of the trust evil
was mimimized by the statement of the
then party candidate that the common
law furnished sufficient remedy to sup
press it and by the general party dec
laration that nothing but safe and sane
policies were to be adopted under the
administration which should follow its
success in the election.
This" he said, sis the record of the
party whose policies it is claimed Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the Republican
party have stolen" He declared that
the people do rule and that the will of
the people had been expressed in the
Roosevelt policy.
Speaking of the House of Representa-
tlves as being charged with having a
procedure allowing the Speaker to sup
press the popular will, he said that
while he would not discuss the wisdom
of that the Senate has no rule for the
previous question, and in that body the
ability of the minority to defeat or
delay legislation favored by the majority
has been made the subject of criticism
on the ground that it defeated the will
of the people. A Republican Congress,
he said, could be depended upon to
carry out the principles involved in this
campaign.
He spoke of the Republican and
Democratic parties in the South, and
declared that great number of Demo-
erats are opposed to the Democratic
party under present leadership, and
none of them will be disappointed if the
Democratic ticket is defeated.
Every one having the interest of the
country at heart as an abstract PROPOSE
tion." he said would rejoice to have
the solid south as Democratic asset
in every national campaign broken up.
"The Republican party in its national
Legislation has favored the building of
the Panama Canal, the reclamation of
swamp lands, the conservation of for
ests and water resources, and in taking
many other steps that are for the devel-
opment of the South" The growth
and success of the mining and iron in
dustries in the South he declared are
directly due to laws enacted by the Re-
publican party. In making appoint
ments in the Philippines, Porto Rico,
and Cuba no attention has been paid to
the partisan proclivities of the
appointees, and there are in the Phil
as many Democrats among the Amer
leans as Republicans serving the govern
ment there.
AS to the complaint that the leading
men of the south have but little infiu-
ence in the executive branch of the
government at Washington, Mr.. Taft
said the only way by which the South
can cure this matter is by independence
of action and the support of the Repub-
lican ticket. He declared that many
Independent Democrats in the South
agree with the Republican party in all
its main economic doctrines, and re-
viewing the industrial progress of the
South he said its business prosperity in