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Men in Charge Should Be Able to
Meet New Problems.
REAL LEADERS ARE NEEDED
Mckinley and Cleveland Administra-
tions Contrasted.
WRIT OF INJUNCTION DISCUSSED
Republican Plank on This subject
Has Real MesninR, While that
of Democrats is Vague
aud indefinite.


SYRACUSE, N V. oct. c9-Judse Tafts
arguments today have been made pointed
with new phrases ard illustrated with new
comparisons At Lyons, In the first speech
Of the day, where he talked to an audience
at Gllchrist hail, he asserted that the de-
feat in 1895 of tho silver heresy" was n
victory for good that was exceeded only
by the victory Of the union army in the
civil war.
The next extended effort of the candI-
date was OF Canadaigua, where he went
into an analysis of govern ment through
political parties. He preceded this with
a prediction that Governor Hughes would
be elected, Tho vital issue of this cam
paign, Judge Taft asserted, was whether
or not the American people have been we'll
served under the administrations Of Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt.
IT sometimes think" hs explained. that
we fail to appreciate what governing
means 1t does not mean oratory. 1t does
rot mean the power of debate. 1t DOCS
not mean the advancement of plausibIe
theories, but 1t means the power of eff
cient performance.
Government of Parties.
HWhen you have popular government
the only method by which IT can be carried
bll 10 ny u SyoNGlll VI pdINlcS III "lllNll llS
members Of the parties sacrifice many OF
their non-essential views and agree on
few great principles.
Comparing the two parties let us ask,
first what experience has each had in
governing second, what is it then united
them?
rs it force that is likely to keep them
together in such way as to give them
full sense of responsibility TO the peopa
at large in carrying on the government?
Are the men whom they select for their
leaders, statesmen, men with a fine sense
! of governmental propriety and govern-
| mental policy?
Having made the comparison without
regard to the particulars which they up
hold in the present issue. you can usually
make up your minds which party YOU
ought to take, because between each presi-
Dental election many issues are likely to
arise that can not bei submitted 70 a party.
crises are likely to come that can not be
submitted to the rank and file of the peo-
pie. and you have got to take a party and
trust to 1t 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 in
| ternational 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 we're there
raised and which were difficult to meet.
They presented new phases OF govern
ment that we had never had before. hut
with William Mckinley at the head, with
your own Elhu Root to aid him, as one
OF the greatest jurists and statesmen the
world has even seen with the republican
party behind him, with it's solidity of dis
cipline, with it's intelligence and with it's
courage, those policies were carried through
and they brought credit and glory to the
nation. 7 am using that to illustrate that
one OF the great reasons for the selection
OF party is it's proved efficiency, its
proved courage, it's proved experience with
reference to all issues Of government that
may arise.
History of Democratic REGIME,
Now what Of the democratic party? IL
had power for four years, but the minute
1t got into power its members began to
quarrel over what they should do. They
passed a free trade bill through one house
and then In the next house they made IL a
Kind of sectional protective bill, and before
they got through It assumed such q phase
that Mr.. Cleveland, the leader OF the party,
Tor whom we have the highest respect pro-
nounced that bill an act of perfidy and dis
honor, and that broke up the party and
they had to divide between free silver ana
the gold standard.
In other words, they showed then az
they would show now il you gave thsu
power that the only oohesiveness that thev
nave is cohesiveness of opposition 10 the
republican party. They lack efficiency.
they lack responsibility to the people for
carrying on the government as IL should he
carried on, and this, my dear friends. with.
out any reference to their principles, and
when you get to their principles, their acts
are even worse"
Labor and Business RtEhts,
At Geneva, where Judge Taft addressed
large crowd composed largely OF those
Interested in labor. he talked a half hour
, longer than his hours schedule permitted
After giving the history Of the writ OF
Injunction TO show that 1t was a court
process devised to prevent the execution
OF a threatened injury to property he had
this TO say Of the attitude of the two partie.
and Of Mr.. Bryan in the matter:
The republican party recognizes that in,
functions that are too broad have some
times been issued in labor disputes. Thai
puts labor at a disadvantage. and, therefore
1t ought to be discouraged as much as DOS
:
ing the best practice with respect 10 I'm,
, functions. specifying the instances In which
injunctions shall issue without notice and
offering an opportunity for statute which
shall make injunctions without notice opera
, tive for only forty hours or fifty-six hours
The democrats, on the other hand do moi
pay any attention TO injunctions without
notice. What they say is that Injunction,
$ ought not to issue m Industrial dispute.
unless they would issue under the sam,
q circumstances In any other dispute No
body ever said that they ought to. That !,
one Of those meaningless declarations OF
else II means this and that. I suppose /,
what Mr Gompers would claim It means
Whether Mr.. Bryan knows what Mr.
Gompers claims it means or would under
, stand IL n he did, is TO me so vague
because Mr.. Bryan has not answered th,
questions put to him by the president on